A test 

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This is a small study for a larger illustration I'll be working on the next days (or weeks). But it went quite well :)

And yes, I don't usually do studies, but I draw on the spot. I'm too impatient for studies! And this was also on the spot, but as I was finishing it I realised I could turn it into that larger project I've been thinking on for the last weeks. Sometimes it is magical how conscious thinking crystallises into ideas without us realising, and then, once the pen is back in the hand, the ideas just flow.

What are dreams made of? What would your thoughts look like? Is your Univers fluid, regular, homogeneous, heterogeneous, chaotic?

Self-portrait

This is me. With my very serious face. I think usually I smile a bit more :)

I did this self-portrait as an exercice for the 10 yr old children who are in my drawing and painting classes. (I always do the exercices myself first to check them out, and make sure they are not too easy, too boring, too difficult).

This one was quite fun to make, and useful to start learning to draw faces, and to learn to identify zones of shadow to give the drawing some volume. So they did it with their own pictures a couple of weeks ago, and the result was pretty great. Kids learn so fast.

Painting on a different canvas

This last month I've been very busy, so I haven't gone out to sketch, or made a drawing for myself. It is always like this, there are times of the year where everything is quiet and I can do more personal projects, and others were work keeps coming and coming. Usually after Christmas, with Spring and Summer at the end of the corner, it's when work starts coming in, everything at the same time :) 

Lasts weeks I've been working non-stop on a longer project, but some days ago something different came up. It was a shorter project, and really different from what I usually do. I was so curious I managed to squeeze it in, and worked on it while waiting feedback on the other. That's time management!! ;)

So I started drawing a tree. An oak. I am lucky because I do love trees, and I do love drawing them. And even more lucky because I have some favorite trees, and the oak is one of them.

First, I drew the structure of the tree. Really the structure, so later I could use branches, holes and intersections as reference points:

Then I started to paint it, with the color palette I'd been asked first, and later on introducing a few changes:

After some color tests, I was satisfied with the result:

Then, I added some roots. A bit realistic, so they contrast with the branches, but with curls, so that they still talk with the part above

And well, today it was the day to make it in its final version, on its final canvas, not on paper, not on a wall, not on anything I usually do. Can you guess what is it? ;)

Momento para celebrar: mi vida, mi opción, mi decisión

Time to celebrate: My life, my choice, my decision 

Por el derecho de las mujeres a decidir libremente su maternidad. El aborto no es una opción deseable pero sí el derecho inalienable de las mujeres de decidir por cuenta propia de su cuerpo y sus circunstancias. Por un aborto libre y con garantías.

To defend women’s right to decide about their maternity. Abortion is not something desirable, but is the inalienable right that every woman has to decide by herself about her body and her circumstances. For a right to abort with freedom and with all guarantees.