Category Archives: Arts and Culture

Miniatures and Textures

By | Arts and Culture, Events and Launches | One Comment

Congratulations Tita Wing Del Prado and Ramon del Prado on your exhibit!!!

Around 35 years ago, Tita Wing del Prado had an exhibit in the same place and now she is back.  She told me that she stopped painting when she had the kids 🙂  But now that she has more time to spare, she is back to painting

Mother – Son artists – Ramon and Wing del Prado

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Proud son and brother, Miguel del Prado with his aunt, Tita Entang Carballo 

Magnifying classes so you can see the miniature paintings 🙂

Listen to Ramon and Tita Wing explain their work

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Platera series by Wing del Prado – She imagined what people would have in their platers.  This is Bea Zobel’s Platera 🙂

Platera of Socorro Ramos

Imelda Marcos

More Miniatures

She also paints on other things like candelabras

or on wooden pieces

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Ramon’s style s textures.  He is into digital animation and he wanted to try another form of art.  In 2007 he got his Fulbright scholarship in New York which enabled him to take his Masters in the School of Visual Arts.  He then came home and was a consultant for The Commission on Information Communications Technology (CICT) teaching animation to public high schools around the country.  He is now a freelance graphic designer and animator.  He does some work with Tuldok Animation Studios to further enhance the Filipino animation industry to help our country preserve our culture through animation

Congratulations!!

Peanuts buffet 🙂

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Art is Hope Auction

By | Arts and Culture, Giving Back | No Comments

Take time out to watch the video.  I am so happy that Marla Dizon shared this with me!  Heart2Heart is so happy that there exists such a foundation, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc ( RAFO )  and provides a different need – SHELTER KITS!  

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Marla’s Dad, Tito Paquito Dizon and Vita Sarenas of Finale Gallery will be raising money through an auction which will be held today!  All proceeds will go to RAFI to buy more shelter kits  

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100% of the proceeds from the auction will go to the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation 

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 to purchase shelter kits.  Shelter has had to take a backseat to food and medicine but is integral to the recovery process.  The NYTimes came out with an article last week about the increas in pneumonia as a direct result of the lack of shelter.  I am so glad there are so many people helping and covering as many areas as possible to ensure the safety and well being of our fellowmen!

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So glad they cover 3 steps which has a longer term response

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The shelter kids will be distributed through the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc

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 Each costs P 3,500.00

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CONTENTS OF A SHELTER KIT

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Guggenheim Bilbao

By | Arts and Culture, Travel | One Comment

It is because of the Guggenheim Museum that millions of people come all the way to Bilbaoguggenheim-bilbao-front.JPG

Love the Puppy by Jeff Koons covered with fresh flowers!!
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Very modern structure
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A very tall structure
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No photos allowed inside the museum so these are photos from the book
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Permanent exhibit by Richard Serra!  Very interesting.  I actually got dizzy going inside one of them 
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 An area for kids 🙂 while the parents go around the Museum
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Beautiful outdoor installations!!!  Maman by Louise Bourgeois and Tulips by Jeff Koons 
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Click below to go to the website
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The Moscow Kremlin

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The following day was the actual tour of the Kremlin.  We just walked from our hotel to get here 

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A unique looking bunch of trees in the premises 

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Inside
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Photos were not allowed inside but the museums were amazing!!!

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Our tour guide who limps but is very strong and walks faster than all of us 🙂

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Diorama at the Radisson Royal Hotel Moscow

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Before going to dinner, Richard and Sasa took us to the Radisson Hotel 

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There is a diorama in the lobby of the hotel which they purchased at an auction
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It’s a good idea to come here before you visit the Kremlin and there is a recording you can listen to to give you a background on the city 
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I took a photo with people so you can see the scale of the diorama
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It highlights and talks about the different monuments and buildings in the area – so it is a good short and quick tour already

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Click below to go to the website of the hotel

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The Fruit Garden Brings Jam and Art Together

By | Arts and Culture, Christmas, Foodie, Proud to be Pinoy! | No Comments

Talking about sweet couples and Filipinas marrying foreigners 🙂  Here’s another favorite couple of Heart2Heart!  Pierre and Ria, the sweet couple behind The Fruit Garden.  Every year they have something new

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So nice how they mixed Art with their products – a Negrenese artist – Charlie Co who is a friend of Ria who is from Negros

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In Charlie Co’s words, the painting “is a marriage between two people from two different cultures as shown by the different landmarks in the background, the Eiffel tower and the Bacolod plazza bandstand

The viewer is brought into a stage where the story begins to unfold. The Negros lansdcape shows the three mountains of Negros and sugar cane field. Paper boat dots the ground representing dreams. A couple stands atop a horse, and the horse represents travelling. They have travelled to many far places only to find their home in the Philippines

A violinist plays beautiful music as the couple celebrates with food and wine their successful partnership not just in love but in business as well. Pierre and Ria have perfected the Recipe of Love”

Each package comes with a gift card with the same artwork of the painting
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The Fruit Garden has  a Salted Caramel spread and other unique flavours in the Carewell  gift packs

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HONEY!!
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The chocolate line this year presents 8 of our jam flavors, filling belgian chocolate pralines, in a box of 16 pralines

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