ILLUSTRATOR CLASS ASSIGNMENT 2

By Matisse

                buensuceso_ai2_class
                TRACE FAMOUS ARTIST ARTWORK
                                   

                            STATEMENT     OF     PURPOSE

By Matisse

        As I browsed over the gallery of artwork from where we are asked to choose one for this project,  Pablo Picasso was the artist whose work had greatly attracted me to deal with. I have been inclined to study artworks by Pablo Picasso as I thought of the word Picasso is a person with a joyful and comic personality as his name sounds like "Payaso" meaning clown in Filipino, the Philippine language. A week before the exciting random drawing of lots of who is to be assigned to each one of the forty artworks, Picasso's numbered 8 artwork had given me the groundwork on what I could expect doing this project. I tried it, then, came to realize, Picasso was not "Payaso" (clown) after all, I could not afford to laugh but express sighs of relentless frustrations. His  painting color texture and gradient combinations are illusive   and scared me fitted for the Halloween.

 

Artwork by Picasso

        So when the random drawing of lots called me to choose, I chose  not Pablo Picasso but a simple looking number 25, by Henri Matisse. This one would be easy as I contemplated while we are given a chance to select an artwork during that time. However, like Pablo Picasso's number 8,  Henri Matisse's number 25 is equally intriguing. I constantly agree to writer, Shelley Esaak, when she wrote that Matisse's works are characterized by big blocks of bold , vibrant colors, and a deceptive simplicity. She added farther, Matisse and Picasso are probably the two artists who had the greatest influence on the course of 20th century art. Yes, deceptive simplicity is the term aptly described  Henri Matisse's numbered 25 artwork. He made his paintings in a manner looking effortlessly naive, where unsuspecting art enthusiast would render the art piece as easy as eating peanuts. This reaction is what Sir Henri Matisse purposely wanted his audience to exude. From the words of Sir Henri Matisse, he himself said, "I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime, which never let anyone suspect the labors it has cost me...".

     Moreover, he said, "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."  I,  being an audience, there is no doubt Henri Matisse achieved his intentions to provide me a soothing, calming influence on my mind something like  a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue but I, being an artist, while doing the trace of his painting is like having an armchair slump upon my shoulder. I could feel the burden these artists loaded upon their shoulders while producing their own masterpieces.

      Anyways,  I took pride in having the chance of tracing his artwork as this exercise exposed me to know my handicaps and learn ways to overcome them. Later, when others or myself would be able to copy Matisse's number 25 in all its entirety,  it is paramount to remember that aside from his art, he had his wisdom to share in his own words, "Exactitude is not the truth." .

        Thank you very much.

         Antonio L. Buensuceso

                   ORIGINAL   IMAGE                                                  TRACED  IMAGE             

The TRUTH will set you FREE.

ILLUSTRATOR CLASS ASSIGNMENT 3

buensuceso_ai3_class_sop














































buensuceso_ai3_class

The TRUTH will set you FREE.

DECEMBER POSTS BY JOHN DONOVAN

World’s largest ship launched but bigger one planned

Dec 4th, 2013

by John Donovan. 

No comments yet

 

World’s largest ship launched but bigger one planned

3 December 2013

By Edd GentThe world’s largest ship has been launched but developer Royal Dutch Shell already has plans for something bigger.   MORE HERE

Shell: A continuing story of Over-promise and Under-delivery

Dec 4th, 2013

by John Donovan. 

No comments yet

Wood Mackenzie Executive Summary of Shell (dated November 2013): “Market confidence in Shell’s ability to deliver has eroded in recent years with the company gaining a reputation for over- promising and under-delivering. 

MORE HERE

Oil spill coats river, sea near ENI Nigeria facility

Dec 5th, 2013

by John Donovan. 

No comments yet

Vast stretches of the delta’s unique mangrove swamps are blackened and dead from oil pollution.

    MORE HERE

Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon

Dec 5th, 2013

by John Donovan. 

No comments yet

ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, BP and Shell, all major contributors to the Republican party…

MORE HERE

BOOK COVER in PHOTOSHOP

                      buensuceso_ps3_class

                             

                                 buensuceso_ps3_class_sop

The TRUTH will set you FREE.

Rally for a Moratorium on Fracking!

