20 minutes sketch, with the new pentel, of the former river, now a huge garden.
1246 / the former river / Valencia // Spain
1244 / History School / Valencia // Spain
The History School at Av. Blasco Ibañez, rationalist example from the architect Fernando Moreno Barberá.
1173 / Drink and draw at the UPV / Valencia // Spain
I must admit I like to be alone at to my morning break meal at the University. I choose a good spot, and draw university folks!
My little sketchbook turns into a research tool, where I test materials, how to express values and lights. Then, my mind gets free, I forget all my troubles, and just draw…
On winter, at the terrace and under the sun , the pleasure gets double (almost everyday, I must say).
1168 / 46 sketchcrawl at Patraix / Valencia // Spain
The sketchcrawl number 46 meeting was held yesterday at Patraix, Valencia. It was the most crowded sketchcrawl meeting in this city, since we started this sketching activity.
I was a bit nervous, because there was a lot of people chatting with me while I was drawing; as you can see in pic, I think that influenced me with the (bad) proportions of some parts of the sketch…
1157 / How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? / Valencia // Spain
A couple of years ago, while I was interviewing Souto de Moura ( the Pritzker awarded portuguese architect ), he told me that “Valencia was the place where the best did the worse”. One of the examples he gave me to illustrate that sentence was this building of Mr. Norman Foster. After crossing it so many times, I finally stoped the car for 20 minutes and drew it!
1144 / At the balcony, waiting for the Kings / Valencia // Spain
Gazing at the crowd, at the balcony of the #Armeria Pablo Navarro, at Calle San Vicente, and waiting for the 3 #Kings and their gifts…
It was an hard perspective to do, as I´m used to #draw #streets from the groundfloor. On the first floor everything changes….
1141 / There is ice in Valencia! // Spain
Keeping up the tradition, first drawing of the year on the first day!
Skating ice rink at the Town Hall square, under a blue sky, of course!
1137 / Yesterday at Carrer Cavanilles / Valencia // Spain
At Carrer Cavanilles, seated on the BUS stop, protecting myself from the cold wind. Drawing the so-called “Journalist neighborhood”, a mini “garden city” on the center of Valencia.
1136 / My vintage vespa / Carpesa // Spain
My Classic Vespa from 1972 is finally being restored. It was really hard to choose the color; finally, after a research (academic influencies?!), I found out that there were 4 original colors of this model in 1972. This yellow (Texas yellow) was one of them, I contacted a Fiat specialist painter (they work with the same color references as Piaggio) and gave him the Max Meyer original reference.
I’m waiting for years for the restoration, the mechanic phoned me, saying he was finally working on it! I wanted to make a lot of pictures when I saw that finally, the parts were being assembled, but, after one pic, my phone ran out of battery! Off course, I had my schmincke watercolor pan with me, along with all the painting gear to fix the problem (they never get out of battery)! The scooter was made in Italy, bought in Portugal and being restored at Spain! Looking forward to ride it again
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1132 / Abandoned Lab at Fontilles // Spain
Due to structural problemas this leprosy lab was abandoned, leaving all the material and furniture…
Uni-ball on Caballo paper (420x297mm)
a fresh drawing everyday 