Aside

Hey now, don't be sad, 

Just hold my hand, I won't let go

It's a new day, another chance to 

dry your eyes, we'll be alright 

So clear your mind and brush it all aside.

Sometimes things are sad 

and life just seems so out of hand.

You can find me, I'll be right here to

understand, we'll give it time

to heal our wounds and brush it all aside.

Travelogue – Aside

(from the album Fireworks, released by Holiday Records)

You should.. you must listen to that song, not only because it's completely wonderful, and stunning and incredible, (and has real fireworks in it!) but because I did the drawing while listening to that song (and the rest of the album, but mostly this one) and I think that now, the drawing needs the song to be completed. Maybe that's just me.

Well, this was done to thank Holiday Records their existence, for being them, and for releasing such wonderful music. 

I first had the idea of doing something (a drawing, mainly because that's the only way I know) when their web was all new and the "golen age" started, and everything seemed to be so sparkling and things, that I couldn't resist its power of attraction and try and do smth too. (I don't know if this sentence has sense at all, it does in my mind, though)

The thing is I had already in mind that I wanted somone looking through a window (a big one) late at night, while listening to the albums they have released, but I completely failed in doing anything I could actually accept if only as a sketch. So I kind of left the idea behind (don't you think I leave so many ideas on the make? yeah, I do too).

Then, they released the album Fireworks, by Travelogue, and the idea became something I could actually try to do, with the fireworks on the backround and everything.. at least I could try, so I tried. And after so many hours/days of struggle I did it.

And now, a fun fact, I spent like 4 hours with the fireworks. I found it really difficult, almost impossible, but then someone said "Painting starts with pain, so you'll have to suffer to get things done" and I kept fighting 'till I had fireworks the way I wanted them.

I don't know why I'm telling you all of this drawing struggle, I think that it's a way to reafirm to myself how difficult this one was for me (with the fireworks, the light, the album, the vinyl player, etc.) but that in the end, I made it. So please, feel free to not care at all of what I'm telling you, 'cause maybe it's just selfish and mean.

Getting back to the main point, thank you so much Holiday Records. I wanna keep drawing things inspired by the music you release.

Beneath The Cover Of Autumn Skies

"Sometimes I feel like only a cold still life that fell down here to lay beside you"

I started drawing this yesterday as I remembered something I read (*) and it suddently got stucked in my head. I had had the idea before, but I could not think of a way it could become true as a drawing, so I left it behind, but then yesterday it came back to me as something knew, so I started this, and I've just ended it today.

I love the autumn colours, its smell, the cool weather, etc. There are so many good, good things in autumn. I love to go walking everywhere  and just get lost in its senses.

So as I said, some days ago I read something wonderful about listening to an album that suited perfectly the autumn waether and inmediately the image came to my mind. Those first days of autumn when the leaves are in a great palette of red/yellow/brown colours and they fall from the trees, and you can lay in the grass, which is of a deep green colour, and look at a blue or grey sky while you see the leaves falling down helped by a breeze of cold wind that blows through the trees.

I say a word in hopes that it will multiply
to form a sentence that stirs the thoughts inside your mind
You look at me but I'm looking back at you
with both my eyes closed in hopes that it will make you cry

When your words fall down

I drop to my knees with my head in my hands

When my words fall down

It's hard for me to hold my ground

When Words Fall - House of Wires 

In a few days it's gonna be officialy autumn..

(*) #2 House of Wires - You Are Obsolete (Mild Slopes)

Some years ago

This is what I looked like some years ago. All in colours! hahah, I'm sorry, I was just having a little bit of fun remembering things. Now this was maybe long time ago, but it feels like yesterday. Though I don't think you really can change that much, so I'm probably much of the same now, maybe I'm kind of better at hiding it. Though I'm still such a weirdo. :)

Sorry, told ya I was just having some fun, and this was, indeed, fun to do. :) Even more when this song started playing:

I didn't like this one at first, but as I went on listening to it, I just started enjoying it. At least I do from time to time, and now might be one of those times. 

And this song was the one that started this all. This was the one that played with the DisneyLand (Paris) parade when I went there for the second time in my life (I've been there 3 times). It's just that this one has become part of my memories, and always will have a special place in my heart. I remember hearing the first beats of the song and getting nervous because of how much I wanted it to start. And reaching my head up (though I've always been tall, I was still a child so I could not see much) to try and see something. Idk, memories.