dibujandoARTe - dibujos y bocetos - drawings and sketches

watercolour sketch

2011-12-27T21:31:00.001-03:00

I made a quick sketch of Cata and Ute while they were painting at the bothanical garden. Finally I decided to start using my first real moelskine ever. A student had brought it for me from France about 2-3 years ago.

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2011-12-19T16:48:00.001-03:00

and if i'm here typing, that can't be me either...

contest images / obras del concurso

2011-11-16T14:46:00.001-03:00

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

some life sketching

2011-11-07T19:36:00.011-03:00

these are short poses, in general they are from 5 minutes to 1 minute (most of them). they are all mostly about A4 size sketches. in some of them there is a previous dry blot in gouache..

some life sketching - part 1

2011-11-07T19:34:00.007-03:00

these repeated poses are related to the previous work () which was made on the same big paper; in this case I made each pose in different small papers about A4 size. there is a first blot in watercolours then pencil or pastel on top for the linework. there are two studies in black ballpen.
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life studies 1

2011-10-24T23:33:00.007-03:00

life drawing at school

life studies 2 (3x3)

2011-10-24T23:33:00.003-03:00

These are quick poses, which the model repeats several times then one can keep on working once he's in the pose again. i did two different ones, and these was another one of these from some time ago, but i think i haven't uploaded it... not sure now...

I just found it in the PC, this one was done in july but we had to give up a few minutes after we had started to draw/paint. i had used a gouache wash then.

life studies 3

2011-10-24T23:33:00.001-03:00

life studies, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

etching

2011-10-12T02:54:00.001-03:00

etching, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

i made this composition after a life sketch i did during a class

some quick life sketches

2011-10-12T02:51:00.009-03:00

some life sketches from yesterday's class at school. some were 10 minutes some other 1 minute. theres also one in which there was a movement in an arm and a leg...

two collages after known paintings (still in progress)

2011-09-17T21:19:00.001-03:00

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...

"Carlos Gardel" by 7 year-old children

2011-08-18T14:08:00.005-03:00

A big collage (70x100cm) that was done by children in a second grade, during my first "practice classes" as a teacher at a primary school.

i did the contour drawing. they chose the coloured papers out of mags comparing with the original image and stuck the papers. i added some details at the end.

i must confess i didn't expect such a nice final work, what i intended was that they enjoyed the activity and they really did.

"Carlos Gardel" by 7 year-old children, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

1+1=3

2011-07-29T17:33:00.002-03:00

1+1=3, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

composition for school

2011-06-05T22:29:00.006-03:00

i made this drawing which started as a composition for a bas-relief for school, with a semi-abstract figure and a surreal one, then I also used it for another project in a different subjetct and wrote a story about it and illustrated the story too. The colour one is the one I chose as the main image of that project. (I took the background skies from a site in intenet as I was in a hurry to hand it in)

playing and reality

2011-06-05T22:25:00.002-03:00

playing and reality, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

the book title "playing and reality" from Winnicot, brought this image to me so I drew it, though i still haven't read the book...
Which one of the bears represents reality and which one the playing part? mmm... i wonder that too...

some quick life sketches

2011-06-05T21:38:00.009-03:00

quick life sketches 002, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

quick life sketches 001, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

quick life sketches 003, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

405 posts!!!

2011-05-03T22:18:00.000-03:00

Wow! I just saw I had over 400 entries, never would've thought of that when I started this blog back in 2007. I've been away for a while since I'm too busy lately though I hope to be posting more works during the year as I am able to find some free time. Thanks for your visits and comments!

life drawing

2011-05-03T22:08:00.004-03:00

pastel + watercolour pencil on coloured paper - A4 size

charcoal on colored paper - A4 size

life drawing - dry marker pencils

2011-05-03T22:07:00.004-03:00

quick life sketches from this afternoon

life drawing - quick watercolours

2011-05-03T22:06:00.008-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

2 minute poses...

life drawing - oil pastel

2011-05-03T22:06:00.007-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

life drawing - pencil

2011-05-03T22:06:00.006-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

life drawing

2011-05-03T22:01:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

life drawing

2011-05-03T22:00:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

collage

2011-05-03T21:58:00.002-03:00

collage
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

sculptures in different levels of expression

2010-12-10T14:31:00.011-03:00

wire structure + chalk + sawdust+glue

patina: iron

modelled with wire structure + clay--
plaster cast--this copy in
concrete+bronze patina

wire structre + concrete+sand. bronze patina

wire structure+cloth+plaster+goauche.

