i feel like poetry tonight...

... Me gusta cuando callas...

I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,

and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you.

It seems as though your eyes had flown away

and it seems that a kiss had sealed your mouth.

As all things are filled with my soul

you emerge from the things, filled with my soul.

You are like my soul, a butterfly of dream,

and you are like the word Melancholy.

I like for you to be still, and you seem far away.

It sounds as though you were lamenting, a butterfly cooing like a dove.

And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you:

Let me come to be still in your silence.

And let me talk to you with your silence

that is bright as a lamp, simple as a ring.

You are like the night, with its stillness and constellations.

Your silence is that of a star, as remote and candid.

I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,

distant and full of sorrow as though you had died.

One word then, one smile, is enough.

And I am happy, happy that it's not true.

... I Like for You to be Still,  Pablo Neruda...

Sketching... Was I meant for it?

I've been trying so hard...
Sketching frustrates me!... It should be my number one tool when designing though...
My attempt at sketching a cartoon strip that narrates what I did during spring break:

I wish I had done more drawing when I was a little girl...
The only memory I have is the one when my classmate -- which lived just a couple of blocks from my house, came over to draw with me. We would sit on top of a rusty car or on the sidewalk across street. We drew for a while, mostly cartoon-looking people from our text books... I remember being good. What happened?



Finished piece.

Self-abstract Found

Another found piece...
or should I say sketch? ... Yes. sketching with photoshop.
One day I will do something big with this piece. One day I will make it valuable and transcendent.

Kudos to Blogger

Blogger has launched its new Template Designer feature, which I found pretty cool... Not that the old tool was bad, but this new feature is pretty closed to what I am used to -- windows live space.
Once again, kudos to blogger!

I came across this picture that I took back in 2008 as a reference for my Drawing Fundamentals II . I thought it would be a nice compliment to this new look  =)
There is something about dead flowers that I cannot resist. The texture, the colors, the form, the smell...  They're so beautiful even when they're dead. . .

The Making of a Portfolio - day seven (waiting)

Portfolio has been turned in and reviewed by the faculty...

This is day seven of waiting...

As I adventured with this project, I never imagined how labored and time consuming it would be! Once completed (even though there are a few things I could still work on), all the hard work paid off, and that little fella became my baby =)

Here a brief compilation of two intense weeks full of hard work and dedication.

I started by invading my dinning room with a big work table that I had completely forgotten about, which became pretty handy when combined with the dinning table. 

The cutting started and so the paper cuts!

Then the gluing, which I found to be the most time consuming! -- All those books finally became handy, and that molcajete*  that I haven't used in ages, finally got to hang out with me for a while. 

As far as the design, I wanted something clean, professional and elegant. After looking at several different types of papers, colors and textures, a simple brown kraft paper measured up. Complimented by a nice mate black paper on the inside.

Eyelets are quite interesting, but easier to assemble than what I thought. Unfortunately, I couldn't find black ones, so spray paint and acrylic paint did the job.

  

this blog to be continued...

* A molcajete (Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl mulcazitl) is a stone tool, the traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle tool. Molcajetes are used to crush and grind spices, and prepare salsas, and guacamole.

Covering up an empty wall...

Some time ago I read an article about how popular wall decals (shapes of vinyl applied to a wall) were becoming. I visited the website that this article referred to, and found out how easy was to decorate an empty wall -- and how pricy it could also be.

I thought about it for a while -- how nice it would be to do something similar. One day, as I looked at one of my empty walls I thought about it again, so I ran to the basement, grabbed the left over paint from a few months ago when I decided to get rid of the icky-yucky green color on my dining room, mixed it up, and started to paint.

It's been about two weeks now and I haven't touched the project since then... 

I got a message in my inbox today as if it was reminding me... I need to go back and work on it. 

Vinilismo