Some pics of the exhibition "Movimientos -Bewegungen"

Two weeks ago I was back in Berlin to prepare my exhibition "Movimientos".  I was glad to be back in Berlin, and sad of being back for such a short time...
But we did it! We framed the pictures and hung them all the day before Opening! Thanks for the help to Bastian, to Nouria, Veronika, Michael, Lothar, and all the great people and artists working in "Studio Bildende Kunst", from Kulturring in Lichtenberg.

The exhibition is still running until April, so you can still visiting it..... and those who didn´t come to Opening, I am waiting for you in the Finissage, on Thursday the 2th April, at 19.00!  Don't forget!! :)

"Movimientos"

Is the name of my upcomming Exhibition in Berlin, from.. TODAY! 26th February, until the 2th April.
Adresse:
Studio Bildende Kunst (Villa Skupin)
John-Sieg-Str. 13
10365 Berlin
(S, U Frankfurter Allee)

It is a mixture of "live" drawings, what for me MOVEMENT can mean:
 unfinished works, still breathing process,
 works made outdoors while light is changing
 or abstract works which deal is to create some forces
 or movement on the paper...











The house is warm and sweet. An old, squared, jugendstil Villa. Dark red briks outside, many wood inside, beautiful parkets and ornamented ceilings.
And it is inside a strange, East German, platenbau collective living.. A big contrast that also creates forces and movement.

I am sorry for anouncing this so late and short term, but I am having a horrible, too busy time since new year! I just moved again and still have no Internet at home! *~*

Südflügel Bethanien

ist etwas Besonderes..
Hier eine alte Aquarell Zeichnung, in Frühling, oh Frühling!, weil die Kirschbäume geblüht waren...
etwa 2 Jahre her ... als ich noch in Berlin wohnte, und mich jeden Tag um meine Zukunft Sorgen machte, und mit meinem süßen, kaputten, türkisblauen Fahrrad jeden Tag durch Kreuzberg und Neukölln um herum streifte.. Mir scheint es nun eine Ewigkeit her, aber Berlin bringe ich ins Herz.

Verabschied

Farewell! The Garden season is over.
While saying goodbye and blessing this sunny Autumn day, I ride the way back through the wonderful birch woods.  At the background, the "Gropius Stadt".
And I drew my probably last sketch there..

Despedida.

La estación de la huerta se cerró.

Vuelvo por el camino entre preciosos abedules, mientras me despido y bendigo este soleado día de otoño. Al fondo la "Gropius Stadt"

Y me detengo a dibujar mi, probablemente, último dibujo de este lugar..

Female Nude N.1 - 10/09/14

"Female Nude N.1 - 10/09/14"
Watercolor on Canson paper, 200gr/m2
 Size A3 (16.5" x 11.5", 42 x 29.7 cm)
/You can buy the ORIGINAL here/

Y la Migueleta

It is a joke, I actually don't have idea what was the name of this model, which I drew some years ago. But I think it matches with her!
No, es una broma, no tengo ni idea de cómo se llamaba esta modelo. Es un estudio de desnudo de hace un par de años. Pero podría llamarse así, le va :)

"La Migueleta I"
Watercolor & ink
Size: A3 (29,7 x 42 cm, 11.5" x 16")
//SOLD//

"La Migueleta II"
Pencil drawing
Size: A3 (29,7 x 42 cm, 11.5" x 16")
/You can buy this ORIGINAL NUDE here/

Summer Holidays in Spain!

Dear people! I will be out a couple of weeks, traveling to Spain tomorrow. 
So please, be patient and wait until I am back with lots of beautiful spanish landscapes.
But I am not going without leaving you some nice pictures. The early summer in Rudow (where I ride escaping the city..), and a late evening watercolor.

Artconnect, Community Clash #4

In Prachtwerk, a high ceiling, beautiful decorated café in Berlin, Neukölln.

The artist meeting. 

