Thursday, May 28, 2009

Meet the Correspondents--Enrique Flores


I spent five years at Fine Arts university in Madrid plus 2 years doing a Master in Arts Graphic Design at St. Martins, London. I workedin advertising (JWT) for a while before choosing the weird life of the freelance ilustrator. I draw mostly children books that can be seen at my site www.4ojos.com

I also work for El Pais, an important Spanish newspaper. Those images can be seen at my blog www.4ojos.com/blog

I keep day-to-day diaries and I store them in boxes. I guess I must have filled 200 or so. Everytime I go on my travels I make sketches and lately, photos. The first sketchbook I remember was a black and white ruled paper I filled in 1990 in Cuba with biro. None of the sketches takes me more than half an hour and I´m OK when I do about 4-5 drawings a day.

When I´m in ugly places I try to draw just to keep my hand working, no matter of the subject.

I use W&N and Schmincke watercolours and I use now a plastic box of 10 Winsor and Newton half pans. It´s smaller and less heavy than the Schmincke metal box and more comfortable for carrying around.

As for the image above, here you have a foto and drawing I did in Athens just to make sure eye and camera look differently.

un abrazo
Enrique

6 comments:

  1. Welcome, Enrique, I'm delighted you could join us! Can't wait to see more posts from you...and thank you for answering all my questions!

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  2. Hi Enrique - great to have you here as well and be part of this wonderful team!

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  3. Your website is amazing! I like that you don't let ugly places stop you from drawing!

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  4. Hi Enrique, nice to meet you. I had a look at your website... what an interesting layout with all your sketchbooks across the bottom like that so one can pick and choose to have a look.

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  5. Thanks to all. I live in Madrid same as some other 4 million people, but I´ll try to look for some nature around so I can post frequently!

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  6. We'll look forward to that, Enrique! I've always loved your travel sketches and landscapes...

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