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Now it’s time for the fire as an element. I think this one came out really simple, yet powerful.
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Another sign if the horoscope. This time it’s the turn of Pisces.
I’m very happy with the result of this one. it’s been one of those magical times where the final drawing came out exactly like the idea I had on mind. :)
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This time I wanted to draw an element, wood, so Pinnochio came out. I aimed for a creepy version, what do you think?
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Second take on Huevember this time I chose an element to represent, electricity!
I had so much fun drawing that hair in the shape of a lightning. :)
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Sooo. Last November I decided to start the challenge Huevember and since I am a total crap when it comes to consistency I haven’t finished yet!
Anyway, I’m learning a lot about myself, my technique, my brush strokes, and the way I color, so I’m going to try and finish it at my own pace. All of them are drawn with plain black indian ink, and colored digiatlly on Photoshop.
This was my take on the first color, and I drew the sign Capricorn. ¿Do you like it? :)
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Spain-México
20th century
She was one of the firts women to study Fine Arts in Madrid. After finishing her learning, she stablished in Barcelona, during the Spanish Republic, where she worked as a designer for advertisements. In this period, she started surrounding herself into surrealist movements as well as libertarian tendencies.
After the spanish civil war, she fled to Paris, but due to the nazi invasion of France ascension of fascism in the whole Europe, she exiliated herself to Mexico and never returned.
Her work was a neverending path of masterpieces of surrealism, with very diverse references coming from alchemy, enthomology, or psychoanalysis.
As all my other Inktobers, this piece is now available at my online store.
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Elisabetta Sirani
Italy 17th
Baroque painter who was one of the firsts woman to have international projection.
As usual, her “condition” of woman didn’t permit her entrance into an academia of arts, so she had to learn working at his father’s atelier. Even so, she was never allowed to draw with live models, which was an obstacle in order to develope proper anatomy skills.
At only 19 years old, she was the breadwinner of her family since her father became to sick to work, and the poor economical status of her family pushed her to be extremely productive.
Her special field were religious paintings, which atracted many noble visitors to her atelier, among them, there was the Great Duke Cosme III Médici.
Sadly she passed away at only 27 years old. Was she the founder member of the 27 club, maybe? What it is true is that in only 8 years of professional career, she left more than 200 paintings with an amazing technique.
As all my other Inktobers, the original piece is available at my online store.
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Leonora Carrington.
England-Mexico
20th-21st centuries.
She was a writer, painter, scenographer and sculptor who was introduced into surrealism by Max Ernst. During the nazi ocupation of France, she was living in Paris, and she colaborated with the Freier Künstlerbund, an underground movement of intelectuals against fascism.
Sadly, Max Ernst was imprisoned by the Nazi-collaborationist government of France, and she had to flee to Spain were she was entered into a psychiatric hospital due to her unstable condition and trauma. Staying in such place, would leave a mark on her work. She was described by André Breton as an ambassador back from “the other side”, a seer, a witch returned from the underworldwith visionary powers.
The original piece of this drawing is available at my online shop.
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Marguerite Gérard
France.
18th-19th centuries
She was a painter and etching artist who didn’t have access to academic training due to her “condition” of being a woman. Luckily, Jean-Honoré Fragonard married her older sister and took her as pupil. They did a series of etchings collaborating together, but many historians believe that the majority were in fact done by Marguerite on her own.
Her work was advertised as “sous les yeux de Fragonard” (under the eyes of Fragonard) overestimating Fragonard’s role in her art. Finally, she gained recognition from Napoleon and Louis XVII and was awarded with gold medals.
As all my other Inktobers, this original piece is available at my online store.
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Elaine Marie de Kooning.
USA
20th century
She was an expressionist and abstract painter whose artistic reputation was overshadowed by her husband Willem de Kooning.
Her style is known by having a distinctive lineart and a realistic understanding of shapes, everything mixed with expressionist brush strokes.
She was one of the favourite artists of John F. Kennedy who was portrayed by her several times.
This original drawing is available at my online shop.
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Margaret Sarah Carpenter
England
18th-19th centuries.
Romantic painter who was awarded multiple times who stablished her reputation as a fashionable portrait painter. In the case of this piece, the subject of the portrait happens to be the great Ada Lovelace, mother of the computer language.
An art reviewer once wrote about her:“It very rarely happens that a specimen of art like this is produced from the hand of a lady: Here are colour, light, strength and effect, and anatomical drawing”. Terrible compliment!
This drawing is available at my online shop.
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Élisabeth Chaplin.
France-Italy
19th-20th centuries.
A master of late impressionism, who is known for her dreamy protraits and her Tuscan landscapes. She had an incredible technique in her way of applying lights and shadows.
Art ran in her family since her mother was a poet and sculptor. She was heavily influenced by her visits to the Uffizi museum, so she started learning from the great classics and soon she was awarded with the gold medal from the Florence Society of Fine Arts.
Later she would earn also the gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris and the French Legion of Honor
She conducted art classes for other women, spreading the art through women’s hands.
The original piece of this drawing, as the others Inktobers is available at my shop
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Nº3 of #Inktober 2018
Clara Peeters.
Belgium-The Netherlands.
16th-17th centuries.
One of the Flemish painters who started de still-life paintings in her hometown.
She was recognise for being incredibly meticulousand for her habit of hidding tiny self-portraits in the reflections of the metallic objects of her still-lifes. I consider this a proof of her masterful technique, and also of a great sense of humour.
She was the firsts woman to have an individual exhibition at the Museo del Prado.
As all my others inktobers, it is on sale at:
https://tictail.com/beatrizalbir/clara-peeters-9053686
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Nº2 of #Inktober 2018
Maruja Mallo, Madrid, Spain. S.XX
One of the artist of the spanish avant-garde movements of the last century, and also one of the founders of “Las Sin Sombrero” a rebellious group of women who were artists and thinkers. They dared the dictatorship of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and fought to conquer a place for women in the artistic spheres.
She studied Fine Arts and worked as a writer and illustrating the covers of intellectuals magazines. Her first works were part of the magic realism movements. She earned a scolarship to study in Paris were she started her surreal period, she came back to Spain during the II Republic, but she was condemned to the exile once Franco’s dictatorship begun.
In 1990, finally she was recognised by her country when she was awarded with the Gold medal of the states of Madrid and Galicia.
Available at my shop:
https://tictail.com/beatrizalbir/maruja-mallo
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Nº1 of Inktober 2018
Judith Leyster, s.XVII, The Netherlands.
She started painting trying to help her family financially, because his father (a taylor) was in a total bankrupt. She was heavily influenced by Caravaggio and was one of the firsts women to be registered in the artist’s guild.
Despite this, most of her work was attributed to male painters until the ninetenth century, when her work was finally acknowledged as her own.
If you like it, it is on sale at my shop:
https://tictail.com/beatrizalbir/judith-leyster
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Another redraw from Charles Perugini. These is a good exercise for practicing and improving your skills. Pick a classic artist you love, and draw on your own style and technique! Will you do it?
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This was a FanArt I did for the Character Design Challenge when the topic was Sailor Moon. I got inspiration from the original ideas Naoko Takeuchi had for Usagi, where she would have pink hair and a gun to shoot the bad guys. I put those ideas in a gangster lolita style, and this was the result. :)
If you like it, there are prints of it available at my shop:
https://tictail.com/beatrizalbir/sailor-moon-as-a-gangster-lolita
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