Vero Navarro

Beautiful Forever

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:31:00 +0000

This is my submission for the Beautiful Forever temporary tattoo show, curated by the super nice people at Light Grey Art Lab.
This was super fun to do and gave me te opportunity to bring back my old working methods. Maybe it is time to do some more of this kind of stuff. I had forgotten how fun it was. :)

Click on the image to go to Ligh Grey Art Lab shop.
You can purchase the tattoo sheet for just 10$

About "Beautiful Forever" show

Beautiful Forever embraces the ephemeral, flashy, and clever designs inherent in temporary tattoos. This exhibition includes the work of 40 contemporary illustrators interested in committing to creating work for the non-committal tattoo enthusiast. This exhibition is from March 22, 2013 through April 12th, 2013.

Curated by Light Grey Art Lab

Hey! Do you want to see one of those process gifs?

And a bit more of the line work and vectors work.

My solo show! Forever Late

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:18:00 +0000

A quick post and pictures about the opening of my solo show at ESDIP art school in Madrid last week.
Thanks to everyone that attended!!

Here is the poster

This is how it looks like at the entrance.

Some pictures I took while we were preparing the gallery.

The caos!

My partner in crime, Fernando Rubio

Everything's ready!!

Showtime!

ehem! Hi...

The show will be open until April 4th at ESDIP.

Calle Santa Engracia, 122, Madrid.

Stars will fall tonight

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:49:00 +0000

Coloured pencils over kraft paper

Actual size: 30 x 45 cm

The Fisherman's Wife

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:11:00 +0000

Hey everyone, this is my latest illustration. I hope you like it!

Coloured pencils over kraft paper

Actual size 30x45cms

Deafening Silence

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:32:00 +0000

Coloured pencils over kraft paper 30x45 cm

Detail 1

Detail 2

Actual size

Pssst! hey! It's january 1st

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:17:00 +0000

...if you know what I mean :)

Time to unwrap those shiny new calendars!

And again, I wish you all a joyful new year

Happy 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Be happy! :)

Ilustrísima 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Yesterday Ilustrísima 2012 finally closed it's doors and now it's time to share some pics and videos of the event.
This is a clip from TVE news about the art fair (in spanish)
And yes, I have my few seconds of glory on it :) Can you spot me?

Ver vídeo

And now some pictures!

My stand

Sorry for the poor illumination, the pictures I have of it with daylight
were all taken with my phone and the quality is terrible :S

Some curious visitors

Some visitors trying to get a better sight

Zuzanna Zelej and Nader Sharaf works

Nikita Rodriguez talking to visitors

With yellow tee, El Rubencio

Kike de la Rubia re arranging his prints

Paper Pan papercut works.

Everyone where invited to sneak among hundreds of original artworks.

Sol Undurraga aka Mujer Gallina talking to a customer.

We were also invited to draw over the Museo ABC windows, so here I am during my "glass staining operation". We were provided with Posca Markers for the job

The picture was taken by one of my brothers, who kindly assisted me during all the fair.
It is good to have a big family :)

Finished!

I wish I had taken pictures of the rest of the works, I am a terrible reporter... I just have this one of Kike de la Rubia doing his thing

And one of the most amazing things about the fair was that we had the chance to see some of the most badasses spanish illustrators live drawing during the market hours.

Raúl Allén drawing on his iPad closely observed by Fernando Vicente

We also had the chance to see among others Enrique Flores, Javier Olivares, Fernando Vicente, Juan Ramón Alonso or Antonia Santolaya...

My balance? well... That. Was. Super. Fun.
I had the chance to talk with some of my favourite illustrators and meeting a lot of new ones. Very inspiring! Also, for someone who is used to work alone with the only company of a lamp and a cat, sharing my work with "other human beings" and seeing their reactions was kind of shocking. I tend to be very critic about my own work so hearing words of approval from so many different personalities was kind of a therapy. I feel nothing but humble gratitude for everyone who showed up and stopped by to chat with me.

