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Instant

March 4, 2025

Instant © Lufo Art, 2013 Name: Instant Dimensions: ca. ¿40×15? Technique: watercolour and pencil Year: 2013 The Story Behind the Watercolour “Instant” The watercolour “Instant” was born in 2013 and it was initially intended to be my proposal for participating in the Skywards Future Artists contest. The artwork presents an impossible vision: shadows reflected on the opposite side of where they’re expected, and a hand ambiguously interacting with a structure that appears to be either falling or rising. This whimsical composition captures the essence of a dream, maybe confusing yet entirely plausible to the dreamer. The Instant that I created this watercolour, I was living in a cramped university residence in Argentina, which may have influenced the painting’s themes of escape and surrealism. Interestingly, during a 2017 visit to the Musée Magritte in Brussels, I discovered a 1938 poster by René Magritte that bore a curious resemblance to “Instant”. Read the full story here. Interested in buying this artwork? Write me a message using the form below and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Country *Name of the artwork *Are you interested in buying: * Original Copy (Digital Print) Personalised Copy (Original watercolour on top of a printed outline) Your message * Submit The Creative Process of the Watercolour “Instant” Instant, the snapshot of a dream Instant © Lufo Art, 2013 The artwork Instant was born… Read More lufoartApril 20, 2022 Check other artworks Mein Herz in Flammen Rudolph Deconstructed Load More

Mein Herz in Flammen

February 10, 2025

Mein Herz in Flammen © Lufo Art, 2023 Name: Mein Herz in Flammen Dimensions: DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm) Technique: Free composition painted with watercolors on paper Year: 2023 The story behind “Mein Herz in Flammen” Mein Herz in Flammen represents the imminence of when something is about to happen. In other words, you know that moment when something important is about to unfold, but nothing has happened yet? That moment of calm before the storm breaks? Well, that’s exactly what I wanted to do here. That’s why that kind of needle is almost touching the black hole. That’s why the flames burn upwards and consume everything. The white strips come from an experiment in which I tried a new type of adhesive tape, more delicate and specific for watercolours. I did it on the recommendation of A., who taught me that and many other nice and useful things during my creative meetings in Berlin, so thank you A.! PS: The sentence Mein Herz in Flammen was inspired by a Rammstein song, and is entirely written between the lines, can you see it? Are you interested in buying this artwork? Do you have questions about it? Write me a message using the form below and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Country *Name of the artwork *Are you interested in buying: * Original Copy (Digital Print) Personalised Copy (Original watercolour on top of a printed outline) Your message * Submit The Creative Process The creative process behind Elizabete Balčus’ drawing The creative process for Elizabete Balčus’ drawing started in October… Read More lufoartMay 29, 2024 Digital Media Art Project: The Musicality of Drawing The concept “Musicality of Drawing” explores how to express music… Read More lufoartJune 5, 2022 Digital Media Art Project: The Starting Point This is the first entry aim to document the evolution… Read More lufoartFebruary 23, 2022 VR art based on handmade drawings and their innovation VR handmade drawings: enlarging the view I mentioned the VR art… Read More lufoartDecember 31, 2018 Check other artworks Mein Herz in Flammen Rudolph Deconstructed Load More

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Elizabete: Hat, Fruit or Flute?

