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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

t-shirts


I'm making these new series with type that I want to print them into t-shirts, so I have to search for a place that let's me print just a few to test it, ......I still want to work more on the type and the colors to make it pop out even more,................sometimes I get a little bit of vertigo to dedicate myself into this new adventure, because I've stopped working in graphic design, a career that for many years was my way to make money, a financial stability, and with my new direction in life sometimes I don't know where is taking me, because I don't have an assure future, because it all depends on me and it doesn't, but when I start thinking in this loop that doesn't take me anywhere, then......I stop, and keep going with my instinct and keep doing what I like, and keep going, because life is to be lived, to be explored, and to be enjoyed.

Friday, June 20, 2008

2nd Sketch Book




Yesterday I had to go buy a new sketch book,....I was going to illustrate and realized no more pages left,....I hope this new sketch book goes faster !!!!!!.........today I've been drawing but nothing came out, soooo bad!!!!! but I take it as part of the creative process. These 2 illustrations are from yesterday,.....I was so excited with my new book and inspired because of Sonar in the Macba (contemporary museum of Barcelona), there are lots of groovy people from all over Europe to this electronic concert, and my son's daycare is just there,...........I get more inspired of what I see in the streets than from magazines, and I have a good visual memory......so I'm going to exercise my sponge brain and get inspired!!!!

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Trash Hunter

Robert is the best "trash hunter", 90% of the furniture in the gallery is found from the streets. When we lived in San Diego we used to go every weekend to the swap meet, and now we cruise the streets of Barcelona!!!!!!.

Here is Robert at the kitchen room in the gallery, all in this wall is found in the street, his favorite piece is the cross because is real iron, hand pounded, there is no welding, and he says is very, very, very old. Also the books that look great in the kitchen, marble molding shelve that belong to a church, and Robert rescued it. Then the restaurant in front of us got rid of the chalk board with the desert menu, it doesn't have any value but again we thought in the kitchen will look great.
Robert always wanted a Mona Lisa and he got it!!!!!!!!!, and also we have lot s of iron pieces like this, that are beautiful for decoration, and also this chest where I keep Dylan's toys,...one day I was on the bus and I saw 2 big travelling chests from the 60's in the street that would have been great for tables, and I almost jumped out of the bus,....but also would had been a big nightmare to carry those back to the gallery....and the beautiful sunflower lamp!!!!!!!
Robert found this painting yesterday, and I absolutely love it!!!!!! we have to restore it and we think is from the 1920's, it 's really damage but it's so worth to keep it, I hope one day we get a bigger apartment and put this painting in Dylan's room. Also along with this he got newspapers from the late 1920's and 30's when Barcelona was getting bombed during the civil war, and there is some news about Hitler, the italians, quite amazing, I'm so glad we don't live in a war like that..............Robert told me that it was crazy somebody empty a whole apartment in the street, and was quite hard to get anything. He found an antic vise for jewellery but this girl told Robert "It's MIIIIIINE!!!!!!" so he had to let it go, though he got also some very fine old tools for jewellery that the girl didn't see, JA, JA. You have to be fast and agressive!!!!!!! This is my sewing studio and I think it's all from the street but the green dresser and mirror that belongs to my grandparents, the white cabinet and the matching white table from the street, the chair from the street, the old sewing SINGER machine from an apartment that some british bought and they didn't care about all the stuff inside so they invited us and another neighbors to empty the apartment, and Robert got this for me, he also got glass ware, and I regret not have taking the bed linens, and the funniest one 2 paintings from what it was the old owners that passed away, and we have them hang in one of the kitchen walls in the gallery and people think are my grandparents............Also we have an old sign from the 1920's from a butcher shop "Ternera 27", and one day the grand-daughter walk in the gallery and recognized the sign from her grandfather's shop, but she told us her father dump it on the street and she was happy we keep it, she didn't care about having it either......also I love the painting frame Robert found for me, we painted and I put my first illustration somebody wanted to buy but it but has a sentimental value, more like a lucky charm, so No for Sale.And more furniture from the street, white lamp from the 70's, the white dresser, and the chandelier!!!!!!!!....... I was walking Peggy and I saw this man with the chandelier in his hands and I was so fast!!!!! before he would let it go in the street and break it, I was not shy at all and asked him if he was going to trash it and said yes!!!!!!,........literally I took it from his hands!!!!!!!And some architectural finds, this big stone Robert thinks is from the Roman period for the size and the way is cut. There were these workers digging a trench in the street and they pulled this big stone, and Robert asked if he could take it!!! I'm sure the working guys thought he was crazy, because it's a heavy stone!!!! buy hey! .....and we have beautiful tiles, and is an endless list of all the amazing things that Robert has found!!!........Hand made iron locks 200 years old, chairs, furniture, artist supplies, old iron pieces, lamps, old paintings, mirrors.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Le Petit Salon