And of course, thanks to Museo ABC and the artists collective Fatal de lo mío, who organized the event and gave us the opportunity of taking part on it.

The Water Maiden

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:13:00 +0000

Hey y'all!

This is what's kept me busy for the last two days.

I had planned it to be the classic scene of a sailor and a siren, but then I changed my mind. It was too obvious, so I turned her into a creepy-dead-maiden-of-the-water in her eternal search for someone to play with in the bottom of the lake. You know, cause fishes are sort of limitated when you are trying to have a rich and interesting conversation...

colour pencils over kraft paper
30,5x45,5cm

Some close ups :)

Close up
Clic to enlarge

This piece will be available for purchase in my panel from the oncoming art fair Ilustrísima 2012.

I'll be there selling my originals among dozens of super cool illustrators. If you are in Madrid between 13th and 16th come, take a look and if you see me, say hello!
I'll be glad to meet you :D

The last leap

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:04:00 +0000

I finally, found the time to close the trilogy :-)

Here you got the last of my three crazy lil' jumpers.

Coloured pencils over kraft paper 20x20cm each.

Number 3

And this is a quick compo of the three together.
Click to enlarge (a lot)

2013 Calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:17:00 +0000

And here it is. My 2013 Calendar is ready! :-)

This year it's composed of 6 colored pencils illustrations about people wearing masks. Two months for each page plus the cover. They are printed in 200gr cardboard paper and comes with the pages unatached so you can display them as you please (framed, pinned, hanged...)

here are some pictures:

6 ilustrations plus the cover
Click to enlarge

Detail of the wrappings
Click to enlarge

actual size: 14x28 cms
Click to enlarge

How to get yours? It's quite simple!

just email me at:

vnavarrc@gmail.com

Tell me your name, address and how many calendars you'd like to purchase.

The price is 10€ /13USD plus shipping. Payment via bank transfer. If you prefer Paypal, please add 6% due to taxes.

If you have been following this blog, You've been able to see the several sneak peeks I've posted featuring the illustrations inside.

Anyway, I'll post more pictures ASAP.

If you liked this, please, don't forget to share it with your friends :)

Tons of oncoming new stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:09:00 +0000

Hey all. Sorry for this long non-blog entries period.

I'm glad to say that I've been really busy preparing some great projects for the next months. And that's why I've been neglecting the blog. Time to fix that.

So, here we go. First news I have for you is that I am finishing what will be my 2013 calendar. Don't worry, I'll let you know when it is ready. Below there are some sneak peeks from the illustrations you'll be able to find in it:

Sorry for the low Q of the pictures.
I took them with my phone and it is far from being an iPhone

Now, let me make a little stop in the newsfeed:

During the last weeks, there has been a lot of people asking me about the technique I use for my kraft paper illustrations. Well, now I'm working on the calendar I took some process pictures of one of the pages so you can see better what my work process is like. as yo can see I only use colored pencils and here below is the proof.

Note: I tend to start with just one color and as I go I add more tones

This is the scan I made from the finished illustration.

If you notice some colour incoherences between this, and the camera pictures they are due to

how extremely difficult it is to scan colour pencil works. The lines allways look more sharp and harsh than they really are. I wish i could buy a good camera to take pictures instead of scanning. I 'm sure the images would look closer to reality...

Also, if anyone has some hints on how to get better scans I'll be glad to hear about. Really.

And now let's get back to the news.

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Ilustrísima 2012 poster

Next December I'll take part in Ilustrísima 2012. If you are in Madrid between the 12th and the 16th you'll be able to find me selling some of my original artworks and also some merch in there. It will be located in the Museo ABC de la Ilustración tha is in Calle Amaniel, next to Plaza de España.

During the market days there will be also a lot of activities related to ilustration.

Well, that's gonna be fun :)

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And one more announcement. I'm preparing a solo show that will be happening next spring. I'm really excited about it and I hope I can give you more details soon.

Untill then I'm doing the happy dance inside my head all the time.