	Donate | Send to a Friend | View in Browser | Sent to antoniobuensuceso@gmail.com (Not You? Sign Up Here)
	Join the rally for a moratorium on fracking! Tuesday December 10 in Oakland  There's no doubt that fracking is driving California backwards.  Now you have a chance to let a key state agency know it's time for a fracking moratorium. Join Sierra Club California, Center for Biological Diversity, Credo, Clean Water Action, 350.Org and other organizations for a rally to call for a fracking moratorium.  The rally will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at the Oakland Convention Center, 550 10th Street, in Oakland. RSVP here. The rally will occur at the first of a series of statewide Environmental Impact Report (EIR) scoping hearings to determine what environmental impacts will be considered when it comes to fracking and well stimulation. The hearing itself will be conducted by the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Help us raise our voices at the rally - including through song - in favor of a statewide moratorium on fracking. Then join the crowd inside to urge state regulators that a fracking moratorium needs to be included among the alternatives analyzed in the state's EIR. Wear your Sierra Club gear and show the people of California and Governor Brown's administration that, when it comes to protecting our communities and our environment, the Sierra Club shows up, stands up and speaks up! If you can't come to Oakland, click here to see a list of other EIR hearings around the state later this month. Please RSVP! Sierra Club California 909 12th Street, Suite 202 Sacramento, CA 95814 | P: (916) 557-1100

Shell struggling to capture investors’ imagination

Dec 1st, 2013 

by John Donovan.

Shell is struggling to capture investors’ imagination following a series of disappointments. Missed production targets have undermined confidence in the company’s ability to deliver growth.

Posted by John Donovan

Extract in red text below from page 2 of a 30 page Wood MackenzieExecutive Summary of Shell dated November 2013. Hence this is a bang up to date expert assessment. It was kindly supplied by an unsurprised Shell insider source, who says the report is in line with the familiar story at Royal Dutch Shell of Over-promise and Under-delivery.

Extracts

• Shell is struggling to capture investors’ imagination following a series of disappointments.
• Missed production targets have undermined confidence in the company’s ability to deliver growth.
• Exploration in recent years and unconventionals have failed to live up to expectations.
• Concerns have also grown that instead of improving distributions, cash flows are being reinvested in the next investment cycle.
• Shareholder returns now lag behind ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP.
• This translates into one of the most discounted ratings in the sector.
• Shell is also under pressure to get back on the front foot in exploration.
• The new leadership will face some difficult choices in order to drive a re-rating of the stock.
• Shell made a return of just 10% on its exploration investment between 2008 and 2012, dragged down by high spending and a poor performance in unconventionals.
• Despite investing significant capital in unconventional oil and gas, Shell has lost ground to its peers.

Extracts end

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, GoogleNews, Oil Company Profits,Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell Project Delays, Shell Project Overruns.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · BP · Chevron · ExxonMobil · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

← Ormen Lange problem cuts Norway gas output

European oil giants to talk terms with Iran →

The TRUTH will set you FREE.

The Pope: A New Ally for Economic Justice

Dear Antonio, The greatest crisis facing our country today is the obscene level of wealth and income economic inequality we now see.  This is a moral issue, an economic issue, and a political issue. While the very rich get richer, the middle class continues to disappear and we now have more people living in poverty than ever before.  Despite huge increases in technology and productivity, tens of millions of workers are finding it harder to feed their families, pay for health care, send their kids to college or put aside  savings for retirement. While large corporations are earning record-breaking profits, real unemployment is close to 14%, and youth unemployment is at 20%.  An entire generation of young people is struggling to find a place in the economy and repay their college loans. In recent years, with 95% of all new income going to the top 1%, we have seen a huge increase in the number of millionaires and billionaires. One family, the Walton family of WalMart, now owns more wealth than the bottom 40% of Americans. Meanwhile, we continue to have, by far, the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. While the average American is increasingly alienated from the political process, billionaire families like the Koch brothers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to elect candidates who support their extreme  right-wing views. During the last week a new and important ally has arisen in the struggle against unfettered capitalism and wealth and income inequality.  In his recently published Exhortation, Pope Francis warns the world against the idolatry of money and the false promise of trickle-down economics. Clearly, not everyone shares Francis' religion, and many of us have deep differences with a number of positions taken by the Catholic Church.  Nonetheless, we can all, I think, share his commitment to economic  justice and learn from his wise assessment of how modern civilization, in its relentless pursuit of profit and  its dependence on "the market" to make final valuations of what is good, has lost touch with the ethical  imperatives that should guide our society.  I appeal to other religious leaders to focus on matters of economic  justice and to speak out from the context of their own respective traditions. These are tough times for our country. Let's go forward together. Thanks for your continued support. Sincerely, Senator Bernie Sanders Here are some quotes from the Pope's recent message: No to an economy of exclusion Just as the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say "thou shalt not" to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly home­less person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality. Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the sur­vival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of peo­ple find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape. Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "throw away" culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society's underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the "ex­ploited" but the outcast, the "leftovers". In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about great­er justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting. To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has devel­oped. Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us some­thing new to purchase. In the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us. No to the new idolatry of money One cause of this situation is found in our relationship with money, since we calmly accept its dominion over ourselves and our societies. The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person! We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idol­atry of money and the dictatorship of an imper­sonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: con­sumption. While the earnings of a minority are grow­ing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ide­ologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Con­sequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control. A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules. Debt and the accumulation of interest also make it difficult for countries to realize the potential of their own economies and keep citizens from en­joying their real purchasing power. To all this we can add widespread corruption and self-serving tax evasion, which have taken on worldwide di­mensions. The thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of in­creased profits, whatever is fragile, like the envi­ronment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

