rumba para bebo

I had an emergency call yesterday afternoon, to replace at night sagar during his workshop "drawing on location" at "barts", a concert organise in homage to bebo valdés during the "45 voll-damm festival internacional de jazz de barcelona". sagar must have been very hill to miss this opportunity to sketch with such a huge selection of jazz players…
here are a few sketches made during the workshop, while attending to draw guided by the rhythm, and catching the movement in some extreme condition (no light and no space) but listening to the best cuban jazz music:

gabi campanario

gabi campanario, my friend and founder of the amazing urban sketchers community was in barcelona last week.
it was good to see you gabi, see you soon!

"little dudes" exhibition in berlin

I will participate to the collective exhibition "little dudes" in berlin at the  urban spree galerie.
the opening is the 1st of november, if you're around, have a look, toys get customized by a 100 artists all over the world, and auction will go to charities.

41st sketchcrawl in barcelona

in "los corts" district.

aboca museum

during the past workshop in sansepolcro, toscana, we visited the  wonderful "aboca museum", about the history of herbs in alchemy and medicine over the centuries.
here a snapshot of their great collection:




the poison room door:

"sketch & drugs & rock'n'roll" exhibition in paris

if you're in paris on friday, don't miss the sketchbook exhibition "sketch & drugs & rock'n'roll" by illustration faculty & friends.
 
vernissage next friday 18th of october, 6pm to 9pm.
Paris College of Art
15 Rue Fénelon, 75010 Paris.

some of my sketches will be part of the show, 
next to marielle durand, placid, rocco, lionel richerand, olivia sautreuil, loïc sécheresse, singeon waters & carole xénard.

oh yeah!

(merci m. sécheresse pour l'invit'!)

fiat 500

hung to the wall, "galeria de paris", porto.

made in italy

workshop in sansepolcro, toscana

I'm back from toscana, where gérard michel and I taught an urban sketching workshop "sketching in the footsteps of piero della francesca" about curvilinear perspective.
it takes place in sansepolcro, the hometown of piero della francesca, where he defined the first rules of modern perspective, using one vanishing point, in the XVth century.
gérard told us about opening our point of view, while sketching some cylindrical and spherical perspective, using 4 to 6 vanishing points (in an orthogonal space), in order to represent the all space around us.
but the main point of our class was to enjoy sketching perspective, and it seems that our small group of 14 sketchers did enjoy a lot the 3 days…

sorry marcello, francesco and maurizio, you were not back from lunch when we did this picture… and thanks to all of you who shared this unforgettable week end.

sansepolcro is a very inspiring place, in the east of toscana (with incredible food).
we enjoy the great architecture there and in anghiari to apply both cylindrical and spherical perspective:

on sunday, we spent the morning in the main place "piazza torre di berta", and I plan to give back to the city the missing tower "berta" that was destroyed during the 2nd world war (do not miss the testimony "l'ultima ombra" about it), and the top of the other towers of the medieval centre, that were cut centuries ago…

and we had lot's of fun while sketching each other at night, on the tablecloth!!
thanks fabio for organising it, and see you soon buddies!

rua de 31 de janeiro

"art nouveau" stores in porto.

portrait without mercy

my participation to the mercyless new blog: "portrait without mercy":

I just mind that I've got plenty of merciless portraits while fishing for my first entry there, but I especially like that one of our host cesar "eclecticbox".

thanks eclecticbox for the invitation to the party, and beware to all of you next time we'll meet!

home sweet home

a new home for my sketchbooks!

igrejas do porto

"oldies but goldies" opening in porto

the exhibition is open until the 19th of october, including 18 original drawings:
sput&nik thewindow
praça marquês do pombal, 169
4000-390 Porto
(metro: station marquês)
schedule: from 5.30pm to 8.30pm (by appointement)
contacts: +351 919 010 716 /  sputenik169@gmail.com

packing drawings…

preparing my stuff for my upcoming exhibition "oldies but goldies" in porto next friday!

exhibition in sput&nik gallery, porto

nice people in sput&nik gallery invited me for an exhibition to their gallery.
the exhibition will be a presentation of my original car drawings of my upcoming book “oldies but goldies”.
the opening will be on the 20th of september and will last for a month.
if you are in porto come and say hi !

workshop in toscana

next 4, 5 and 6 of october, I will teach next to gérard michel a workshop in toscana, italy, about perspective: "Sketching in the footsteps of Piero Della Francesca".
we will work on extreme perspectives: cylindrical and spherical perspective, and how to fit all you see in a page, and having fun sketching from life.

you will found all the details about the workshop and how to apply on the blog urban sketchers workshop.

see you in sansepolcro!

beautiful old cars

I'm back from holydays, my sketchbooks full of beautiful dusty cars for an upcoming exhibition in porto, portugal, next 20th of september.
stay tuned for more fresh news very soon!

icone of barcelona

my icone of barcelona for the newspaper "el periodico".
the full article in spanish here!
gracias cristina.

louise turned 2

2 years, 2 days, today!