More watercolors from the albums

  There has been here a leap in time; the watercolors you will see from now on in the new blog spots will belong to the albums of the same time with a not covered period between the last watercolors I published and the current moment.

Magdalena-heart

M.Elena and Merche
My I-child I try to control searches with anxiety women (these ones and others ones) that have already (or will have) other children or men.
They are the same that incite me to jump "the obstacle", not to block myself.. 

A bird nest in the chest

The group

Hope

  Some time ago Rita asked me a painting. She requested me to include some elements, like the sea and the wisterias, and to make reference to her and her parents who are dead.

  I took a long time to finish it because at some point I got stuck and I could not find a way to unite the composition I had conceived.

  The arches of the fresco by Masolino in the church of Saint Clemente in Rome have been humming in my mind since they hit me for their delicacy the first time I saw them.

Masolino, "The Annunciation"

  So I included them by playing to mix spaces, as the times too had been mixed.

  Rita became an image of the hope. Speranza is her surname.

  The rainbow of one of the landscape repeats that idea of hope and reconciliation between different dimensions and the volcan of the other one represents the Vesevius which dominates her town.

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.