another ballet dancer

8" by 11" watercolours on montval 300gms canson paper I have done a prior sketch for this one, and eliminated unnecessary details, and fewer colours in order to focus on shadows and depict light... I hope you like it, and thank you for visiting my blog and commenting, your comments give me great pleasure...

Back to ballerinas

8" by 11" watercolours on montval 300gms paper I did this one by starting with a line sketch, which I found helped me in determining which parts to define

another portrait of a beauty

11" by 8" watercolour on arche rough 300gms I have done this one last year and never got the chance to share it... I am eliminating the details in shadow and focusing only on the details I love

dreamy

watercolours on montval 300gms paper 11" by 8" This painting was done by starting with a preliminary sketching, I felt I experimented with painting without sketching first long enough. I am trying now to eliminate any details that are not important to me, so the focus is only on parts of the painting that I love most.

Back to sketching dancers

It has been some time since I did this... sketching again without using pencil... I have forgotten how uch fun it is... watercolour on montval 300g paper 9" by &2

8th-10thC AD historical period in jordan

This illustration was done after long years of researc,since primary sources of the costumes in my area are awefully scarse...

Some more sketches

I am enjoying this so much, I am getting the hang of it

Costume Sketching

First I like to apologize to my friends who are following my blog, I was unable to post images, so I had to switch back to the old post editor. Then there is no way I could comment on any of your lovely work. There is something wrong and I have no idea what it is nor how to fix it. It has been asome time since I did any sketching, there was no time, ut, I must say, I have enjoyed doing these so much, I have missed sketching, or using a pencil for that matter, as you may know by now I paint without a preliminary sketching for my watercolours.

Historical Costume Design

16" by 11" watercolour on paper hs is a design that shows the arabian nigt princess garb, it is my passion to design costumes, I am posting this here although this blog is for other subjects, but this is what I am currently working on

Figures ... in the street and at the Cafe

busy street 8" by 11"

at the beach 8" by 11"

going downtown 8" by 11"

at the cafe

tese are some sketches done without preliminary drawing to help me focus on shadows and the shapes they create...

ballerina resting

11" y 8" watercolour on paper

very interesting face

11" by 8" watercolour on paper

Portrait of an pld man

Just a Portrait

watercolor on paper 11" y 13"

Elegant lady

My Sincerest Apologies
I owe each and everyone of my friends who follow my blog, a huge and heartfelt apology, I have neglected my log and my friends much longer than I intended, but, life was very hard during my absence, and my work took so much effort, health issues and family matters added to all that.
A special and sincere thank you for all my friends who thought my blog is worth following recently, welcome and I hope I will not disappear again to disappoint you.
A quiet thank you for my friends who took the time to leave the  lovely positive and thoughtful comments, they are truly appreciated.
And finally a heart-felt thank you for those who emailed me to ask and inquire about my whereabouts and my health.

                                                          11" by 8" watercolours on paper
As usual, this painting was done without an initial sketch and I painted it a little loosely leaving a lot of white areas to indicate light.

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Will Be Away

I like to thank everybody who thought this blog is interesting, and was kind enough to follow, thank you also for all your kind and wonderful comments, I really do enjoy reading them and answering them.

I am so sorry that I hadn´t posted for some time, te truth is I have been and still is very busy, doing costumes and props for a play, adapted from a spanish playwright Calderon De La Barka ... called ... Life Is A Dream.

Usually it is not easy for me to paint while having all my energy directed towards creating designs for costumes...
I hope you will bear with me and forgive me if I didn´t post and painted as often as before, but this is only temporary for two more weeks ...

This painting has been done in my usual style , that is without the use of a preliminary sketch, I started with the shadows , being careful to get their outer shapes right and defining the lit side by painting the background negatively
                                                      

15 by 11" arches 140lb rough W&N  wc paints

                                            

notice the negative painting and the shadows

                                                  

             more details ... note the negative painting

                                                                        

still life in a loose mood

still in loose mood ... holding the bg brush halfway up the handle is really fun

7 by 11 arches 140lb rough watercolours

7 by 11" arches 140lb rough watercolours

                                   

Getting in a loose mood

My favourite style to loosen p is wet into wet ... it really makes me work in a fun way and especialy when I use stronger colours it just works so well. I really soak the paper thoroughly for a few minutes and lay it on a plexiglass board so it doesn´t buckle ...then I just paint on the blank paper

Really ... sometimes I am in a mood that requires this style, it is so rewarding and never fails to produce some of my favourite pieces, still lifes and animal portraits lend themselves to this style so well

7 by 11" arches 140lb rough watercolours

11 by 7" arches 40lb rough waercolours

11 by 7 arches 140lb arches rough

                                                 

Fashion illustration

I work as costume theatre designer and usually do designs and paint thm in watercolours ... but this is the first time I paint a costume illustration without a prior sketch, which is not easy because usually the costume has a lot of details. I am pleased with the result and the details.

15 by 11" arches 140lb rough w&n AQ watercolous