CASCADE Studio's Free Basic Drawing On-line Workshop

With the Enhance Community Quarantine holding us all from going-out of our homes, it's fortunate that now we find time to draw and be creative.  Finally, we can now get our art materials and start sketching and drawing, a visual way of expressing our thoughts or recording the events in our surroundings through freehand drawing.

Mothers get to spend more time with their children and monitor their activities.  This is also an opportunity to explore if you, as a mother, (or for your children), have a talent to draw.  One mother contacted me through chat.  She was inquiring if I can give workshop through online. I told myself, why not?  I've been managing webinars since March 16, and was unable to hold my pencils and art materials because the webinars are eating most of my time.  It is good timing that this May 1, we are on holiday and May 2 falls on a Saturday.  With the long weekend ahead, I can now prepare the materials for drawing and patch it live on FB.

Thus, may we invite you on May 2, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for a workshop on basic drawing.  We will start with understanding the art materials and understanding the movements of light, and its significance to drawing.

With the live feed, I will be accepting 10 online students to be coached and mentored while we do an online feed via FB.  You may still be able to get a slot for the sample coaching in this online workshop.  Just get a ticket here and I'll send you the Google Meet link to take part.

The requirements is if you are using a celfone, be sure to download the Google Meet Application.  If you are using laptop or desktop, then you just have to click on the invite that will be sent to you.

For the art materials:

See the complete lessons and the video on my next blog.  Enjoy!!!

Updates on the Crowdfunding Campaign for CASCADE and C-ARTwheel Art Exhibit by ARTipolo

For today's blog, we give you updates as to CASCADE's crowdfunding performance.  We also featured Ms. CORAZON PATARATA, one of the ARTipolo artists who supports this project.  Also, we give you the list of participating artist in C-ARTwheel Exhibit at R-Gallery.


We are happy to share with you that we have received backings from friends for the CASCADE (Creative Art School for Children and Adults Deserving Excellence), and we have received a total of five thousand pesos.  We have three (3) backers who are interested to avail the bag rewards and one (1) to receive a personalised mug (with her name printed on it).  

Let me share with you the profiles of the artists who have painted the bags that backers will receive.  To start with we featured here Ms. Corazon Patarata.

Ms. Patarata painted this bag when I asked her to share her talent for the sake of helping people with needs.  She willingly and excitedly acted on my request and has produced this pretty hand-painted bag, designed with the birds of paradise flowers.

     60 years old, with an earlier 20-year experience as a diplomat, is a self-taught artist, who works with watercolors, oil pastels and acrylic paints, in a modern realist-impressionist style. Her subjects are flowers, landscapes, marine life, famous landmarks and monuments, heavenly bodies, and angels, and sometimes there are human figures included in her picture compositions.  Two articles about Cora’s painting career, penned by Babeth Lolarga, were published by Verafiles.Org and circulated in Yahoo News: “A Former Diplomat’s Sojourn Into Painting”, published on 30 May 2014; and “The Traveller As Painter”, published on 20 January 2017. Souce: https://verafiles.org/articles/traveler-painter

     Patarata is with the Antipolo-based artists’ group ARTipolo that has the Haemophilia Association of the Philippines for Love and Service as permanent beneficiary for all its exhibits. This self-taught vignette painter admires Amorsolo. “I aspire to someday learn his techniques with light and shadows.”Among the Renaissance artists, she singled out Rembrandt for the sensitivity of his human figures, Tintoretto for his lights and shadows, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gaugin and Vincent Van Gogh for their colors and brushstrokes.

     Of the moderns, she likes John Singer Sargent “for the emotional impact of his paintings,” Frida Kahlo “for her use of Nature as symbols for human emotions,” Miro “for his joyful and playful abstract renditions” and Norman Rockwell “for portraying scenes of everyday life that everyone can relate with.” 

     Now that she is doing what fulfils her, she calls painting “an essential part of me. Painting is something I owe to my Maker and to the people around me.Through the process, I enjoy many good feelings in heart and spirit.Painting is like praying. It is like a cleansing and uplifting process.”

We are privilege to have her support through her works.  The bag that she has painted is an original and does not have any reproductions.  The same goes with the other bags.  We hope you'll support our CASCADE campaign.  There are still 35 days remaining, as to date.

By supporting this campaign, you'll get the rewards of your choice (1st-come-1st-served).  We also invite you to join us on the opening day of C-ARTwheel Group Exhibit, which features the works of our well-known artists whose names are listed below:

1. Rose Gob
2. Carol Mencias Alay-ay
3. Pol Mesinas, Jr.
4. Jerry Ybanez
5. Jenella Lopez Medina
6. Amador Inlayo
7. Rodgie Gapayao
8. Marie Claire
9. Mark Joseph Beloria
10. Alexandra Monserrat
11. Nelson M. Basa
12. Marge DC Gomez
13. Krister Isip
14. Jayson Z Borlon
15. Nelson N. Medina
16. Crishaira Pelino
17. Chrisellie C. Guzik
18. Liana Mariz P. Mesina
19. Dyna Quizon Ondoy
20. Maria Alma Ang Fortuno
21. Benedict John Simbulan
22. Don Cabanza
23. Isagani Cruz
24. Jun Vicaldo
25. Aris Ventures
26. Bernardo Matias
27. Vivian Nocum Limpin
28. Daphne Lagunay
29. Edward Dave
30. Joemari Cagas
31. Michelle Diwa
32. Nelson Dela Cruz
33. Eleanor Habal Robleza
34. Dea Solis

If you have any questions, please feel free to write us by clicking the e-mail us box in this blog.  Or you may also send as a message by visiting our page at @CascadeArtStudio.

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT CASCADE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN:  CLICK HERE.  THIS CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED BUT WE CONTINUE WITH OUR INTENT OF GIVING FREE ART CLASSES, EVEN DURING THIS TIME OF ENHANCED COMMUNITY QUARANTINE.  IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO DONATE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US.