Vira Vira is my stylized way of saying Bira-Bira, Hiligaynon word for working hard incessantly. I thought of this title months before opening the exhibit because I noticed for some time now that my friends and family call me as such for spurning artwork one after another. Vira Vira is my 8th Solo Art Exhibit,…
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TeySev’s Negros Island Travel Sketch
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…
Linocut: Artists in the Tropics
What if these artists are in the tropics? What if they were able to visit the Philippines? I am reimagining them to have painted or made their self-portraits with tropical flora and fauna as backgrounds. They might even consider painting plein air with the scenes around here. I want to keep them safe from any…
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…
What was I thinking in 1997?
A poem I wrote when I was 18 years old. I saw this in my diary. Poem by Ihvonie Sevilleno October 23, 1997 11:20 PM Loot my pride Conceal my heart And cloud my mind I ask for you to take me Into the palms of stillness And into the caverns of the numb Always…
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…