Pigs with CrayonsAs it’s been my tradition for the past few years, during the month of September I made a bunch of little gouache paintings for my #septempera challenge. This time I came nowhere near to daily, which was expected as Federico and I are finishing our comic, but all things considered I think it was a pretty decent showing.
All these are quite small (roughly 7-8 cm per side) and painted in watercolor and gouache on watercolor paper.
I’ve put some of them up as prints on my Inprnt.
We had such a great time with this challenge that we wanted to do some more in collaboration, but we didn’t take suggestions for this one (except for the Dude) and just painted things we’re both fans of instead!
The top row are my drawings, painted by Federico: the Dude Lebowski, Isaac the pirate, Doc Cochran. Painted with acrylics.
The bottom row are Federico’s drawings, painted by me: Deet, Grogro, Nadja. Painted the Grogro with acrylics, gouache for the other two.
We very much enjoy collaborating and it’s great to see how things turn out when we do, the results are always interesting and unexpected.
Earlier this year I did a few little pieces based on popular characters, for a social media thing called #sixfanarts. I chose my favorite suggestions and painted these:
The characters are: Asterix, Frodo Baggins, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mafalda, Skeletor and Snufkin.
All of them were painted with acrylic inks, it was a great excuse to experiment and do some pressure-free art and get rid of some of the quarantine mental cobwebs.
A few of my favorite gouache paintings I made for the #septempera challenge from last year — a (semi) daily gouache painting challenge I started in 2017. I probably won’t manage to do it this year, but I’ll miss it for sure.
Barbarians don’t read, they raid! …or do they?
Ronan the Librarian is a lovely, funny picture book written by Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie that I had the immense pleasure to illustrate. A love letter to books, libraries and librarians, I couldn’t have asked for a better fit — I loved working on this story!
I’m really bad at keeping up with it, but I always come back to thinking how much I miss blogs and forums as places to go for things I’m interested in, as opposed to the constant influx of everything on social media. So again I’m hoping I can maybe return to posting here more often, even if consistency is clearly too high of an expectation for me at this point.
I painted this faun commission a few months ago, and shared the process of both painting and digital tweaking over on Twitter. I thought it would be a good idea to share it here too for easier access/archive, and as an excuse to give a bit more life to this little corner of the internet of ours.
Adding another recent painting to the blog! Plus some details because those are always fun to see, right? Gouache on paper. After trying many brands and textures I think this paper is my favorite by far: Hot Pressed Fabriano Artistico traditional white. A true pleasure to use.
Sigo agregando algunas cosas más recientes al blog! Con detalles de cerca y todo, que siempre están buenos de ver. Gouache sobre papel – creo que después de probar muchos finalmente encontré mi papel favorito: Fabriano Artistico blanco tradicional en textura satinada. Es un placer de usar.
Recent gouache painting and some process pictures. Don’t get caught eating crumbles off the floor!
Una pintura reciente en gouache y algunas fotos del proceso. Que nadie te pesque comiendo migas del piso!
A whole lot more of the little paintings I made during my personal challenge #septempera last year, making one gouache painting each day during September. Some are quite simple or small but I’m really happy that I completed the challenge. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do it again this year, but we’ll see!
Más de las pinturitas que hice el año pasado para mi desafÃo personal #septempera: pintar algo en gouache cada dÃa de Septiembre. Algunas son muy simples o chiquitas pero estoy contenta de que logré hacerlas todos los dÃas! Dudo de poder repetirlo este año, pero ya veremos.