La meditación es vida – Meditation is Life…

(Foto de FBC/Photo by FBC/Derrechos Reservados/All Rights Reserved)

Es una meditación de unos diez minutos y con eso basta para lograr mucho en cuerpo y alma… En silencio y sentado/sentada cómodamente, concentrate en el sol que nace…

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This is a ten minute meditation and that’s enough to enrich body and soul… In silence, sit comfortably and concentrate on the rising sun…

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Gracias y espero que lo repitáis todas las mañanas que os vendrá muy bien…

Thank you and I hope you repeat this every morning as it will do you great…

Dear Diary, page 66

(Photo by FBC. Omnia Caelum Studios Valenicia/All Rights Reserved)

The winds are changing direction… The universities are not for the wise anymore… Time is wasted in useless things and smart phones seem to be making people rather stupid… People are changing too… Girls will be boys and boys will be girls (as Ray Davis sang)… The price of electricity is skyrocketing in Europe as is the price of natural gas and heating oil… Climate change has created a never-ending summer (it’s still 24 degrees C. here)… Torrential rains seem to now destroy bridges, houses and everything… Rivers flow with mud and rocks and lay waste to towns… Violence is on the rise… Now they have started to scare people again with new strains of COVID and even with the regular flu… So if Putin doesn’t get us, something will… But tourists are flocking to our city because it’s warm, and those from the far north can swim in the Mediterranean, whose waters are at 21 degrees C and quite nice… Barça is out of the Champions League and who knows what they’ll do in La Liga… so…

The only thing I can say is that the situation in the world today reminds me of this story that was told to me by someone a long time ago in a place far, far away…

A drunk showed up at an Alcoholics Annonymous group and the group leader asked him, «Are you here to sign in?» And in a drunken slurry speech the drunk replied, «No, to sign out.»

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CHEERS…

#artvideo, «BODOLANDIA»

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Bienvenidos a «BODOLANDIA» el nuevo concepto artístico aquí en Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia…

Os invito a visitar mis redes sociales:

Instagram: @Francisco_Bravo_Cabrera

Twitter: @Euskadi_Bakero

YouTube: YouTube.com/@FranciscoBravoCabrera

Y para coleccionistas y amantes del arte original (para vuestras colecciones y casas), os convido a comunicaros con mi representante: Guloshka404@gmail.com (Instagram: @Guloshka)

Gracias…

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Welcome to «Bodoland» the new art concept here at Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia.

I would like to invite you to visit my social media:

Instagram: @Francisco_Bravo_Cabrera

Twitter: @Euskadi_Bakero

YouTube: YouTube.com/@FranciscoBravoCabrera

And for collectors and lovers of original art (for your collection or home), please contact my representative Guloshka404@gmail.com and on Instagram: @Guloshka.

Cheers…

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Gracias…

Cheers…

#artvideo, «9 grandes cuadros de la abstraccion – 9 Great Abstract Paintings

El arte abstracto… Cuanta confusión causa… Hasta a Picasso lo ponen como artista abstracto… La abstracción es la pintura que no se parece a nada en la vida natural y que tiene una referencia interna para el artista y muchos significados para los demás… Aquí os presento nueve piezas muy simbólicas de este genero que fue una de las pocas vanguardias del S. XX que ha seguido y que cada vez crece más. Ahora, dime, ¿Que piensas tú de la abstracción?

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Abstract art… How much confusion it creates… Even Picasso has been called an abstract artist… Abstract art is a style of painting that has no resemblance at all to anything in the natural world. It has an internal reference (source) for the artist and many different interpretations by the observers… Here I have selected a few important pieces of abstract art, one of the few vanguards of the XXth C. to still thrive. Now you tell me, what do you think of abstract art?

(2022-Si te ha gustado, por favor dale el «like» gracias/If you liked it please give it a «like» thank you)

Gracias…

Cheers…

How I Teach Art…Lesson 1

(The first three initial phases of the painting «The Patriot» by FBC. Acrylic on canvas, 60x80cm/Image property of FBC, Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)

All artists are teachers… Some may actually be Art professors at prestigious academies or universities… some may have never actually «taught» anyone directly… But that is the key. Indirectly, a painting teaches, and we all learn from seeing the works of great masters hanging in museums all over the world. For centuries artists have been learning from each other. There is no such a specimen as an auto-didactic, because we all learn from someone or something… Ok, some may argue that people can be «self-taught» and I agree, but the knowledge comes from an establish source.

So, how do I teach art? I don’t teach anyone how to hold a pencil or a crayon or a brush. I have to suppose that if they want to be an artist they have already tried such instruments out. So, I begin by reminding them that art is Art, an academic subject, a professional pursuit and something that must be learned, albeit formally or informally. Then I insist on the fact that an artist is a researcher because Art is the search. If you have not begun to search, then you have not begun to create art. Art is not intuitive, it is contrived, directed and formed from a preconceived idea of the artist…

Now, reference «creativity» and «inspiration»… I don’t care for those words or for what they represent. All humans are creative beings and we are all inspired, at one time of our life or another. An artist works to «create» and does not need inspiration. What he/she needs is discipline and a plan. Therefore neither of these concepts has any direct bearing on becoming an artist.

What about «talent?» Are some people born talented and some not? Are actors, singers, dancers, musicians and artists genetically different? Well, they would have to be if they were born with any of those inherent talents. No. Talent is not a congenital disease. Talent is, and only is, the result of hard work. Haven’t you ever heard the old saying «practice makes perfect?»

So, lesson one is this. Go to the art store and before you buy your sketch pads, pencils, sharpeners, paint tubes, brushes (turpentine and oils if you are going to paint in oils), and canvases, buy yourself what will be the most important item in your studio, a moldeable artist rubber (eraser for Americans). Buy two or three and put them together into a little ball. This will help you to think, to eliminate stress and will inspire you to work as hard as you can so you can develop talent and folks can say how «creative’ you are…

(Stay tuned for Lesson Number 2 coming soon)

(Finished: «The Patriot» by FBC, Omnia Caelum Studios Valencia/All Rights Reserved)

Cheers…