ARTISTS UNITED FOR HAITI

Artists United for Haiti was an exhibition conducted by the Lody Project to help the Disaster Relief efforts of Haite. Artists around the world united and helped by donating an unframed work on paper, all artwork was sold at $25 that went go directly to to Mercy Corps and designated to the immediate relief of the Haitian people.

A friend from Canada sent me the info and of course I was happy to help so I looked within my portfolio, found a piece I liked, printed it, painted over it and sent it. The exhibition was on February 5th, in the Lody Project Gallery, Raleigh NC. They sold tons of works and collected $10,310! Pretty cool right. Just a way how artists can come together and do something great with their talents.

First exhibition of the year for a good cause, love it!

CLANDESTINA MAGAZINE

Clandestina Magazine based in Mexico is having their first birthday this year and to commemorate it I illustrated two pages for them



Check them out in Issue no.4, page 6 and 7.

Happy Birthday!!!

CATALOGO PARA LA VIDA "LAS BUENAS COSAS"

Once again you can view my submission for "Catalogo para la vida" Magazine. This issue was about the good things and if you know Spanish I recommend you read some of the really interesting articles for this month.

See issue here.

PAINTING FOR GG DEVIANT

The team from GG Deviant (Gente de Guatemala en Deviantart) made a christmas contest last year and ask me if I could donate one of my paintings for the winner of the 1st price... Always love to help and contests are a big incentive for artists so I said yes and here is the painting I made specially for them...


I hope the winner was happy with the price... More details in my website.

SKETCHBOOK PROJECT EXHIBITION

Happy to anounce my first exhibition in 2010... the cool thing is that this project is going around the United States for a series of exhibitions. As their motto is "It's like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks" and mine is one of them.

The Sketchbook project is a collaboration between over 2,000 artists from around the country that were sent Moleskine sketchbook. Their task was to fill the book with "everyone we know". Every book the project received back will be on display. Visitors are encouraged to pick up the books and freely browse through them and at the end of the year all the sketchbooks will be put in their sketchbook library so if you are in Atlanta GA you can go to Art House and snoop around the library.

I received my sketchbook in August and filled it up with more than 40 sketches... If you want to see more you'll have to go to any of the exhibitions around the states, meanwhile take a glimpse!


Go here for a list of galleries around United States where my sketchbook and tons of others will be displayed... you can also check out my profile in Art House website to see a couple more of the sketches in this book.

If you are around any of the 8 locations where the sketchbooks will tour don't forget to go check them out and for all of you that live in NY I cordially invite you to the openning in Brooklyn where I'll be present.

SAVE THE DATE:

March 13, 2010 (7:00pm - 10:00pm)
3rd Ward 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237.

Put it up in your calendar!

CYANOMAS BACTERIA FESTIVAL

Even though I don't live in Guatemala doesn't mean don't try to help in whatever I can and now that one of our nicest lakes is dying I had to contribute somehow so I collaborated with Cyanomas Bacteria Festival, which is a festival in honor of the lake. It's all about art, there will be exhibitions, workshops, music and tons of other fun stuff around the lake and at the end, all the funds will go directly to try to save the lake. So, I made the logo, a poster and a banner for the festival.



The idea of the logo was to put kind of a bacteria which is killing the lake and everything is green because this it the color the lake is turning into because of it.

POSTER FOR TRILATINO

I made this poster for an old friend's triathlon group. They want more people to join and wanted to show all the steps of triathlon in the layout so this is a draft of what I came up with.

THIS IS NEW!

When I was in Guatemala for Christmas a friend of mine mentioned how cool my illustrations looked in the wallets "Casa Azul" was selling. What wallets? I said... I had no idea what he was talking about until I saw them, it was pretty funny and flattering at the same time how your stuff can end up anywhere in the world without you even knowing.


The thing is that Casa Azul is making these wallets out of recycled magazines and for this one they used some of my illustrations featured in Folk Magazine... The funny thing was that they cut my illustrations and pasted them in another piece of paper creating a new layout... oh well, do I like them? not really but it's kind of flattering. =)