A Dream Came True….

People who have already been to Spain surely know them: the posters -called “cartel taurino” – announcing bullfight events, like the following ones

In the past, I don’t know if it is still “in”, but when tourists came to Spain they used to buy these posters, but after putting their name on the list of the bullfighters on the poster. I never did that myself, but well, it is quite a funny idea in fact…

Anyway, since I have started painting bullfight motifs, I have always dreamed that one day some corridas organising company contacts me, asking if they could use my paintings on their posters,

Well, my dream came true: Two days  ago, a company called Ferrodex contacted me , asking for my paintings, their aim being to give the fiesta a more artistic touch by the way of the posters. Ferrodex is a national Spanish company, organising all kind of events related to bull and bullfight across the whole of Spain. They even have two of their own fincas, rearing bulls and selling them for bullfight…

We might come to an agreement…

And when we do, I will also have my name on the posters… but not as a matador, as an artist!

Man, Bull and Horse in Digital Light

After a portrait of Keith Richards, which I posted the other day, another example of pure Digital Art.

I do believe that the computer tools are very adequate to express the vibrancy of the Fiesta…

A “painting”‘ based on a wonderful photo taken by my French friend and bullfight lover Joel D. My special thanks goes to him for allowing me to use his photos.

MERCI JOEL!

Like a Bull in an Artshop

I have added today some bullfight paintings and other stuff to my new online shop Miki’s Mart.

It is not easy to make a choice, what to put for sale, and what not. Tastes are so different! And I have had the experience in my life that my taste often does not correspond to the clients’ taste. or at least there is a time difference… what I most like today my clients will like most in about 2 years!

I have often wondered about this phenomena, as I have heard the same from other artists.

I was asking myself if the artist is always  ahead of his clients’ time…

Anyway, among all my bullfight paintings, and as a contradiction to the theory I just presented and the aim that a shop which should be to sell what what people want to buy,  I chose to put for sale this one above, which is my most favourite bullfight painting of all time!

Back Fighting The Bulls…

I will have soon “to fight the bulls ‘ again, so i have started yesterday  to practise again, always on the search of new bullfighting techniques…

I have painted that one today, a quite complicated mixed technique!

By the way, if you are still  interested in my bullfight calendar 2009, or already in the new calendars 2010, or in my bullfight mugs, simply got to

my bullfighting art site

The Toroscapes

One would not believe it, but judging by the quantity of hits on my bullfight post on this blog and of  enquiries I personally receive in my mailbox:

there is a big market for Bullfight paintings around the world!

A friend of mine from the U.S.A., who is trying to help me market my calendars there, wrote to me:

“… One thing to remember is that America is a microcosm of many different people, styles and tastes…no different than any place else really, except here we do have a lot of special interest groups, and lobbyists for special needs. The Animal Rights groups are very powerful and influence a lot of laws and perceptions. Bull Fighting items of any kind will be difficult to mass market….the cultural climate is not conducive…”

Well, this is certainly true in Europe too, and even more so where I live. But I have my very own experience in this matter and I answered to him that what people publicly follow is one thing and what they then privately do is quite another.  I have said many times: I sold many bullfight paintings to people who hate bullfighting! I think this says a lot…

Anyway, I have decided to create a new website entirely dedicated to my Bull and Bullfight Art, simply called

T O R O

And to inaugurate it, I started a new series of bullfight paintings, from the “Scapes Family”, called

The Toroscapes.

Like the others Scapes, a mixed technique of classical and digital art.

Like always, “only” available as Giclee prints… an amazing printing technique by the way, the results are really fascinating, so true in colours, details and structure… and with the huge advantage that you can get them in different sizes and on different formats, canvas even!

With this new website I have also opened a new blog, dedicates to the Bulls. You are very welcome to join me there, to comment or even become a co-author. And honestly, I would love to meet some people with whom I can speak about the bulls!

English, French, Spanish and German languages are welcome!

Busy Busy…

Sorry, my friends… No time to blog right now, I am preparing 2 big exhibitions, all together about 80 paintings. The exhibiting artists will know what a work that means!

The first one will start on Wednesday in Vera (Spain, Almeria). I will exhibit there bigger acrylics paintings on canvas, characterized by strong colours (as always I guess!) and structures.

The other one will start on Friday, in the culture centre of Moajcar (Spain, Almeria). The main theme will be bullfight paintings.

Both exhibitions are meant to introduce me in that area, as we are moving there right now. I will open a new gallery/atelier in Turre   (Spain, Almeria) in October, so you see, still much work to come!

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

Inside a Shroud of a Thousand Plastic Bubbles…

Well, the big bull I had to fight is comfortably installed in his coffin now, beautifully wrapped inside a shroud of a thousand plastic bubbles, the entire creation standing in a van which will leave Spain in some days in the direction of the U.K. I Just hope that the bull -which in fact is not really dead!- won’t cause too much havoc inside there, and that the client will welcome him as a pet to adorn his living room…

I enjoyed that fight, although 2 months ago, after having painting the 13 bullfights for the 2010 calendar I had sworn to myself not to go back into the arena for a while. But well, this is what one calls “aficion”, one can’t do anything to prevent it!

Acrylics on canvas – 144 x 195 cm

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

Toros Counting Your Days…

As I announced in the past a big European editing and printing company took me under contract in 2007 to make bullfight calendars. The calendar 2009 has just been published and is now available,

It is 42 x 42 cm big, beautiful ( ), hand-signed and personally dedicated if you wish…

Please leave me a comment here or contact me at “miki@goodaboom.com” if you want to order one.

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #13

“Si nuestro teatro tuviese el temblor de las fiestas de toros, sería magnífico. Si hubiese sabido transportar esa violencia estética, sería un teatro heroico como La Iliada… Una corrida de toros es algo muy hermoso”
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán

(Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist, 1866 – 1936)

(“If only our theatre had the shivering of the bullfight feasts, it would be wonderful. If it only knew how to transport that aesthetic violence, it would be a heroic theatre, like the bullfight arena. A bullfight is something very beautiful.”)

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T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart

“Toro 2010″: new bullfight paintings – #12

“Existe una identidad entre el amor y el arte, en ninguno de los dos cabe la voluntad.”
Juan Belmonte (Spanish Bullfighter, 1892-1962)

(“There is a common identity between love and art: there is no place for the will in either.”)

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As a passionate artist and a passionate lover, I can only agree and add:

I am a faithful servant of art and love, and this is my freedom.

Please visit my new website:

T O R O : Bull and Bullfightart