Help me with my personal project for the next few months: TeySev’s Negros Island Travel Sketch! I want to do a travel sketching series for our different towns and cities of Negros Island. I have thought about doing this pre-Covid. Unknowingly, I have started doing this in 2017 already. Mostly places that I have gone…
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Painting Palawan
Painting Palawan Painting Palawan was in my dreams for a long time. And when I finally was able to go and do it — IT.WAS.AMAZING!!! I spent 2 weeks in central and northern Palawan. We started out with Puerto Princesa, then Port Barton, and then to El Nido and eventually Coron. Of course, I have…
Travel Sketching: What to Bring
Art materials to bring with you when you do travel sketching
1997 and Lonely
Poem from 1997
Poem from the Past
Another poem from my diary. I had the exact time of the day when I finished this poem. Without a title, it was only marked as this: May 27, 2002, Monday 5:30PM. Poem by Ihvonie Sevilleno Am I doomed? I pulled on the gloom again It fogs my eyes with misty tears It clouds my…
Art Inspires Poetry
I was never one to be afraid of new things. Just after five months after starting painting, I decided to do my first show. “To The Stars” was my first solo exhibiting more than 45 watercolors of sunsets, seascapes, and starry nights. I celebrated that night because it was my 37th birthday and the week…
Again, what was I thinking back then?
Another poem I saw from my 1997 diary. I did some Marie Kondo-ing in my house for the past few weeks so papers had to go. But memories and the feelings had to be blogged even if I can’t remember the backstory. “Time” Poem by Ihvonie Sevilleno 1997 I wish I could turn back…
Travel Sketching: Just Around the Corner
There are days that you just feel down but there is nothing that picks me up than a day of travel sketching and watercolor painting. I took this photo some summers ago with my art students for our plein air painting in the fishing village of Balaring in Silay City, Negros Island, Philippines. This is…