Pigments & Pixels

Series Groupings

2010-01-01T18:27:00.000-08:00

Tinlo Series 2009

Groupings

Framing smaller works should have wider side matting to ad breathing space for viewing.

Studio Mess

2009-12-14T18:29:00.000-08:00

Life could be messy sometimes, but getting used to it it's life itself. For us it's organized confusion.

“White Lies” By Edbon Sevilleno

2009-11-07T06:11:00.000-08:00

“White Lies” | Acrylic on canvas | By Edbon Sevilleno

2009-09-23T21:51:00.000-07:00

“ Tampisaw” | 90x90 cm | Acrylic on canvas | by Edbon Sevilleno

Raindance

2009-08-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

“Raindance” 2001 | 20x20cm | Watercolor | by Edbon Sevilleno

“Tinlo” by Edbon Sevilleno

2009-07-28T13:23:00.000-07:00

“Tinlo” | 30x30 cm | Acrylic on canvas | by Edbon Sevilleno

Tinlo means clean and neat. Just a quick wash, just letting it go, a few lines and doodles... then that's it! Just follow your instincts.

Kasiling

2009-07-19T20:57:00.000-07:00

“Kasiling” ( Neighborhood ) | Mix Media | by Edbon Sevilleno

Studio 57

2009-07-19T03:59:00.000-07:00

Oil Pastels & Oil Paints

2009-07-19T03:26:00.000-07:00

“Tawo” 53x53 cm Oil pastels and oil paints on felt, by Edbon Sevilleno

July 2009 Works

2009-07-19T02:33:00.000-07:00

2009-05-13T01:43:00.000-07:00

Living Room

Recently I've just done remodeling my house as a home studio gallery, I named it Studio 57.
This will be opened for art lover visitors.

Receiving Room

Oranges & Blues

2008-01-22T14:19:00.000-08:00

Oranges & Blues | Arcrylic on Canvas | By Edbon Sevilleno

Layag (Sails)

2008-01-22T13:36:00.000-08:00

"Layag" | Acrylic on Canvas & Collage | By Edbon Sevilleno

Tiempo

2008-01-22T13:26:00.000-08:00

"Tiempo" | Acrylic on Canvas | By Edbon Sevilleno

Boracay Fever

2007-12-27T06:35:00.000-08:00

Boracay | Acrylic on Canvas | By Edbon Sevilleno

Once you've been in this island, it will haunt you, I often dreamt of it and I can't let it go. So I painted it... what I'm longing for... the fun of it being there, and probably the turquoise waters of it.

White Lies

2007-11-25T23:22:00.000-08:00

"White Lies" | Acrylic Pigments on Accetate / Collage | By Edbon Sevilleno

Commisioned by Weber Shandwick Riyadh

Adam & Eve

2007-11-25T23:13:00.000-08:00

"Adam & Eve" | Paper Sculptures | By Edbon Sevilleno

This piece was just one of those many studies on my attempts to apply my abstract shapes into a free standing 3 dimensional figures. It works... I think the next step is to do it huge in metal.

My Riyadh Studio

2007-03-10T13:13:00.000-08:00

Edbon Sevilleno Riyadh Studio... where good and evil jams...

Since I have a day job... I paint at night... like a stalker.

Ready Palletes... smell of turpentine and linseed oils...

Pigments in a tube...

Studio Aquarels... whenever you fell like washing paints, spattering, flowing...

This is my Thinking Cockpit ... or watch movies...

Studio Table... rarely used.

Walls for watercolors landscapes... kung daw ka homesick na gid, pinta ta mga Negros rural scenes sang UMA, it will surely ease sang ka hidlaw (homesickness).

I'm still a kid... a Peter Pan Syndrome... I like to collect toys, Batman, Superman, Spiderman... I drew them.
http://bataisip.blogspot.com/

Never ending study of the human anatomy... very complex, as an illustrator, one must be well informed with the human form, it's your tool.

Late late evenings.. moonlighting with online jobs. Bread and Butter anay or pamugas-bugas... Bread is Bread, Art is Art! You cannot live by Art alone.

