176 . Primo classificato 29/05/2016, Avellino, Italy 🇮🇹

I guess this is the closing post related to the urban sketchers contest organised by the FAI (Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano) in Avellino. Here are all the previous entries:

• 1st drawing: lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x47
• 2nd drawing: lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x05fe
• Preparing the prints: lufo.art/2023/06/originals-and-copies
• Preparing the prints (2): lufo.art/2023/06/19-35-m2-of-dreams

In today's pictures you can see how the prints were set up inside the auditorium used as a showroom. I didn't really do much: all the prints were A3 modules so I stuck one under the other with tape, and then hung each column made by 5 drawings each with two clips from above.

However, the result was quite nice: an organic and at the same structured composition, with a lot of colours and contrasts. Among all those drawings I can see many stories related to the time and place where each of them was made.

The last picture shows the moment when I received the certificate for winning the 1st place in the competition. I also remember the heat of blushing because I had to give a little speech to the public 😅 . . . But tell me dear reader, Should I rebuild that drawing wall digitally? Do you like to give speeches in front of an audience?

Good night 🎤🎙️

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175 . 19.35 m2 of dreams

02/06/2016, Salerno, Italy 🇮🇹

In yesterday's story I talked about the exhibition in Avellino lufo.art/2023/06/originals-and-copies . Today I show you what the prints looked like when they were all together: a 19,35 m2 (13,02 x 1,485 m) collection of drawings made in Italy in the period 2011-2016.

Among those drawings I can clearly see my evolution: the first shy doodles when I took off from Cordoba airport on 14 July 2011, crying like a baby for having achieved what I considered a miracle ( lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x011c , lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x0131 ).

The drawings of 2012 show another Lucas, more confident and thirsty for knowledge, with gestures capturing more and more details of reality. In 2013 and 2014 I was already making very wide and pronounced perspectives, with strong contrasts and a more established technique.

2015 and 2016 were years with explorations that began to combine physical reality and my surreal dreams. This language led me to new mixed compositions that come out of reality and connect with a more dreamlike, whimsical world... . . . But tell me dear reader,  Would you have space to hang these drawings at home? What has been the miracle you have achieved in your life?

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174 . Originals and copies

04/06/2016, Salerno, Italy 🇮🇹

2016 was the year I started doing public exhibitions with my drawings. One of these presentations was in Avellino, after the competition for urban sketchers that I have mentioned before: lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x47 , lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x05fe

The theme of the exhibition was the celebration of the 5 years since my first trip to Italy, and the trips I made within Italy once I moved in 2013. So, I proposed an exhibition with (almost) all my drawings from Italy between 2011 and 2016.

However, I did not have all my sketchbooks from 2011 and 2012 because some of them were stolen during my stay in Paraguay lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x0352 . For that reason - and also to unify sizes- I made prints with which I covered the two main walls of the exhibition hall.

But a problem arose when I saw the prints and compared them with the originals: the colours were totally different! This happened due to two things (mainly) 1 - the printer converted the colour palette, killing the original settings; and 2 - the scans follow the drawings as they were originally, but the watercolours lose saturation with time...

However... after looking at the result a couple of more times... I think they weren't that bad after all.... . . . But tell me dear reader,  Do you prefer the original or the copy? Should I scan my drawings, matching the original colours, or do I have to tune it as I like?

Good evening 📠💬

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173 . Mitte (III) Last session

22/06/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 Watercolours and Creative Meeting

Today I finished #Mitte, another work of the Escher-like collection I'm doing, the 1st one using two vanishing points, and the 1st one dedicated to a Berlin neighbourhood. Here are the previous sessions: I - youtu.be/V73D4PSU4Sc , II - youtu.be/xqu1BGkOpbo

I confess that I am very satisfied with the result. As you can see, the work has changed radically with respect to the first colouring session. Now, instead of having a carnival of colours in the background, it has become more uniform and with fewer tones. I mean, the drawing is still very colourful but with many unified spots, which gives a clearer vision of the geometry.

Today's creative meeting was at the lovely Coffee Pony in Schöneberg. N., M. and I enjoyed a lovely afternoon, and got a wonderful table near the window (thanks guys!).

Tomorrow I'll try to scan the drawing although I probably won't get to print it before the markets BECAUSE there is a wonderful surprise for you all 👀.... What would it be, what would it be Lufo, tell us about it! Well, I can only say.... . . . But tell me dear reader, What do you think of the new Mitte artwork? What do you think my surprise might be about?

Good night ☕️🥮

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172 . Drying watercolour stains

Watercolour and Time

20/06/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Yesterday after editing the video of #Mitte ( youtu.be/xqu1BGkOpbo ) I went to a bar for a bite to eat. While I was waiting for the food to arrive I started to observe the people around me. This is something I like to do also in the underground, just watching people looking at their phones, totally lost and abstracted from this world.

Sometimes I even play in my head what they would be doing: whether they would be talking to someone (in that case I also include some imaginary dialogues), watching some video, or just feeling their dopamine levels rising by scrolling up and down an endless "wall".

