Nineteen trees

Nineteen trees, eight birds, an airplane and lots of pink! Hope you like it.

"But I don't know why" process

Many people have asked me about how I do my paintings, what materials I use, etc. Well, I´ve taken the time to picture the process (if we can call it like that) of my last work. It's called "But I don't know why" and it took me one week long to finish.

I always use acrylic paint as a background due to a simple reason- it's waterproof. Because I use ink pens on it afterwards, it has to stay dry as I draw on it. Otherwise it'd be quite messy and I'd end up spoiling some pens (it actually happened a lot by the time I used gouche... gouche is very cool, but never draw on it using pens)

I paint on standart watercolor paper with a small grain. It supports good big quantities of paint without bending too much. I paint randomly using a main color (this time green) mixing it with small portions of other colors to get a messy feeling. I mix the acrylics with quite a lot of water to get a lot of texture.

Once I'm happy with the texture I beguin painting "big dots" using different colors.

And then comes the alcohol. Not for "inspiration", but to get rid of the excesive paint and to make the texture a little warmer. Acrylics "melts" with alcohol a little bit, you have to insist, but it kind of gets rid.

I dry the whole thing using a hair dryer. It really is one of the main tools.

And now comes the pens fun! As you might already know, I have LOTS of pens... and I use them all. This is the part I enjoy the best. When I pick my pens and pencils and beguin drawing like I'm speaking on the phone, without paying much attention. It's funny how some of the pens I use the most, are the cheapest ones. I have stupid expensive pens that I almost never use.

The very first cloud.

The mess is growing.

I use the color pencils to give "volume" to the shapes. The kind of work like shadows.

The painting half done.

I eventually get back to the paint and brush to draw some more details that I might find interesting. This time I was painting the shape of a mountain.

I use the hair dryer to dry the ink as I draw. It helps me to be sure I won't whip the fresh ink with my hand. Acryilic is plastic, so the ink doesn't dry as soon as on "naked" paper.

I use these COOL gel pens I found from Uni-ball to highlight. I simply love them. I still remember how excited I was the day I found them. It's always been hard to draw white opaque lines without having to use typ-ex r something like that. I don't especially like typ-ex, it's quite thick and it gets dark and dirty as I keep on drawing.

I use some 8b pencils to give some dark shadows to some of the details.

Using my fingers to blur it.

The painting almost finished laying next to my computer where I was getting some inspiration by watching my own work... it might be some sort of canivalism, but I'm not sure-

Drying the last cloud.

Some cool detail :)

"creative mess" or the reason why my mother hates me.

And that's it!. Below there's the finished painting. I hope you all like it! Don't hasitate to leave a comment telling me my drawings are cute or to ask me whatever technical question you might have. Cheers!

Ipods and features

Wow! I'm starting to feel like a rock star. Drew from Gelaskins liked my work and decided to print it on ipods protectors. Take a look at their site. Also, the kind people from Latchkey made a feature of me and my work this month on their site. Both sites are from Canada, I must go there soon.

Torres

I didn't have much time and energy to paint last week. But here it is... it's called "torres" and it's all made using a pen! the simpler the better.

Finally home!

It feels great when my kids (I actually call them like that) find a cozy home where they wil live for the rest of their 10 years ... (kidding! they're done using acrylics! they last forever... promise!) "fly to my heart", one of the paintings on my first series has reached the states. Caitlyn, from http://www.knotwithoutmyknitting.com has already posted it. Thanks!

In progress

B/W

These are some line drawings I did this last week. Hope you like them! --- Did you know I'm from Barcelona?

My second minipaintings series is here!

As promised, my second minipaintings series is here. They're slightly bigger, better framed and the same cool. Pick the one you like the most before they fly!:)