Last night we were cleaning the drawers where we kept collected drawings and sketches of Cebuano Artist and my husband's sketches, drawings, and small paintings. I found five portraits of me by four cebuano Artists, Celso Pepito, Felix Catarata, Toni Vidal and the other artist, I can't recognize the signature. My husband knows them personally. He'd been writing their stories for quite sometime. I met some of them occasionally however, I became friends with Toni Vidal and Celso Pepito. The latter was like a father to my husband.
Photo above is made by Antonio "Toni" Vidal, a Cebuano Portraitist, his paintings are mostly religious images, the Mother Mary, image of Sto. Nino Etc. . , I guess I got lucky being married with a Cebuano artist Ritchie Quijano to have these portraits for free. Ritchie Quijano is an artist, painter, sculptor, coin and antique collector, and a writer. He contributed for Sunstar Daily for a decade since 2000 but after the marriage in 2008, the baby... well, he focused on our family life but still in love with art world. One day, he'll come back and I guess, many portraits are coming my way.
