Catalogue of Iberoamerican Illustrators and a Small Announcement.

I was not selected to be in the "Catalogue for Iberoamerican Illustrators" and that's ok, you win some, you loose some. And there's always next year. Here are the illustrations I submitted :) Can you guess my inspiration?

Now the Announcement: I'm running out of space to upload pictures, I have to pay for more storage, but first I want to organize my blog. Create pages and organize my tags, so it will be easier to also read older entries, or an specific subject. The Pages will be the blog, Oaxaca, My travels, Ecollustration and DIY. So I won't be updating for a while, so as soon as I'm done I get my extra storage and start posting again.

Have a good rest of the week

Children's Library of Oaxaca

This is one of my favorite libraries in Oaxaca, not just for its content but its architecture, it truly is beautiful.

The library is aimed at children and adolescents, and in my case for lovers of children literature. No only does it have a great variety of books,but it also has CDs, films, toys and computer services. There are reading rooms, play rooms, there's even an auditorium and a beautiful patio. 

Like I said I also love the architecture is definetely a library you could spend the whole day reading, researching, and relaxing. The architecture is sustainable too. I'm not sure who designed the architecture, but on my next visit I won't forget to ask.

Also every month there are workshops, and lectures for children and adults. And one of my favorite things from the library is the toad fountain designed by local artist Francisco Toledo, when I first saw it, it reminded me of Hayao Myasaki's films.

Another great thing about this Library, it has another small library called "Jorge luis Borges" and it's for the visually impaired, it offers a collections of braille books, it also has workshops in teaching braille, special computers for the blind and more.

The children library is located in one of my favorite neighborhoods of Oaxaca, called Xochimilco.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy:

The Library's website is as follow, Is in spanish, but play around : http://www.bs.org.mx/

Business Cards for the Mama!

My mother has started her Clothing design business again, she's doing really well. So as a congratulations gift, I surprised her with simple homemade business card. Here they are:

I actually did them with supplies from Office Depot:

1) This is a mini cutter, but it also comes with a clip to score paper.
2) Corner punch hole.
3) Make your own stamp kit.

I was glad I saved up used watercolor sheets, on the clean side I just blended a bit of watercolor to give it well...color! :D

It was fun to make them for her :)

Wedding Invitation Part 1

I'm excited to be working on a wedding invitation, It's a fun project and new experience for me to be working on. I just finished the painting for the cover of the invitation:

The photo was taken with my Ipad, hence the blurriness to it (I need to save up for a new camera, my old one is starting to malfunction :( ), Meanwhile Ipad is cooperating.

So there's the front cover, the lettering says "And our story continues...". The couple to whom I'm doing their wedding invitation, actually married two years ago by civil union, now they have seen that they are still in love, and with good money save up so they are ready to be marry by the church.

next will be the inside! stay tuned!.

Much love

me

From my Ipad to Yours

Hello!

I decided to create another topic to post about "From my Ipad to Yours" it would work the same way " From my Library to Yours" works likes. Last christmas I was given an IPAD, and boy has it change a lot of the way I work. I was skeptical of the Ipad at first, but know I'm all about recommending it.

For today the app I recommend is *drums rolls* "BRUSHES"

Here's the link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brushes-ipad-edition/id363590649?mt=8 or search for it on your IPAD App store.

I love taking my Ipad to my figure drawing class and experiment with it ( I use an Ipad stylus, the cheapest one I found on Office Depot here in Oaxaca, but it works great!). Here are some images I did:

Oh and the cool part it records your process.