Origami flowers at El Atelier de Santi

On one occasion a follower of this website literally commented: “That’s very nice, how is it done? Flowers are quite a recurring motif in origami, and also as inspiration for more complex, modular origami figures. But when I started practising folding I...

Sketch for “The child Swallower” by Borja

The child swallower, a traditional festive figure The “Tragachicos” (The child Swallower) in Borja, Utebo and Zaragoza, the “Gargantua” in Bilbao, the “Tragaldabas” in Logroño, the “Tarasca” in Tarascón (France), etc.,...

Ideal sketch, ideal project at L’Atelier de Santi

The ideal sketch is one that remains in the initial idea, without being made or materialized as a final work. Not for that reason they are failed sketches, but rather they are impulses, generators of ideas and later sketches. That is, they are the true germ of the...