From my Studio

A bit of what's around my small home-studio...

Elephant Doodle

Just messing around with a quick watercolors paintings.

El Catrin- Limited Edition Print

Let's celebrate the following Día de Muertos with a NEW Giclee Print of my recent piece created for the Iconoclastic Dead's art show in Mexico City. El Catrín in a limited and hand signed high quality edition. ORDER HERE!

Piece Me Circus!

I'm so glad to post about a recent collaboration again with my friends of FashionBuddha from Portland, this time for a children educational puzzle app for the iPad and iPhone called Piece Me CIRCUS!

Go to the app website to find more about it www.PieceMePuzzles.com Or simply just download it from HERE.

Tzompantli

So, keeping up with the Day of the Dead season in Mexico, I was kindly invited to collaborate with Vertigo Galería on a project that compiles 20 artists to celebrate the traditions customizing 20 skulls to represent a contemporary Tzompantli. A Tzompantli is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims. Each skull will be printed and mounted on large-scale wooden panels to cover the facade of Museo de las Culturas Populares in México City as an exterior exhibition from October 27th to the end of November.

This is my skull:

El Catrin for The Iconoclastic Dead Show

My piece entitled "El Catrín" represents the namesake urban legend from a little old town in Guanajuato, Mexico called San Juan de Dios where locals claims to have seen the ghost of this elegant man who committed suicide around the third decade of the 20th century. The story says he killed his wife and then regretted hanged himself and to these days you could see him walking around in a park of the same town looking for his lost love. Nowadays in Mexico the word "Catrín" is a synonym for an elegant and dressed up man.

Featuring 40 artists in Mexico, DF to celebrate the Day of The Dead.
The Iconoclastic Dead show premieres October 1, 2011

Gurú Tienda Galería
Colima 143, LA ROMA
Mexico City, Mexico



The piece has been embellished with metallic acrylic touches!

I found this beautiful ornamental skulled frame for my piece, very ad-hoc. Lucky me! ...Or I should say who ever buys the piece I guess :-)

Advanced Photoshop Interview

Just got the chance to see published my interview in the British magazine Advanced Photoshop! : D

Slingshot Kite Boards

I really love to see my work in products and recently I collaborated with the brand Slingshot to create a few original designs for their great hand-made Kite Boards. Unfortunately nobody will get to use them because my designs didn't make it in the production, apparently the artwork doesn't fit with the brand's audience :-( But I really enjoyed making these.

The good news: I have something else to share with you!



By the way, this is really a cool Sport!

Cam & Maggie

I was commissioned by the creative folks of Fashion Buddha with base in Portland to create some characters for a video series featuring hand-crafted puppets Cam, Maggie, and their dog Blue. Here some images of the making of process.