Este cuaderno vivió en mi bolsillo desde el 24 de agosto de 2012 hasta el 28 de abril de 2013. Todos los dibujos (aparte algún que otro garabato de mi imaginación) fueron hechos del natural en Barcelona, Clermont-Ferrand, Jávea y Sevilla.
My 41th sketchbook (pocket #16)
This sketchbook lived in my pocket from august 24, 2012 to april 28, 2013. All the drawings (except a few scribbles from mind) were made on location in Barcelona, Clermont-Ferrand, Jávea and Sevilla.
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22 May 2013
27 December 2010
Clermont revisited
(En español en De Vuelta con el Cuaderno)
Drawings made at the XI Biennale du Carnet de Voyage that took place on november in Clermont-Ferrand. It was short car trip with my neighbour, urban (and not only) sketcher and friend Lapin to take a look at this huge sketch reunion.
Beeing a visitor has made this second chance much different from my first Biennale in which I was invited to show my work and passed most of the 3 days glued to my stand.
Apart from the usual camels and palm works (many of them really good, I must recognize) there were many new different works. I've appreciated (and welcomed) a more open minded approach this time, not so closed to the romantic, platonic, ancien régime, Discovery-Channeled and Stanley-Livingstoned idea of travel (that I like and follow myself). Works as Laurent Lolmède crowds, Damien Roudeau's homeless and prostitutes or Julien Revenu's authopsies are good samples of a different way to look at "travels" as an experience to be told on a sketchbook, much more interesting for me than the usual turban sketches.
I met also new and old folks and sketched some portraits (and not only). I draw them on a gorgeous sketchbook handmade by Choni Naudin, an amazing bookbinder from Zaragoza. She made this special one for the first meeting De Vuelta con el Cuaderno and since I couldn't assist I filled it at the Biennale.
On these pages Laurent Lolmède, Julien Revenu, Mathieu Sapin, Cécile Quéau, Florent Chavouet, Jean Michel Charpentier, Andrea Longhi, Lapin, Joaquín González Dorao, Frédéric Rudant, Damien Roudeau (which baby sitted Marilou, 4 y.o. page 3 left, while I visited his stand) and Sanjeev Joshi.
I needed some more pages and I continued sketching on my current pocket sketchbook.
On these pages Roberto Cariani, Laurent Lolmède again, Elsie Herberstein, Damien Chavanat and Delphine Priollaud.
The day after I went with Lapin to draw the cathedral.
It was very cold so I just made a (forced) fast sketch
Beeing a visitor has made this second chance much different from my first Biennale in which I was invited to show my work and passed most of the 3 days glued to my stand.
Apart from the usual camels and palm works (many of them really good, I must recognize) there were many new different works. I've appreciated (and welcomed) a more open minded approach this time, not so closed to the romantic, platonic, ancien régime, Discovery-Channeled and Stanley-Livingstoned idea of travel (that I like and follow myself). Works as Laurent Lolmède crowds, Damien Roudeau's homeless and prostitutes or Julien Revenu's authopsies are good samples of a different way to look at "travels" as an experience to be told on a sketchbook, much more interesting for me than the usual turban sketches.
I met also new and old folks and sketched some portraits (and not only). I draw them on a gorgeous sketchbook handmade by Choni Naudin, an amazing bookbinder from Zaragoza. She made this special one for the first meeting De Vuelta con el Cuaderno and since I couldn't assist I filled it at the Biennale.
On these pages Laurent Lolmède, Julien Revenu, Mathieu Sapin, Cécile Quéau, Florent Chavouet, Jean Michel Charpentier, Andrea Longhi, Lapin, Joaquín González Dorao, Frédéric Rudant, Damien Roudeau (which baby sitted Marilou, 4 y.o. page 3 left, while I visited his stand) and Sanjeev Joshi.
I needed some more pages and I continued sketching on my current pocket sketchbook.
On these pages Roberto Cariani, Laurent Lolmède again, Elsie Herberstein, Damien Chavanat and Delphine Priollaud.
It was very cold so I just made a (forced) fast sketch
24 November 2008
À la Biennale du Carnet de Voyage
Last weekend I went to Clermont-Ferrand for the 9th Biennale du Carnet de Voyage. I had been invited to show my sketchbooks and it was my first exhibition, I mean not my first in Clermont-Ferrand but the first in my life. I had never shown my drawings to anybody but family and friends (blogging is not the same, it's like hitting and running, you don't see the faces of the people looking at your work).
I felt like a kid with a new toy, it was absolutely amazing. Seeing people round my table leafing through my sketchbooks (often from the first to the last page!) was unbelievable to me...
...but the best was to hear some of them laughing (I'm not kidding!) with my cartoons. Now I understand comedians when they say make 'em laugh: I'ts one of the greatest sensations I've ever felt.
I've posted many other pics here, and as you can see on them, every lunch ended sketching over the tablecloths: with pens, brushes, ink but also with wine, sauce, forks, fingers...
I learnt so much, I knew lots of great artists, some editors and many funny and nice people.
I'd like to go back next year!
I also found the time to make some sketches, here they are:
At Bologna Airport before the departure.
At the Lyon-Part Dieu Station.
On the train between Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand.
At the Clermont-Ferrand Station.
The last day I had some hours in Lyon and I took a walk in the Vieux Lyon (really nice!)
This is the brasserie La Gargouille where I took a fantastic lyonnaise salad.
This the view of the Saône river from the Bonaparte bridge.
It was a sunny day but the wind blew so hard and it was really difficult to draw.
...That's all folks!
Next year in Clermont-Ferrand!
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