Little ones

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:51:00 +0000

This is a present for two of my frends who moved together to a new home a few weeks ago. Instead of making a regular portrait I thought it would be more fun to transform them into the animals they've allways resembled to me.

colour pencils over kraft paper

And hell yeah, this was fun to do! :)

The fall II

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Two down, one to go. :)

20x20cms colour pencils over kraft paper

An here's a hidden bonus track:

"Pepper Pan and the light thief"

The fall I

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:49:00 +0000

This is something I've been doing today.
It's the first piece from a series of three.

Colour pencils over kraft paper 20x20cm

Night time comes

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:41:00 +0000

Colour pecils over kraft paper 21x14cm

I'm not sure where this came from, but I'm glad it did. I love doing ramdom drawings :)

House of invisible children

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 21:50:00 +0000

"They called it the house of invisible children.
They never were invisible to me"

Kraft paper - Colour pencils - 20x20 cm

The war pilot's wife

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:14:00 +0000

Something I've been doing during the last week. :)

Graphite and Adobe Photoshop

And here's the previous linework

Graphite pencil

Holiday sketching episode III

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Some of the holiday sketches i did the past weeks while I was having an overdose of beach, olympics and southern Andalucía lovely villages.

Three Stars

Three Stars II

The Crown

GIVEAWAY! // ¡SORTEO!

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:00:00 +0000

¡SORTEO! // GIVEAWAY!

Colored pencils over kraft paper

Actual size of the illustration

Si quieres ganar esta pieza original, no tienes más que:

1- Hazte fan de "Vero Navarro" en Facebook
2- Pulsa "me gusta" en la publicación del 23 de Julio que anuncia este sorteo.

Y ya está, estarás participando.

Si además quieres aumentar tus posibilidades, puedes GANAR UNA PARTICIPACIÓN EXTRA compartiendo dicha publicación con tus amigos. (Pero recuerda que antes has de haber hecho lo especificado en los pasos 1 y 2)

Tienes hasta la medianoche del próximo viernes 28 para participar. El sorteo tendrá lugar el próximo sábado 28 de Julio de 2012 y anunciaré al ganador/ganadora aquí, en mi página de Facebook y en Twitter.

SUERTE!!!

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If you want to win this original piece, you just have to:

1- Become a fan of "Vero Navarro" on Facebook

2- Hit "like" in the july 23rd post that announces this giveaway.

That's it, so easy!

If you also want to increase your chances, you can EARN AN EXTRA PARTICIPATION by sharing that post with your friends. (But remember, first you'll have to do what is specified in steps 1 and 2)

You`ll have until midnight on Friday 28th to participate (GMT+1 time). The draw will take place on Saturday July 29th, 2012 and I'll announce the winner here, on my Facebook page and on Twitter.

GOOD LUCK!!

Starting a new project.

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:14:00 +0000

Here is a sample of what is about to come.

I've allways loved super short stories, so why dont mix them with illustration?

"Cecilia had an amazing ability:
She could become invisible in plain sight"

Colored pencils and Digital Typography

For this project I've had to create my own typeface. Fun but it takes a lot of time and energy.

This is a sample:

Don't judge me, it was my first approach into typo-world!

This was just the first piece I hope I can do a lot more before summer ends.

The Dragonfly Mistress

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 09:19:00 +0000

The Moth Master needed a companion in crime, so I invented her.

Colored pencils and PS
Click to enlarge

Here are some previous sketches and the linework for this piece.

The Moth Master

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:06:00 +0000

New piece.

Coloured pencils and digital editing

Here are some images of the linework for this piece.

Click to enlarge

New website

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0000

Hi! I'm so glad to introduce you to my new portfolio online at:

veronavarro.co

Thanks for visiting! and don't forget to share it with your friends :-)

Love!

Courtney Love

noreply@blogger.com (Vero Navarro) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:50:00 +0000

Something I had in mind for a long time. Miss Courtney Love.

Graphite and Adobe Photoshop CS5

Detail