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When I started blogging, I did a couple of tries with different sites, I didn’t know anything about it, one day i decided to try wordpress so i opened this account in 2007 too but imported my other blog here only a few months ago. Now, even though I found wordpress has many interesting features that blogger doesn’t have, for me the latter is easier to use so I won’t be updating this blog due to lack of time.

From now on, and till who knows when, you can find updates only at:

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life sketch in oil

life sketch in oil Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a 20 minutes sketch in oil and turpentine, on paper with a previous layer of gesso. no details, just trying to quickly capture shapes and masses of lights and shadows.

selfportrait

selfprotrait Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

once more, me facing a mirror, this time oil pastels and turpentine to blend at hand… (I should use cleaner colours but i can’t help mixing and using dirty ones, haha). I was too tired when i did it so now i realized my eyes are in a different line but the idea was to also not add too much details. i tried to make it using shapes and not using lines i mean rather pictorial than drawing

sting (portrait)

sting portrait
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

an attempt to do a portrait of someone famous. colour pencils, not watercolour pencils this time, i tried some new ones. i need more practise, that equals TIME.
later i’ll if i can find who the rights of the origunal pic belong to, then add it here, as obviously i didn’t take it

life sketch

life sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

i made this quick sketch this afternoon while one one of the students was drawing in front of her easel.

still life sketch – oil pastels

 

 

still life sketch oil pastel
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

another still life, first i sketched with grey and black oil pastel. on topd i added some colors, then blended with turpentine and continued adding more colors + blackand white or some complementary for the shadows. took me about an hour to make it (35×50 cm approx)

small glasses sketch

 

an attempt to draw some glass with a “carbon naked” pencil I bought yesterday

landscape from photo

 

i made this sketch out of a photo reference from my holidays 3 years ago. i was there a couple of weeks ago though this year i didn’t take any photo at this site…
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i just remembered i’d done this sketch back in 2007 (emd #100)

painting in the garden

i’m attending an 8-weeks-summer course at a museum, which has a wonderful Andaluz garden (as a garden in Andalucía – Spain). the teacher makes us see the shapes, the contrasts, the colours, the different greens we see, etc, without making details which is too difficult for me, because I always tend to go till the most tiny detail if I can. working with watercolurs in the last years has helped me in that, though in this case, these two works i did this mornig, i used oil pastels to make some shapes then blurred it with turpentine and a strong brush and kept on adding more oil pastel, tried to blend it in some places and not in others.

imaginary landscapes

wow, I been out of touch lately I guess. had lots to do by the end of the year with school and work, then went to the seaside for 10 days, so here i am, in the heat of the city again…

these are a couple of works i did last december for a final exam… on teaching :S

i’ll see if i can scan some others of this series later