Al Mar @ Entre Latas

On November 24th we are doing a small exhibition entitled "El Mar' together with Paula Loew. Those of you in Barcelona please stop by starting 19:30, in Entre Latas, on c/Parlament 7.

From the Arts+Crafts market at Galeria Mutuo

I've been missing from here for a while busy with various projects.. Here are some pictures from the fair last weekend at the Galeria Mutuo. Teresa Herrador as my partner in crime and Jakob Straub on the catering and support.

 

The Prehistoric channel

A recent collaboration with Jakob Straub - an double sided riso-print poster with a story about a boy with fascination for dinosaurs.

New project in the making

I have been working on a new project, still in process/progress but here is a sneak peak

Greece

In June we traveled to Greece, to the region called Pelion ...it's lush green, and blue, and yellow, and just thinking about the place makes take a deep breath and relax a bit more

Summer inspiration

Sometimes the summer night is warm, and welcoming, and you find yourself with good company in a community garden, away from city noise and crowds. Summer inspirations, thank you summer..

Illufest 2016

For the past couple of weeks a small illustration festival took place in Berlin. I took part in the festival, along with some nice illustrators - you can find the complete list and details here http://www.hammeraue.de/illufest/, in the meantime here are some pictures from the opening, and last week

Photo credit Tom Eigenhufe

Photo credit Tom Eigenhufe

Exhibitions afoot

Since coming back from Chile my work has ended up in a few exhibitions, first in Galeria El Catascopio in Barcelona during open studios, festival in Udine, Italy, and finally this coming weekend I will take part in an illustration festival in Berlin http://www.hammeraue.de/illufest/ alongside with a number of nice illustrators including Cristina Sitja whose work I really like. If you happened to be in Berlin this weekend please stop by. I will be showing my work from the Universe series.

Many many projects

I am working on a number of projects at the moment, but here is an illustration I sent in for an exhibition recently

Vida

For a long time now I have taken small steps towards working with fabric. A project called Vida based in San Francisco, CA (but available internationally) has made it possible to experiment with application of art on to good quality fabrics. You can find some more pieces here: http://shopvida.com/collections/voices/alexandra-sternin

New site

After an extended fight with WordPress I win! My new website is finally up. Thank you to Jakob Straub for his patience and help.

Sharjah

This year I took a break traveling for a couple of months in Chile (tiring and amazing). I came back to some good news to have been invited to the Sharjah International Book Fair in the UAE.
My illustrations were selected as second place winners in the exhibition. There were some really fantastic illustrators in the exhibition, so while I am very grateful for the prize, I think arguably there were equally deserving illustrators to hold this spot. In any case, the visit, the fair, and connections were so nice. Particular thank you to Fereshteh Najafi, Sonja Danowski, Valentina Piacenza, Daniel Garson Cabral, Islam Zian-Alabdeen and many many others who made the trip so special.

Té Ilustrado

From a recent exhibition with Paula Loew at Bebe-Té.

A new expo coming up

This has been a long time in the making, and I am really excited to collaborate with Paula Leow a really fantastic ceramicist on a creative tea party.
If you are in Barcelona please join us on February 4th at Bebe-te on Carrer del Parlament 7, Barcelona at 19:30

Some new clay friends

Valentina

Recently Fantagraphic comics asked a number of artists me included to make a tribute to Valentina by Crepax. 
Hmm.. I thought, not my sort of character, but after doing some research, I found a curiously powerful character, still imitated by women today.

forest creatures, sea creatures

Arroz Negro

We entered an illustrated story into small local competition - it was all quickly done, I enjoyed the process and am happy with both story written by Jakob Straub and my doodle. Please have a look and there is still time to cast your vote. http://arroznegro2015.bcnmes.com/474859/7982587/los-arroces-2015/the-prehistoric-channel-de-bcb

found oldies

Sometimes I come across old experiments and am pleasantly surprised

star struck

this was done for a small publication that never made it on time to its destination. As I was sending it last minute some months ago, Correos (spanish post) went out of service for 2 days due to computer crash. so... but here are a couple of pages that I just found laying around

more tiled

tiled

the city

a small collaboration. Sometimes one needs to see things on line to decide which direction to take..

new ceramics

I am not much of a ceramicist, I am still learning..but being able to incorporate illustration with clay work made me really happy. this is ceramics as I like it. Made with help of Espai Laüma

creative process

concept in the making

doodle meditation

Ilustraciones por Nepal

An exhibition for a very good cause, our work will be auctioned to raise money towards those who were affected by the recent earthquake in Nepal. I am very happy to have my work alongside some illustrators I really admire.

Here is the full list: 

Irene Alajarín
Sergi
Pablo Auladell
David Belmonte
Carmen Bonita
Lirios Bou
Leire Bueno
Aitana Carrasco
Luis Demano
Miguel Ángel Díez
Cristina Durán
Isidro Ferrer
Silvia Ferrer
Enrique Flores
Carmen García
Amparo Navarro
Salva Laserna
Fran Parreño
Paco Roca
Justo RR
Antonia Santolaya
Alexandra Sternin
Carmina Torres
Nivola Uyá
Pau Valls

drawings to patterns

some tests

textiles

some patterns in progress