A Paean to Women
Essay 50. A PAEAN TO WOMEN By Arnaldo Bernabe Mirasol DAN EZEKIEL TAMAYO MACAPUGAY was born and raised in Malolos, Bulacan, to Nemencio Macapugay and Maria Delia Tamayo.. He finished his early schooling at Dakila Elementary School and Marcelo H. Del Pilar High school. He must have inherited his artistic genes from his musician-artist father, who studied at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music, and was once an illustrator and now active painter. Although growing up in their idyllic farm in Barangay Dakila in Malolos could have aroused some more that innate creativity in him, Dan revealed that growing up he doesn't take his art making seriously. It was only in 2012 that he began to see painting as a full-time career, and began regularly accepting watercolor portrait commissions. Dan had honed his skill well. Not only had he reached a high level of expertise in pencil drawing and watercolor painting, he'd also expanded his range and is now adept too in the