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Carlos de Diego Vaquerizo

Carlos de Diego Vaquerizo

Illustration, scale replicas
Since the publishing house ACCION PRESS was a real diaspora we need to mention that Carlos was there too. I had been there for a while when he joined our team. He worked for a few years as a modeller, as a member of a brilliant group which was the seed of the next Euro Modelismo magazine. Over the years he became the chief-editor of Panzer Aces mag. He knew how to reinvent himself and gradually stopped making models in scale but improved his digital illustration skills. Nowadays he mainly deals with illustrations and texts. His illustrations, focussing on military vehicles are currently published in books and magazines. As I was surrounded by all sort of people building and painting models in scale, I could find some moments of rest…
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Giovanna Garzoni

Giovanna Garzoni

Painting
Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) was born in a family of craftsmen. Against all social conventions she was given a full artistic education and training. Her first recorded work a Holy Family is dated on 1616. She married the Venetian portraitist Tiberio Tinelli when she was 22 years old but they split up one year later. There would be no other love adventure in her life, no source of scandal. She was free so she decided to focus on her artistic vocation and this during her entire life. At that time, oil painting wasn’t an option for any woman so she was devoted to scientific illustration (animals and plants), calligraphy and miniatures, ‘all those things a honest woman can do at home’ according to this period customs and standards.  She looked for…
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My airbrush

My airbrush

Advertising, Guillermo Coll, Illustration
The US inventor Charles L. Burdick patented the first airbrush in 1893; from that moment on, there has been a love-hate relationship between this tool and the Fine Arts. Some artists rejected using it claiming it was artificial and mechanical while some other enthusiastically welcomed that new device arguing it showed so many possibilities (making realistic, nearly photographic, works was one of those wonderful possibilities). Undoubtedly, some hyper-realistic painters like Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings or Ben Schonzeit have contributed to make this tool so popular. For those artists, the airbrush is a working item and furthermore, one of their ‘distinguishing features’.  My very first airbrush was a Holbein Neo-Hohmi. It was a high quality tool but something in its design seemed wrong to me, the side ‘suction-feed’ or siphon tank…
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