Do you think that you are good in drawing with pen ?

He is.

Juan Francisco Casas

(b. September 21, 1976, La Carolina, Jaén, Andalusia) is a Spanish artist.

Casas paints large size oil canvases and blue ballpen drawings where he reproduces images he takes with his camera.
Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz got a B.A. and a M.F.A. from the University of Granada and during his studies he won the National Award of the Ministry of Education and Science for the best graduate qualifications in Spain, an award which was given by Culture Minister, Pilar del Castillo. From 2000 until 2004 he completed his PhD at the University of Granada while also teaching in that university.

Peace.

Workshops!

Point, Line & Plane: Mono-printing led by Rachel Ortas

Your will explore and experiment with different mark making techniques using

mono-printing, which is a fast and effective way to achieve strong, graphic results.

Bring images of London that you like (news paper or magazine).


It was fun and I like the outcome. It's fast and easy to produce good looking pictures and illustration, with futher possible scanning and editing digitally.
Everything was done in almost 2 hours, so, now you can see :)

P.S. - Surprisingly low quality of the photos :(

P.P.S - Monoprinting is a form of printmaking that has images or lines that can only be made once, unlike most printmaking, where there are multiple originals. There are many techniques of monoprinting. Examples of standard printmaking techniques which can be used to make monoprints include lithography, woodcut, and etching.

That's the beggining - everything is clean, newspapers covering the tables.. But the first paint is on the plate!

That's what was on the plate after I did the first monoprint.

First monoprint on the session, when you are keeping it in your hands looks better :D

Negative of the first monoprint

It doesn't want to return, so.. Anyway the image is bad quality :(

One more picture of the plate after printing both negative and positive

I picked up very bad pixelated image of the guardian and decided to make a line pattern on his clothes

There is the result :D I switched the plate with someone who was doing an image of the bus and you can also recognize it's contour on the background

Negative man

Together

Experimentation is FUN!)

Also I chose an image of the random footballer carrying a kid with the football ball on his hands. Also, I was using my previous, 'guardian', plate and you can see parts of his clothes pattern overlayed with the kid's hair, for example.

Woooork in proooogress!

Last one and most favorite. It's plate

And it's.. Monoprinted!)

I really like the effect of dissapearing while I was cleaning the plate

Cleaned and ready to be used!

That's how it was. 
And now my Timeline is waiting for me.
Take care.

Playing with colors in Photoshop

Just check out this nice book by Kyle Bean.. :


A Guide For the Unlucky:

There are a slew of old wives tales; black cats, walking underneath ladders, breaking mirrors, stepping on pavement cracks, etc.. the list goes on and on. It’s almost impossible to remember them all. Thanks to Kyle Bean, he’s created The Guide for the Unlucky. Each page contains a description and a pop up 3D element illustrating bewares we’ve all probably heard of at some point or another. Industrial design? No, but we need all the luck we can get.

yeah, it's 5 o'clock Sunday morning.

Workshops!

Shade: Silhouettes led by Darren Raven

A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline
and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black or some
other solid colour or texture. The silhouette is a powerful tool in graphic
communication – it’ s both specific in what it conveys and yet vague in leaving out
most of the details for the viewer to fill in for themselves.
In this workshop we will work with silhouettes to produce large images that,
similarly to silhouettes themselves, cause the viewer to fill in the gaps.


I knew it, but understood one more time , that shades and contours are really usefull and works really well for visual communication. Every object in the world has it's own siluhouette. And we tried to play around the shapes and colours.

The idea was to set the figures of people in the form of CCTV camera and set the eye where the camera lense supposed to be. I think that the idea is fine, but the shape now is not easily identified, so, I need to pick up another image of the camera for the contour.

Just playing with shapes and simple colours

Each workshop is kind of inspiration portion, where I undesrtand how different and usefull are the techniques.
Now need to concentrate on the Timeline .. Have a good week-end everybody, whoever you are! X)

Workshops!

"Framing: Message/Meaning, led by Rachel Ortas"

You will be using the fold-in technique (used by MAD magazine) to explore how
framing changes the meaning/message of an image. We will use Elephant and
Castle for inspiration.
Bring either a camera/phone camera/images for collage/sketch book.

 It was very funny to see how frame change the world when you are going around city. One captured moment sometimes absolutely changing when you can see what's happening around it.


So, check it out. 
Frame the world

Thanks Bart for picture :)

 

Fold-in comics, I really like it :) Not just the picture - the meaning of the written phrase is changing..

..when it's folded!

I started from Bart >:)

Random guy from the Art's newspaper

Does it make any sense ? X)

I love reflections, started to make a frame in the frame)

like this

It was pretty hard to make this shot, because I'm holding iphone in one hand and frame in another and the 'photo' button is at the bottom of the phone screen.. :) Anyway, I'm quite happy with the results, lovely abstract geometry.

Also, I looked for the photoes on the computer and understood that visually part of the shot which is captured with the frame is looking different from the whole other picture. It looks really like another world :)

There is one of such examples. Captured advertisment billboard - and my hand with the frame lookes quite photoshoped there :D

There I tried to make a contrast between image of happy smiling peoples IN the frame and refurbishment works and litter OUT of it

people are also framing around

Framed picture with bird and cctv camera - for me looks like prison. Also like the composition geometry in this picture.

Showing the contrast between blossom tree and trash bins

Just some abstract colored brick wall

White stripes on this car actually reminds me yellow road stripes) But roads are not usually so shiny as this car's surface)

"Do not let your friendship die on the road" But it's interesting what people will think about this image without the context of it, does it communicate?

seashell as the ashtray

I also captured a piece of the bus with the guy, but he still looks funny)

The intention was to frame the arrow IN (which shows the moving direction (moving forward?)) and the red light with opposite meaning (stop, no way) OUT the frame

Simple - barbed wire and a blossom tree

I like that I catch the part of the wheel there..

..and there! It help's to create an understanding that the car is actually passed or will appear in the next second IN the frame

Abstraction in a fRRRame!

The difference between empty lawn and busy road with a lot of noisy pupils :)

Actually, it's children school , and some kind of refurbishment is going around. So, we can't see all the dust and litter out of the frame and enjoying beautifull English architecture in the frame

I just liked this sunny empty street..

Busy - free, messy - clean :)

That's how it was.

People of the world, let me know if you are reading this blog X)