It’s been a while since my last update here….I have been posting a whole lot on my regular myspace profile about all sorts o things, including art.
So I am moved-into Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mexico. My father’s birthplace. I live on a beautiful and noisy area.
Don Cruz, is an old man that has been working for my grandpa for a while and he is also a very good carpenter. I commissioned a series o panels and frames for my next set of paintings.
So, I started to make a series of paintings called “Cocoons”, which I translated into Capullos in Spanish.
They are the adventure of my sketching, the forms that usually emerge from my spontaneity: biomorphic, abstarct shapes that remid one of fruit, feminine anatomy, an flowers…sort of like O’keefe, but more into my style.
Here is an example of previous work I have done with this shape before
So I became interested in participating in various contests around Mexico, including the Jose Atanasio Monroy painting contest and the Salon de Ocutbre contest. I also found out about another printmaking contest while visiting the Ex Convento del Carmen, one of the cultural houses here in Guadalajara. I also got to meet the director, who happened to be a friend of my father’s.
So the set and theme of my work continues to go into a deeper exploration of these biomorphic shapes in different sizes, colors, etc.
Here is a series of progress pictures. The end result is the end.
Cocoons detail 1
Cocoons detail 2
COCOONS
Don Cruz was also very kind to build this fancy easel for me …it is a great design.
Painting 2’s final stage is still missing in my photos, but will take photos of it today, when I deliver the next painting.
COCOON
COCOON DETAIL.
an here it its…finished just about an hour ago:
DIVERSE COCOON or, Capullos Diversos.
1 Comment
October 29, 2007 at 3:45 pm
ana i love all of the cacoon work, its gorgeous, things that i would love to hang all around in my place and look at with just a little sunlight in the room and enjoy!!
And i miss you too much, its not even fair how much i miss you!
When do u think you are coming to texas and when do you think that i can come and visit you?