Eduardo Chillida

Chillida was a spanish artist. He was born in 1924, and he died in 2002. 

He began studying architecture, but he leaved this discipline to work exclusively in sculpture and drawing.

Chillida based his artistic work on his own experiences of rural society. 

The contact with nature and how to live in this context determined his motivations. Natural elements such as wind, the sea, the horizon or water, the concepts of full and empty and the relationship of different types of materials with the environment were his more important topics of work

He worked with different materials. At first, he used the iron, but later he introduced other materials such as wood, concrete, steel, stone and alabaster. 

He is known primarily for his work as a sculptor, but his graphic work, drawings and collages are very important too.

I am interested in this artist because his work was important in my process of choosing my specialty. I was two years in the specialty of sculpture.

Above all I like his work with iron. For exemple this work entitled "Peines del Aire". These iron structures are located in your hometown.

I hope you liked this artist.

To eat is happiness

To eat is one of my favorite thing in my life. I really tell it.
I enjoy do it, and also I enjoy doing everything connect with this action.
To buy food, to cook, to learn recipe, to taste new food.  All it es very attractive and fun for me.
For this reason, one of my favorite web site is www.rebanando.com.
This web site is a big and very complete source of information. Here different user post theirs recipe and knowledge about cooking. This web site exist in many different countries, for example: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, France, U.S. ,  Spain.
 I knew it through facebook. A long time ago, a good friend sent me a message where she recommended me a recipe of fruit and vegetable juices. I thought that it was very weird, however, I saw it.
Since then, I visited this web site at least five time a week.
What I like most are the photos of the food. They are very good pictures, and they look delicious.

      

Valparaiso in love


Hi everyone! Today I wish to share with you this beautiful picture.

The last year three friends and me traveled to Valparaiso. We went on this trip in October, shortly after a big fire in this city.

We started our tour in the Carlos Van Buren Hospital. We walked all one day across the hills. (I didn't know where it was).

I had brought my camera, but I took very few photographs. Fortunately my friends could do it. And this is a photograph of one of them. 

A very good friend, Fernanda, took this photo with her analog camera Zenit. 

This photo shows the debris of the house destroyed in that huge fire. Here you can see the foundations and part of the metal structure of the house, and in the background are the hills of the Great Valparaiso.

I really really like this picture, because it is a very strong image. In addition to its beautiful graphic composition, its poetic and interpretive sense it is very big.

Hello

This time I will tell you about the enamelling. I am interested in this artistic technique, because I am learning it now in my central art workshop: goldsmithing

The enamelling is a surface tratment technique through the application of glass powder tonobtain a glaze coverage.

The enamel is an impalpable glass (powder) composed of vitrifiable materials.
There are different kinds of enamels, depending on the material to which you want to apply, but all of it is fixed by heat.

Various ways for glazing are known. It is characterized by different procedure in the operation has been followed. But all methods use heat to melt the glass powder.

The powder melts and expands. Later it cools and hardens, and thus this powder produces a smooth coverage and very durable glaze on ceramic, glass or metal.

The next week I will talk you about the enamelling on metal, specifically enamelling on copper.

Regards.

I love it all!

The markers are wonderful! This writing instrument was invented in the 60s by a Japanese.
The novelty of this instrument is its porous tip. The ink go through the tip of felt, and for this way
the markers allow to draw many different types of lines.

I have many markers, especially colored markers. I like it, because I can draw broad, thin, continuous, broken, dark and clear lines. And also I like it  because there are a lot variety of colors.
In my case I have many markers. I use it every day principally for writing, but I draw and paint too.

I routinely use markers. I have so much fun watching so many colors, and, for this reason, I think my life would be very boring only if I will write and I will see the traditional colors of pencils, black and blue.

My expectations... for this moment

The university is my principal topic, and all my activities has relatioship whit it. But, really, the most important theme, the essential topic is the art. I changed academic career, for this reason, and since this moment I decided that all my activities were related with the art. 
The learning and the education about the art by means of share experiences and knowledge has been my principal motivation.  
I have taken different technical courses in iron smith, jewerly, photography and drawing, and, for the other side, I have participated in communal activities, for exemple, class for children in poor areas. And I will take part in cultural conference in San Ramòn in the next month. This is with the objetive of painting a mural.       

little autobiography

Hello, my name is Marcela Rodríguez. I was born in 1988 at Santiago, and I am arts student at university of chile.

I live whit my family. My parents, Héctor and Cecilia, and my two brothers. Héctor is my older brother and Diego is my yunger brother. I have lived whit them all my life, and this has been very important to me.

My principal activity has been study. Kinder garden, elementary school and high school at religious institution, and after the univercity twice. I studied architecture during three semesters at FAU and, finally, I began study visual arts in 2010.

I liked play and to build objects and places all the time. I drew on the walls and on the floor, and I loved the plasticine. ( I still love it)

I never thought that these things was so importat. It was just hobbies, but, after I have lived a very bad and distressing period, I understood my more honest and intense motivations: to create and to play.