What a difference!

For quite a while, my dearest daughter has been cooking for us. She is good at it, she has a good sense for it. But most important, she has changed the way we used to eat. Not different recipes, although she has added some new. The most important thing is: natural ingredients.

For example, today we had a pasta. Just spaguetti with mushrooms. But there is a big difference in using comercial tomato sauce and natural tomatoes. 

Teacher's work

    Not so much work for the past couple of weeks. Well, personal work, because I have had the typical work at the university for a semester end. Just the daily sketches.

    Teacher-artist, something common for many artists. It's hard to balance work in both sides. Since last year, I have had the chance to keep my work as a teacher and as coordinator of an academic area, and my personal work as an artist. Anyhow, there are times when the academic work tend to gain weight over the counter part.

    I like my work as a teacher. I have been teaching for more than 30 years now. I started to teach before I could consider myself an artist. But the academic work have increased in time and importance. It doesn't mean that the art work is not important, but, for the time being, the academic work is first.

    Non the less, the work continues. I will be showing with my wife next year  in August (paintings). I would like to have a solo exhibition, but I haven't found the place, yet. And I'm preparing work for a solo exhibition for 2016, when I will be celebrating 30 years of our arrival to San Luis and 30 years as a professional artist.

    As the Spanish singer, Rossana, sings: despacio pero sin pausa (slowly but with no pause).

    

Lost and found

    Some time ago I received an e-mail from someone unknown to me, Liliana Loredo. She works at the Francisco Cossio Museum, here in San Luis Potosí. She wanted to tell me that they had a forgotten painting at the museum:

    It is a painting made in 1992 called "El sillón rojo". It is from a series made from photos of Sonia, a friend now living in Monterrey. I did many drawings, some were published in the Tierra Adentro magazine. The last time I remember the painting was at El AGORA-DIF, a place where I used to teach figure drawing back in 1994-97. Then, I lost track of it.

    The e-mail was certainly a nice sorprice. Liliana Loredo was telling me that I could pick it up or, if I wanted, donate it to the museum, where they have allready at least a drawing by me. Sincerely, I was so happy, that I told her I would pick it up. Giving it a second thought, I decided to give it up. After all, it was lost for me.

    Well, today the papers for the donation were signed, and the painting now belongs to the Francisco Cossio Museum, where I had my first solo exhibition. The architect Francisco Cossio was in charge of the place for many many years. I believe that if it werent for him, the place wouldn't be a museum now. He was an art lover, and thanks to him I exhibited there three times. I'm happy that the painting is in the Museum collection.

Loup at the studio

Photo of the week - 1

I have decided to add a pic of the week. One photo per week that I want to share. So here is the first one, and is one that shows the mood of the holidays: Loup and me taking a siesta.

So I didn't mention it!

Las year in June I had an exhibition. Scrolling down this blog, I discovered I didn't metion it here. Sorry if I don't do a translation (usually I write in English and then translate it into spanish) but here is the link:

Escribanía

Mirada Contenida - works

Here are some of the works.

70's collection.

Oil pastel and coloured pencil.

17 1/2 x 23 in.

Things from the wind.

Ink

11 1/2 x 8 6/8 in.

From grandma's stuff.

Oil pastel, coloure.d pencil.

17 1/2 x 23 in

From Maruca.

Coloured pencil.

17 1/2 x 23 in.

From the glass I see through.

Pencil

23 x 17 1/2 in.

Another part from the 60.

Ink

23 x 17 1/2 in.

Small obsession.

Ink

23 x 17 1/2 in.

Pipes 2

Ink

8 6/8 x 11 1/2 in.

Mother´s gift.

Coloured pencil

17 1/2 x 23 in.

Mirada Contenida

Last Thursday 3 was the opening of my exhibition by the name "Mirada Contenida" (Restrained Look). There are 13 drawings in oil pastels, pencil, cloured pencils and ink. The subject is about things I have as part of some collection. But they are not collections of precious things - even though, they can be. Rather, they are charged with feelings and memories, nostalgia for dear relatives or friends.

After the last exhibition, in which I used calligraphy and ink drawings depicting ideas and thoughts, this one is about things that can be toched and felt with you fingers. The still life is not something common in my exhibited work. I keep on drawing from life, it is something I like. One teacher once told me that a true artist had to have the hability to draw from life, so I kept on. But to show a group of still lives is something different. So that is the reason for the name, restrained look. The eye is focused in a liitle space that contains some known elements. 

The tecnique is also of some importance. Oil pastels were used by me back in the 70's. I used to do work in coloured pencils during my training years at the university. As for the pencil and ink, they have been a constant in my work. All of them were perfecf to the task, to draw my stuff.

For the time being, I'll keep with the subject. I have to go further, I want to explore much more things I have to try to outcast the spell they have on me.