My presentation at the Apple Store in Berlin

I have to thank Michael for the nice pictures and Binod for accepting to pose as a model for a portrait.

First I talked a little about myself an my travels

Then I talked about ten tips to draw portraits 

At the end I did a portrait with the iPad Pro and Pencil

And here you can see the video

Peter in his kitchen

I asked Peter if I could made a portrait of him after I saw standing in front of a window. He asked me if he could write something while I painted him. He keeps journals. This one is the third he is filling with his though. He started sometime ago when he became a journal as a present. His handwriting is very small and quite nice. The kitchen is very gemuetlich and the afternoon light falls over the kitchen table.

I avoid drawing when I do my watercolors. I try to work with shapes and not lines.

Moleskine exchange

I always forget to write about things, and never wrote the last news about the Moleskine exchange. Well, there is going to be an exhibition in Minnesotta, USA, next year from january to march with some of the group's books in the Moleskine exchange. Our group is going to participate with Roberts Moleskine.

As soon as we knew that, we are trying to speed the work in the Moleskine. Ramires (Brasil) and I have been preparing our works so that we won't loose more that 2 days work on the moleskine. Of course we still have to wait for the post but I guess express post is worth it!

So I'm ready. I had worked in the last days with Roberts portrait. I wanted to try acrylics. I was inspired by the nice works from Ramires and Tim.
I started painting a middle tone background and from them working the dark and light areas. I struggled with the tecnic but I 'm quite happy with the result. I was really a surprice! I guess I made many mistakes by working but I learned a lot with them to. The good thing about acrylic is that you can always paint over it.
I left the painting to rest for a few days and then I make some corrections I found appropiate. I draw myself with a golden caligraphic marker and made some skratches with a cutter to get Roberts beard.

Moleskine Exchange Tim's Moly

I have told you about the Moleskine Portrait exchange. I get a Moly by mail and then I do a portrait form the owner and myself and then I send it to the next on the group. So everybody have sent his Moly and the project is finished when all Molys got a drawing from all the members of the group.
This is my drawing for Tim's Moly. I choose to draw myself as a tattoo on his arm. In the original picture he was showing a roadrash he got in a bicicle accident.
The funny about this game is to choose clever ways to conect both portraits and at the same time lik to the previous drawings.
Ramires for esample use a Photo from Tim using some 3d glasses and decided that he probably could have been watching something extraordinary like UFOs. He portrait himself inside the Ufo in a pop-up way. Ramires is such a great artist! His acrylic skills and imagination are extraordinary! The first entrance of the book, was from Tim (his selfportrait) He said it was his first time using acrylic but he did a great job.
This was my first time with acrylics too (the blue background and the red shirt) I still really bad on acrylics and have a lot to learn.

Please check out www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/ , moly_x: international moleskine exchange. Also, www.mxportraits2.blogspot.com/

Moleskine xchange

Me he metido en un grupo muy divertido que se llama Moleskine Xchange en este caso exactamente Moleskine exchange Portrait. El juego consiste en usar una Moleskine del tipo japones, esa que se abre como acordeon. Diseño mi retrato en las primeras 3 paginas y luego la mando por correo al siguiente artista . El cual debe hacer un retrato mio y un autoretrato suyo y enviarlo por correo al proximo hasta que finalmente todos han hecho un retrato. Paralelamente me llega la Moleskine de otro participante. Asi hasta que todas las Moleskine esten llenas. En tanto aqui una imagen de como voy con el trabajo.