some flowers

just for fun. graphite and coloured pencils, gouache con.coloured paper, from a photo I took some time ago to the backyard plants.

Abstract gouache painting

Gouache on paper 25X30cm approx.

CMYW bird

Temperas and coloured pencils on paper.

nixed media

this is a little work from last year in temperas, pencil and soft pastel on coloured paper.

nature seen uncomplete I and II - series.

generally, the people who live in big cities are used to seeing things behind bars. in the zoo, in cages, and even public spaces like squares, which are surrounded by gates or wire fences which are open or closed to us depending on some law or someone's desires, so we are forced to see things severed, not complete.

more to come...

new jungle with old stories

new jungle with old stories, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

Sketch

Sketch, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

Selfportrait +

 

the same portrait but I added some orange and grey to finish it.

Selfportrait

Selfportrait

still life in cyan+ magenta

still life in cyan+ magenta

painting from photo

painting from photo

still life - gouache

still life - gouache

selfportrait in gouache

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the mirror image once again looking at me. painted on green paper.

painting 1

a school  work using cold colours

painting 2

a school work, using the palette of a known painting

the alchemist

this is another imaginary work i did last year and just found it in the computer and think I never posted it.

some life sketching

these are short poses, in general they are from 5 minutes to 1 minute (most of them). they are all mostly about A4 size sketches. in some of them there is a previous dry blot in gouache..

same composition in three different styles



The same composition had to be made as in impresionism, as cubism and suprematism, so I chose these ways to make the exercise out of these sketches I invented. and using the colours as in a painting of Juan Gris and Olga Rozanova's Non-Objective Composition (Suprematism).

intensive studies of colour

these are some colour studies in gouache, using different palettes on the same composition

gouache painting

gouache painting
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

this painting was my final work for the subject at school (painting I) Unfortunaltely the teacher couldn't see it. She was diagnosed of a terminal illness a few days before the final exam so she was hospitalized. After I came back from holidays a few days ago I learnt she passed away on jan 02. I couldn't thank her for the freedom I'd felt painting during the year term in her classes, though I had told her, the last day I saw her, I was planning to do two subjects with her this year 2010, but it that won't be possible now. Everytime we met on the street or in some school hall a smiled lightened up her face under the dark glasses she was always wearing. i'll always remember that. Wherever she is now, she must be painting, drawing and making jokes for sure. rip



After the final exam I took this painting (110x75 cm) to a contest at an art galley. I didn't expect to win of course, and luckily it was not rejected so it's still hanging on their walls. Surely in a few days I'll have to pick it up as a new exhibition will be held.



the painting is in gouache, on heavy paper first covered with gesso, . after it was finished I stuck it to a 0,5 cm thick wood and covered the whole painting on top with turpentine and dammar varnish to protect it