Chronicle Fuengirola 2012 (I)

Friday at midday I met with my girlfriend and my friend Adrián and we went to eat to Mcdonalds, and when we finished, we went towards Fuengirola. We arrived approximately at 6:30 p.m. to our hotel. We did the check in and go up to our apartment. The choice of hotel was a good decision, as it was spacious and cheap, was an 8 minute drive from the Palacio de la Paz, where was the contest, 5 minutes walking to the beach and close a big shopping center.

At night came Pedro and Carmen (his girlfriend) with his miniatures, and he and Adri paint a short time for to finish and to correct their works,  but only was a short time because the light was not good.

Saturday morning, Adri chose to get up early for to paint with the sunlight. At 11.30h, we went to Palacio de la Paz while Mayte stayed in the hotel pool. We parked and saw the first familiar faces and friends as Rafa Coll or Pepa Saavedra. 

After presenting our miniatures, we see some of presented works and we found that there were several workswith a good quality, with nice works of great painters as Jesus Martin, Pepa Saavedra, Jose Maria Murciano, Fernando Ruiz, Rafa Coll, and Javier Molina. In addition, there were plenty of dioramas, ships, planes, tanks, etc.. 

At midday we went to our hotel again for to met with Mayte and to have lunch. We spent the day talking about our upcoming projects and future trips we like to do, relaxing on the beach and the pool, and watching a movieat night.

XIX Modeling Show Fuengirola 2012

Lately I have little free time for to paint and update the blog bcause I´m moving, but I hope to be already in my new house in june and update more often.

Next 15, 16 and 17 of june,  will be held XIX Modeling Show of Fuengirola (Málaga). I will be there with some of my miniatures and one new scene that is almost finished I have not posted here. 

Article Tau Firewarrior in Game Forces Nº26

Recently has been published an article about my Tau Firewarrior in the Game Forces Magazine.

Spectrum 18

I´ve always liked the illustration, and when I was a kid, spent many hours drawing, which I enjoyed very much and I was good. Eventually, I stopped the practice because I started with the modelism and free time I devoted to painting miniatures.

But I still like to see illustrations, enjoy it and even get good ideas for my future works.

About a year ago, my friend Piqui, another big fan of fantasy artwork, showed me the Spectum artbooks, which i didn´t know and after to look it, I did not take long to buy one of them.

Every year, is celebrated a Fantastic Art Show where go the best illustrators in the world as Boris Vallejo, Luis Royo, Paul Bonner, Donato Giancola, Peter de Sève, Sam Weber, or illustrators of companies as DC Comics, Marvel, Pixar, D&D, Games Workshop, etc. Only the best works chosen for the judges are collected and published in a book that is published annually.

With the discovery of the Spectrum, I have gradually been acquiring different types of artbooks, which I like to browse over and over again carefully from time to time.

In this post I want to present the last one I bought, that I received last week: Spectrum 18, which is precisely the yearbook of 2011.

Down you can to see the cover and a demostration video, and I recommend it to everyone who love the illustration.

Official website: http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/

Golden Demon 2012 dates

The White Dwarf magazine has published the dates of the all Golden Demon 2012. This year, the GD Spain chage his location, returning to Barcelona, as in the beginning. For me is this is a bad new because Madrid es a more central location, and therefore it was easier, faster and cheaperto travel there that Barcelona.

This year all Golden Demon are so close to one another, in the last 6 months, and for this I think most people who before went to two or three GD a year, now can not to go to many because having less time to prepare new works (and to save money in some cases).