Energy, we are all one

Energy, matter, creation, diversity, light and shadow... What does it all mean to you?

These are oil pastels and watercolor on white paper .

collage - mixed media after a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec

the third and last collage for the project for school.

these works (plus Seurat's Bagnade I posted some months ago) are just pieces of papers torn from magazine, glued to the board. later i added some color or details with oil pastels, then acrylic varnish on top. 

the one after casas has also some gouache (témpera) beneath the oil pastel on the upper part of the work

mixed media after Ramón Casas "Madelaine"

finished version

contest images / obras del concurso

these are the images with which i got the 2nd place in a contest at school based on artist Lola Mora's works. I think the exhibition is about to end in a couple of days...but i'm not sure if it already closed.

2nd prize in painting

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2nd prize in drawing

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2nd prize in engraving

two collages after known paintings (still in progress)

i decided to make some studies of paintings, in this case one by spanish Ramón Casas and the other by the genious Georges P. Seurat. Of course my compositions varied a lot from the originals, but i didn't dedicate as much time as I should have, what i mean is that there are many differences in negative spaces, directions and proportions, but it was cause  started making a rough sketch with an oil pastel and begun collecting and pasting coloured papers, and didn't come back to the originals to review all that, just to compare some colours and work lightly on the shapes.

will try to pay more attention to that in the following studies, anyway these two are still in progress so maybe i'll make some arrangements... something i don't like at all is the missing part of the kid at the bottom-right in the collage after Seurat's painting, since it was cut in the book i used as reference...



life drawing - oil pastel

life drawing
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life drawing

life drawing
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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

still life sketch oil pastel

still life sketch oil pastel
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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 (35x50 cm approx)

quick works of planes, colours and shapes

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, 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.

still life

still life
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composition using complementary colours in the shadows - in oil pastels

life sketches

like sketches
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during the weekend I took photos of many sketches i had, here are some of them, before i thow them away, i can't live with soooo many papers around.

life drawing

i did this pose with sepia oil pastel

note: these last four drawings were digitalized by camera, so the definition is not optimal as it is like when scanning.

life drawing

i did this sketch with some oil pastel then added some magenta ink
life drawing,
originally uploaded by dibujando arte.