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Cecilia Brainard’s Book of Sketches: Magical Years

January 13, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

The writer Car­lene Sobri­no Bon­nivi­er received her copy of my Mag­i­cal Years: Mem­o­ries & Sketch­es, and she wrote back:
“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.”

MAGICAL YEARS: MEMORIES & SKETCHES by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard
(PALH 2020), 37 pages, book size is 8 x 8, hardbound
ISBN 9780971945890
Spe­cial Lim­it­ed Edi­tion ‑Each book is signed and num­bered by the artist/author
43 Sketch­es in reed and pen and ink by Cecil­ia Manguer­ra Brainard, (hb) $45.00
Con­tact palhbooks@gmail.com for a copy. For a lim­it­ed time, the book is sold of $30. Men­tion “spe­cial offer.”
Ama­zon also has copies: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0971945896

Praise for Mag­i­cal Years: Mem­o­ries & Sketches

“ ‘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

tags: draw­ing, sketch­ing, pen and ink, reed, Cebu, Philip­pines, art, #Cecil­iaBrainard
Links:
http://palh-books.blogspot.com/p/magical-years-memories-sketches.html
https://www.facebook.com/Magical-Years-Memories-Sketches-by-Cecilia-Manguerra-Brainard-103538341189030/

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Art, drawing, pen and ink, reed drawing, sketches, sketching

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Welcome!

I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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