new wine label in progress

Happy belated Easter! I am working on a new wine label. 

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¡Felices Pascuas! Estoy trabajando en una nueva etiqueta de vino.

nº 9 - 12

Hi there, I am back! I have been on a retreat in Berlin these days, a very intense experience! I did some little watercolour paintings there and although I am behind now with the daily paintings, I wanted to share them here with you and go back to the daily routing from today on!

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Hola todos, estoy de vuelta. He estado en un retiro en Berlín estos días, ¡una experiencia muy intensa! Hice algunas acuarelas allí y aunque voy un poco por detrás ahora con los daily paintings, quería compartirlas con vosotros y volver al habito diario a partir de hoy.

daily painting nº 9, watercolours

daily painting nº10, watercolours

daily painting nº11, watercolours

daily painting nº12, watercolours

IF:: snow

have a closer look to the snow. i don´t have it here in Madrid, but my peeps in Germany are living in winterwonderland at this moment. hopefully when I go there for christmas, it will still be there.
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mira de cerca la nieve. no la tengo aquí en Madrid, pero mi gente en Alemania ahora están viviendo en un mundo mágico invernal en este momento. espero que cuando vaya en navidad, todavía siga así.

wine labels for a wedding, payment in wine

 

 

A good friend of mine started to produce wine in Aragón with local friends there. Only a small production for own use and friends and friends of friends. There will be a tinto, a rosado and a blanco. He asked me to design the label of one of the wines - a great honour for me and very exciting! Never did this before! I´ll show the result as soon as it is finished and approved. The payment will be in wine, of course (-;  This reminds me very much of my friend Yvonne, check this out.

Anyway the labels I show you here are a special commission of the same friend: friends of him just got married and he wants to give them a "sixpack" of his wines. So he commissioned me to design three different labels. These are hand painted and there are two of each. Do you guess which label is for the white, for the red and for the rosé wine? Do you like them?

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un buen amigo mío ha empezado de producir vino en Aragón con unos amigos suyos lugareños de allí. Sólo una pequeña producción para uso propio y amigos y amigos de amigos. Va a haber un tinto, un rosado y un blanco. Me encargó del diseño de la etiqueta de uno de los vinos - ¡un gran honor para mí y muy emocionante! ¡Nunca lo he hecho antes! Os enseñaré el resultado una vez terminado y aprobado. El pago será con vino, por supuesto (-; Esto me recuerda mucho a mi amiga Yvonne, echad un vistazo aquí.

Bueno, las etiquetas que véis aquí son un encargo especial del mismo amigo: unos amigos suyos se casaron hace poco y les quiere regalar un estuche con seis de sus vinos. Me ha encargado de hacer tres diseños diferentes. Están pintados a mano, en parejas de dos en dos. ¿Adivinas cuál de las etiquetas es para el blanco, el tinto y el rosado? ¿Te gustan?

birthday card for my niece

Better late than never...my niece was 8 years on 21st april!

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Mejor tarde que nunca...¡mi sobrina cumplió 8 años el pasado 21 de abril!

a belated Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Relax with all your resolutions...the year has just begun. Although it has turned already two weeks. I believe it will be a good year.
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¡FELIZ AÑO! Relajaos con todos vuestros buenos propósitos...el año no ha hecho nada más que empezar. Aunque ya ha cumplido 2 semanas. Será un buen año, lo creo firmemente.

Happy Birthday Stephanie

Today is the birthday of a good friend of mine. Although we won´t meet today (she lives in Germany) I want to send her a nice and artsy greeting. I will take this watercolour sktech as background as colours fit very well with october and also I like to send her the slogan "relax", as she is a mum to 3 little girls between 6 months and 4 years. Happy birthday Stephanie!
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Hoy es el cumpleaños de una buena amiga mía. Aunque no nos vamos a ver hoy (vive en Alemania) quería enviarla un saludo bonito y artístico. He elegido este boceto de acuarela como fondo, por que los colores van muy bien con octubre y también me gusta enviarla el lema "relax", ya que ella es madre de 3 niñas pequeñas entre 6 meses y 4 años de edad. ¡Feliz cumpleaños Stephanie!

warning - aviso - Warnung

Warning: eating these mushrooms may cause hallucinations...

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Aviso: la consumición de estos hongos puede causar alucinaciones...

Reverse - el reverso - die Kehrseite

Isn´t the reverse part of both women and men a very attractive and special one? Particularly because we can´t look at ourselves like this, it is reserved for others to see our b-side.

This is a rough watercolour study of a live drawing session with 5 minutes poses. I am really clumsy at this, as it was the first time in ages that I went to life drawing. Later I pimped the drawing up with colour pencil.

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¿No crees que el revés de las mujeres y de los hombres es especialmente atractivo e interesante? Sobre todo por que nosotros mismos no podemos mirarnos desde este punto de vista, está reservado a otros de ver nuestro reverso.

Hice este pequeño boceto de acuarela antes de ayer en una sesion de dibujo con modelo, eran poses de 5 minutos. Estoy siendo verdaderamente torpe con estos ahora, ya que hace siglos que no he ido allí. Dibujé después encima con lápices de colores, lo que hace el dibujo más vivo.

Déja-vu

...to have a Déja-vu can be something very perturbating...the best is just to try to relax!!

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...tener un déjà-vu puede ser algo verdaderamente perturbante...¡lo mejor es quedarse lo más relajado posible!

Prehistoric

Dive into the prehistoric primordial soup - all life began in the water!

Little watercolour sketch for this week´s Illustration Friday prompt "prehistoric"

Savour

She is having a wonderful evening and is just savouring every moment of it!

This pale lady (maybe somehow a modern Snow White??) is my (last minute!) submission for this week´s Illustration Friday topic.

I used pencil, watercolours and acrylics.

Sneaky

In the middle of the night, the sneaky old witch sneaks away and is hopefully never seen again...

For Illustration Friday´s topic "Sneaky" I took the dark meaning of sneaky, for I dread to be quite blah these days.

Burning

In the burning heart

just about to burst.

There's a quest for answers,

an unquenchable thirst.

In the darkest night

rising like a spire.

In the burning heart

the unmistakable fire.

(out from the lyrics of the song "Burning heart" from Survivor)

This song just popped up immediately when I read this week´s Illustration Friday topic >> can´t help it but I love 80s rock music!

Little watercolour painting out of my sketchbook

Afterwards

Now that summer has gone even here in Spain, afterwards I wish I had enjoyed it more: more playing, more time outside, more barbecues, more ice cream, more summer fruits, more canning fruit jams, more suntanning, more fancy summer dresses, more outdoor concerts...but there will always be a next summer!

Still the watches pursuit me - it is a project for myself to be more aware of time, as I only feel it running by.

Spent

I am having a hard week at my day job...I SPENT the whole week working working, until after 10 p.m. in the office, I am just dreaming myself into a more quiet and pieceful place...

This is another little painting of my "watches" project, it kind of reflects my search for inner balance.

Spooky

Spooky is this week´s Illustration Friday topic. I am not a native english speaker and the word "spooky" sounds cute to me, so that first I was thinking of likeable ghosts.

But finally this sinister coachman came up - I don´t know why and from where...but here he is and I find him really intimidating!

I used watercolour and charcoal.

Beneath

This week´s Illustration Friday topic is "beneath".

He felt kind of lost,

But he was beneath a watchful eye.