Drawing in Girona.

This last weekend I went to Girona with some people from Barcelona. It was the first time we meet both groups, not everybody anyway. It was a pleasant meeting and we had opportunity to draw a military recreation of french siege of the city in 1808.



David Pradas pick up us in the train station and lead us to the cathedral, there was all of rest of girona's sketchers. We introduce each other and then started drawing



Then started a play all the people starting taking pictures and stood up in front of us, messing around.




Here it is the Queen's Throne an idea proposed by the Girona's Sketchers. All the people who come to Girona can draw from the same place. Here it is:


Mostra un mapa més gran

Then we went to have dinner in a typical local restaurant chain called König. Nice food and medium price.




Here it is the last drawing in the city of Girona. We went to city walls and there, there was a group of soldiers who represented the city defenders, leaded by the General Álvarez de Castro.

But last but not least coming back to Barcelona I drew a portrait of Santi Sallés, but it is a different story that you can find out what is all about here. 

Gaudi in Barcelona. Drawing a map of Barcelona.

 This August I had the opportunity to draw a map of Barcelona where the Gaudi's works will be placed with Zahorí de Ideas and Estudi Virgili for the Casa Museu Gaudí.

 

As you can see the first images it is the layout and over these lines there are the first roughs. Line was fine for me but the most difficult things was matching timing with amount of work as always. 

These last four pictures are from the final artwork that was scanned and then coloured digitally. On the left bottom you can see a detail of la Sagrada Familia and on the right part of the "Eixample".

Drawing ships and people

This drawing has been done using my Sailor Calligraphy for general outline and also a Lamy Safari with M nib for details. Watercolour has been following Shari Blaukopf workshop: Triad Symphony.

One thing I have got from Shari Blaukopf is that we do not need a big palette for colouring, we do not need a big infrastructure, on the other hand you should invest in good brushes or watercolours or not. It is always in your hands and you have to make a choice.

Parking Shakespeare offers for free open air classical plays in Barcelona in el Parc de l'Estació del Nord. After finishing th play an actor, Cesar "Eclectic Box"'s friend, came to us (Eclectic Box, David Ramírez and Shiem BCN and me) and talk to us about how thing are more and more difficult for actors. I showed him my drawing and noticed that it is not like a photography. Drawings are a sum up of bites of time. Here there are at least 5 different moments of the play and 30 or more different moments. Colour is in the same way as in the ship 3 or 4 at most colours. It was quite difficult to follow the thread while I was drawing. But it was great and they are amazing actors and actresses.

Exhibition along the Summer (Sketching Barcelona)

It's been a hard july the symposium ended with happy faces and everybody was excited. I really want to say thank to Mireia Trius who made it possible. Here I want to introduce one of many more videos about the Symposium and also the exhibition about the Sketching collection where you can find my awarded book "Voltant per Sants".

Alone, together

After a long way and a long work of what to do when Aleix asked to participate in a collective exhibition I decided to focused in my desktop and Elisabet's, my couple. They both are facing each other in the same room and they both are a reflection of us being individuals. My  notes are thoughts, fears, personnal and intimate.