About Me

I currently live in Munich, Germany. Previously, I've lived in Portland (OR), Amsterdam (NL), Brussels (BE), Madrid (ES), Sheffield (UK) and Sevilla (ES).
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2011

After a long break...

Hola a tod@s,

Despues de tomarme un largo descanso, aqui estoy de vuelta con nuevas tecnicas y descubrimientos a compartir.

Dos cosas principales que justifican mi tiempo de descanso:

  • Mi periodo de pintura: una de las ultimas entradas fue sobre pintura y el descubrimiento de los acrilicos. Bien, pues la pintura me tuvo enganchada durante una buena temporada y como la pintura no es el tema principal de este blog pues... bueno deje de bloguear hasta tener mas cosa que contaros del tema central: los abalorios!! (en otra entrada a lo mejor os enseno algunas de las pinturas que he hecho)
  • El verano! Durante el verano, con los dias mas largos y el buen tiempo, se para mucho menos en casa y yo no soy una excepcion. El no parar en casa se traduce en escasez de oportunidades para trabajar en ningun tipo de manualidades... practicamente no he hecho nada artistico durante este tiempo!!
Pues bueno, ahora que ya os he justificado mi ausencia, vamos al grano... Abalorios!!!

Friday, January 14, 2011

Something different: Painting with Acrylics

With the New Year, I've started a new crafting skill... Painting!!!

To be honest, I've never been very skilled at drawing and, well, I'm not very patient when I start something new; I like to see acceptable results fast! With this being said, this holiday's period, while waiting in CDG airport for a connecting flight, I discovered a promising magazine called "Mon Atelier Creatif" (what I got is the French edition but I think the original is a German edition which I don't speak - too bad!) with step by step explanations on how to paint a few different designs using acrylics. The designs were nice and the techniques looked easy enough so I got the magazine and decided to give it a try.


A couple of weeks later and, after a visit to a couple of Art's stores, these are my first two paintings in acrylic (both of them following models from the French magazine):