04Mar 2024 by kike_K No Comments
Julio C. Cabos

Julio C. Cabos

Illustration, scale replicas
The case of Julio C. Cabos has always seemed exceptional, an outstanding technical level for a person who joined the scale-modelling not through a vocational choice but just by chance.  We worked together during a number of years, we studied the use of airbrush techniques applied to both illustration and scale-modelling. His professional career covers a wide variety of artistic subjects, with a constant ability to solve and innovate, a huge amount of achieved works and articles published in magazines throughout the world.In the late 1990 decade he chose to focus on scale-figure painting and ever since, has managed to set a high-quality working line along with a notable effort to encourage novel painters and modellers through workshops and demonstrations. In a certain way he has always been a remarkable…
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14Jun 2022 by kike_K No Comments
Josep Tapiró i Baró

Josep Tapiró i Baró

Illustration
In the last half of the 19th century more and more European artists were interested in exotic old cultures, Arab matters in particular. So many of them travelled to North Africa and the Middle East. These were the so-called ‘Orientalists’. As far as the French ones are concerned, they were formally a group of artists. We need to point out the undeniable quality of painters such as Jean-Léon Gérôme, Giulio Rosati and Ludwig Deutsch, but nowadays the reality they depicted seems much stereotyped. One of the most important one, although less known, was the Catalan painter Josep Tapiró i Baró (1836-1913), whose water-colour portraits are so splendid. The water-colour possibilities are taken to a maximum quality. Since his childhood he was a friend of Mariano Fortuny. Both of them studied…
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30May 2022 by kike_K No Comments
Frederic Remington

Frederic Remington

Illustration, Painting
Most of us are unaware that we have found Frederic Remington’s works (1861-1909) a number of times in our lives. These works have been replicated ‘ad nauseam’ in all sorts of things such as decorations, movie posters or book covers. Some of his paintings depicting the conquest of the Far West, the Native Americans and the Native Indian Wars have become cultural icons nowadays. The Seventh Art, the cinema in particular, owes him so much. Some of the well-known sceneries of any classic western seem to be inspired by his paintings. Remington had a life of adventure: he experienced first-hand everything he painted. He worked as journalist, photographer, newspaper correspondent and writer. The tradition of such paintings is still fully in force in the United States of America. We need…
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