Interview

Question: If you weren’t a painter what would you like to be?

Yoda: A musician or a filmmaker.

Q: Do you sing?

Y: Yes, in the shower (laugh)

Q: If someone makes a song about you, who would you like it to be?

Y: Just one song? Why not an entire album? (laugh). Hmmm, Lou Reed.

Q: And if a filmmaker would make a movie about you?

Y: Easy, Tim Burton, Michel Gondry, or David Lynch.

Q: And a writer?

Y: Michael Ende or Janette Winterson.

Q: But Michael Ende is dead.

Y: You never said it has to be alive (giggle).

Q: Ok, ok. Which famous painter would you like to make your portrait?

Y: G. Helnwein or Arturo Rivera

Q: And which famous photographer?

Y: Eugenio Recuenco or Joel-Peter Witkin

Q: And if someone who you admire could make your portrait?

Y: In photo I’d like oladios or Slow Cheetah and in drawing szaza or occam’s razor

Q: If you could do any of these two what would you choose: to breathe underwater or to fly?

Y: Fly away

Q: To where?

Y: That’s my secret.

Q: Which is your fashion style?

Y: Like a safe box: you don’t know how the combination is (laugh)

Q: What kind of cat would you be?

Y: A poser.

Sirens

I always thought making a drawing or a painting would be much easier with one colour. I was so wrong.

The complexity reaches to strange levels and there was times when I felt nothing was going on, nothing seemed right, but still to quit wasn't a good idea, not only because the drawing was something I had to make for the exchange, but also because of the learning process. I can see now that I'm capable of making something almost monocrome.

Is it boring? For me, no, I don't know if it's for you.

El Hechizo

When I was younger...

but things can't always start with such sentence. Though I'm getting older, or as I'm getting older, I'm starting to forget things. There are some events that are erased from my memory and somehow I know they are there, somewhere, hidden inside me. I don't know if I need them, or if they need me. Maybe not. If I get to be an old lady I'll remember them, for sure.

I been trying to remember how did I learn to tie my shoelaces and when I successfully did it. No matter how much I try to focus I can't recall it. On the other hand, there are thing I don't remember but my parents or family does, like when I was a baby, so they form part of my memory.

I do remember when I was making this drawing, a long time ago. If I consentrate enough I can even remember how I was feeling those days.

Is strange what we choose to remember and what not.

Sophisticated Lady - journal31

Everytime I have a nice cup of tea I transformer myself into a new character, quite old, actually. Is a part of me, my part of a sophisticated lady, like the ones that appears in victorian portraits, in old books.

That doestn't happens with any type of tea, just with some in which the flavours are rich and soft at the same time.

A friend once described me a tea she drinks like "a mountain". It took me a while to understand what that means, how a tea could be a mountain. Little by little I've been understanding that; still I don't have the whole idea but I'm getting close to it.

I've tried some good teas, some really great, some of them makes me feel like I'd never want to stop drinking them, though is always good there's no more and my cup is empty so I can try a new flavour or an old one.

Maybe one day I'll get to drink a tea in a nice place and me, wearing a nice vintage dress; only one day, that would be fantastic. And maybe that day I'll be in England and a nice english rain would be there, outside, but I'll have my nice cup of tea, with sugar and perhaps some cream, and I wouldn't mind about the rain because I'll ahve a wonderful red umbrella with me and a lovely monster-friend by my side.

Pop up

Little by littel the idea of tridimentionality is taking a place in my imagination. Still is not a complete idea, still I can't make one of those pop up things. My dad is too kind and he gives his creations for me to use however I want. I need to learn how to make the things he tries to teach me, and I say "try" because is taking me too much time to think in another way beside bidimentional way. Maybe that's why I didn't studied scupture.

I feel that I have to start to change the way I see things, the world, everything, in order to understand how things works. Who knows, maybe if I get to understand that the next step is kinetics.

Just drawing and painting is not enough, I can't say everything I want to say.

There's much to learn and time is endless.

old lady's umbrella

I don't like to use umbrellas, but now I have to use this. My old lady's umbrella :))

Aku

Piedra, papel o tijeras

Sometimes I'm sick of my own face. Is there and everybody else can see it, but why should I see it all the time? But there are sometimes when I see it and I don't recognize it, is somebody else's face. I look at it deeply, I see the eyes - deep brown, the lips - like a duck's mouth - the nose... I like my nose, but still is not my nose and not my lips, my eyes, eyebrows, etc. I ask to that person looking back to me at the mirror "who are you?" She asks the same to me. No response.I never draw myself how I really am. Is me, yes, minus this, minus that. "Artist's license" is called, pure self indulgence I call it.I'm selfish, yes and I have my egotheque of self portraits. I'm the only one there willing to be drawn, and my cats of course.

I don’t like to draw hair
And I hate Mozart… most of his works, except that one and a few more.

Captain Dimitri

I met Captain Dimitri while traveling on the seven seas. He was a nice Russian guy whom likes to drink cherry whiskey and sing songs about his travels. He showed me the songs that the mermaids sing when the storms are coming and also showed me to cook a nice lemon salmon. He told me that he was born in Poland, because his mother was from there, but his father was Russian so he took him away when he was a child to become a sailor, just like him. When he was sad he used to sing his mother’s songs in her languaje. Captain Dimitri also was known as Rosie by some people in Mauritius. I never asked him why. I also asked him his name, but was in polish and russian, so the when he saw my blank expression he told me "call me Dimitri".I don’t know what happened to him. The last thing I’ve heard about him was that he was sailing near the red sea but he was so blue that he headed up north.

