Foreplay

The third of the Love Story Trilogy I did yesterday instead of washing up the glasses…

Bubble Boy – 16 -

Bubble Boy - 16 - , by Miki

(Original German Version)

(Bubble Boy – 1 -)     (Bubble Boy – 15 -)

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I have started to publish Bubble Boy, my illustrated tale for Children  (small children and big children…) in Cafe Literati. I will post here the illustrations, twice the week, Mondays and Thursdays, with a link to the texts in Cafe Literati.

Here we go!

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(next instalment on Monday 2nd March 2009)

By Miki

Bubble Boy – 15 -

Bubble Boy - 15 - , by Miki

(Original German Version)

(Bubble Boy – 1 -)     (Bubble Boy – 14 -)

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I have started to publish Bubble Boy, my illustrated tale for Children  (small children and big children…) in Cafe Literati. I will post here the illustrations, twice the week, Mondays and Thursdays, with a link to the texts in Cafe Literati.

Here we go!

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(next instalment on Thursday 26th February 2009)

By Miki

A Pint of Beer in Portugal

In case you are wondering what I am artistically doing right now, and to let you know that I am not only relying on the work I did about 25 years ago (Bubble Boy), just a short announcement here. You  remember perhaps that we both, Kev Moore and me, spent about 7 weeks in Portugal last Summer, a wonderful trip from the South to the North and down again… I tried to sketch every day, and in fact I managed  to do  quite a lot. As we came back, in the middle of July, I immediately started finishing the sketches and publishing them here on my blog and in Flickr. But well, we had so much to do then, fixing our house in Albir to put it for sale on the market, moving from Albir to Turre, installing and opening my new gallery here, some big exhibitions and commissions between, so I had to stop.

Well, on the 1st of January, I resolved to finish my Portugal sketches series and to go on publishing them. I just finished some which I made in Barca de Alva, where we  (accidentally) attended the Power Boats World Championship.  This one represents the beer stand on the day of the final…

If you want to see the whole series (about 160 sketches so far) simply go

here.

And God created the Flowers…

From my last series: “La Création du Monde”

I don’t really believe that God’s first flowers looked like that…

but well, I had more experience with flowers that HE  had as he created his!

Anyway, sorry but no time for more words today,

I’ve got to paint!

This painting is available directly online as Giclee print in many different dimensions, on paper or canvas, and also as greeting cards. Just click on the widgets below to access my FAA store

 

And more generally you can see all the stuff I paint by going to my gallery “Miki’s Enchanted World”

The First Wedding: Give Me a title!

I have decided to submit this painting from my new series

“La Création du Monde”

to your fantasy, allowing it as the next subject from my competition “GIVE ME A TITLE”

To participate is very simple: just give me a title for this painting. The actual title

“The first Wedding”

comes, like always, from Kevin Moore.

You can leave the title here as a comment (and I´ll add it myself to the list of the other titles in my website Goodaboom), or you can go directly to the competition page Give Me A Title.

By the way: there is something to win, a small hand-signed, personally dedicated Giclee print of the painting. The competition will last until the end of January.

Good Luck and thanks for participating!

The last competition  has been won by  LostinWonder, U.S.A. with the wonderful title

“Echos of the Sirens”

I read the news today, oh boy!

About one month ago I wrote an entry telling that I had been contacted by a newspaper from Costa Rica, asking me for the authorization to publish one of my Portugal sketches, “An Old Couple in Lisbon”, to celebrate the international day of the senior citizen.

Of course I agreed, and some days ago I received by mail some samples of the newspaper. I am extremely emotional about this event, and just wanted to share it wth you!

Moore Music and More…

Kev Moore in action!

Most of you here will already know him as I never miss an occasion to tell you about him, how much I love him and how much he supports me in my artist’s career!

2 weeks ago we finished making my new gallery in our new place,  and without waiting one second he then started building his new sound studio.

To mark this occasion he started a new blog yesterday, which he will entirely dedicate to his musician’s life, and believe me…

IT ROCKS!

So if you want to know MOORE about a Rocker’s Life behind the (sound) curtains, just go to

Moore Music

The Enchanted Art is attacking the Market…

Here they are, eventually, my leaflets and visit cards for the new gallery.

The advertising campaign about my Enchanted Art can start now.

I know, calling my Art “Enchanted” might sound a little bit presumptuous, but one calls it aggressive marketing. No chance to avoid it, considering the enormous artistic competition nowadays, if one wants to succeed  

Art is Cool!

You might think, this phrase sounds really cheesy! But I tell you: in the cheeky context Kevin and me used it, it is simply genial! Just have a look at this photo and you will understand:

Yes, we had the idea (and Kevin the patience) to write it on a fridge!

But what has this fridge to do with art, you might ask?

Well, I have currently a big exhibition in the Culture Centre of Mojacar. Have a look at the photo of the inauguration, taken just after we brought there the drinks and the food, and you will understand, at least partly.

You might have heard and personally noticed that our world is actually not in the best financial state, and well, Spain, for some different reasons which I don’t want to know (I prefer to put my head into the sand of our lovely beaches and wait until the crisis is over), is badly affected. This means, in particular, that our local town hall here has no more money to provide the inauguration buffet for its artists,

A real catastrophe, when one knows that most of the people who come to an inauguration come for the food and the drinks!

But not only can they not provide the buffet, there is not even a fridge there to keep everything cool until it has disappeared into these greedy mouths. I must say that  organising the buffet and keeping it fresh was extremely stressful for both of us. And this is why we decided to donate the quite new fridge from my former gallery in Albir (which I put up for sale some days ago, together with my house) to The Culture Centre, and, above all, to its exhibiting artists

Quite a cool gesture, isn’t it?

And in fact a powerful marketing move, although it was really not meant as such. We were just invited to put my name and  website on the fridge, but I thought the website was enough…

PS: if you are interested in  Kevin’s version of the story go to Cafe Crem.