The Wizard's Creation

A Self Portrait From Sometime Ago

This is pretty self explanatory. It took me a lot of time to finish this portrait. I was 24 or 25 years old probably. My teacher at the time was Carmet Letts, another Peruvian artist. What you see at my back is an sculpture on wood done by her. The self portrait was painted in her house, so the green background is actually her garden seen through the window. I think the work in the face is pretty good, although there is light or color in the right cheek that needs to be colder, and creates more contrast. It also resemble certain feature of the Lucien Freud style. The shirt is kind of messy, and requires more work though.
I really loved that t-shirt.

A Pleasant Surprise

Found this picture completely by chance. I never intended to make it but apparently its a texture map from one my Maya animations. It was a pleasant surprise. I'll post the animation later, but this seems like an interesting introduction. The colors in the final product are very different though.

Organic Tree

I know that all trees are organic. In this case the concept is a mixture of the rough surface of the tree, with the soft interior of a flesh and bone creature. The guts of the tree are like veins or stretched tissue, and its hard exterior resemble a reptilian skin blended with a wooden crust. It was done again, in dry ink pen. I sure love that medium.

This is another one, and on of the last one of the paintings I did with this character.
Again, the door takes you to another door, shows more stairs, a path that seems both difficult and endless, but at the same time mysterious and captivating. I like how the colors of the night turned out. I'm not so exited about the door itself or the seeker. In comparison with the first character, it seems a bit more childish. There is a different feeling to it. I believe you can attribute that to the technique. In the first seeker, the atmosphere is blurrier, the strokes are softer, while in the latest, they are marked by different colors. It seems then that one is more grounded in the past, in a place lost in history, while the other one is more childish, more a theme of a children's book. The theme maybe has stronger references to fantasy (like the monolith in 2001 Space Oddisey) while the first seeker, the Little Martian, is blinded by light in an obscure room. Hence, there is more drama there. Light and darkness always favor drama.

The Seeker

Here is another picture of my little Martian series. I will prefer to call him "the seeker". Its more of what I had in mind. Again, I'm playing with the idea of personal quest, the process of growing, maturing and knowing yourself, and maybe too, the struggle to keep the child in you, in spite of the wrinkles and growing sarcasm (which I believe comes with adulthood).
What is the seeker looking for? And when he finds it, if he finds something, will he choose it?
What is your quest? Which one is your path? Are you prepared to accept the rules of it?

Even more complicated

Things that I love in arts. Complexity, detail, and a combination of organic and metallic. One of my favorite artists, H.G. Giger, creator of the alien creature in the Alien movies and Species movies. His work combines erotism with goth, and dark sci-fi. All the artwork in Ridley Scott's thriller is from him.