The Anthem Philatelist

I have been buying and collecting CDs since the 80's until the stores stopped selling them around 2010. This collection started when my Dad came home from the US in 1984 bringing with him one of the first CDs to ever come out of the US market.  It was a CD of Pat Benatar from her Live from Earth Album with the hit song Love is a Battlefield and Yes Owner of the Lonely Heart 90125 album. Thirty years after,  I have collected around 2K CDs with complete Albums and sets (mostly 80's and alternative rock, up to the time when the the CD stores closed)  of The Beatles , Queen , U2 , The Police , The Cure , Madonna , Green Day , Duran Duran , Tears for Fears , Depeche Mode , Stone Temple Pilots , Dishwalla , Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins , and many more.  My two favorite Filipino Artists to collect are Ryan Cayabyab and Eraserheads . I completed the collection through buying the physical CD in stores, here and abroad, and when the stores disappeared- online. Nowadays majority of

This coming Saturday, August 27 at 6 in the evening at the third level City Wing, SM Seaside City, SRP, Cebu City , Cebu Artists Incorporated will celebrate its 28th Founding Anniversary with an Art Exhibit entitled: Unity in in Diversity. We are encouraging fellow art enthusiasts and collectors to see the exhibit which will showcase the works of famous artists like Master Cubist Celso Pepito , Portrait Master Jun Impas , Master of Distortion Adeste Deguilmo and many more.  Heading the guests of honor is fellow art enthusiast, heritage preservation advocate and supporter, Hon. Raymond Alvin Garcia and wife Kate Roska Garcia . CAI is known for its diverse memberships, thus, the group promotes the individual style of its members as it totally gives freedom to pursue each of their artistic aspirations. CAI is on its third decade of promoting art awareness in Cebu Community and help develop its members into potential pride of Cebu's art and culture.    

Angkla Gallery's Shared Aspiration- the 49th one man show of Celso Duazo Pepito has been extended to August 31. Admission is free. You can follow them on social media for gallery updates and other queries. Facebook: @AngklaArtGallery Instagram: @angklaartgallery Email: angklaartgallery@gmail.com

From September 2 to 5, five visual artists from the Philippines will be joining the Pior Perak Art Trail in Malaysia. These are Celso Pepito ,  Roy Espinosa, Franklin Caña Valencia, and Manuel Sinquenco.   They will be joined by other artists from Indonesia,  Brunei, India, Singapore,  Vietnam and Mauritius.   In this event,  there will be workshops, plein air exhibitions, art exhibitions, community mural painting, art dialogue, getting- to- know the artist and sharing of culture, food and places of interests.    

  Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque . They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear abstract and fragmented. In the Philippines, the best known cubist painter is the National artist from Pampanga,  Vicente Silva Manansala .  He was of the first Abstractionists in the Philippine art scene.  His paintings depict a nation in transition, an allusion to the new culture brought by the Americans. Manansala together with Fabian de la Rosa are among the best-selling Philippine artists in the West.  Most of the other well known Cubist like Jose Joya and Ang Kiukok are from Luzon and Mindanao. Let us now look at the best cubist artists from Cebu . 1. Celso Duazo Pepito - (Spiritual Cubist) He is in the forefront of Cubism in Cebu . A renowned and well-respected cubist, he is one of the few elite livi

Impasto is a technique used in painting where paint is laid on thickly to give a painting texture and an almost 3D effect. It can be accomplished with mediums such as acrylic, oil, or gouache . Early in painting, it was thought that the image being captured was more important than the medium it was painted with. Attention was drawn to the subject instead of the paint and canvas itself. The first notable artist to start painting with the Impasto technique was Rembrandt . In one of his self portraits from 1659. Thicker brush strokes are clearly visible across his face to give himself a weathered look. Here are examples of Celso Pepito 's impasto paintings from Amuma ni Mama , an Art Exhibit in SM City Cebu .  The show's works capture the bond of a mother and her child by standing on art making's principles of compositional balance and by showing what can be in working through the ins and out of creative explorations and personal creative distillations. Amuma ni Ma