The award I won was for the first two works of a series I planned on children involved in war. The past weekend I was continuing working on this series, now trying to use pastel on a girl from the Colombian FARC.

I was not happy with the results, but I was a little tired to continue struggling with the pastels so I took a break and made an Indian ink drawing with quill. It was years since my last drawing with Indian Ink! I still like it very much, however I should be very careful to control my hand and the flow of ink.

The model was a WWII reenactor whose photo I found in the Internet.

 

I have got two awards at the  Chilean Fine Arts Society at their Autumn Salon: First place on Mixed Technique and Second Place on Drawing (I got also an additional medal for the first place from the Chilean Japanese Institute Too!)Tonight I am going to the ceremony!

http://www.snba.cl/paginas/informa/otono13.htm

 

 

 

"Childhood" (War-Child 1) Oil on Gesso over newspaper and Disney comics over canvas, and "Victory and Peace!" (War Child 2), pencil on paper.