Saturday, December 24, 2011

The Magic of Books!!/ La Magia de los Libros.

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Seussical Stage painting.
© Flavio Martín Morante_2011

I been working this week (and following) with Susan Kamholz, a talented local artist, in the painting of the stage for "Seussical The Musical", a local musical production for kids.
It has been a great pleasure, while being splattered with different paint colors seen how background, stage and props take shape.

I wanted to share this because yesterday I started working on a big prop, which will be the "book" from where someone will telling the story. Its actually the cover which I will hopefully have finished on Monday, since we did run out of some colors. While painting the book cover (images below) I started to remember things from my childhood, happy memories of several things, the books my parents bought for us when kids, the work my parents did on our birthdays decorating shapes of sea and land creatures in styrofoam, and some book character to which I still keep some type of nostalgia.

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Book Cover painting in progress, before and after./ Tapa del Libro. Antes y después, aunque sin terminar todavía.

© Flavio Martín Morante_2011

My point its (and I am not saying anything new I know) its that in these times of buying, buying, if there is something you want to give, give a book, and give some quality time reading it to you or others,  it will open doors and set people in good trips.

Have a good festivities season.

Martín.
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He estado trabajando esta semana (y la siguiente) con Susan Kamholz, talentosa artista local, pintando el escenario de Seussical The Musical, una comedia musical para niños. Ha sido un enorme placer, mientras que salpicado de pintura de distintos colores, el ver como escenario y objetos de útileria van tomando forma.

Quise compartir esto porque ayer pintaba lo que va a ser el libro desde donde la historia comienza a ser contada, en realidad la tapa del mismo, la cual espero tener terminada el lunes ya que nos quedamos sin pintura. Mientras pintaba empece a recordar cosas de mi niñez, buenos recuerdos acerca de los libros de cuentos que mis viejos nos compraban, las criaturas de espuma plast con las cuales tanto Mamá como el Viejo decoraban nuestros cumples cuando éramos chicos e incluso aquel querido personaje llamado "Petete" al cual guardo en la mas profunda nostalgia. 

El punto de todo esto es que (y no digo nada nuevo ya lo se) que en estos tiempos de comprar y comprar, si hay algo que quieras realmente dar, date o da un libro y el tiempo para leerlo o leérselo a otros, te abrirá algunas puertas y te llevará a otros lugares.

Felices Fiestas!

Martín

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