Sketches on the calendar

These are a few distracted, “phone ”drawings from this year's calendar. Most of them ebony (layout) pencil.

The slideshow includes some cleaned up images— at the end of the year I resist to throw away the agendas without at least keeping some of the doodles in photograph or scan, because I like the raw energy of these.

Online Picasso project

The Online Picasso project is a comprehensive online catalogue of Picasso's oeuvre. The site contents are impressive: 18,647 Catalogued Artworks, 9,092 Artwork Notes, 3,315 Artwork Commentaries, 844 Listed Collections, plus hundreds or thousands of biographical entries and commentaries, references, archived articles...

The database is thoroughly organized, and the artwork to display can be filtered by title, technique, year...  The pages load fast and the catalogued items appear as sorted thumbnails, which can be zoomed in to appreciate the details of selected pieces.

An invaluable resource for art students, designers, artists and art lovers in general.

Visual inspiration stream

“Tumbos” (designermanual.com) is a tumblelog, that is, a brief posts blog, in which I frequently add miscellaneous things that catch my eye, most of them visual inspiration.