Tula ukol sa 'Paskong Pinoy'

This poem was shared by one of GMA News Online's readers -- Gilson B. Aceveda. PASKONG PINOY Ang dama de noche’y, humalimuyak sa dilim Ang mumunting bitui’y, walang kasing ningning Ang hangi’y malamig, Oh! Kay sarap samyuin Hamog sa umaga’y, dumidilig sa hardin Bahay kubo sa bukid, ay pinalalamutian Ng mumunting mga parol, na nagsisikintaban May kani-kaniyang belen, na salamin ng sabsaban Kung saan ang Tagapagligtas, ay pakumbabang isinilang Pagsapit ng gabi’y, nagsisipagkantahan Ang mga binata, pati kadalagahan Awiting pamasko, Oh! Kay sarap pakinggan Gumagaan ang puso, sa mga himig na kay inam Ang mga paslit nama’y, nangagsisi-awit din Bitbit ang mga lata, kasama ang tambourine Mananapat sa mga bahay, hudyat ng pangangaroling Kung saan ang mga barya’y, matamang lilikumin Natutulog pa ang araw, maaga ng gumigising Ang magkakabaryo’y, sama-samang mangingilin Simbang gabi sa nayon, pilit kukumpletuhin Upang gabayan Niya, at sila’y pagpalain Sa gabi ng Noche Buena, pamilya’y sama sama Konti man ang pagkain, sa maliit nilang mesa Hindi nila alintana, konti man ang handa Basta’t ang pamilya’y, kumpleto’t masaya Handang mga pansit, at masarap na nilupak Kanilang ibinabahagi, sa mga kamag-anak Sukli naman nila’y, sumang pagkakasarap Sinasawsaw sa asukal, pagkadaka’y pinapapak Sa umaga ng Pasko’y, karibok na ang lahat Bata at matanda’y, kani-kaniyang gayak Magagara ang damit, sa kalye ay nagkalat Magmamano sa mga Ninong, bibisita sa kamag-anak Pagkabigay ng basbas, ng mga Ninong at Ninang Abot tainga ang ngiti, ng mga kabataan Sapagkat sa pag-uwi’y, may regalo ng tangan Bukod pa sa salaping, pudpod na sa kabibilang Ito namang sina magulang, matamang naghihintay Sabik sa pagdating, ng kanilang mga inakay Pagkat pinamaskuhan, sa kanila’y pilit ipapa-alay Upang may pantustos daw, sa pang araw-araw na buhay Ang mga bata namang, nag-alay nga ng salapi Di mapinta ang mukha, kabi-kabila ang hikbi Akala nilang pinamaskuhan, naisin na’y mabibili Sa palad pala ng mga magulang, lahat makukubli Oh! Ang pasko nga naman, hindi lang talaga pambata Minsan nga’y mas masaya pa, ang mga nakatatanda Lalo na’t ang mga anak, ay anim o higit pa Daig pa ang naka BONUS, sa laki ng kinikita Subalit magkaganoon ma’y, huwag pa ring lilimutin Na ang Kapaskuha’y, hindi tungkol sa kikitain Pagbibigayan at Pagmamahalan, ay patuloy na paghariin Pagkat ito ang araw, na si Hesukristo’y sumaatin! Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon Kabayan! From GMA News

The TRUTH will set you FREE.