9/11/13

"Sri Govardhana"

Architectural Design / Bulding and Envioronment design by Philip Salas

7/28/12

Sita Ma and Hanuman / COPYRIGHT 2012 Philip Salas
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A new book cover design I recently finshed, for poet Sathya Narayana
from India. His new poetry book will be an english translation of
Sage Valmiki's "Sri Sundaraknada"--5th canto of Ramayana, which
depicts Hanuman's search for Mother Sita.

The scene I illustrated for his cover, is the poet's favorite passage
within his book, and makes reference to how Hanuman finally finds
Sita Ma sorrounded by "she demons" in Asoka Park, after a
nightlong search of every building, palace and woods of Ravana's
region.

The book will be titled "Finding the Mother" by Poet Sathyanarayan
please keep a look out for it, for it is great reading for the soul.

Namasthe

6/13/12

陰陽 YING-YANG

...a study on spiritual duality...

--Namaste

3/26/12

OM Ganesha Namaha

... new Lord Ganesha painting for 2012 ...

-Namaste

3/6/12

Convention Center / booth design series

Description: ATOMO TOTUM
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I was recently commissioned to design a series of booth designs for an international technology convention. There was a general guideline delineated by the client, as to what they wanted to display in each booth, but had no idea of what they needed to display it in. to top it off, I only had three days to present the final concepts and make it a win win situation for all. Think fast Phil, you can doo eet!...

I thought it might be fun to breakup conventional cubical shapes floating in space, since the general them was the ATOM... (as a cranked through 3 days of no sleep, 6 packs of siggs ... 50 gallons of java... aaand burning about half my brain cells in the whole process, I managed to meet the dead-line.... don't know how i made it this time.
This was the first concept that came out... exterior center piece "ATOMO TOTUM"(a modern version of a Totum pole), that would tie all the rest of the designs together.

(hope its well received).

note: The following images depict the various booth designs I designed, with brief descriptions of their functionality, and what was to be displayed with in them.
_Namaste

Convention Center / booth design series

Description: GAMING BOOTH
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This was the "Gaming Booth" I designed.
(interior space/ Plasma touch screen/ try to hit the moving Atom with Nerf balls.. win a fun prize !!!)

-NAMASTE

Convention Center / booth design series

Description:IMAGINATION BOOTH
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This was the "Imagination Booth" I designed.
(interior/Plasma Screen Displays of how the Atom can be appreciated in everyday life)

-NAMASTE

Convention Center / booth design series

Description:CONFERENCE BOOTH
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This was the lectures and Convention Booth I designed.
(interior space/ Lectures and Information exchange center)

-Namaste

Convention Center / booth design series

Description:WATER BOOTH
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This was the Water Booth I designed.I thought it may fun

to make the jet streams of water project out like a "laser maze" ...
(interior space/ public gets sprayed with jets of water as they walk through the booth )

note: this was funny concept to try and depict!
-Namaste

Convention Center / booth design series

Description:FIRE BOOTH
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This was the Fire Booth I designed.
(interior space/ public gets bombarded with Nerf balls projected from the sides , as they walk through )

-Namaste

Convention Center / booth design series

Description:EARTH BOOTH
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This was the Earth Booth I designed.
(interior space/ public walks through a maze of plasma screens depicting images )

-Namaste

Convention Center / booth design series

Description: AIR BOOTH
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This was the Air Booth I designed.
(interior space/ public walks up a treadmill as fans projects air through the booth)

7/14/11

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada अभयचरणारविन्दभक्तिवेदान्तस्वामीप्रभुपादः

5 stagged process behind A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Portrait //
COPYRIGHT 2011 Philip Salas / All Rights Reserved By The Artist

Just a brief step by step mini tutorial on portrait approach.. hope its usefull to you too...

--NAMASTE

6/28/11

PULPO (octopus)

6/19/11

HAPPY FATHERS DAY 2011

I love you Borja, Amelie and Enzo......

-Namaste

6/17/11

a prayer towards understanding

¨LOSS¨/COPYRIGHT 2011 PHILIP SALAS/ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE ARTIST

Sometimes the sense of loss hits hard, and art becomes the only way one can find understanding within ... in order to keep growing thrue rebuilding. Loss, is such a difficult feeling to understand and express, since we are all so diffrent, ones own sensibilty can be so diffent from anothers perception . This piece was a good excersise for me twords realization within the complexity of the sense of ¨loss¨ a healthy way twords grasping the illusion of the sense of loss... and another self portrait, as a prayer towards understanding...

--NAMASTE

6/3/11

ओम् तत् सत्, Aum Tat Sat

Äll that is Truth¨/COPYRIGHT 2011 Philip Salas / All Rights Reserved ByThe Artist

I recently finished this piece as a self portriat, to help me get through a very difficult period in my life.

_NAMASTE

Guardian Angel

5/18/11

WHITE TARA तारा

Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Mama Ayuḥ Punya Jñānā Puṣtiṃ Kuru Svāhā

My humble depiction of one of the ten Mahavidyas ¨White Tārā¨, known for compassion, long life, healing and serenity; also known as The Wish-fulfilling Wheel, or Cintachakra.
/Painter-Photoshop 22hrs.

-- NAMASTE

5/12/11

Self Portrait / MAY 2011

¨PS46¨ / Self Portrait /4 hrs compleation time/COREL PAINTER COPYRIGHT 2011 PHILIP SALAS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE ARTIST

Another portrait study sample I made in Painter last night.. This one took roughly 4 to five hours to complete.

-Namaste

Self Portrait / April 2011

¨Fading Away¨ / Self Portrait /30min rough/COREL PAINTER
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Taking new brushes for a test drive in Painter, and gearing up for some new portrait painting techniques.