Paper mache

I learned the paper mache technique from a very talented young man Leonardo Santillan, an amazing puppet maker. Leo was magical.  He created the puppet theater group El Tlakuache in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Méx. friend of my mom's sister Laura (who also have a theatre company: Los tiliches del baúl), he taught me different techniques to make my own puppets for one of Laura's shows. Leo and his wife passed away a couple of years ago in a car crash, at least that's what I heard.
Thank you Leo for all the sharing, I'll never forget you. This post is dedicated to you.

1. Red Elephant with dragon

I also made a mache trio for a very nice family in Polanco, they were my best paper mache customers.

2. Elephant (trio)

3. Flaming rhino (trio)

 

4. Purple hippo (trio)

This is a very long process, but it is worthy, the same family asked me to do a fourth one:

5. Crocodile

Vector addict

Illustrator is one of the most important tools as a designer, I've been using it for 10 years now and declare myself a vector addict, I made these 5 years ago but they are still my favorites.

Drum elephant

 

White rabbit

LSD "I feel my heart is going to jump out of my mouth"

Pics of the week

1.Centro Histórico  2.Mural 3.Soñé que volaba otra vez  4. Piso del Centro

Fusion!

As I promised, the photos of one of my stands in Fusión, colorful as it can be.
What I like about the people who buy my art is that they really fall in love with the piece, they identify with it, specially if it looks just like their cat sleeping on a kitchen chair.

 Acrylic paint on wood and mache paper

Floating wishes

When I was a child there were no spongebob squearpants balloons for Reyes, they used to be beautiful and crazy colored balloons!  You could tie up your wishes and let them fly into the sky. I miss being a kid..

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that man selling the same balloons I loved back then, obviously I couldn't resist buy some of them and take pictures of their beautiful shapes, I still don't know how it's made, if someone knows how to do this... please let me know!!