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Interview: Creative Immigration

1/23/2020

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Check out this interview of me (conducted and filmed by Andreea Dican for her documentary series about creative immigration) to hear a bit about my story, my experience living in different places, and my ideas, and to see some views of my studio in Berlin! 
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My new studio in Berlin

12/6/2019

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It's been a busy few months moving, but I'm finally settling into my new apartment and studio in Berlin. I'm excited to share with you some pictures of my new work space here: it's huge (for me at least!) at almost 18 square meters, and gives me lots of room to paint and do other creative projects. I've already started on my first projects and commissions here, and it's a welcome change from my very cramped studio space in Spain. I've also made it a priority to get good and bright lighting (these pictures were taken at night!) so that I can paint at all hours and throughout the Berlin winter.
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My first mural with spray paint

5/28/2019

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I recently finished my first ever mural painted with spray paint! It is located at the Ultrasolar Jardín Comunitario de Carolinas, a community garden in my neighborhood in Alicante, Spain.

I've wanted to learn how to work with spray paint for a while, as it will allow me to bring my ideas to life on a larger scale and into public places. I love street art and admire the way a colorful mural can transform a space, so I'm excited to be able to share my weird, surreal art with the world in this way.
Painting this mural was definitely a learning experience for me. Though I've painted with oils for years, I've never before used spray paint and worked on such a large scale, and the technique is completely different. One of the major differences I noticed was the speed at which you need to work: with oils, I paint very slowly and deliberately, but with spray I had to move quickly and smoothly to avoid the buildup of paint in one place (and drips). This can make it difficult (for the inexperienced spray painter like me, at least) to paint precise shapes or small details. For this reason, the planet was the hardest part of the mural. I sketched the circle onto the wall with a compass made of string, but keeping the planet perfectly round as I outlined and then filled it in with spray paint was very difficult. In contrast, one of the advantages of spray paint is how easy it is to blend colors and create gradients. I found it easiest and most satisfying to paint organic forms like the squid and asteroid due to the facility of blending that the spray allowed. I definitely felt I was able to improve my technique and control over the course of working on the mural.

Overall, I loved the experience and can't wait to paint more large-scale murals! 
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Reference photo vs. painting

5/12/2018

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I wanted to quickly share a reference photo I used for the whale in my painting "Dive" alongside the finished painting. I hope it's interesting to see how I work off of the photo to bring my vision for the painting to life. Painting from reference photos is important for ensuring that each element of the painting looks realistic.
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Time lapse video of the painting of  "Aglow"

3/15/2018

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Here is a time lapse video showing the painting process of "Aglow". Angler fish are fascinating (and very alien) creatures and it was a lot of fun to paint one. This is the first time I've ever filmed myself painting and the first video if its kind that I've made, but I plan to do more like this in the future (and hopefully I'll get faster at the editing process as well). I didn't film absolutely every minute of painting (I forgot to turn the camera on a couple times), but I got most of the process. Enjoy!

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First post! How I paint nebulae and use reference photos

2/22/2018

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Hello friends! I want to use this blog page to share a little more about my process, any news I have, ideas for future projects, sources of inspiration, etc. Hopefully you find it interesting.

(This is a post that originally appeared on my Patreon page, which I've stopped using for the moment)

For my first post, I wanted to share a little bit about my process and how I go about painting space and the nebulae that appear in almost all of my paintings. I never paint specific celestial bodies—copying a photograph exactly isn’t really something that interests me, and I prefer to paint imaginary planets, nebulae etc. The universe is so vast and unknown that it’s likely that objects such as those that appear in my artwork really do exist somewhere! Though I don’t specifically paint Mars or Saturn or any other familiar planets or space objects, I do work from reference photos as inspiration and as a way to make my celestial bodies and nebulae look more realistic. I often look at several different reference photos when painting one nebula and combine varied aspects of those photos. As an example, here are two paintings alongside the reference photos that I used as inspiration for the nebulae.  

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