Conocí al capitán Dimitri cuando navegaba por los siete mares. él era un buen hombre ruso que gustaba beber wiskey de cereza y cantar canciones sobre sus viajes. Él me mostró las canciones que cantan las sirenas cuando viene una tormenta y también a cocinar un delicioso salmón al limón. Me explicó que él nació en Polonia porque su madre era de ahí, pero su padre era ruso, así que cuando era muy pequeño se lo llevó con él para que aprendiera a ser un marinero como su padre. Cuando se ponía triste cantaba canciones en su lengua materna.

El capitán Dimitri también era conocido como Rosie por algunas personas en Mauritius. Nunca le pregunté por qué. También le pregunté su nombre, pero era una mezcla de ruso y polaco, así que cuando vió my expresión me dijo "llámame Dimitri".

No sé qué pasó con él. Lo último que supe esque cuando viajaba por el mar Rojo se sintió tan triste que decidió dirigirse al norte.

One Day...

Tratando de encontrar nuevas formas de decir cosas, aunque sigue siendo lo mismo mas aún así el discurso no se acaba.

Leave something for me and my imagination.

The Witch

Hace ya mucho rato que hice esta acuarela, pero por alguna razón siempre regreso a verla.

It's been a while since I made this watercolour painting, but somehow I always come back to look at it.

The King - journal26

If I were a cat - journal24

Si fuera un gato miraría debajo de las faldas de las chicas.

If I were a cat I'd look under the girl's skirts.

Imaginary Friend 3

I wish I could see an explosion of different colors in front of my eyes.

I wish I could have more colors.

I wish I could scream right now.

Imaginary Friend - Journal 21

My belly is a greedy monster

Imaginary Friend - Journal 19

My imaginary friend likes to think she's the mature one here and the monster that lives upside my head is so kawaii ;P
Now, I want you to go to your room and play with your imaginary friend - Pretty Things

I should try

I should be making the works I have to give monday morning at school.

Embrace

About a dream I had

princess - journal5

Cuando era chica creía que había alguien que era yo misma en otro lugar, pero ella era una princesa. Creía que si miraba con detenimiento mis rostro en el espejo era provable que en algún momento la viera.

When I was a child I used to believe that somewhere there was a girl that actually was me, but she was a princes. I believed that if I stared long enough my face in the mirror I could have a glimpse of her face.

Lady Orlando

Me in a victorian costume.

I have always wanted to use one of those things for real.

We used to ride dragons

Soundtrack:

Connection - Elastica


Slowly I awake today. My eyes are tired so is my head, not to mention the rest of my too-young-to-be-old body. I try to listen some music, nothing seems to catch my attention. Finally I choose something, someone to sing what's on my head. Note by note, smooth as a cat comes my old friend Chet Baker telling me 'let's get lost, let's get lost' and I take his invitation as his trumpet flows around me, clear metallic sound filling every corner of my solitude. My solitude - with Billie Holliday's voice is the voice in my head.

Sometimes I don't understand english, I don't understand 'I like you' meaning - is so different if I try to translate it to my own languaje -. But I say it anyway.

I should stop listening the old tunes. They stick to me, get into my bones as I'm starting to feel how they fill me with sadness, melancholy of things I would never have, such feelings.

Cerdo

Qué Grosero! - Las ultrasónicas

Nothing to say. Latelly I feel so lazy. Don't want to change that.

Mr. Gato

Soundtrack:

Make Up - Lou Reed

Mr. Gato is sponsored by the beautiful and talented Oladios. Please, check her photos. They're amazing!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oladios/

For Ola

Inners

Soundtrack:
Little Water Song - Ute Lemper &Nick Cave




Sometimes I'd like to be a strage princess from a far far away kindom.

Man's world

Soundtrack:

This is a man's man's man's world - James Brown

Maybe too much of detective movies.

Soundtrack: We are going to be friends - The White StripesThis is Juanito's guardian angel. Maybe he's not the cuttest angel in the world (or heaven) but he's a very nice one... maybe Juanito's father doesn't thinks the same.

El ángel guardián de Juanito. Tal vez no sea el mejor, pero juanito cree que sí... a excepción de su papá.

Cat in the park

soundtrack: Just like a woman - Charlotte Gainsbourg

Un collage que hice reciengemente.

En verdad me gusta, aunque creo que con otra foto mía hubiera quedado mejor.

I still think that the hair looks sweet... and my cat ears :D

Monsieur Lapin

Ilustración para una nueva revista de ilustradores en Estambul

Illustration for a new illustrators magazine in Istanbul named Pocketful

La "tripa" Moleskine. Entomos project

Proyecto terminado para la compañía Moleskine. Hoy envié la libreta completa a Italia.
Veremos ké pasa.

Project for moleskine company.

Yo, trabajando.

"Ground control to Mayor Tom..."

Para el primer aniversario del blog de Gustavo Aimar... aunque creo que ya es tarde.

Otra ilsutración para el libro de cuentos infantiles.
Acuarela y tinta china

Le rêver

Alguna vez quice ser princesa...

... aún me gustaría.

Qué peces más guapos!!!

A veces me pongo seria en mi trabajo; no por eso es aburrido.

Una de mis actrices favoritas: Marion Cotillard

Dibujo a lápiz

Juan García Esquivel (la música, no la lechuza)

"Mais qu'a-t-il pu bien arriver Entre septembre et mai J'en ai oublié mon nom " - Emilie Simon