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15Jun 2019 by kike_K No Comments

Who is Linda Loible?

As I am so really fond of butterflies I have treasured a bunch of items related to these: books, stamps, craft; in any case, I am not really a collector. I also own a range of old cards (more particularly two small albums published in Great Britain by Crosse & Blackwell and Brooke Bond Tea). In the last one, the illustrations achieved by Richard Ward are wonderful top quality items. I also own some samples of punched cards printed into iridescent paper (these were gifts of a Spanish pastries company). Let’s focus on the album: we can read in the first page the name of the very first owner “Linda Loible” along with her address. I was tempted, I had thought so many times about sending her a letter and…

Murals

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Murals Walking around the neighbourhood, more precisely in San Dimas Street in Madrid, I have found two big murals made by Boa Mistura. Boa Mistura is an Art and Design Atelier whose office is nearby. These are really beautiful murals but precisely the words at the top of them have drawn my full attention. These words become nearly invisible as one gets closer. It is a positive message with a subtle irony. The titles are “strength” and “breath”. We need to call them murals as they are not graffiti neither in the background nor in the shape. These efforts are pleasingly surprising as these embellish and dignify every part of the city. Suddenly, a humble building seems so interesting, these drawings appearing in such places do not disturb us while…

Scale Drawings

Aviation, scale replicas

SCALE DRAWINGS I have kept some scale drawings I made years ago. Most of them were used to illustrate different issues of the magazine Modelismo & Historia (modelling and history). I draw, nearly always, aircraft although there were cars, ships and military vehicles too. Sometimes I worked on polyester and a few times on film. Obviously I had fountain pens with 0.2-mm or 0.4-mm leads of several brands such as Rotring, Leroy, Mecanorma but I much preferred Faber-Castell ones. I was forced to be as careful as these were not cheap, I remember cleaning them which was a time-consuming task. A good set of curve templates, circles and ellipses was also mandatory along with a compass and a set of blades. To achieve gorgeous line drawings adhesive weave can be…