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This is an invite only group on Flickr that is in essence what we feel is the best of the best within the chosen fields of Watercolour,wether is is loose,modern, traditional, impressionistic… Read More

I have to keep this video by Béatrice Coron. I’m so impressed by her papercut work—With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities… Read More

Here is an amazing app for the iPhone / iPod / iPad: ukiyo-e. It is a digital, portable, woodcut studio!The application mimics the woodcutting process, in the sense that you must actually ca… Read More

The economic depression is hitting Spain very, very hard, and the spanish youth is one of the main victims, with nearly 50% of unemployment among young people. After a relative calm period s… Read More

These are a few sketches made in Barcelona the last weekend. On the last couple of pages or so there are some pasted portraits I made in an education convention in Zaragoza a few days earlie… Read More

This weekend I've been in Barcelona, enjoying a perfect spring weekend, and the comics festival, El (29è) Saló del còmic.There, between buying, bargain-hunting and chatt… Read More

If you plan to visit London this spring or summer, you might be interested in Watercolour, a special exhibition at Tate Britain (until August 21) that invites you to challenge your preconcep… Read More

Le voyage imaginaire d'Hugo Pratt et Corto Maltese is an exhibition at the Pinacothèque de Paris that I'd like to see. It will remain open until August, 21, 2011.I have… Read More

Inspired by the real-world analog, this viewer lets you explore flickr photostreams in an expansive grid. Drag to pan. Click on a photo to enlarge it, or click its permalink (∞) to… Read More

Recently I have been playing a bit with natural media applications, and I am especially fond of Artrage and its nice balance of power and simplicity.Artrage studio Pro is a much improved ver… Read More

A page from my sketchbook in the style of Eduardo Arroyo. Moreover, the pieces of paper used in this collage come from a leaflet of his current exhibition, Painting literature Read More

Art Spiegelman:“On scraps of paper the pressure to perform is gone and the results throb with a life I just can’t hold on to in my ‘finished’ art.”Spiegelman sh… Read More

 Federico Fellini (photographed by Tazio Secchiaroli)Today I have enjoyed an exhibition dedicated to Federico Fellini:The circus of illusions.A nice rememoration of the man and his… Read More

This compressed-action video shows the development of a Little white lies magazine issue.Besides the curiosity of the video, it is interesting to see the gestation of a creative project and… Read More

I have the nasty habit of doodling, sketching, pasting on, scribbling and doing other improvements in my calendars and agendas. Stuff that really should go to the sketchbooks, but it's somet… Read More

Sometimes you just have to:This is a video posted by Graffica on their video account, and the moleskine sketchbook is by Juan Martínez. They have some other nice shorts, like their ho… Read More

That's Dutch for "Wild animals". The snake rattles, Lion yawns, and the man makes a book. The man in question is Rop van Mierlo Read More

I find the freestyle watercolors by Herry Arifin (aka mypaintings4sale on Flickr) very enjoyable:I paint with watercolor. Sometimes I add ink, gouache or oil pastel, depends on the mood I'd… Read More

Yupo sheets are definitely a surface I’d like to try, especially when you see the wonderful results in these examples by loveitaly. In them, the pigment moves freely on the painted are… Read More

This is my digital postcard for the soon-to-come 2011. My best wishes for everybody! Read More

These are four pencil sketches salvaged from this year's agenda. A year that's (nearly) flown away, again! One for each season. A man with a hat in each picture.These drawings and many more… Read More

This imaginative ad in stop-motion animation, for Moleskine organizers made me smile: Read More

This is the theme for the current week @ Illustration friday, and it has reminded me of this sketch in my agenda. This is a contrasted version of a pencil sketch (click to see it larger) Read More

Charles Ritchie (born in Kentucky, USA in 1954) shares some of his huge collection of journals, sketchbooks and diverse art creations. Finding inspiration in the artist’s home, using w… Read More

In these days of completely digital workflows, it's rather uncommon to find comic books with their artwork drawn in watercolor. In one of these few examples, I have enjoyed the adaptation of… Read More