Magical Years: Memories & Sketches

PALH , 2020, hard­cov­er 8X8 inch­es, 37 pages, ISBN 9780971945890, Spe­cial Lim­it­ed Edi­tion of 100 hb copies
PALH has copies, signed and num­bered by the author/artist, $45 each, Free US ship­ping, email palhbooks@gmail.com

 

Special Limited Edition book of Sketches

There are only 100 signed and num­bered hard­bound copies by the author/artist. 

Known as a writer and lack­ing for­mal train­ing in the arts, Cecil­ia start­ed sketch­ing in late 2018. Using reed and pen and ink, she presents in this hard­cov­er book, 43 sketch­es depict­ing what she calls her “Mag­i­cal Years” as a child in her birth city of Cebu, Philip­pines. Cecil­ia draws from her mem­o­ries of her par­ents, their home, and of the land­marks of her beloved Cebu.

Praise

“ ‘Mag­ic’ is the key word in the art of Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard. Every draw­ing trans­ports you to a dif­fer­ent world and a dif­fer­ent time, and you can­not ever come back unchanged.” ~ Tony Perez, Play­wright, Nov­el­ist, & Painter

“Draw­ings are often ignored as being mere steps to paint­ing, but with Cecil­ia Brainard you take them on their own — as visu­al notes, win­dows to mem­o­ry and his­to­ry.” ~ Ambeth R. Ocam­po, Historian

“Oh, Cecil­ia — I love your book. You DO cap­ture the lumi­nos­i­ty of child­hood, some­thing that I per­son­al­ly feel so strong­ly, and strive over and over to share with the rest of the world through my sto­ries. Here you reveal it so sweet­ly. Thank you very much… If this seems child­like, it is, and you brought it out. Real­ly won­der­ful, Cecil­ia.” ~ Car­lene Sobri­no Bon­nivi­er, Writer

“Your book arrived today and I could­n’t be more impressed! The book is just total­ly charm­ing and love­ly. The qual­i­ty of the paper and book cov­er are won­der­ful.  I love that the book pays homage to Cebu and your mem­o­ries there, but it’s also, I think, an homage to your par­ents and the lov­ing mem­o­ries you have as a lit­tle girl with them. I think you feel about Cebu like I do about Redon­do … it’s not just in my heart but in my bones and my marrow!
It real­ly is an utter­ly charm­ing book … mem­o­ries enhanced with your draw­ings. I love it.” ~ Hilary Walling, Writer

“I read the Mag­i­cal Years and found it mag­i­cal as I too was trans­port­ed to my child­hood years … very nos­tal­gic … I was teary-eyed. In oth­er words, it was a sen­ti­men­tal jour­ney.”  ~ Mari­bel Paras, Life Coach

“Your sketch­es are excel­lent! If I were a grand­moth­er, I would give this book to every grand­child of mine so they would know about our “Mag­i­cal Years” … Let the young peo­ple learn that the lives of their grand­par­ents or per­haps their par­ents as chil­dren were much sim­pler then, but we were hap­py and con­tent­ed.” ~ Tina Bor­ja, Artist