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Pen and alcohol (part 1ª)
Drawing with a ballpoint pen We propose you a simple work; with materials that you all have at home. At the time of its realization think of the result as a watercolor. That is to say, always thinking in the white, in the clean paper as light. With materials that we have at home...
With eyes closed
Let's draw with our eyes closed. This can be a lot of fun. All you need is a pencil and a piece of paper. Memorize the image before closing your eyes. Close your eyes and draw from memory the outline of the image without opening them. This will give your drawings freshness and will...
Stamp carving (engraving)
Embossing is a type of relief printing that consists of carving an image on a soft surface. It uses ink that is deposited on the non-engraved surface, this allows us to work our dies in a manual and creative way. [gallery...
Through an uncertain fog (photograph)
How are subjects and objects, landscapes, ideas, emotions... when an uncertain fog spills over them and deceives our retinas? We propose a photographic exercise in which the images that you are going to photograph will be made through...
"......and ate partridges"
Did you notice the beautiful exhibition on the first floor of the school? Ainhoa Tavárez, the artist of the exhibition made us a very funny proposal about digestion in stories. [video width="1920" height="1080"...
Antonio Lopez
We also recommend the interview with Antonio López: "I don't want to give in to discouragement" (click here to watch it). The artist, who lost his wife, painter María Moreno, last February 17, is facing this new setback in his studio; the first time he has...
Art time (recommendations)
"La dama de oro" We recommend you this film that will be broadcasted tomorrow Saturday 28th March on TVE 1. Cast: Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Katie Holmes. It is a true story, which tells the problem that there was a work of Gustav Klimt: "Portrait...
Trampantojo
Optical illusion or trick with which a person is deceived into believing that he sees something other than what he actually sees; especially, landscape painted on a surface that simulates a real image. The word comes from the French: Trompe-l'oeil, which means to deceive the...
Caleidociclos (binding)
The word kaleidocycle comes from the Greek (cali; beauty, eidos; form and cycle; ring, to turn or return to the point of origin). A kaleidocycle is an articulated three-dimensional ring composed of pyramids joined by their edges. They can rotate on themselves...
Poems-Objects (sculpture)
Poems-Objects From the sculpture workshop, I propose an exercise for this week. Inspired by the work of photographer Txema Madoz and sculptor Joan Brossa, create your own poem-objects. Txema Madoz says that he began to create with the objects he had in his...
Tuning faces
Have you ever drawn on top of a magazine, moustaches, horns or a snot hanging on a face or character? Well, let's do the same. Look at Napoleon's friend. For this exercise I recommend that we use permanent markers, if we don't have...
Seurat
We continue with the dots Once upon a time there was a painter named Seurat Let's continue with the infinite world of dots and meet another artist who used them in his works: Seurat. The circus was Seurat's final work and the important thing about the work is both the color and the...