I moved my studio down to the gallery and I like it much better so I have a big view to the street though that means more interruptions from people who comes in. We have rented my studio to a hair stylist Veronique, I was sad to give away my studio it has been 4 years working there, but when I met her I knew it was perfect for her!!!!!!! and my sadness went bye! bye! She is really vibrant person and her salon has the perfect name for it "Le Petit Salon", I've been helping her with the graphic image and I run into a picture that brought me the concept for the salon identity. Nick (www.splat-photo.com) took the pictures and it was a lot of fun!!!!! and also he did all the photo montage.......and the graphics is on me, the design of the flyers has a simillarity to Toni and Guy London since Veronique is trained and work for them and her salon is full on those products, so we thought it would be great to have that link to their image, young, rebel, and vibrant.

Monday, June 16, 2008

shoCKED


Today has been my first day to go back to illustrate, it took me a while to warm up and get my hands on,.....and when I got my sketch book I got shoCKED the last illustration it is from October 25 th 2007 I had to count with my fingers nov, dec, jan, feb, march, apr,. may ,.....and JUne,......6 months non illustrating!!!!!!!!! that can not happen again!!!!!!!!, even if I sketch a crappy thing I have to do it every day!!!!!!! 6 months,.......my problem is that if I sew I don't have mind to illustrate, and I have to be able to do both at the same time.......so my mantra oooommmm!!!!!!, illustrate and sewing..............

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sewing dream


My last day of sewing class, and I feel so proud of all the things I learnt, and I realized it's just a matter to do it, so many years wanted to get into sewing and I don't know what kept me from following my dream, to do something I really like it.........I guess it all came when I told my father I wanted to get into fashion-school, and he said NO, you have to go to a university career, and it took a long time for my brain to click again and say YES!!!!!!! I'm going to do what I really like.
When I started my class I got bummed because I thought there were too many old ladies, and I realized with time going to these classes, they were women with strong wish to learn to do beautiful things and that is what it really matters. It has been an amazing experience.
This is my weekend bag I couldn't imagine I could sew something like this.

And this is my little gem it was a delicate project to sew. I wanted to work with this delicate fabric, and it was easier than I thought, I hand-stitched the black fabric to the blue so it wouldn't move, and I embroidery the flowers with black bits, and to add something cute to the purse I made the pendant and I don't have a strong thing for making jewelry but I like to know how to put things together . Now I'm just waiting somebody to invite me to a wedding to wear my cute little purse.

I made 3 belts. I made a black leather belt an these 2 all with fabric they are all made with just glue, no sewing machine at all. It is pretty easy the hardest thing was to cover the buckle with fabric, my fingers ended up full of glue.

I love doing the crochet flowers once you start you can not stop. I hope I remember again how to do all the stitches!!!!!!! I'm always afraid I'll forget.
This was my first project, my bag to keep my sewing stuff, and I love the black tassel strip it's so spanish I love it!!!!! I got tones of those in different colors that I want to apply in pillows and others.
Now that I learned all those things, I just hope I don't drop it, that I always find the time to make sewing projects, I don't know what it will come up from all this, if it's going to be just a hobby, or I'll be able to come up with something I can sell from the gallery, what ever it is I just enjoy sewing so much...........Life has brought me the opportunity to have everything I need to be creative and the freedom to be myself.
I LOVE illustrating and sewing.