Many hipsters, many, many, all of them! (only me not :P)

A very nice Illustration exhibition.. and the best the psychedelic musics with flowered clothes, all same pattern (it made me think on "The Sound of Music"). I am learning now that two of them are sibilings: 
Stereofysh  was their name... They were having so much fun! I was infected by their laughing too.


Encuentro de artistas en el bonito café de techos altos Prachtwerk, en Neukölln.
Muchos hipsters, muchos muchos! todos ellos! ( salvo yo! :P)
Una exposición de ilustraciones muy bonita y unos músicos en el escenario, psicodélicos ellos y la música, con uniforme florido, todos ellos el mismo, que me recordó a "Sonrisas y lágrimas". Dos de ellos hermanos, estaba claro! Stereofysh se llamaban, y lo estaban pasando tan bien, que me contagiaron la risa.

Görlitzer park

Watercolor on Hahnemühle sketch book.

der Hügel am Osten bei letztem Sonnenschein.

Original black pencil drawing on Hahnemühle sketch book.

The Görlitzer park, the east hill under the last Sun light.

and playing with color layers on photoshop.

 El parque Görlitzer, en la colina del este, bajo los últimos rayos de sol.

Sommer Abend auf der Hasenheide Wiese

Summer evening in the Hasenheide fields

Tarde de Verano en los campos de Hasenheide.

Black shadows, grey sky...

and no watercolor this time..

Guess where? in the Mauerweg (so, Wall path) again.

I was on my way to the garden, in Rudow, it was late and dark, so I changed my mind: I sat down in this fresh mown field and did a quick sketch, and luckily I took this decision, because it started soon to rain.
So I turned quickly back home.

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Sombras negras y cielo oscuro! Adivinad dónde? en el camino del antiguo muro!
Iba rumbo al huerto, era ya tarde y estaba plomizo, así que cambié de idea y me senté en la hierba recién segada a hacer un apunte.
Y por suerte que tomé esta decisión, porque al poco tiempo comenzó a llover y volví  a casa.

Teltow Kanal

Canal of Teltow, again a rich vegetation scape, and a fresh wildlife watercolor.

St. Thomas Kirchhof

In Hermannstraße.
At the last minute of the last Sunday, after a very clouded day, it seemed as the sun wanted to say good night.
So I didn't feel like going home. Sundays are somehow gloomy days. I walked around in Neukölln and dropped into this quite graveyard. I already told you, graveyards in Berlin are very peaceful, beautiful and charming places (not like in Spain).
I didn't pay attention at the opening hours, I just went into the park and stopped to draw this promenade delimited by those gigantic, old plane-trees (Platanus). 

This time of the year days are so long that I do not realize how late it is.
So I was ready to go, it was a bit colder, I looked at the distance and I saw all the fences were closed! I had a panic moment, I looked at my handy and saw it was already over 21h. I reached the doors, all were locked, and I didn't feel like sleeping in a Graveyard... I started to look how I could jump the fences.. I walked a bit more and I saw there was a light in the little house at the entrance! I had still chances! I rang the bell and a woman came downstairs and unlocked the door, so happily I could flight out! 

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El pasado Domingo, a última hora y tras un día encapotado y gris, el sol quiso asomarse. Y yo no quise irme a casa (las tardes de domingo son como tristes). Caminé por el barrio y entré en este bonito cementerio. Los cementerios en Berlin, ya os dije que son mágicos, llenos de paz, como islas en la ciudad.. Entré sin más, no me fijé en los horarios, y me senté a dibujar esta avenida de grijo arenoso enmarcada por inmensos y antiguos plátanos.
En este periodo del año, los días son tan largos que no me hago una idea de la hora que es. El aire refrescó, acabé la acuarela y me dispuse a salir cuando a lo lejos vi las verjas cerradas. Me acudió un momento de pánico, no tenía ganas de dormir en el cementerio! Todas las verjas estaban cerradas con candados y empecé a mirar por dónde sería más fácil saltar... caminando hasta la casita de entrada, vi que en el piso de arriba había luz y llamé al timbre. Tuve suerte, y oí que alguien bajaba las escaleras! pfiuu! una mujer salió y amable me abrió la verja, advirtiéndome mirar los horarios la próxima vez, que seguro que lo haré! :)

Before the night arrived...