patina: shoe polish

same composition in three different styles

2010-12-09T14:00:00.002-03:00

The same composition had to be made as in impresionism, as cubism and suprematism, so I chose these ways to make the exercise out of these sketches I invented. and using the colours as in a painting of Juan Gris and Olga Rozanova's Non-Objective Composition (Suprematism).

planetarium sketch contest

2010-10-25T01:21:00.002-03:00

planetarium sketch contest
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

today a new skecth contest was held.

this time at the planetarium. i got a special mention for this one. i made it in about 25 minutes. 35x50cm - charcoal on coloured paper.

some photos of the sorroundings artificial lakes...

these two are from inside the building...

life sketches

2010-10-23T23:30:00.001-03:00

these are two half A4 sized sketches from this afternoon class. they were very quick ones, just little studies of light and shadows of the posing model

intensive studies of colour

2010-10-23T23:25:00.004-03:00

these are some colour studies in gouache, using different palettes on the same composition

life drawing

2010-10-23T23:01:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

this is a 70x100 cm life sketch, only line work and no values

pencil studies

2010-10-23T23:00:00.005-03:00

these two are lights and shadows studies. one of them if using a model, the geometrical bodies one is made up.
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acrylic paintings

2010-10-23T22:59:00.012-03:00

etching

2010-10-23T22:56:00.005-03:00

first I made the portrait with red gouache and sugar on to the metal, then covered it with hard base then washed the gouache, then the acid. Though I had to retouch some parts where the hard base had washed off

life sketches

2010-10-22T00:09:00.006-03:00

two five minute sketches during one of the classes today

paper crane sketch

2010-10-01T19:40:00.002-03:00

paper crane sketch Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

like a meta-language, paper drawn on paper, haha

sketch

2010-09-19T21:08:00.003-03:00

sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

"some past vision of the future"

2010-09-19T21:03:00.002-03:00

"some past vision of the future"
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

three graces sketch

2010-09-06T00:19:00.002-03:00

three graces sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a sketch in pen from a photo of one version of the sculpture

abstract etching

2010-08-31T15:47:00.004-03:00

abstract etching
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

i don't know what this technique is called in English... a soft base of painting then added some pieces of cloth and thread on top, then pressed. After that into the the acid like a normal etching...
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una abstracción en grabado - Barniz blando, con telas arriba, prensa y después aguafuerte - impreso en gris (mezcla de tintas vs.)

hand / etching + aquatint

2010-07-13T15:18:00.003-03:00

life sketch

2010-07-10T23:45:00.004-03:00

life sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a quick sketch in pencil, i later added values with yellow and sepia ink

painting after sketch

2010-06-27T03:41:00.002-03:00

the sketch i used to make this painting in a sintetic way is here

life drawing

2010-06-27T03:39:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

life drawing

2010-06-22T18:32:00.006-03:00

these are two life drawings of about 50 x 70 cm

my first etching

2010-06-08T20:51:00.002-03:00

my first etching
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

this is my first print in this technique. i like the way the acid made the lines on the metal, i think i'll be doing more of these in the future, meanhile i'll keep on learning and doing exercises, like this one, but in other techniques new to me.

life sketches

2010-06-07T20:45:00.006-03:00

the same pose, from two different points of view and worked differently, both in 6B pencil

two quick sketches

2010-04-22T21:27:00.006-03:00

pencil. from photo.
charcoal. life drawing.

another old (imaginary) sketch

2010-04-06T02:56:00.002-03:00

another old (imaginary) sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

this sketch is newer than the other ones i posted yesterday, though it's from 2003. :S

she, at the garden II & III

2010-03-31T03:36:00.007-03:00

january sun appearing among the foliage of the garden, then its light making shapes among the shadows of the trees, as if asking to be painted.

that magic instants captured in the chip of a camera till now, when lights, shadows and shapes try to be, once again, in the illusion of a painting but keeping the remembrance of that moment.

she, at the garden

2010-03-30T04:06:00.002-03:00

she, at the garden
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

another painting without a previous drawing, just zones of colours, i'm trying to leave details aside as much as i possibly can. this one is from a photo i took a few weeks ago.
feel free to leave any comments, thanks in advance! have a nice day.