Sometimes I'm a bit terrified of becoming an automaton, an empty human, so I try to connect with physical reality and let digital habits not take up all my time. So yesterday I tried this game: I made some random stains with watercolours and watched them drip away and dry.

You might think: that's boring as hell. Well, I'm not going to say it's like an action movie. However, as I was focusing on the spots I entered a meditative state and started to perceive things happening around me without looking at them: conversations, movements, people stopping and looking at my painting too... .
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But tell me dear reader, Would you be able to see watercolour stains drying instead of Netflix? Have you seen the beautiful shades of colours blending and drying?

Good evening 👀🎨

Lufo Art
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171 . Mitte (II) Video

20/06/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Yesterday I promised to upload the time lapse video of the 2nd session of #Mitte. So here I am, keeping my word. Today was a very calm but productive day. It started with a beautiful rain, the kind that rains like vertical waterfalls with big drops almost noiselessly.

The morning had been very humid, so the rain plus a little wind helped a lot to make the atmosphere fresher. I took advantage of that atmosphere to write a few paragraphs for an article I am preparing, while sipping my morning coffee and watching the green of the park in front of me.

When I left the house it stopped raining, and when I came out of the subway, half an hour later, the humidity had risen again to 50000% 🫠. I spent the afternoon at a place I'll call G. for now (you may hear more often about this place soon 👀).

Initially, I had hoped to finish Mitte today, but when I arrived at this place the table I planned to use was occupied. So I gave up on my initial plan, kept writing some more paragraphs and then edited the video... . . . But tell me dear reader,

Do you like the picture in this video better, with the drawing more stable? Or do you prefer the drawing to rotate more often, to make the video more dynamic?

Good night 🐿️💧

Lufo Art . . . #LMCC 3P-3WM-30%

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170 . Mitte (II)

Watercolours and Creative Meeting

19/06/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

After doing the structure of #Mitte a couple of days ago ( youtu.be/V73D4PSU4Sc ), today I did the first watercolour session. You will say: wait a minute, where is the time lapse video? Well, I have the recordings but I'm too tired to edit it today.

You may wonder why I feel this way... I can tell you that my morning started late (very late!) and then I had a totally unexpected meeting that could give a new future to Lufo Art. So, I could start painting just after that meeting, more exactly at 14:30.

I spent lovely 5 hours in Weinerei Forum, near Rosenthaler Platz, a place I got to know thanks to T. a couple of months ago. During the whole session, I had the wonderful company of N.: we ate, drank coffee and talked about life.

On my way home something super nice happened: I was in the U-bahn and I took my drawing out of the folder to look at the results again. Then, a random person spoke to me to say nice things about my art.... You can't imagine how good does that feel!

Tomorrow I will edit the video and I will share it with you all...

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But tell me dear reader,

What do you think about the result?

How was your Monday?

Good evening 🚈🛸

Lufo Art

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169 . More Berlin TV Towers

Watercolours and fine tuning in Berlin

18/06/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪

Good evening my dear reader! Today I share with you more versions of Tuned in Berlin. Here you can find some of the previous ones: lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x061e , lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x057b

Let me make a suggestion: if you ever draw Berlin's TV Tower and find yourself selling drawings in the Mauerpark, I strongly recommend you to do this kind of variations to increase your sells... Ah! You don't paint? Awesome, then you can buy them from me 🤪😂

Talking seriously, these alternative versions are a hit. I'm above number 20 in the series: they're selling pretty well since I started with them a couple of weeks ago. And even more since I implemented the Towers of Mordor lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x064b

Just today I sold four of them. And during the market I've also painted four new versions, so I can say that I've sold what I've painted... It took me less than an hour to paint all four (selling in between).

But of course, this is the tip of the iceberg, how many things did I do before to get the original? How many things did I need to learn and try before I knew this formula would work?

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But tell me dear reader,

knowing that there are more than 20 versions out there?

would you still consider them exclusive and buy one from me?

Good evening ✈️🎡

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168 .  A coffee in Amsterdam (II)

Ink and watercolours

22/12/2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱

You may remember that coffee in Amsterdam I had before going to Leiden lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x02de . It was the same trip where I drew a selfie lufo.art/2023/06/selfie-in-amsterdam and had a Christmas night with a happy ending lenster.xyz/posts/0xd3a4-0x03b9 👀

Today's drawing is another chapter of that trip. It's actually the first drawing I made after stepping on the streets of Amsterdam. I remember being very tired, but the cold and fresh atmosphere were perfect for a walk in the city...

I went to the hostel, left my backpack and got lost in the narrow alleys of Amsterdam. Around midday I got hungry, and I popped into a café for a piece of cake and a hot coffee. I felt super cosy and inspired, so I started to sketch what I was seeing...

The result was this very light sketch that, in my eyes, represents that quiet pre-Christmas atmosphere, the whole world entering a limbo to travel back home... At the end of that journey, I sent this drawing as a gift to a Spanish friend, A.

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But tell me dear reader,

What do you prefer to eat when you are cold?

Do you like to send and receive postcards?

Good night 🍰☕️

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