Tuesday, 30 October 2012
books, more books.
Several books this year have been filled with my illustrations. Some of them will be presented at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, and unfortunately I won't be there, to much of my annoyance.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Hampstead AAF!
Puff puff, I run and run and still can't catch up with the year. Specially now that I have stupidly hurt a knee and can't do much. Oooh what a year of contrarieties and predicaments.
The Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath starts this week. I will be exhibiting with Printmakers Inc at the stand I1.
I will be introducing my brand new two prints inspired during my recent walks in the heath and a visit to Keats house. They feature Mr Keats and Miss Brawne and there will be two more in this collection. In my walks I collected many leaves, I always do in Autumn, they seem so perfect and then I don't know what to do with them. But this year they became little versions of the trees they fell from.
Talking about Keats, there is a charity private view on the Wednesday to support Keats Community Library, buying the tickets from the library you will be contributing with this project. But if you don't feel in charity mode I do still have a bunch of tickets, just contact me and let me know where to send them.
The Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead Heath starts this week. I will be exhibiting with Printmakers Inc at the stand I1.
I will be introducing my brand new two prints inspired during my recent walks in the heath and a visit to Keats house. They feature Mr Keats and Miss Brawne and there will be two more in this collection. In my walks I collected many leaves, I always do in Autumn, they seem so perfect and then I don't know what to do with them. But this year they became little versions of the trees they fell from.
Talking about Keats, there is a charity private view on the Wednesday to support Keats Community Library, buying the tickets from the library you will be contributing with this project. But if you don't feel in charity mode I do still have a bunch of tickets, just contact me and let me know where to send them.
Friday, 19 October 2012
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
The £50 sunset
I am illustrating a book in which I have been stuck for a while in a page where I wanted to combine photography with my scrapboard drawings. I needed a sunset.
But I may have thought I was the Little Prince living in the asteroid B-612 where he could just move his chair a bit and watch a sunset any time he felt a bit melancholy. He sometimes would watch several sunsets in a row by just moving the chair.
Well, it's not like that on planet earth, I'm afraid. And for a few days I obsessively observed the sky and meditated in the different tones of blue, and how difficult is to transform a blue sky into a pink sky in photoshop, and how annoying some ideas can be, when nature doesn't cooperate.
But alas! just when I was giving up and thinking in changing the whole idea I saw the sky turning slowly into pink. So, camera in hand I run to my closest park and start happily snapping away. It was all very poetic and there I was as a merry lamb gamboling in the prairie and catching sunsets, fishing pink clouds... until I noticed that I was on my own and the gates of the park were closed. No more gamboling. It was more like a frenetic running from gate to gate and at the same time planning how to survive the night in my local park. Which tree to climb and spend the night to avoid the foxes and other beasts making a dinner of me.
Then, the park ranger, a rastafarian with golden teeth finds me and tells me off. I think he though I was photographing couples kissing or something, he wouldn't believe me I was just in urgent need of a sunset with trees in the foreground. Let me out and informed me that the fine for climbing the gates is £50.
Fortunately all ended up well as my publishers liked the sunset very much.
And today I took the morning off. Went to the Heath and spent some hours snapping the Autumn, another ephemeral phenomenon.
I think most Londoners know how lucky we are in this city full of parks.
But I may have thought I was the Little Prince living in the asteroid B-612 where he could just move his chair a bit and watch a sunset any time he felt a bit melancholy. He sometimes would watch several sunsets in a row by just moving the chair.
Well, it's not like that on planet earth, I'm afraid. And for a few days I obsessively observed the sky and meditated in the different tones of blue, and how difficult is to transform a blue sky into a pink sky in photoshop, and how annoying some ideas can be, when nature doesn't cooperate.
But alas! just when I was giving up and thinking in changing the whole idea I saw the sky turning slowly into pink. So, camera in hand I run to my closest park and start happily snapping away. It was all very poetic and there I was as a merry lamb gamboling in the prairie and catching sunsets, fishing pink clouds... until I noticed that I was on my own and the gates of the park were closed. No more gamboling. It was more like a frenetic running from gate to gate and at the same time planning how to survive the night in my local park. Which tree to climb and spend the night to avoid the foxes and other beasts making a dinner of me.
Then, the park ranger, a rastafarian with golden teeth finds me and tells me off. I think he though I was photographing couples kissing or something, he wouldn't believe me I was just in urgent need of a sunset with trees in the foreground. Let me out and informed me that the fine for climbing the gates is £50.
Fortunately all ended up well as my publishers liked the sunset very much.
And today I took the morning off. Went to the Heath and spent some hours snapping the Autumn, another ephemeral phenomenon.
I think most Londoners know how lucky we are in this city full of parks.