painting a piece of the backyard

2010-03-24T22:31:00.002-03:00

painting a piece of the backyard Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

just an attepmt to painting outdoors again though i wasn't very motivated

selfportrait

2010-03-23T03:13:00.002-03:00

selfportrait Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

me in front of the mirror again. this time painting. i am more a drawer than a painter though this time i started without a previous drawing, not even with the brush. i just started filling spaces with painting and just that, tried to observe shapes with similar colours and values, though i used a strange palette, i mean not the real ones but with a grayish one. it's three in the morning now, i should take a better photo during the daylight i know, anyway... (acrylic on greyboard-about 25x40cm)

sketch in pen

2010-03-21T04:28:00.001-03:00

sketch in pen
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

this afternoon, during the class... one student, who moved all the time but tried to capture the essential, later after the class i kept adding more pen to differentiate values

sketches after previous sketch

2010-03-21T04:27:00.005-03:00

i did these at home, after the sketch i did during the class. in these two i added alcohol to the pen to wash it. in the first i added some more details, even after i washed. used a blue ballpen. in the second one i tried to keep as many details aside as i could.

sketch after sketch II

2010-03-21T04:26:00.005-03:00

sketch after sketch II
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

in this one i used vine charcoal, a tortillon and a kneaded eraser to make some different values.

quick life sketches 2009

2010-03-20T02:47:00.002-03:00

quick life sketches 2009
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

imaginary sketch

2010-03-20T02:43:00.002-03:00

imaginary sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

imaginary sketch

2010-03-20T02:41:00.002-03:00

imaginary sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

more sketches

2010-03-19T22:28:00.006-03:00

some more sketches, though these are newer, from a couple of weeks ago, trying to make them more geometrical and with less details, i'd want them even simpler than these but it's difficult.

portrait sketch

2010-03-19T22:03:00.002-03:00

portrait sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

cleaning piles of papers i just found this old sketch i had made out of a drawing magazine photo, i guess i did it about 4 years ago. i see his eyes aren't lined either, apparently it's something i should put more attention as i did it too in my last selfportrait.

selfportrait

2010-02-20T22:14:00.003-03:00

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

life sketch in oil

2010-02-20T22:06:00.002-03:00

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.

sting portrait

2010-02-15T04:45:00.004-03:00

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 practice, 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

2010-02-13T23:45:00.002-03:00

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 pastel

2010-02-11T23:40:00.002-03:00

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 (35x50 cm approx)

small glass vases

2010-01-30T01:22:00.002-03:00

small glass vases
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

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

landscape from photo

2010-01-29T03:01:00.002-03:00

landscape from photo
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

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)

quick works of planes, colours and shapes

2010-01-28T16:12:00.006-03:00

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.

gouache painting

2010-01-20T16:43:00.003-03:00

gouache painting Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

this painting was my final work for the subject at school (painting I) Unfortunaltely the teacher couldn't see it. She was diagnosed of a terminal illness a few days before the final exam so she was hospitalized. After I came back from holidays a few days ago I learnt she passed away on jan 02. I couldn't thank her for the freedom I'd felt painting during the year term in her classes, though I had told her, the last day I saw her, I was planning to do two subjects with her this year 2010, but it that won't be possible now. Everytime we met on the street or in some school hall a smiled lightened up her face under the dark glasses she was always wearing. i'll always remember that. Wherever she is now, she must be painting, drawing and making jokes for sure. rip After the final exam I took this painting (110x75 cm) to a contest at an art galley. I didn't expect to win of course, and luckily it was not rejected so it's still hanging on their walls. Surely in a few days I'll have to pick it up as a new exhibition will be held. the painting is in gouache, on heavy paper first covered with gesso, . after it was finished I stuck it to a 0,5 cm thick wood and covered the whole painting on top with turpentine and dammar varnish to protect it

imaginary landscapes

2010-01-20T16:25:00.006-03:00

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

still life + 350 posts!

2009-11-23T01:59:00.009-03:00

these are some works (among many other) i did yesterday for school. I've just realized this is my 350th post in this blog!!! WOW! I cannot believe that. Hope to be able to post more regularly during summertime.

