sábado, 30 de marzo de 2013

Tannhäuser Gate

"Tannhäuser Gate"
Watercolor on paper, 28 March 2013

"I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe: attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments... will be lost in time, ...like tears... in the rain."

Blade Runner, 1982



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sábado, 23 de marzo de 2013

Fault

"Fault"

Washed ink, pen and watercolor, 11 Sep 1980



  I tried here to look down to the ground below and at the same time show the sky with the sun and the stars, which requires some espherical perspective as used by Escher in some of his drawings. 

  Stars as black dots is totally unreal, but it's acceptable in the context of this work, as we have commented some days ago about creating unreal 'realities'.





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miércoles, 20 de marzo de 2013

Quentin

"Quentin"
 
Pencil on paper, May 2009
 
 
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martes, 19 de marzo de 2013

Transparent Universe

"Transparent Universe"

Watercolor on paper, 21 Aug. 2010



  Another experiment- I painted first the blue-green background. When it dried, I used just water to paint the landscape and the rest of the details.


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lunes, 18 de marzo de 2013

Jet Stream

"Jet Stream"

Digital photography, August 2006




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domingo, 17 de marzo de 2013

New world

"New world"
Watercolor on paper, 26 Dec. 2005


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sábado, 16 de marzo de 2013

Limited growth

"Limited growth"


Watercorlor on paper, 1 Jan 2009




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viernes, 15 de marzo de 2013

Village at dawn

"Village at dawn"

Watercolor on paper, 14 March 2013



  It is possible to achieve interesting effects using photographic techniques - In this experiment I "focused" the far landscape, while the nearest trees are "out of focus", giving a sense of depth that normally is made with intensity of color only. Note that the sun looks more real if it has a color rim around, leaving the center almost white. 


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jueves, 14 de marzo de 2013

Studies of eyes






 "Studies of eyes"

Pencil on paper, October 2004




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miércoles, 13 de marzo de 2013

Omega Falls



"Omega Falls"

Marker, ink and watercolor on paper, 20 Jun 1977



  Inspired by some of the early Yes albums and by Roger Dean's designs for the cover sleeves, I made a series on fantastic worlds and environments that would be present on many of my works from then on. These were quick sketches for more elaborated future paintings that actually never came to existence, as I decided that these sketches were close enough to what I wanted to express.




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martes, 12 de marzo de 2013

Planet of light

"Planet of light"

Digital picture,  Aug. 2002





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lunes, 11 de marzo de 2013

Arnold

"Arnold"

Pencil on paper, Nov. 2004



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domingo, 10 de marzo de 2013

Je suis desolé

"Je suis desolé"

Watercolor on paper, 9 March 2013


  This is not only how I may feel today: I think it's a general feeling for most of us in these hard times. A feeling of social coldness, lukewarm moral, fluid concience, cheap values and empty trends. I hope this is just another bad cycle...






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sábado, 9 de marzo de 2013

Compression

"Compression"

Watercolor on paper, 6 Jun 2009


  Opposition is a law for progress in this Universe. I represented here a piece of iron being pressed and heated in a furnace to turn it into thin sheets of more noble steel.


 I applied here some washing or what I call reverse painting, that is applying water or other colors over areas previously painted, the effects being quite natural and absolutely wonderful.





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viernes, 8 de marzo de 2013

Winter landscape

"Winter landscape"

Acrylic and ink on paper, 20 Aug 2008



  I usually take a camera with me while traveling. In January 2002 I had to travel through the Salamanca foggy frosty mornings, 100 miles Northwest of Madrid. I took these pictures on the way as reference for future works. Six years later I made "Winter landscape", trying to recreate those mornings, painting first the backgorund, and then drawing the trees. I added a sun to warm it up a little.

   It's interesting to see, in the middle picture below, how the tree branches are trimmed up to a certain height. That's the line where the brave bulls bred there reach to eat the leaves.






Dehesas in Salamanca, 2002


Trees, Salamanca 2002

(Digital picture after special effect filter)




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jueves, 7 de marzo de 2013

The Old Window

"The Old Window"

Watercolor on paper, 17 Jan 2007





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miércoles, 6 de marzo de 2013

Mirage

"Mirage"

Acrylics on paper, 9 Feb 1978
 

  What reality is, has been, and still is, a long debate. Is out there an objective reality independent of our consciousness? That's what the common sense dictates. However, quantum physics establishes that consciousness and material world are closely entangled.

 This image shows a completely unreal green sky with yellow clouds, red ground and yellow-blue sands. A mysterious structure appears in the horizon, reflecting in the overheated ground. However, even though is nothing we've seen before, we accept it to some extent as a possible reality. Our mind can accept rare percepetions of reality, as far as they have internal consistency. It happens everytime we watch a movie, which is just lights projected on a wall.

 Acrylics can be diluted on water, and therefore behave pretty much as watercolors do, although they are thicker and less transparent. Thus, both watercolor and oil effects can be made at the same time.




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martes, 5 de marzo de 2013

Time and Space

"Time and Space"

Digital Photography, 2009


Today I've got visit number 1,000.
Thank you very much to all who take a bit of their time
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The machine that wanted to live

"The machine that wanted to live"

Watercolor on paper, 29 Sep 2009





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lunes, 4 de marzo de 2013

Solid fire

"Solid fire"

Watercolor on paper, 10 Oct 2005



   Another item ready to be shipped: Precious bars of solid fire set to 60ºC. Ready to use in any fireplace. No wood, no ashes- just pure, safe and simple fire.



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domingo, 3 de marzo de 2013

Opposite worlds

"Opposite worlds"

Watercolor on paper, 15 Aug. 2004



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sábado, 2 de marzo de 2013

Adriano

"Adriano"

Pencil on paper, Dec 2009


My older brother in 1961, at 17




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viernes, 1 de marzo de 2013

Time travelers

"Time travelers"

Watercolor on paper, 3 Jul 2004



  Living beings are truly time travelers, just in one direction: future. Self-awareness seems to be the ultimate step in life development. It allows mind states, perception, rational intelligence. Thus, the Universe becomes aware of itself. 

 If we have come this far after a million years of being upon the Earth, I wonder what we'll know after 20 million years... as dolphins have been so far.




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