To illustrate is to make the dream come true. Making the words come alive in images. It gives them movement, shape, feelings, colors, and makes the story visible.
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Cover, mixed media
Cover,mixed media
Cover,mixed media
Cover for Margarita Montes book - mixed media
Cover - mixed media
Pastel
Chapter header for "Jaguar and the Cacao Tree" - watercolor
Chapter header for "Jaguar and the Cacao tree" - watercolor
Illustration - watercolor
Illustration for "The Runaway Shoe" book - watercolor
Illustration for Educational video for kids - watercolor, photoshop
Illustration for educational video for kids - watercolor, photoshop
Illustration for "The Runaway Shoe" - watercolor
Frame from animation about functions of neuron in brain - digital media
mixed media
Medical illustration - watercolor, photoshop
Drawings have their beauty, and it feels different when you draw with real pencil, pen and ink, or charcoal. It is a very relaxing and calming experience.
copic markers
pen and ink
pencil
dry needle print
pen and ink
pen and ink
pen and ink
pen and ink
comic markers
Dry needle print
The mirror - pen and ink
pen, ink and charcoal
I started to paint and draw when I was able to hold a pencil or brush. Around 1 and a half years old. I used and learned a lot of media. I worked in classical, digital media, and combination of both.
Colors, shapes, realistic or abstract. Art is an amazing way to see the world, express the world, be it your own, external or imaginary. It heals, soothes, invigorates, and is very powerful.
Havana. 1966. - pastel
Oil painting
Havana. 1965 - pastel
1965 - watercolor
1965 - pastel
Cuba. 1966 - oil
Cuba. 1966 - oil
Pencil
Painting. Classical media.
2019. Painter. Digital acrylic and pastel.
watercolor, Painter
acrylics
Sun creating life - watercolor
Background from animated movie "The Bubbles" - pastel, pen and ink
oil
watercolor
Digital media allows us to create in different way. I like to combine classical media with digital. It has a different feel and look, but it is beautiful as any art.
Photoshop and Painter
Painter and Photoshop
SketchBookPro
Photoshop and photo
Europa moon - Painter, Photoshop
Painter
Painter
Painter
Painter
Painter
Photoshop, Painter
Art to be projected for a show on stage - Photoshop
Painter
Painter
Photography is magical. It captures moment, light, life, and beauty in a way which speaks to all.
You can see more of my photography on my pages in National Geographic: http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/89837/
This image was favorited by National Geographic editor. I feel honored.
Light after storm
Sunset casts shimmering light through grass
Grass movement in very windy day.
Rich colors of nature. No filters, no Photoshop.
Different view of this beautiful flower.
Calmness in vivid colors of sunrise
The amazing world of nature.
Stanford Cactus Garden, California
Splash in sunlight
Sun is peaking through dense fog
Black and White late morning
I believe many people have nostalgia of old times, when photography was not digital, and had its own charm, beauty, and gave us lots of memories.
Famous Malecon in Habana, Cuba. 1965
23rd Avenue, Havana, Cuba, 1966.
Batabano is small fisherman place in Cuba, very adorable, cozy. Has the charm of old times, leisure tempo of people fishing to eat. We had the best tasting fish there.
The soil is red, rich in iron. 1966.
The palm tree hut, where people lived in the middle of country. Cuba 1966
People are baking/roasting pig - lechon in soil, covered with palm tree leaves. It takes long time, but it is very delicious. Cuba 1965.
Soroa waterfall. Soroa is orchid reservation in jungle. Cuba, 1965.
Soroa resort cabins. Beautiful place.
Split, Yugoslavia then. 1980. Yugoslavia has gorgeous beaches around seashore in Mediterranean.
Selce in Yugoslavia. 1974.
Jelsa, Hvar island. Yugoslavia 1981. This island is covered with lavender, and smells so good. Whole place is just beautiful, with old roman ruins, cypruses, crystal clear water on pebble beaches, pleasant weather, nice people...
Hvar island, Jelsa, beautiful historic chapel. 1981
Web. Internet. It is an awesome source of everything. The important thing to do is to do it correctly. It needs to be visually pleasing, easy to navigate, and you should be able get what you're looking for.
As head of Design for Lucita, I designed the whole site. Here is also my professional part of my portfolio.
Website about Tsunami 2004. We sent wonderful photographer Dan Root to this region, what he experienced changed his life. He shot tons of photos, and we created this site:
Apps and games. The most Important thing is to have apps and games which teach, entertain in good way, and make us think.
Fun app to play
Puzzles, called The Impossibles. These puzzles do not have straight edges, and they give you only a small piece, in which you then figure out the rest of the image on your own.
"The Impossibles" puzzle.
"The Impossibles" puzzle.
Cover for Mickey Mestel book "Wandering Turkana".
Cover for J. Larry Brown book.
Cover fro Kenneth Johnson's book.
Logo design
Logo Design for LUCITA.
Logo design
Animations, to me, gives life to drawings and images, and it is like creating a new life.
One frame from short animation.
Designed exhibit Spirit Images: The Lidz Collection of Southwest Pacific Art on New Guinea in 1997, which focused on the Sepik River region of New Guinea, the most important art center of the vast area known as Oceania.
Curated by Professor Pospisil, head of Anthropology division in Yale University. Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
People loved the exhibit, and we received praise from all around the world.
Some artifacts were positioned on walls, and sand banks were created with the illusion of water under the canoe, and grass was used to imitate real life in New Guinea.
I designed cubes that were made from acrylic, to show artifacts from all sides and to protect them from the environment. I also used lights with moving filters to imitate play of sunlight shining through moving leaves in the jungle.
A different view for this exhibit. We used sounds of the jungle and rainforest combined with native music and voices.
For this section I designed a mural of the jungle to show the tent made from palm tree leaves. We used authentic sounds, and rotating filter in front of the lights to imitate the natural environment of the jungle. People loved it, and we received a lot of praise from around the world.
Bird view on second room. Floors were painted black to have the illusion of floating.