A4 painting after life sketch

2009-11-23T01:57:00.002-03:00

A4 painting after life sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

life drawing

2009-11-08T02:37:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

last thursday class at school. i added some shading later at home. 6B pencil.

life sketch in watercolours

2009-10-03T20:48:00.002-03:00

life sketch in watercolours Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

i couldn't finish this one... the hair for exmple

life drawing

2009-10-03T20:41:00.002-03:00

life drawing Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

town hall exhibition

2009-09-27T22:39:00.000-03:00

from last week, there is an exhibition at these windows facing the sidewalk in our town hall.

in the exhibition there are works of students of the school i attend. i marked my works there with an arrow =) 6 in all

sketches at the concert

2009-09-27T14:23:00.003-03:00

last friday evening our town council chorus sang several songs at school, of course i tried to sketch when i could...

life drawing

2009-09-24T22:10:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

today's life drawing at drawing class at school, it's about 50x50 cm, 6B pencil on white heavy paper; still unfinished, I guess we'll continue the same pose next week

selfportrait

2009-09-20T00:39:00.002-03:00

selfportrait
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a marker, a piece of paper, a mirror and me...

sketch from photo

2009-09-19T22:17:00.002-03:00

sketch from photo
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

i did this sketch (cropped) from a photocopy i found, from a magazine i guess, it was dancer Dore Hoyer in the 50's i think. the few photos i've seen from this woman were always so expressive, she was expressive, not the case of my sketch of course.
-black and red ballpen on paper-

super quick sketch with bar

2009-09-19T22:13:00.002-03:00

super quick sketch with bar
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

an A4 size-sketch done in less than a couple of minutes with a rectangular 6B cretacolor graphite bar

life drawing

2009-09-12T20:46:00.004-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

life drawing

2009-09-11T14:38:00.002-03:00

life drawing
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

from yesterday drawing class at school. 6B pencil. about 50x60cm

sketches during the class

2009-09-11T13:52:00.002-03:00

sketches during the class
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a few quick sketches i did of some of my classmates while we were in a class. they wouldn't stop moving! hehe

abstract linocut

2009-09-07T16:39:00.003-03:00

abstract linocut
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

3 colours of the same work. i don't know the English word for this technique but it's all engraved on the same block of linoleum. may be reduction cut or lost block?? i don't know how it's called in English...

life sketch

2009-09-05T23:47:00.002-03:00

life sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a quick sketch of this afternoon class

watercolour

2009-08-24T14:05:00.002-03:00

today at school we went out to the sidewalk to paint some trees, but i ended up doing this sketch, and which of course couldn't finish. the fact is that most trees in that block were without any leaves as we're still in winter. i'll continue it later i guess since the tree is mostly unfinished yet

bird sketches at the museum

2009-08-23T19:09:00.005-03:00

these are a couple of sketches i did from stuffed birds at the natural science museum

life drawing x 2

2009-08-22T01:56:00.009-03:00

two sketches on paper sized 35x50 cm, a mix of graphite bar, pencil and...finger ;)

__ long fingers & hand, thin legs, and the list goes on...

they can walk anywhere they like

2009-07-24T03:11:00.004-03:00

they can walk anywhere they like Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

i made a watercolour from a photo i had from my holidays in 2007. i found a sketch i had done back in 2005, then i thought of making this couple walk on the sand to the house on the peer entrance. i started cutting the sketch then taking some pics to see what it looked like.
unfortunately my winter vacations will be over in august then i won't have enough time to play around with this but start again with school work. but what i will mostly miss is visiting blogs as i'm enjoying so much these last few weeks...

watercolour

2009-07-22T16:30:00.003-03:00

here is a scan of the watercolour i did last night. the last post was a set of photos i took while still wet.

sketch in watercolour

2009-07-22T02:29:00.002-03:00

sketch in watercolour
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

another sketch from a magazine photo. i would like to use my own photos but i don't have photos of people, they're mostly landscape... anyway sometimes it's the only way to practice. i know i should've stuck the paper on a board but i don't always do that...

watercolor portrait

2009-07-21T03:55:00.002-03:00

i made this sketch after a photo from a magazine (about 20x20 cm)

king size sketch

2009-07-19T00:18:00.002-03:00

a sketch of about 70 x 100 cm

sketch

2009-07-19T00:10:00.002-03:00

sketch
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

another big sketch of about 60 x 60 cm

portrait from photo

2009-07-19T00:03:00.003-03:00

portrarit from photo Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

a big sketch of abut 60x70 cm

xilography - 3 colours

2009-07-12T23:36:00.004-03:00

xilography - 3 colours
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

composition with seahorses and rythm

2009-07-06T17:26:00.002-03:00

composition with seahorses and rythm
Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

sea horses

2009-07-04T21:41:00.007-03:00

sea horses
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