Press

Interview with Berlin Artparasites.

Artparasites! Isn't it a great name? If you want to know something about Berlin art jungle, you should visit this webmagazin. A few days ago they make an interview about our Berlin Urban Sketchers group. You can read the interview  hier. They use my image below in the article.

From left to right: Bo Soremsky, Katrin Merle, Kerstin (from Berlin Artparasites), Laura Nieto, Catalina Somolinos, Rolf Schroeter, Oona Leganovic. Were also there, but not in the image: Juan Alonso and I,  Omar Jaramillo.

The Art of Urban Sketching in German!

Das Buch "The Art of Urban Sketching" ist ab den 8. Oktober  in Deutsch zu haben!

Man kann dort meine Zeichnungen aus der Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten und Italien sehen

Aber es ist möglich online vorbestellen! Hier ist der link!

Acklan Museum Store Urban Sketchers Exhibition

I am currently participating with 2 drawings in the Urban Sketchers Exhibition at the Acklan Museum Store (USA)

My watercolor in the local newspaper.

The exhibition.

Praca Comercio, Lisbon

My painting featured in Artists& Illustrators Magazine UK

In the last issue of Artists & Illustrators Magazine (UK) you could find one of my paintings. (page 46)

you can read the article in their digital edition here.

Here you can  have a closer look of the watercolor:

It is a view from the Wrangler street sitting on the Luebbener Street. I live here.

Artikel in der Neue Presse

Hier ein Artikel am 29 März in der Zeitung Neue Presse über die Ausstellung in Hannover. Ich habe eine sehr gute Kritik bekommen: 4 von 5!

Here is an article that appeared in the Hanover Newspaper "Neue Presse"on the 29th of March. I got a very good critic, 4 from 5 stars

Skizzen zu ¡Tango!

Sketches from ¡Tango!

The Pannels of the Exhibition in Hanover Opera House.

Here is what you can see if you have the opportunity to travel to Hannover and visit my exhibition in the Opera House. In the next days I will post also the watercolors that you can see (and buy) there.

Open publication - Free publishing - More ballet

My drawings in the book "the Art of Urban Sketching"

Meine Zeichnungen in dem Buch die "The Art of Urban Sketching"

Here are my drawings published in the book "The Art of Urban Sketching" by Gabriel Campanario.

The book included a portrait of me when I was living in Al Ain, UAE.

Top: Florian Afflerbach, middle Omar Jaramillo, bottom James Richards

The bottom drawing: a barber in Al Ain

Both drawings: The Skyline from Catania

The book "The Art of Urban Sketching" finally arrived!

Das Buch "The Art of Urban Sketching" ist endlich da.

My copy of The Art of Urban Sketching with my Abu Dhabi drawings arrived a few days ago . You can also buy the book in Amazon here.

Meine Kopie des Buches The Art of Urban Sketching mit meinen Abu Dhabi Zeichnungen kam vor ein paar Tagen! Ihr kann auch das Buch in Amazon kaufen hier.

RBB Interview

Interview by the RBB Television. (Radio Berlin Branderburg) Done by Milena Hadatty

In the Cover of a Magazine

..was not that part of a Madonna song? Well I felt really good when I got to open the envelope with the last number of "Jüdisches Berlin".

A few months ago I did some drawings from the Jüdische Kulturtage in Berlin (you can see them here). The organization liked the drawings and wanted to included in their magazine, but that didn't work since the magazine is black and white and the drawings were full of color. Instead they decided to commission me to draw a meeting of the board of the Jewish Community. The committee should be elected, and the drawing would be better to pass the contents of the next issue.

It was a hard task. The first problem I confront was the point of view. I had to exaggerate the perspective in order to fit the A4 format. The second decision was to choose the media, pen or watercolor. Pen has the disadvantage that it could be related to a cartoon. People don't feel comfortable to be portrait as a cartoon, so I choose watercolor being careful to to avoid a resemblance and concentrate more in an attitude or posture.

There were some many characters on the table. I took me a long time to finish it. But I am happy with the result.

Press: My drawings in El Telegrafo Newspaper

November 6th, 2011

Newspaper: El Telegrafo from Guayaquil Ecuador

Text: Milena Hadatty Mora, Illustration : Omar Jaramillo

The article is about the Turk emigration in Germany and the 50th anniversary of the agreement between Germany and Turkey that make it possible. The drawings are done in different Turk coffee houses in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Newfoundland: Illustrations in Uppercase Magazine

In collaboration with Martin Connelly we did an interview to Mr. Riggs, a 95 years old Fly Fisher. We traveled with a small boat to his cabin in the woods. Martin did the interview and I did the illustrations. I am very proud of the result.
The Uppercase Magazine is a great publication you could check the Issue here. I am on page 74

Featured in UPPERCASE journal website

The journalist Martin Connelly and me did a long journey through Newfoundland in other to meet a 95 years old Fisherman. Martin did an interview and I did some portraits of him.

I am very proud of our work together. I will never forget our boat trip. In Newfoundland you can travel for kilometers without seeing anybody. Maybe because I grew up in a big city and I had not much contact with wild nature, I felt like a kid again in an adventure. It was a wonderful experience.

The interview with my sketches will come in the issue #11 . Meanwhile you can read the introduction as contributors in the UPPERCASE website

Radio interview by CBC.ca | Weekend Arts Magazine

Last Saturday I was interviewed in the Weekends Arts Magazine from CBC Radio. Sounds quite good! Check the following link and please left a comment if you like it.

CBC.ca | Weekend Arts Magazine | Omar Jaramillo - Urban Sketchers

Meet Omar Jaramillo Traverso | TheIndependent.ca

I got interviewed by Martin Connelly from TheIndependent. I really love it! Check the link and make a comment!
Meet Omar Jaramillo Traverso | TheIndependent.ca

Me sketching on The Telegram Newspaper

I was sketching Fred's Records (check previous Post) when somebody from The Telegram took a picture and chat a few minutes with me.
Here is what they wrote:
On "the Telegram", Page A7, Wednesday, April 27,2011
"Omar Jaramillo Traverso, who travels the world sketching and writing about the places he sees, sketches his take of Duckworth Street during his first visit to St.John's Monday afternoon.
Photo by Karla Kenny/Special to The Telegram

In The National newspaper UAE

I went to the Abu Dhabi Book Fair two days ago. They have this year an illustrators corner. I have the opportunity to meet really talented people and enjoy talking about their work. I show to them also my sketches and they liked them too. I don't remember how it started but one asked me if I could do a portrait of him and then the others followed. When I was doing one portrait the press arrived and started doing some interviews to the illustrators. They also took some pictures of them. The photograph asked me my bussiness card, I though because he liked the portrait I was doing, but I was surprise to find my name and my picture (at least my hands ) in the newspaper next day.

Schizzi di Catania

it was done December the 31 of december 2009 in Catania

Radio Interview

I have been so busy doing thing that I have not have time to post anything here...
An article in the Gulf News newspaper talked about me and my participation in the Pecha Kucha tonight! here the link
I got an interview in the radio... here is the sketch I did.
an on Saturday I want to organize a sketch gathering in Bastakiya Dubai.

Article on the National Newspaper

Today "The National" newspaper published two full pages of my sketches on the Oasis section. you can check the article also here