Quezon artists group conducts oil and coffee painting tutorials for the young

Noel Bueza, president of Quezon Artists Guild, prompts the young participants on their artworks during the coffee painting t...

Noel Bueza, president of Quezon Artists Guild, prompts the young participants on their artworks during the coffee painting tutorial held at The Event Center at Pacific Mall Lucena. (JOHN BELLO)

by John A. Bello

LUCENA CITY – The Quezon Artists Guild (QAG), a group of local visual artists in Quezon province has been active in the local art events and activities to show their creativity and versatility of their artworks and to draw the interest and appreciation of both young and old Quezonians for the arts.

For two weekends, on Sept. 16 and Sept. 23, 2 members of QAG have conducted art talk and workshop on basic drawing, oil pastel painting and coffee painting to various schoolchildren at The Event Center in Pacific Mall here aimed to ‘start ‘em young’ in artworks and art appreciation.

Noel Bueza, visual artist from Lucban and QAG president, kickstarted the art talk and tutorial on basic drawing and oil pastel painting on Sept. 16 and last Sept. 23, it was the turn of young and budding artist from Lopez, Aann Reynales to lead with coffee painting workshop for some 45 kiddie participants.

Using simple materials donated by provincial tourism office like coffee sticks, paintbrush, oslo paper and black coffee in sachet diluted to water to come up with light, medium and dark brown colors, Reynales, along with her fellow members of QAG, proceeded to guide and instruct the young art enthusiasts in producing various art sketches using coffee as medium.

Reynales, 21 yrs. old, told the young participants to do their coffee painting just like water color painting, using black coffee mixed with water with no sugar, no creamer and just being creative about it on paper.

When asked how she get started in coffee painting, Reynales who also does mural painting, simply said that she was forced to do it when one time she ran out of painting materials and thought about using coffee mixed with water.

Chino Dechavez, a freelancer graphic artist, accompanied his 7 yrs. old Gr. 2 daughter Sadie to the 2nd session of the art tutorial led by Reynales.

Asked about the artistic inclination of his daughter, Dechavez said his daughter has been doing ‘human figures’ at home and play games while doing art.

Rez Cada, vice president for external affairs of QAG and a visual artist from Lucban, described his artwork as representational, abstract, realism and cubism. He exhorted the young artist participants that they are born artists and that they can paint anything they like using their natural ability.

August Tazon, an acrylic painter and teacher-adviser of Gr. 5 elementary school in Dolores town, showed his several artworks of fighting cocks and his poetic writings in Tagalog posted in Facebook social media.

Aside from Bueza, Reynales, Cada and Tazon, also at the coffee painting workshop to assist the participants were Tristan Bamba, Raffa Dala, Avie Abadilla Lafuente, Roma Valdez, Joel Reglos, Neil Amador, Lex Gozon, Gerald Pornasdoro and Austin Full.

Reynales surprised this writer with a gift, a framed painting of his daughter, Joanne Veronica Bello, Gr. 8 student of Quezon National High School taking up Special Program in Journalism. Bueza also came up with his own as a gift to this writer, an on the spot coffee painting rendition of his forte on Koi fishes.