Gunit

Kyle Toribio | Gunit

36" x 48"
Oil on canvas
2021

This is a story of holding on and helping. Oftentimes, we need help and support from people. But what if, they could lead us to our downfall instead?

Kyle Toribio a self-taught figurative painter in Davao del Norte, reckons human skin tones as abstract. His body of works can be seen as a collection of human figures. The process of his paintings were influenced by the old masters in classical learning approach in painting. He takes into consideration the layering of paints to achieve different degrees of skin tone values to unveil human form's aesthetic.