15Jun 2019 by kike_K No Comments
Who is Linda Loible?

Who is Linda Loible?

cards, Illustration
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…
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29Dec 2018 by kike_K No Comments
New Old Cards

New Old Cards

cards
Again and thanks to a generous friend of mine, I have in my possession a new album of old cards released by the firm Player's Cigarettes in the late 1930’s decade. Apparently, not everything related to tobacco industry was negative. This album is devoted to emblems of Royal Air Force’s squadrons and includes a number of fifty small cards so beautifully printed with tiny details in golden ink.  My 20-page album is complete and preserved in really good conditions. Each time I leaf through, I feel a hint of nostalgia for this nearly forgotten good taste, which was obvious in every simplest and daily things a few decades ago. Nowadays everything seems so functional; are we forgetting this sort of aesthetics that lead to reverie? We must realise that no…
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28Mar 2018 by kike_K No Comments
Old Cards

Old Cards

Aviation, cards
Old Cards One of the very sources of my inspiration when painting aircraft is the style of old illustrations, as these, featured in front pages of magazines, old cards and postcards, are so full of charm. In fact they were painted photographs, which gave them a particular retro aesthetics.   See the pictures of these beautiful small albums published in Great Britain by Player’s Cigarettes at the very beginning of WWII. Someone was so lucky to find these gems (both are full), at a street market in Bilbao; then, a good friend of mine, Enrique, gave them to me.     
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