Look, internet, I now have a twitter account. And an Instagram account also.
What more do you want from me?
Let’s summarize:
Twitter: @srsalme (brand new)
Instagram: srsalme (beware: occasional photos of playmobil toys)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Señor-Salme/169982479696253
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/srsalme (I should update this)
Society6: www.society6.com/artist/SrSalme
As expected, Facebook wins the prize for most awkward URL.
This is a video about the process I followed while doing the Blossom piece I recently posted here. It took me a couple of weeks to complete the whole drawing, so it’s a very very condensed edit; also, you know, I did other things inbetween.
If you’ve got questions about what you see in the video, you are welcome to ask. That said, I won’t answer any questions regarding why I am wearing an embarrasing friendship bracelet in the video. I know you were expecting something better from me, but I have my reasons.
EDIT: I have noticed that playback of Tumblr videos is far from smooth (at least for me), so I have embedded the Vimeo link instead.
Artist promotion at Society6: click here to get free worldwide shipping for all my prints until September 16 (at midnight, Pacific Time).
Offer excludes Framed Art Prints and Stretched Canvases.
My dear worthy reader, please note that this offer is not directly available on my store; you must follow the link above.
Just finished.
Airbrush and indian ink on A2 board.
I’m putting together and framing some prints to be shown at a friend’s store, and I thought it wouldn’t be too inappropiate to remind you that I have a Society6 store where you can get them.
Right now they have (again) free worldwide shipping, until tomorrow.
She in the picture is my dearest A. holding a couple of framed prints by the way.
This took me a while. It is intended to be a faithful rendition of a Mercury capsule. As faithfully as I can get, at least.
I was committed to do this drawing on paper, as you could guess by the pictures I posted in an earlier post. But after messing around with it for a bunch of hours I realised that such an idea lead to more work that I could easily handle… so I switched back to the computer. Still, to keep things loose I decided to leave the copy-paste feature aside so that every single screw or rivet would look a bit different. Which, again, proved to be more work that I could easily handle. But I did it anyway.
As you may know (or may not), the Mercury capsule was the first manned spacecraft the U.S. put into orbit (soviet Vostok was first). A certain number of capsules were constructed (there were six manned flights, plus some unmanned flights), and though the original design underwent minor revisions throughout the project, all of them looked basically the same. I say this because I may have mixed up some details, but you must be quite a nerd to spot that. My reference came mainly from the Liberty Bell and Friendship 7 capsules, and I have tried my best to make this look as close as possible to the real thing. You know, I even went to the point of counting how many rivets where in every row. What’s that good for? You can bet I do not have the slightest idea.
Ivy branch.
Indian ink, blue liquid watercolour, summer night.
Ink study from Ferdinand Hodler’s painting Intimate Dialogue With Nature, which I don’t seem to find in the Internet right now.
Google, I once thought you were unbeatable.
