by admin | January 20, 2022 | Restoration and conservation
Reversibility in restorative treatments in general is a condition and criterion of great consideration. It is part of the same restorative function to be able to go back on improvable treatments for the conservation of the restored artistic object or document....
by admin | November 11, 2021 | ORIGAMI en
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...
by admin | May 29, 2021 | ORIGAMI en
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.,...
by admin | January 31, 2021 | TROMPE L'OEILS
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...
by admin | December 30, 2020 | TROMPE L'OEILS
The sketch is the result of materializing the initial idea with some procedure. In my case I am going to explain it about the drawing prior to painting, but other cases may be the “modellino” of a sculptor, even the mechanical ingenuity to scale of the...
by admin | December 3, 2020 | Art, Restoration and conservation
Vintage is the term with what we begin to call any object that takes us back to the style of the twenties of the twentieth century. Because in the twenties of the twentieth century modernity began to label aesthetically. And with this came the “isms” and...
by admin | July 15, 2020 | Art
THE LINING OR REINFORCEMENT OF THE TEXTILE SUPPORT Lining is a technical restoration procedure that involves attaching a lining to the original textile backing. Also called re-sizing, it has been a widely used technique. Already in the times of the Alcázar de los...
by admin | June 7, 2020 | Art
The trompe l’oeils inspirations of L’Atelier de Santi results in open doors with a frame from an inside view. In others cases a frame with a view to the outside. Like this case, “Panorámica del Berrocal”, oil on panel, where the frame is...
by admin | April 7, 2020 | TROMPE L'OEILS
Many of the tricks I expose in The Santi’s Workshop have an ethnological basis. Very ethnological, I would venture to point out, is the content of trompe l’oeils, since the models of life in which I am inspired are collected from my most immediate urban...
by admin | February 3, 2020 | TROMPE L'OEILS
Visual illusion because painting has always pursued illusion through its plastic expression. It is their reason for existing communicating through the vision, as the art of music does through the ear. And create sensations, illusions, and therefore mimic reality in...
