Architectural drawing made with ink and ink wash
On this occasion for this essentially architectural drawing of the seat of Chancellor of the University of Córdoba I have only used ink and ink wash. It´s not a drawing made in situ, this time I had to do it in my studio from another that I had made yesterday in front of the building. Unfortunately when I finished drawing it started to rain and I had no time to do more. Today it has continued raining in the morning, and also I´m in a hurry to [...]
Sketchcrawl in Lisbon. Urban Sketching Symposium
Carrying on in the same vein that I did throughout the symposium (as I said in my previous post, I kept doing tests, out of my own schemes, testing different ways to draw, different materials or ways of looking)… during the sketchcrawl held in Praca do Comerco, the last day, I did this three drawings [...]
2nd International Urban Sketching Symposium. Lisboa
Intense, that’s the word I would choose to describe the 2nd symposium of urban sketchers in Lisbon, a truly enjoyable and rewarding experience, both artistically and socially. I would say it was so intense that the effects of such a flood of images, conversations, referrals, techniques are so big that some of us are still [...]
Article about my sketches in El Día de Córdoba newspaper
I had a great luck that one of the newspapers in my city had been interested in my drawings on Holy Week and published it on last Sunday edition. The story emphasizes particularly the urban character which is part of Cordoba’s Holy Week. The truth is that I’m really happy with the treatment that Jesus [...]
Holy Wednesday. Drawing with instinct and intuition
Unfortunately it rained during final two days of Holy Week and for that reason the processions didn´t go out to the streets. So I think here´s where my drawings of this year´s Easter will end. Here you have the latest drawings that I was able to do. In more peaceful conditions, on the first two [...]
Holy Week Tuesday. Drawing in the Cathedral-Mosque
Yesterday it was a day to draw around the Mosque-Cathedral. It?s necessary to be very quick to sketch all the figures of a procession float in order to make the meaning of the scene understandable.
Holy Week: Monday. Expressing sorrow and silence
The Holy Monday of Holy Week in Cordoba is a special day of silence and sorrow expression. The truth is that my a priori choice of watercolor of black and red color to fill my pentel has been very appropriate.
Holy Week: drawing what is essential. Palm Sunday
During this week we celebrate Holy Week. In Cordoba many brotherhoods go out in procession through the streets of the city. It is a good opportunity to know the city, you have to walk a lot, and of course it´s a good moment to draw. These pictures are from Palm Sunday, the first day which [...]
Architectural sketches
It´s not the same to sketch a landscape or a city fragment and to sketch details that I need as an architect during my day to day work on site, it´s obvious. In the second case I have to think of how one element is related to another, with the inevitable condition that it could [...]
Video drawing book Cordoba. February-September 2010
This is one of the videos I’ve once made of the sketch books I’d finished. The truth is that it’s a pity that the video had such a bad quality, the camera was not very good and the light was not adequate, but I think I learned my lesson and next time I will make [...]
Draw in two steps: first ink, watercolor second
He wore all weekend at home, so I decided that Sunday was to be the day to draw out, grabbed my bag with my pens, watercolors and two of my drawing books, a Moleskine and other brand Hahnemuehle , I bought in Malaga, and went for a walk to the center of the city. On [...]
The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, one of my favourite places to draw
I´m very lucky that whenever I want to I can go the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba to draw. This is one of the most important and interesting buildings in Spain. I already have several drawings and landscapes of the city with this great building and recently also the interior. I live close, only in ten minutes [...]
Drawing from Cordoba, in the Andalusia region, Spain
The vast majority of my drawings describe the landscape, buildings and atmosphere of Andalusia, especially of the city of Cordoba. This is the place where I was born and raised. After years of university out of my home town, I´ve come back realizing many of the things I had not appreciated before. Through my drawings [...]
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