Here’s a handful of out and about sketches. There is at least one famous painter, a misspelled cappuccino, a couple of friends and a pirate in there.
New
So. New website. Hope you like it. I wish I had more new things I’d like to share but I don’t. Not yet at least. I’m really working on it. Truth is I’ve never felt more uninspired and less creative my whole life . I lost something this last year. I don’t know what it is but I’ll get it back. I have to. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to sound dramatic or anything. Just stating facts. Got to go now. It’s sunny outside and it’s my birthday :)
Bittersweet 33
After moving all my stuff to my new place, I decided I should do something special for my 33th birthday. That led to a trip to Barcelona along with some really good friends. My favorite place was probably Parc Guell. I was staying just a couple of blocks away, so I was lucky enough to be there literally everyday.
My favorite bit from Picasso’s museum was his schoolbooks with his childhood sketches all over them on display and the room full of studies from his tribute to Velasquez’s famous piece “Las Meninas”
I was staying at a friend’s place which made me draw on his fridge. “ All guests do!” he said and as you can see he wasn’t lying. Plus I made a stencil that he came up with to decorate his white table. We ended up “decorating” some walls around the city as well the same night.
Unfortunately it was neither the place nor any of the things I did there that made my 33th birthday memorable. It was the grim coincidence of Jean Giraud’s (Moebius) passing on the very same day. I cannot even begin to describe the impact his work had on me. It was one of my greatest influences. A silent teacher. And so, my happy birthday suddenly turned to just birthday.
Life is change!
This last six months have been a wild ride. It got really rough at times but truth is, it couldn’t have brought me to a better place. The need for change upon life, work and everything in between was suddenly too obvious. Leaving Athens to move to Crete, my home island, is probably the most worth mentioning stop on this ride and the only thing I’m wondering now is why oh why didn’t I do it sooner!
Fresh starts go hand in hand with sorting out a lot of shit and for that you need some peace and quiet. Internet somehow was really noisy for my poor brain so I pretended it didn’t exist for a while, as I did with lots of things. Made things easier.
I’ll be posting some of the stuff I was up to during that time, along with sketches and everything else that might seem worth sharing.
I did this one in my sketchbook the day I was moving out of the city. I kept adding stuff on top of the pile as days went by.
Stay tuned. More to come.