A fresco in my attic

  This course we, Ana, Beatriz, Agustín and I, are painting a fresco.

The problem of the beam of the next house. The solution: canes. Augustín.

Bea

  The theme of a map allowed us to touch different issues in the same composition.

Map by Leonardo Da Vinci

  These are some of my sketches:

  I could often see this fresco so the elements I'm putting in are a garden, an harbour, a city, a lighthouse, a vegetable garden,...

  I wanted to imitate the waves I saw on a map, and here they began to take shape:

 Ana

The lighthouse:

Lighthouse/phallus over a base/mandorla with light/egg.

The preparatory drawings

Preparatory drawing of the fourth "giornata".

Sinopia

The first "giornata"

Sketch of the second "giornata":

Third "giornata"

Sketch for the city of the fourth "giornata".

Some ideas for the garden.


The balsa of the fifth "giornata":

For the sixth "giornata" I've reused, slightly transformed, some arches by Masolino (the Rita's painting is antecedent although the blog post is more recent):

Masolino. "Feast of Herod" in the baptistery of Castiglione Olona (Varese)

Wedding gift

  My wedding gift for Estrella and César was the promise of painting a fresco in a part of their home they have just finished renovating.
  In late summer the fresco was finished.

  The subject is the preparation of a party even if I also wanted to represent the cycle of the seasons:
  The figure of the spring brings some flowers to the table but she also might be pregnant.

  The summer opens the courtain so that the light can enter the room.

  The autumn leaves some bottles of wine on the table and the winter is sitting and reading.

  Even though it was an adventure for me to do it alone from the "arriccio" until the finishing touches "a secco", I enjoyed it and I learned in those "giornate".

  And there it is:

"Dreamers"

  Gloria y Joserra wished a picture for their bedroom.

  We decided on a landscape format.

  Also this time I used some models of great artists (or of masterpieces) for the poses of the dormant figures:

          A figure from a rilief by Bernini

          The Saint Cecilia by Maderno

          A figure from "The night" by Hodler

          And a detail from the "Yard with lunatics" by Goya

          For the landscape I used the mountains that can be seen from near Logroño:

          My dreamers are dreaming themselves reciprocally:

"Dreamers". Acrylic on table.

A t-shirt with a photo by Germán

Germán asked me to paint a t-shirt with an image from a photo taken by himself:

And here it is:

Héctor

Under the influence of Pontormo

  Daniela was born a few months ago.
  I guess that she's still sleeping in the crib but one day she will have her bed.
  I like to donate painted sheets. It's an intimate gift in which you sleep. On them I can paint almost anything I wish.
   I have already written here before that I really like Pontormo. A short time ago I could see the exhibition that the Mapfre Foundation dedicated to him in Madrid and I have not resisted temptation to use his drawings for the Daniela's sheets.

  On the turn-down I copied these two figures:

  And, below, in a part that many time will be covered by the duvet, I painted the Lacalle:

  Daniela was going to be a reflection of her parents in the water, but il almost seems that he's going to drink her in the light of the round sun of the sweet Maria...

Another Pontormo for Daniela

  And someone migth wonder why I did not start from Botticelli instead of Pontormo but... I sign and so it goes.