Lights down for ambiance...

Studio bed... just a foam on the floor... mga humok nga ulonan...if you feel like ... ZZZZZzzzzzz......

kung indi ka pa ka tulog... You can play billiard pole down in the living room... in the middle of the night.

It's always good to be in the dark... lights off and blinds down in my day work office. Tulog ta kay nag pulaw ta nga daan ka gab-e...ZZZZzzzzzz....

At Home With Art

2007-02-20T13:41:00.000-08:00

I have a Nunee Alvarado's painting and one of Charlie Co.

Fat Ladies with Big Boobs of Jeky Alano hanging and Alvarado's pen and ink drawings in my most favored corner. This is where I read my books.

“Moya” (Means water in arabic.)

2005-10-27T02:01:00.000-07:00

No walls to hang!

2005-10-11T05:27:00.000-07:00

With all these works people tend to asked... "Natutulog ka pa ba?" I just simply replied... if I stop doing all this, I'll die in my sleep. ( click image to enlarge. )

“Ligaw na tsinilas”

2005-10-08T02:32:00.000-07:00

“Ligaw na tsinilas” 60cm x 60cm / oil on canvas / 2003
That's what we felt here. Though you are already lost... the other part of you was also missing. You can't even trace your tracks... the sand dunes is ever changing.

“Prudence” 100cm x 100cm / Acrylic on Canvas

2005-09-22T03:25:00.000-07:00

In every work lies the history of the piece from the artist mind. Let me remember painting this one...let me go back to it... I'm seeing a huge canvas infront of me, It's white and empty! What do I entend to do with it? I remember Budot Lizares once said to me, each time he faces an empty canvas... he felt liked as if he stood on a high cliff watching down what's below. I't's scary! ... but be brave then, he added. As for me... I have this picture in mind, we artists have this discretion in us to foretell, foresee what will come about to what we are about to create. Prudence is a default to us. We draw or paint after seing things in our mindscapes. After all our paintings are just mirrors of our thoughts.

Close up details.

ConAir

2005-09-22T02:13:00.000-07:00

Did it ever occured to you to be in a flight where you don't want to? To us OFW's i't's been a thing that we all have to swallow. The sad part of going back to your work ( far away from your love ones ) after a month vacation from your family back home. Mabigat at masakit tanggapin ang katotohanan. Why do we have to go to other countries to earn a living? I don't wan't to elaborate to the answers and every filipino knows about it. What I painted here was what I felt to be in these flights... where every stepped you make seem's so heavy. From your house going to the airport... it could be more likenened to Christ having his cross on his way to calvary. And by the time the steward tells you to pasten your seat belts on... as if you felt like sitting on an electric chair, sentenced to death. Then they will offer you food which you can't hardly eat as if to you looks like a dog sh...t. It's a sentence that we are all paying 'til now, and who's crime was this? You know who?

Apples & Peaches

2005-09-15T00:11:00.000-07:00

I have to admit, our experiences here are not that bad at all, there are good things in life that you may also find it here. No wonder I have happy paintings too. This one is for my Kumpadre Rene Canlas, this is for his condu unit at Makati. Congrats Pare!

“TapikTapik” Collage Panels / Mixed Media

2005-09-14T07:11:00.000-07:00

Plane tickets, tags, buttons, etc... anything I gathered and kept... each piece was a part of my existence.

Detail 1: Broken Floppy
Detail 2: P.S. Sandals lng po sa akin Kuya.

Bits & Pieces

2005-09-13T05:31:00.000-07:00

AP7 Studio

2005-09-12T00:43:00.000-07:00

I've been working as an Art Director here in Afkar Promoseven Riyadh for almost ten years now, an ad agency affiliated with McCann Erickson Worldwide. A painting hangs on the wall somehow to remind me of the jealous mistress... Painting.

Squares

2005-09-12T00:31:00.000-07:00

It's always good to see abstracts on a square. Is there anybody can explain this phenomena?

Samurai Sword Headboard

2005-09-12T00:20:00.000-07:00

A Samurai Sword for a headboard? Yes... I need it on my dreams.

