Kind of Mussels.

 try it! do you guess on what am I working now?  something totally different and out of my habitude... and it is really being a challenge, I will tell you more in the upcoming days :)

This Sunday, 1st June: Oberbaumbrücke

Yes!
This year again, I am having a stand in this Open Air Gallery, at the bridge between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain.
Hopefully is the weather nice!
Come if you are in Berlin, I am very glad of numerous and joyful visitors!

Petits Jeux N.4

Watercolor, gouache & china ink.

"Petits Jeux N.4"
Watercolor, gouache & china ink.
Size: A4 (21 x 29,7cm, 8" x 11.5")
//SOLD//

Petits Jeux N.3

Watercolor, gouache & china ink.

"Petits Jeux N.3"
Watercolor, gouache & china ink.
Size: A4 (21 x 29,7cm, 8" x 11.5")
//SOLD//

I want to go home!

China ink.
Size A5 (15 x 21 cm, 6" x 8")

I am sitting here in my working place, it is dark outside, it is already late!
But I can not leave! (well, I am leaving right now!) because I can not stop.
Sometimes I don't know how to stop doodling and drawing... like a madness, drawing more and more and more!
here the last drawing for you, two primitive dancers! Gute Naaacht! ;) I am leaving now, yes!

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the wonderful mothers in the world, who help, support, protect, give care... in one word: they give us their hearts.

Collaging doodles N°10

Say it! I know it: you have been missing my "faces" world!
But no problem, I am always doodling faces for you! Here one more.

GEOMETRIES II

Tea, watercolor and pencil.
A4 Size ( 21 x 29.7cm2 - 8 x 11.5")
//SOLD//
(You can buy the PRINT of this drawing here)

GEOMETRIES I

In fact, I started some time ago a "geometrical" or more abstract Series, based on forms and color combinations. Somehow related to movement and music, and somehow inspired in old classic masters too.

Tea, watercolor and pencil.
A4 Size ( 21 x 29.7cm2 - 8 x 11.5")
//SOLD//
(You can buy the PRINT of this drawing here)

Don't think I am an inconsistent that already have abandoned this project! slowly I am keeping working on it.
Here one more. A bit vintage maybe :)

Instant of my Easter Trip.

Berlin - Usedom (Baltic sea) cycling.
Me made around 70km per day.

adding some color digitally.

And now, guess, who is me in the picture??  indeed!
yeah!!! I was kind of.. not the first at all! Not that bad neither, but really few times I left my bottom position! :) I just wanted to control my sheep's flock.
So, there were we: Joachim, Phillip, Sylvia, Sandra and Cati, at the queue, surviving :P

drawing over the sketch with china ink.

first pencil sketch

Landscape was really beautiful! And is a nice experience to feel the changing between places at a real speed of cycling.. but we were ridding quite quickly and nearly the whole day so I couldn't stop drawing as much as I would have liked.

Though I bring you a couple of LIFE SKETCHES that I did at arriving to some spot  in our way. Visit my OTHER BLOG HERE.

Three intensive ridding days, two days in Usedom, Baltic Sea, where we attend the "Easter Fire" at the beach and this crazy bunch of people even swam in the frozen water!

PS- You may notice that the men of our trip were more responsible than the girls, who didn't wear helmets!

A True Story

Bis bald, Berlin!
Bonjour tristesse!
no.. It is not me who is moving..
And sorry, the comic is in spanish.. but it is a real story... about..
...  yes, again good friends moving out Berlin. Back to Spain. They were missing the sun and maybe the fresh fish, or just the family...or just it is time for a change. Again..
But I don't like this feeling, staying so far and good friends moving back! :(

So I drew quite quickly this VERY SHORT SYNOPSIS of these FOUR YEARS of the life that I have been sharing by the side of these good friends, first Martín, who came one year after me to Berlin, and Silvia, one more year later. We have met all here, in Berlin.

