Summer View

The title of this painting is "Summer View".  It is a painting of two cousins resting after a hard day's work on the top of a hill, overlooking a vast area of rice fields below.  They had been having fun, playing a guitar, and singing their favorite songs, while watching the sun, as it sets in the horizon.

My wife, Lorna, and I finished this painting on the 30th of April 2014.  It is an acrylic painting on a 30" X 40" stretched canvas.

Banaue

I finished another painting this afternoon, April 7, 2011.  It is an acrylic painting on a 11" X 14" X 5/8" canvas.  

I have named it "Banaue," after the municipality called Banaue (Banawe) in the province of Ifugao in the Philippines. Banaue is widely known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Batad Rice Terraces and Bangaan Rice Terraces. 

The Ifugao Rice Terraces (Banaue Rice Terraces or Hagdan-hagdang Palayan ng Banaue) begin at the base of the mountain range and extend several thousand feet upwards. They are commonly referred to by Filipinos as the "Eight Wonder of the World." Accordingly, the total length of the terraces, when put end to end, would encircle half of the globe. 

The rice terraces manifest the engineering skill and ingenuity of Ifugaos, who built them 2,000 years ago. They are irrigated by means of mountain streams and springs that have been tapped and channeled into canals that run downhill through the rice terraces.