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Acuarela

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Insights, discoveries, tips and websurfing about watercolor and other manual & digital illustration, drawing and painting techniques.

Added on: May 2nd, 2007
Country: Spain
Language: English

Author: JoanM
Listed in: Visual Arts Graphic Design
Tags: art painting drawing design illustration creativity

Recent Posts

Children\'s books by Paul Rand

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 10:04 in illustration

Paul Rand illustrated several children's books written by his wife, Ann Rand, in the fifties and early sixties. As it happens with true classics, the illustration and layout in Rand’s books looks just as fresh today as when they were first publishe...
Letterhead

Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 06:54 in illustration, curiosities

This is a detail of a very psychedelic letterhead I still have to finish and use, and here is the whole thing:I wonder if bills and invoices printed in this colourful stationery would be more appealing for clients :-)...
Halloweenish

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 12:07 in sketches, curiosities

I'm not very keen on Halloween stuff, but I couldn't resist to post these two cute drawings made by my son (11), as they fit the bill perfectly. He did the sketches in my pocket sketchbook. He’s learning english quite fast and he takes every ocassi...
Misc. short notes

Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 10:26 in illustration, digital

Flashforwardcon’s Channel on Youtubeicon01 is a video series of one on one conversations with industry icons. Produced for Flashforward08 San Francisco. This page features interviews with Stefan Sagmeister, Milton Glaser, Joshua Davis, Scott McClou...
Alberto Mielgo

Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 14:22 in artists, digital

An extraordinarily gifted painter / illustrator / concept art artist. He has a loose style and wonderful sense of colour that really pulls up every image he attemps to paint, both in digital or traditional media.Visit his blog or his personal website...
A fresh take on travel journals

Posted on Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 03:03 in sketches, journaling

This is something I definitely have to do instead of the usual travel sketchbooks.Matt Sundstrom shares his journey from the East Coast to the West: 8 days and 3,700 miles from New Hampshire to Oregon. I like both the ink drawings collected in this ...