It is curious how Life chooses our ways to go on further. Sometimes unexpected...

We will miss a lot the good mood of Martín, and his jokes that always make us laugh in not matter how dramatic situation!

Pop Up TIKI Illustrations

For a Tiki Cocktail book. In the next post  I will show you the dummy that Julia Fröhlich has done so carefully and beautiful.

It was a nice project but the organization and deadlines nearly brought me crazy!

The first sketch

Greeting Cards

Catilustre for SENDMOMENTS.

I started working with this Agency which make customizable cards for greeting, birthdays, weddings, etc.
And I am really looking forward to have the first paper samples on my hands! These are some of the illustrations and lettering I did for them. I hope you like them! So if you want to personalize your Event, go there and have a look at all their beautiful options!

Easter Rabbits & Easter Eggs Cards

Happy Easter to you all!! ( a bit too early)
Do you want a personalized Easter Greeting Card made by me?
or would you like one of these ones, or a bunch of them?
Just write me to: email@catilustre.com. I will be glad to hear from you! :)

And if you want to see all the available Illustrations, Paintings and Prints of me, please visit my Etsy Shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CATILUSTRE

Collaging doodles N°9

I am sure you have been missing my faces doodles! :)

Bonbons Box

for Kruegerol.
They make design competitions regulary for their packaging.
Those were my doodles and proposals.
 It never, or seldom, comes to me a lonely clear idea...normally they arrive in hordes like a storm and when I start to develop them, even new ways appear. I am not good in choosing so I try to develop them all, or a couple of them. Then I can clearly see what better is.

Geometries I - Baroque

I am working in an new Series.
The aim is a line drawing, a mixture of organic and geometry shapes which are involved with the evolution of architecture and its ornamentation.  Later on I am adding a couple of flat colors with photoshop, and at the end, my idea is to create a kind of pattern..
I will let you know how it develops :)

Book Cover Illustration for Ventura Alvarado

The other "cheese maker" as I in a funny way call them.

Ventura Alvarado, by butter processing.
Final illustration.

Ventura Alvarado.
Previous Illustrations and sketches. I had to learn about the dairy tools.

It was not that easy to reach the final and optimal illustrations, because we had two factors:
They should look like the real personage, and there are not many pictures of them. So I had to figure out, for this pose how could they look like. The other thing, was the total ignorance that I had of the tools and instrumental to work with milk. And at this point I counted with the help of the author, who sent me as many pictures of these work tools as I needed.

Book Cover Illustration for Juan Alvarado

At last they are ready!
The illustrations for these interesting biographies of the two brothers, Juan and Ventura Alvarado.
They joined the Free Learning Institution (Institución de Enseñanza libre) which arrived to Spain under the doctrine of Krausism.
But their biggest achievements were in the dairy process in Villablino, a village between León and Asturias. Here started a big development in milk products and machinery which improved the cheese and butter industry across Spain.

The author, Víctor del Reguero, didn´t want they to stay in the obscurity. He and the "Club Xeitu" launched this initiative to publish the book for both biographies.
He entrusted me to do the cover's Illustrations so I learnt more about them and the milk manufacture.

Juan Alvarado by cream processing.
Final Illustration

Juan Alvarado
Progress Illustrations and previous sketches
They didn't work because he seems not to be working, but waiting for a photo :D

And The LOVE CARDS

With love wishes.
Because Love Day doesn't have to be just in Valentine's, it can be every time, any day.
Do you want one? they cost 3 euro each. Size is  6 x 8 1/4" (14.8 x 21 cm) A5. It is like a folded A4.

from Friday on I will take a bit of pause, in this affaire of drawing hearts! ;)

Hearts are raining

from my hand...
Yes, I am like mad drawing thousand of hearts for Valentine's Day..
Who knows, may be it will rain something amazing for me too! ;)
Do you have a quote? do you need a lovely picture? write me an email. Here are just some samples.