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16Jun 2018 by kike_K

Children Drawings

Aviation

Children Drawings I have always been really fond of drawings made by children. It doesn’t really matter if they are skilled or not as, very early, most of them have a real sense of art. I am especially interested in them using colours, working with space and volumes along with their good improvisation skills due to their lack of either technic or aesthetical prejudice. I have kept some aircraft drawings and paintings made by children between five and thirteen years of age that I study from time to time: it is relaxing and funny and I learn so much. When a child makes a drawing, nothing is missing and nothing is left. I also like to watch them when they work, naturally facing a white sheet of paper. Some prefer…

“JACK”, The Cat

Street art

“JACK”, The Cat On my way home, I see some new posters showing Jack, The Cat. I can read “Jack the Cat is wanted”, for the third time. Apparently, Jack is a real master escapologist although he seems so calm and relaxed in the photograph, maybe brooding?. It is obvious that he has an independent and mountain-climber personality. Sometimes, when I am painting I keep looking at a thin and long, absolutely straight scar in my right forearm: it is a reminder of Bobby, a wonderful tiger-striped long-haired cat. It was my fault anyway. I also remember Isis, Pilar’s female cat and how, Ines’ one, named Byron, scared me: he was hidden behind a few paintings, all piled up against the wall. I am considering collecting posters showing pictures of…

Wrecks

Painting, vessel

Wrecks Some time ago I was given the chance of achieving my very first painting related to sea (oil on canvas 32x46-cm) for the cover of the book “Buques españoles desaparecidos sin rastro” (Spanish ships missing with no hint), by Manuel Rodríguez Aguilar, published by Almena Ediciones in 2013. My good friend Manuel asked me to feature a very particular view of Yute steamer, gone missing after a storm by the end of the 1920 decade. I had to use a photograph whose quality was so really poor and carefully remake shapes and concrete details using some pictures of other similar freighters. A view from the stern with a quiet sea, Yute steamer is heading to its own fate with some threatening clouds in the background.