Ena, from Osaka, Japan, is a young fashion designer with much talent. She draws inspiration from traditional minimalist silhouette painting of his folk, but also from modern… Read more “Ena – Essential charm outlined in black and white”
Author: Li
I’m Li; an outsider and a loser, a wayfarer lost into the blizzard, but still up and walking, seeking the right path to the right place. My past is my compass; my dead ones, my guides.
No lights ahead except those that just faded out.
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As for some, more objective facts, I am Catalan, living in Catalunya (in the portion colonized and ruled by Spain). I graduated in sciences: Geology and Physics; but I’ve almost always made my living in the trade of fine arts and antiques, stamps, old books. I am a book and stamp collector myself, and a deep lover of classical music -and so, a collector of recordings as well.
Teen girl on the beach – Wales, 94
An old photograph from June 1994 has served me as a direct inspiration to make several digital editions, drawings and paintings. This one below is a mix… Read more “Teen girl on the beach – Wales, 94”
Three years of ‘Something Beyond’
Three long years have passed since Ari F started this bog with a hopeful project in her mind. She had time to publish only a few introductory pages and six posts from 2015/11/06 until 2016/01/07, but left many drafts more or less complete –which I edited, sometimes finished, and published for her in her name. Many of […]
Lovely Paintings Revisited #3
John Singer Sargent – Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose – 1885-86 Every day that British weather permitted, from September to early November of 1885, and again during the… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #3”
Girls in balconies and other high places, by Pascal Champion
This is a personal, very short selection of works by Franco-American illustrator Pascal Champion. He, besides being one of the great, nowadays, is extremely prolific, and as… Read more “Girls in balconies and other high places, by Pascal Champion”
Again in the private Wonderland of Wenqing Yan
I am following as well as I can the artwork by this Chinese girl of great talent (Yuumei (Wenqing Yan)); and I’m lost for words to express… Read more “Again in the private Wonderland of Wenqing Yan”
Looking back in Awe
Sometimes –oftentimes, when you grow older– memories gain a new meaning. Recalled with a changed mind, they are deeply touching and revealing. Pictures help a lot with… Read more “Looking back in Awe”
Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting
Compartment C, Car 293 (1938) A train compartment, a lone woman, reading by a window, the sight of a bridge, a mixture of artificial light with that… Read more “Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting”
Lovely Paintings Revisited #2
John Maler Collier – Lady Godiva – 1898 Once more I have chosen an academic neoclassical panting for this incipient series. Not that I prefer this style… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #2”
My personal graphic work (2) – Whole portraits, with and without red decoys
This is how I secretly thought I would become after a few years with oestrogen and progesterone… Obviously I never did (at least not between the hips… Read more “My personal graphic work (2) – Whole portraits, with and without red decoys”
My personal graphic work – An introduction and an old sample
I have been telling, several times, I would post a few of my own drawings some day. Friends of mine have encouraged me to do it, and… Read more “My personal graphic work – An introduction and an old sample”