Unframe

2005-09-11T23:52:00.000-07:00

The good thing about abstracts paintings that you could hang it unframe.

“Tagu-an at banatan” ( Hide and sex )

2005-09-08T00:15:00.000-07:00

“Tagu-an at banatan” by Edbon Sevilleno / 80cm x 80cm oil on canvas / 2001
It is best sometimes to leave the enigma behind or else there will be no mystique riddles left for the painting to scrutinize. I am not really a good writer, I rather paint than write. The very reason I painted it beacause I can't explain it by words, so be it.

All for Art's Sake

2005-08-29T01:42:00.000-07:00

A lot of my peers had wondered, why I took up a job in Saudi Arabia? For some, this place I'm heading to is not a place for a struggling artist considering the cultural restrictions. Career wise it's a BIG Q? Before I came here, I just did what I do best ...be a painter, I did illustrations for children's books and had a cartoon strip running everyday in a tabloid ( MASA - then sister publication of MALAYA). It seems okay na sana, but there comes a time when you felt you needed more resources to enhance what you have all been doing. Back in those days mahirap makabili ng gamit na quality para sa pag pinta. I saw other painters using Latex tinting colours, it's sad but they need to keep on painting to survive. Framing your works is another problem. How about getting it to the galleries for exhibition? Talagang 'd biro. Congrat's na lng sa mga survivors, but there are few. One day ,by chance,I read this ad wanting a graphic artist sa Riyadh. To make a long story short, I was hired. I will tell you later the story behind it, it's entirely a different one. To straighten things for my critics specially those that estimated my move of going here in Saudi... kisyu baduy daw ang pag saudi... well... TO HELL WITH YOU !!! I have proven myself that all of your saudi bashing was wrong now. Honestly...that makes me feel good.

Sorry for that, sometimes we have to be rude to be effective and heard. I just want to straighten things outright. They thought I gave up my art, went to saudi para maging tea boy. Hoy! Nasa McCann Erickson kami dito! I love what I'm doing and I am paid more than enough to have four wives. But the real reason why I came here... is to carry on with my art and enhance it. Along with that, of course, to settle a decent life , be a good provider to my family and not be a mere struggling artist anymore. All I can say now is that I can buy any art material I want even my own frame tools and I also can afford to mount exhibits with any 5 stars hotels. Isn't that nice?

No walls to hang

2005-08-28T15:12:00.000-07:00

With all these works people tend to asked... "Natutulog ka pa ba?" I just simply replied... if I stop doing all this, I'll die in my sleep.

“SQUARE CAVES” A OneManShow

2005-08-28T06:37:00.000-07:00

SQUARE CAVES - Mga Kuebang Kahon, I managed to put up an exhibition during my annual vacation back home in Bacolod after a year long contract from KSA. It was a successful show, everybody was there.

GINAHASANG BAYANI (Screwed heroes)

2005-08-28T06:12:00.000-07:00

“GINHIMUSLAN” ( Rape Victim ) | 100x100cm | Arylic on canvas | By Edbon Sevilleno | Finished Version

Recently I'm painting a series of works that dealt with the plight of the OFW's (Overseas Filipino Workers). Actually this is a long overdue concept. Just now I thought it's about time to do it. Mga Bagong Bayani daw sabi ng mga pogi, but for me... dito... sa M.E., I consider us mga ginagong bayani ( translation SCREWED HEROES ). ”Mga Ginagong Bayani“ That's it, that will be the title name of this series. Pasalamat tayo lahat dahil family oriented ang kultura natin. Kahit paano nagpapadala tayo sa mga magulang natin, kapatid at mga kabit.(Joke only) The dollars we sent each month helps somehow our unstable economy. But how about kung kami na naman ang finally umuwi na dyan? Lahat naman tayo dito ay uuwi rin. What can the govt. offer us in return? Nabubulok na ekonomiya, krimen at dumadami nating populasyon. Our population is ever increasing by the minute and by the day, it's a time bomb! After a decade... do-doble na ang dami natin. Philippines is a sinking ship! Lahat tayo sakay sa isang barko na 'to, at sabay tayong lulubog. Samantalang sila ang nagpapasarap ngayon sa pwesto, sa atin naman ang hirap.

