Figure Drawing (2015)

Here they are a couple of drawings from the free session at the Florence Art Academy. It's been almost an year since I made them, but now they find a place on the web..
The lady:

Watercolur Sketches

Hello!! This day I want to share some watercolours I've done during the last months. Some of them come from last summer, so it's almost an year... But anyway, the time has come for them to be on this blog. They are the product of my spare time of the weekend, often some strolls nearby my hometown. Some photos are a bit altered by the digital filters. Feel free to ask if you are interested in some of this watercolour!! They are made on Fabriano Artistico 12.5x18 cm.

Life drawing

During the last session at the Florence Art Academy, I decided to go digital, mainly because it was easier for me to carry only the tablet. But anyway, you have to practice something if you want to get some juice...

Here is the first drawing (03/02) with the major steps divided per layers:

Life drawing December 2015 /January 2016

Hello, a couple of drawings I made at Florence art academy during the last months.

Scketchcrawl Florence 23/01/2016

Hallo!! Last Saturday was the international sketchcrawl. I joined the group in Florence. We spent the morning sketching at the Marini Museum in Florence. That place was wanderful, an old church transformed into a museum. Also the artworks were great with lots of statues and paintings from this modern artist

Summer Watercolour

Sorry, it's almost a month without publishing.. and I'm not going to share some recent drawing.. Here are two watercolurs I made this summer. They can be useful as a lesson to watercolor. It was a late afternoon in July; I started this one...

Merry Christmas!!

Yes, I know, it's not original as a text... but anyway I made this simple illustration in a hurry, because I wanted to leave some hand made cards to my closest friends and kindred. I succeded in doing about ten cards like the one I post here. I used carbon paper, watercolor, ecoline and fineliner. Everyone is a bit different. In this I tried to write with a nib pen and red ink but the result was poor... partly becuase the tool didn't just fit (the watery ink and the rough paper) and partly because I suck at hand-writing... Anyway, I still have to begin to deliver these effort.. who knows the reactions!! :P

Oil painting demo at Russian Academy in Florence

Hello, this November I had the positive surprise of noticing that the Russian Academy of Art of Florence shared some workshops on Friday evenings. It was convenient for me with my work timetable, so I was glad to take part of some of these worksops, and some of them are still to come.

The first...

Sketching Sunday

Hi all!! I want to share some recent sketches I made during the last Sunday. It was a sunny day, a bit cold in respect to what we were got used to during this Novemeber, but I enjoyed a bit of sun in the neighbours of my house. Here it is a study of a bush (dog rose)

Life drawing at FAA 29/10/2015 and 05-12/11/2015

Hello!! During the last week, I succedded in attending free figure drawing session at the Florence Academy of art. In this post I want to round up the last three drawings I made. And the pictures chronologically:

The height of the figure is about 20 cm. I'm quite ok with the right side, where the light gives up to the shadow. As usual, I had to struggle a lot with lower limb, and  no time to study the belly in depth.

Drawing Course 6

Here it is another post about my old drawing course. The exercise is basically the same. We had to make a copy (sorry, can't remember the author), but this time we inked it with fineliner (about 0.1, 0.4, 0.9 diameter). The original is a beautiful etching of a villa:

Sketching nature in October

Here they are some recent sketches done on location. October has been warm and temperate, and also November seems to be the same. These are all from the surroundings of where I live:


A study of a tree, the way to render foliage with fineliner, and some zoom-in of the leaves and seeds (some sort of maple).