I drew this evening watercolor.  I came with my bike, direct from the work. I wanted to watch my vegetables evolution in the little garden that I am renting this year again, at the south of Berlin.
Oh! I love so much to go there. Yesterday was nearly empty, as the day was very rainy and it was already late...  Before ridding back home I decided to let in my sketchbook a souvenir of this moment, the day death. A sky full of clouds, the dark orange sun hiding between rains and rains, featuring an incredible beautiful scenery of all kinds of colors and clouds shapes that I can not show you!
Oh, how much I love the country side.

Queer, it was last week..

and my queerest order up to nowadays. It was also funny to move a bit away from my usual subjects. Not that much. All around nature and being...

Thousand people in the Opening, really!

And you can still visit the exhibition or going each Thursday to the many performances, until 10th August.

So if you wish to come and see me, you might also want to take part in the performance of Alex Giegold & Tomka Weiß 's Project, this Thursday the 3th July at 19.00.
I will be there as Illustrator and courtroom artist for the performance. Drop by! it will be fun!

Einsamkeit auf den Mauergang

Loneliness at the Wall way.

Soledad en el camino del muro,

Prinzenstrasse

und die Brücke über Landwehrkanal.
Letzter Sonntag Abend. Ich könnte nicht in Karneval der Kulturen bleiben, so heiss war es wie in der Hölle!
Last Sunday, by the bridge that follows the Prinzenstrasse. It was the Carneval of Cultures, a very crowded and popular festival in Kreuzberg. I went only at the very late evening, but it was still soooo hot that I had to leave and sit here in the grass, near the water.

Este pasado Domingo fue el Carnaval de Culturas, unas fiestas muy famosas y populares de Kreuzberg, Berlin. Nos asomamos a ya última hora de la tarde pero seguía haciendo tanto calor que me tuve que ir, y sentar aquí en la hierba alado del agua y del puente que continúa la Prinzenstrasse.

Liepnitzsee

mein Liebling See!
my beloved lake! this is the best thing to do when the summer days are arriving with such a heat wave and strength: go out and out the city, scape to woods and lakes! But I am not the only one who thinks like that :P

Mi querido Liepnitzsee, con su isla central y agua turquesa, en medio de este bosque antiguo de hayas inmensas que ya dibujé el año pasado.
Cuando los días de verano llegan con esta fuerza y torridez, lo único y mejor que se puede hacer es escapar y escapar de la ciudad, a los bosques y lagos. .. claro que no soy la única que piensa así :)

This Sunday, 1st June: Oberbaumbrücke

Yes!
This year again, I am having a stand in this Open Air Gallery, at the bridge between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain.
Hopefully is the weather nice!
Come if you are in Berlin, I am very glad of numerous and joyful visitors!

Wildenbruch Platz

in Neukölln, Berlin.
Do you remember it? It is not the first time I draw it ;)
A late evening, a hot and delicious summer air, a last, golden light filtering trough the fresh green leaves.. And very relaxed people sitting in circles and chilling out, no more tasks, day is nearly over. In the same mood I sat down and drew... I forgot the black pencil, that's why it is blue, but not my mood :)

Wildenbruch Platz, Neukölln

Os acordáis? no es la primera vez que la dibujo.
Al final de la tarde, un delicioso y cálido aire de verano, una última, dorada luz filtrándose tras las frescas hojas verdes... y grupos de gente muy relajada sentándose en círculo, perezosas, no más faenas, el día ya ha casi acabado. En el mismo humor estaba yo, que me senté a dibujar... pero se me olvidó el lápiz negro y por eso dibujé en azul.. no porque estuviese mi humor especialmente melancólico :)