“GINAHASA” ( Rape Victim ) | 100x100cm | Arylic on canvas | By Edbon Sevilleno | Unfinished Version

Something came up in the early 90's.

2005-08-28T06:11:00.000-07:00

If you happen to be here, you may find images of women covered heavily by black markers in magazines. Strange... but later you get used to it. Something came up in mind... why not used this as an ID with my collage works. And I did, and I came out with these series.

“KANSIAHA” by Nunelucio Alvarado

2005-08-28T05:35:00.000-07:00

Nune was amongst the artists in Negros that make us proud as negrosanon. I admit I wish I could be like him, but we see things diffirently in life. I had always admired his works... seing the visual ang graphic content of it. I'm glad to know him personally.

NUNELUCIO ALVARADO - Born in 1950 in Fabrica, Negros Occidental, Alvarado is a member of the Bacolod-based Black Artists in Asia. He studied painting at the College of Fine Arts in U.P. Diliman. He has joined several group exhibits since 1975 and had his first one-man show in 1979. He has recieved the 13 Artists Award granted by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1992. He has joined several international group exhibitions held in Australia, Singapore, Japan, and the U.S.A. He was two-time Grand Prize Winner of the Philip Morris Philippines Art Awards.

MARGAHA - Black Sands of Sagay

2005-08-28T05:34:00.000-07:00

MARGAHA - Itum nga balas bulong sa mayong lawas. ( Suno sa mga katigulangan.) If Boracay is proud of its white sand... Margaha is proud of its black sands.

“TAKAS”

2005-08-28T05:30:00.000-07:00

“TAKAS” unfinished oil on canvas 120cmx90cm by Edbon Sevilleno
Mga TAKAS as they call them, they are referring to the runaway filipina maids. I called them also the Blackmailed Maids, why? most of them when they first applied for the job here, they did'nt even know who's their working for. Upon arriving here some employer will cut down from their salaries 20 to 30% from what they agreed upon. Another sad part was, the agencies (the crocodiles) that facilitated everything for them, is also taking a 3 months salary deduction, as they legally call it, it's a common practice which I don't know how the Philippine government deals with it. Some of them will only receive their salaries every after 6 months, to assure they won't run. Some ended up in a tragic situation.

“Arabes” A bauhaus inspired painting.

2005-08-28T05:11:00.000-07:00

Just like Paul Klee, he was also inspired by what he saw in his visits in tunised. What I noticed here in the middle east, it seem's that pigments tends to be extremely vibrant.

Arabian Motif

2005-08-28T04:59:00.000-07:00

When I first came to Saudi Arabia I was fascinated by the colours I see in the local souks (market).

Influences

2005-08-28T04:20:00.000-07:00

“Devouring the soul” by Charlie Co
oil on canvas, 1998, 156 x 137 cm
Artist Private Collection

I came from Bacolod City where smiles are smiles they said, with maskarra festivals, and seing the rich hacienderos, and the sakadas as well. In some of my early works I have influences of known negrense artist with the likes of Rodney Martinez, Nune Alvarado and Charlie Co. One artist said once... “Your work seem's CharlieCoic!”. It did'nt bother me, since I admit I like to be like them. It's just a period I guess, everybody has it's mentor.

Stairway to Heaven

2005-08-27T02:24:00.001-07:00

After a days work I am usually tired and worn-out, but each time I come home and reached these stairs... as I took each steps... as if I'm alive again, as I see the paintings in the walls... I'm regaining strength... for I know I will do things for myself... in my haven - in my sacred room, where I do all my rituals... creating my art. In here... life could be boring, no gimmicks, no bars to hang out, no movies in the mall, no rock concerts, and no dating with girls. Imagine it... it's not easy ha? Parang naka kulong ka sa kulungan na walang rehas. But I have to admit, since I came here parang na rehav ako sa mga vices ko. So it's up to you how you deal with it. Me I just simply draw and paint.