Men portraits

A man's portrait that had no model. Anyway he reminds me of Vladimir Putin, by chance. Acrylic painting on canvas, 5"x7"

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An old man's portrait with lots of textures. Knife technique, acrylic on photographic paper with modeling paste. 5"x7". 

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Acrylic painting on postcards

 

A Christmas hand painted postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper. 

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Pine trees in a field of flowers. There is snow on the ground but the pines are bright green like the ones I have at home.

I have painted these postcards as part of my research and practice on Abstract Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism. The subject is whatever comes to my mind at the moment I am painting them.

Sympathy or funeral flowers postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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This one has the feeling of a postcard for sympathy and it seems I am still doubting which side is the up and which is down. It is also related to Halloween season.

A field of yellow flowers Impressionist postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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This postcard above is absolutely Impressionist, and has a lot of texture.

The technique for all: I begin with a non figurative colorful acrylic pour. I work on it with different impressions and then I finalize with a brush and sometimes markers.

A pregnant lady girl with flowers postcard. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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The pregnant girl is the result of a non figurative morphology under which I imagined the naive figure, the rounded belly, the wind in the hair, and the flowers which are an intentional touch of color and happiness in the overall gloomy blue.

Hippopotamus postcard art. Acrylic on photographic paper.

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The Hippopotamus is the only one intentional. I have taken the model from one of my pictures at the San Diego Zoo. The real Hippopotamus is brown but I preferred the blend of black, silver, white and purple, with touches of silver glitter.

Springtime Collage

 

Springtime Collage. Made with my Geraniums from home. 

Pouring acrylic technique and organic collage on canvas. 12"x12"

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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.

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.

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.

Winter afternoon at the lake. Tarde de invierno en el lago

 

The wonderful bright colors of the late Winter afternoon at the local lake. It had been raining the whole night and morning, then the sun was shining and the cold wind helped to achieve these textures.

Los colores maravillosos, brillantes, de una tarde de invierno en el lago local. Había estado lloviendo toda la noche y durante la mañana, luego el sol estuvo brillando y el viento frío colaboró para lograr estas texturas.

Rooster. Gallo.

One of my acrylics on canvas, small size. It has modeling past as medium to improve textures and thickness. The model is here

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I love this model, I think this rooster has personality!

Black and white geometry. Geometría en blanco y negro.

Textures combinations. Combinaciones de texturas

 

Fabric and textured glass. Tela y vidrio texturado.

Water textures. Texturas del agua

 

My pictures today of tenebrous waters, with dead branches, reflections and textures. Taken at the Central Park of Huntington Beach.

Hard and soft textures. Texturas duras y suaves

Ferns texture

Textures in red

Lines texture