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Matosinhos sketchbooks

by Javier de Blas

JUN. 18, 2010

Etiquetas: art drawing erasmus esdir ilustration matosinhos porto report trip sketch sketchbook students

(Español)

If everything in Portugal has that personal air, Porto is not precisely an exception. The wellness feeling produced when you walk among such good taste cannot almost fit in the soul.

I think that it was its genuine style that inspired me the little speech with which I opened the workshop “Sketchbook as Graphic Diary” that I taught in ESAD Matosinhos the week from May 17^th to 21^st. I proposed them not to use their Graphic Diaries thinking about the rest, since personal and academic commissions are for that. The Graphic Diary should be used to facilitate perceptions, worries, and the most authentic tastes from each one appear no strings attached.

It was satisfactory to see their smiling approval faces. And to check the initial motivation of the participants, undoubtly promoted in class, and in a more or less direct way, through devoted divulgators such as Eduardo Salavista, sketcher and author of the first, as far as I know, global treaty of work in sketchbooks Diários de Viagem.

As it is always satisfactory see the expectation that new approaches generate new, sometimes not so different, but always said in a different way.

We devoted the first practical session to copy a varied cast of sketchers, chosen above all, in my two favourite webpages: De vuelta con el cuaderno and Urban sketchers.

It is not a contradiction wanting to be personal, and at the same time, copy others. To learn by observing and imitating. Because, if we go further, our own filters turn out to distil the suitable combination of everything that we interiorize.

Porto central market, Bolhao, la Ribera, the train station, Sao Bento and the park Senhora da Hora were used as locations for the great part of the practices.

The motivation that I had seen in the participants was directly related to their preparation. My acknowledgement to their teachers’ work (three of them were so kind to accompany me) and the illusion and capacity of the students. Their good deeds, together with the interest shown through continuous questions about the evolution of their sketches and also the Graphic Diaries that some of them developed through the academic year, made the workshop a place of stimulant participation full of good results.

For the final revision of the works, I selected three by each participant, allowing myself to delete digitally the drawings or parts of them that distracted the contemplation of the best ones. I made the filter without disdaining the daring results, those which in surprise and peculiarity, or the expressive load, were above technical correction. Because it was not about drawing “well” but about communicating beyond the own rational and methodical control, as can be well appreciated in some of the examples here shown.

This operation, well understood by the students, was used to show what in my opinion was the basic aim of the workshop: searching that the drawing tells what cannot be told in any other way.

Sketches

Photos

Los cuadernos de Matosinhos

por Javier de Blas

JUN. 08, 2010

Etiquetas: alumnos apuntes arte cuadernos dibujos drawing erasmus esdir ilustración matosinhos oporto reportaje skertches sketchers sketching universidad viaje

(English)

Si todo en Portugal tiene ese aire personal, Oporto no es precisamente una excepción. Casi no cabe en el alma la sensación de bienestar que produce pasearla entre tan buen gusto.

Creo que fue su estilo genuino el que me inspiró el pequeño discurso con que abrí el workshop “El cuaderno de apuntes como diario gráfico” que impartí en la ESAD Matosinhos durante la semana del 17 al 21 de mayo de este año. Y les propuse que no usaran sus Diarios Gráficos pensando en los demás, que para eso ya estaban los encargos académicos y profesionales. El Diario Gráfico debía servir para facilitar que salieran, sin trabas, las percepciones, inquietudes, los gustos más auténticos de cada cual.

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Sketching Istanbul

by Javier de Blas.

MAY. 10, 2010

Etiquetas: istanbul drawing sketching

Spanish article

There is no other city like Istanbul that lets you draw. But not only for everything of it you wish to make yours, but because you have the feeling that what happens there is unique, or because the city is always accompanying you with that presence so personal.

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Sketching Istanbul

por Javier de Blas.

ABR. 23, 2010

Etiquetas: istanbul dibujo sketching

English article

Si hay una ciudad en el mundo que se deje dibujar como ninguna, esa es Estambul. Y no solo por todo lo que deseas hacer tuyo, porque allí tienes la sensación de que lo ocurrido es único, o porque la ciudad te acompaña con esa presencia tan personal.

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