Amazing weekend helping the characters of the Jungle Book come to live. The actors were amazing and it was easy to transform their faces into Shere Kan, Bagheera, Baloo, Mowgli, Kaa and King Louie. Their enthusiasm, joy and inexhaustible energy after hours and hours of playing with hundreds and hundreds of children, was absolutely contagious. … Leer más
Following the success of the exhibition of 2015 at the Brooklyn art library in New York, I am proud to have been invited to participate again in the exhibition of 2016. This is the work that I sent and that is already listed. The theme of the exhibition is «Greetings from a distant land”.
I was asked to make a series of 15 images. 1 will be exhibited in New York, 10 have already been sent to artists from around the world (I have received 10 pieces made by other artists too), and I kept the other 4 (only 2 left).
As soon as I know the dates of the exhibition, I will let you know in case someone is in the area on those dates. What you think about the postcard?
Now available at Amazon.com, Suzanne Russell’s book. Drawings were planned by Suzanne, and created by me. It’s about triplets that are pretty, pretty naughty… Although the style of the illustrations was set in advance, I am proud with the results and I wish Suzanne a lot of luck with this first book.
Last April, I was painting a huge mural in one of the walls in the lobby of Children’s Hospital La Paz in Madrid. I had the opportunity to work with the American artist Gary Hirsch whom I learnt a lot from. The goal of this mural is to create awareness about a new project which goal is to diagnose 1000 kids with rare genetic deceases. You can read more about the project here.
It is great to explore how art can help.
During the time we were painting, lots of stories happened around us at the hospital.
Donacion Sangre La Paz
The girls working for blood donation followed the mural process very close, and they called one of the robots as «Marichu». In their name, I encourage you to go and donate blood at La Paz. They will take excellent care of you and the hospital needs blood!
Fernando y MariaJCuesta Hospital La Paz
Fernando is the painter at the hospital (the one with big brushes and rolls). Even though he was a bit overloaded,
He helped us at every moment, providing us materials, clothes, and even food! He is awesome and everybody at the hospital loves him.
The electricians let us one of their most beloved ladders. Thanks a lot! We took care of it with love! 🙂
We had several kids that came to paint. One girl who had surgery the day after and several kids that came for consultation took part in the painting of the big wall. The bodies of some of the robots were painted by them. Thank you for your help!
MiRobotX La Paz Hospital
We also had some adults that volunteered to paint. Thank you!!
We had assesors, like Asun, an auxiliary that came several times in order to be sure that all the robots were smiling and some of them had 3 eyes.
MiRobotX MariaJCuesta
And we didn’t miss encouragement from doctors, nurses, auxiliaries, techincians, cleaning, patients, parents, etc.
Many kids were surprised that we were painting on A WALL!! One boy was outraged even though his mother explained that we were allowed to do it, he was not for accepting that we were paintin on A WALL!!
It was a great experience to be part of that wall and listen what the wall does every day.
If you wonder which sentences are the ones we listened the most, these were: «Look! They are painting! It is so pretty! It is cool!»
Afterwards, everybody was trying to find out what we were painting. One boy said it was a mushroom and that made us laugh for hours. They also thought about robots, martians, dolls, bugs, etc.
What about the answers to the questions painted in our robots?
«Who helps you to be brave?» – Every single kid answered «Nobody», or «Me», «Me by myself».
Adults answered the same question in many different ways, but none of the answers given by the kids. They said: «my family», «my husband», «God», «the Lord», «doctors», «everybody»…
That made us think a lot. Looks like braveness is something you lose when you get old.
Last, but not least, I would like to send my regards and energy to the 2 parents whose children were in the IC in a very difficult situation. They did not notice me painting the wall, but I suffered listening them talking on the phone with family and friends. Even though I was there like part of the wall, I don’t forget them and I hope they are healthy and back home.
To everybody working at La Paz hospital, to every visitor and patient, thanks a lot for such a funny and rich experience. Thanks a lot for the challenge and for all the smiles.
I hope that our smiling robots, spread smiles to those around and that their magic and strength (those robots are magic) gets into the nearby IC.
You will be able to follow in my Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts where I leave the bots. As I frequently travel around Spain, it could be Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Badajoz, Valladolid, Salamanca, Bilbao… potentially anywhere 🙂
Also if you think you know of somebody that could benefit from a robot in Spain (hospital, kids with special needs associations, etc.) please let me know and let’s find a way to get them some bots. 🙂
The illustration of the ballerina in a snow globe has been included in the week «Fragile» in IllustrationFriday website. Original post can be found here. Thank you!!
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Now available at Amazon.com, Suzanne Russell’s book. Drawings were planned by Suzanne, and created by me. It’s about triplets that are pretty, pretty naughty… Although the style of the illustrations was set in advance, I am proud with the results and I wish Suzanne a lot of luck with this first book.
