Based on Surrealism. Basado en Surrealismo.

I made them with a club soda bottle. In some pictures I used one of my scarfs to add more texture.

Hechos con una botella de club soda. En algunas fotos he usado una de mis bufandas para dar más textura.

Wild grasses. Pastos salvajes

My picture taken at the local park, on December 27th 2017

Mi foto tomada en el parque local, el 27 de Diciembre de 2017

Nowhere land. Tierra de ningún lugar

Abstract nowhere land  inspired by the remnants of gifts paper wrap.

Abstracción de tierra de ¨ningún lugar¨ inspirada en los restos de papeles de regalos.

My picture taken on December 27th 2017- My foto tomada el 27 de Diciembre 2017

Mannequin fantasy. Fantasía de mannequin

My pictures taken at Fashion Island, Newport Beach. And then filtered through my golden Japanese scarf.

Mis fotos tomadas en Fashion Island, Newport Beach. Y luego filtradas a través de mi chalina japonesa dorada.

Tiger beetle. Escarabajo tigre

My acrylic on canvas 16"x20". Based on a picture by Eduard Florin Niga, posted on

http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/10681324/

I had a lot of fun painting it, I did not follow the proportions exactly, my goal was to learn how to paint those insect hairs. I decided to spread the white acrylic without medium. The rest of the painting has two types of medium, thick matte and semi liquid glossy.

Landscape with a ship wreck. Landscape con naufragio

My acrylic on canvas. Size 16"x20". July 2017.

Model taken from this picture
 http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/10534484/

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Fish. Peces

The pond. 12"x16"

My acrylics on canvas, knife technique. Models taken from pictures of mine.

The first one are koi fish from the pond at Sherman Gardens and Library, Newport Beach. The one below is from Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach.

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The yellow fish. 12"X16"

Mickey

Mickey is a Staffordshire Pitbull therapy dog. Here, he is almost asleep. The model is all brown, I decided to see it in colors. A painting is not a reproduction, but an artistic idea and a concept representation.

 Acrylic on canvas 16"x20". July 2017

Here's Mickey in motion:

https://architect-sensibility.blogspot.com/2018/01/mickey.html

White daisies. Margaritas blancas

My pictures taken last June at the local park. Canon Rebel T5 ISO100 - Approx. 5PM 

Mis fotos tomadas el 'ultimo Junio en el parque local.

Onion flower. Flor de cebolla

My version of an onion flower. Acrylic on canvas. Model taken from Ivan Lesica´s picture.

Mi versión de una flor de cebolla. Acrílico sobre tela. Modelo tomado de la foto de Ivan Lesica.

Trapped flowers and petals. Flores y pétalos atrapados

Red Impatients petals and one flower, a few Paraguayan jasmine flowers, some succulents tiny blossoms and one purple sun ray inside a smashed bottle of Coke.

Pétalos rojos de Alegrías del Hogar y una flor, unas pocas flores de jazmín paraguayo, algunos pimpollos pequeños de suculentas y una flor púrpura dentro de una botella aplastada de Coca Cola.

My pictures today as an exercise of lighting, textures and color.

Mis fotos hoy como un ejercicio de luz, texturas y color.

Abstraction of a bird. Abstracción de un pájaro

A Surrealist bird or an abstraction of a bird made with fabric.

Un pájaro surrealista o su abstracción hecho con tela.

Pensies. Pensamientos

Pensies. Pensamientos. Acrylic on canvas. Model taken from Cynthia Washington's shot here:

http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/9692476/

Abstractions in nature. Abstracciones en la naturaleza

Abstractions in nature, branches popping out of water after the Winter rains.

Abstracciones en la naturaleza, ramas saliendo del agua luego de las lluvias de Invierno.

Ducks intersection. Intersección de patos

Ducks intersection in different water reflections, it is interesting to see how with their motion they are breaking the colors that are created by the trees nearby. The ducks are blended in the water, they can be barely seen.

Intersección de patos en diferentes reflejos en el agua, es interesante ver cómo con su movimiento rompen los colores que son creados por los árboles cercanos. Los patos están mimetizados en el agua, apenas pueden verse.

My shot March 2nd 2017. Mi foto de Marzo 2, 2017

Pines intersections. Intersecciones de pinos

 

 Lemon Cypress and pine intersections with their own reflected image.

Ciprés limón y pino, intersecciones con sus propias imágenes reflejadas.

Some pictures of Marc Chagall's art

 

I'd like to share these non-edited pictures that I have taken in January 2015 at Los Angeles Art Show. I was delighted to see some of Chagall's works, he's one of my favorite artists. 

The colors may be distorted, and I used an old camera. I remember them brighter.

From wikipedia:

Marc Zakharovich Chagall (/ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL;[3][nb 1] 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist.[1] An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. 

Keep on reading:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall

Decaying Chinese Roses. Rosas chinas decayendo.

 

Three versions of decaying Chinese roses in a colorful feathers background.

Tres versiones de rosas chinas decayendo, en un fondo de plumas colorido.

Neo-cubist animal.

I'm having a sort of conflict with this acrylic on canvas because it was not intended to be an animal but a non-figurative with a geometric shape. But while I was advancing, the shape took a more organic pattern which I think it was due to the use of the knife. And somehow I saw a couple of  intertwined birds, then it ended up being a weird animal.

I told my associated, take a look, what do you think? I'm going to cover it completely. And he said, no, I like this "animal" and its neo-cubist spirit.

And I replied I didn't like the main structure too much, and he said, the eye is bothering you, let it be, a painting doesn't need to be based on a beautiful thing.

It was horizontal but he said it must be vertical with the eye in the far left corner.

And here it is, I'm not going to scratch it after all. At least not for now.

Deep in the hole. Profundo en el agujero.

 

These are photos depicting a hole. I´m taking it as an exercise of shapes and textures. I made them with a glass, with water inside, with low light. The glass was on a shell composed by pieces of Mother pearl.

I slighted moved the camera to create the cloudy effect, though it was already created with the low twilight. The shutters were open in a gloomy day.

Most probably I´ll take one of them as a model for an oil or acrylic painting.

Estas fotos muestran un agujero y las tomo como  un ejercicio de formas y texturas. Las hice con la ayuda de un vaso, conteniendo agua, en luz baja. El vaso se posaba sobre un caracol compuesto de piezas de  nácar. 

Apenas moví la cámara para crear el efecto de nubes, aunque ya estaba creado con la penumbra. Las persianas estaban abiertas en un día nublado.

Probablemente tome alguna de ellas como modelo para un óleo o pintura acrílica.