May 15, 2024

Elizabete: Hat, Fruit or Flute © Lufo Art Name: Elizabete: Hat, Fruit or Flute? Dimensions: DIN A3 (420 x 297 mm) Technique: Handmade equirectangular perspective in ink and watercolour Year: 2017 VR Panorama Elizabete’s artwork has a special distortion that allows the creation of a 360º virtual environment (click and drag the panorama below to open the virtual environment in full screen). The story behind “Elizabete: Hat, Fruit or Flute?” In 2017, Giovanni Di Rosa (a student from my drawing class at the University of Salerno) invited me to join him for some live drawing sessions at the Godot Art Bistrot in Avellino, Italy. I attended a total of four concerts and drew while artists like Mary Ocher, Campos Band, Raoul Vignal and Elizabete Balčus performed on stage. Elizabete, a psychedelic musician and sound artist from Latvia, uses fruits and vegetables in her compositions, creating unique, pumping, alive, and extraterrestrial sounds. I captured the experience of live listening to Elizabete in a 360º drawing structure, which can be converted into a virtual environment. Furthermore, the resulting artwork was turned into a 360º video available on YouTube, which combines my artwork and Elizabete’s music, and illustrates the mix of personal impressions and technical precision. Here below there are some details, click and navigate the gallery to have more info about them. Did you spot every detail in the entire drawing? Are you interested in buying this artwork? Do you have questions about it? Write me a message using the form below and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Country *Name of the artwork *Are you interested in buying: * Original Copy (Digital Print) Personalised Copy (Original watercolour on top of a printed outline) Your message * Submit The Creative Process The creative process behind Elizabete Balčus’ drawing The creative process for Elizabete Balčus’ drawing started in October… Read More lufoartMay 29, 2024 Digital Media Art Project: The Musicality of Drawing The concept “Musicality of Drawing” explores how to express music… Read More lufoartJune 5, 2022 Digital Media Art Project: The Starting Point This is the first entry aim to document the evolution… Read More lufoartFebruary 23, 2022 VR art based on handmade drawings and their innovation VR handmade drawings: enlarging the view I mentioned the VR art… Read More lufoartDecember 31, 2018 Check other artworks Elizabete: Hat, Fruit or Flute?

Running all Day I (194)

July 13, 2023

Today I’ll introduce you the session I of “Running all Day”, my new drawing. Keep reading to know how this artwork was born…. 26/06/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 June, as the month of movement Some weeks ago I started a new drawing that, for several reasons, I couldn’t share until today. Among those reasons I can say that June was a convulsive month, with ups and downs after the hack I suffered in which I lose my web3 profile. Also due to this reason, I jumped some days on my daily posts that I’m still trying to get back on track. June was also the month in which new things came: the opening of my physical atelier/shop/gallery at the Berlin Workstadt, which was a big decision to take. Also, the travel I did for my birthday that nicely distracted me a bit. And finally, the fact that for different reasons the creative meetings started to get less frequents, and with that also my productivity. In any case, I didn’t give it a second thought to these reduction of my creative and sharing activities: I want to keep the idea of the daily posts and the creative meetings as a something really spontaneous that gives me pleasure, right as they were born. But let’s jump into the drawing. Running all Day (I) Running all Day was born from listening to the music of Nodarling. The guitarist and singer of the band, Quique del Bianco, also sells his drawings at the Mauerpark. His stand is in front of mine and every Sunday I have the pleasure to exchange a couple of ideas and nice words with him. In one of those conversations Quique mentioned Nodarling. The day after, I listened to their last album: Space Rider during my creative breakfast at the Unser Café. I was shocked by their music, an energetic psychedelic rock with all the power and strength of an exciting space trip. Quite an experience! I didn’t know what to do when I started the drawing… I just had in mind to do a three vanishing point drawing so to keep completing the collection with Escher-like effects that I started to explore with A Wizard Without a Shadow and How Many Perspectives Are There? (see a partial collection of these artworks here. However, I drop some lines, and the music did the rest, here is the result: But tell me dear reader… How do you like my new drawing?Have you heard Nodarling before? Good night 🛸🤘🏻

M6 Landsberger Allee (193)

July 12, 2023

M6 Landsberger Allee is a (sort of) urban sketch that I did while travelling in Berlin using the tram M6 and the Ring Bahn S41. Here its story: 12/07/2023, Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 Taking the M6 tram at Lansberger Allee This morning I opened the Berlin Workstadt and took my shift until 13. The morning was calm and uneventful, just a couple of persons entered but nothing really big happened. As the morning was calm, I replied some emails and then worked on an app that I’m developing (nothing really fancy, just something for taking care of my finances and the markets). Also during the morning, I coordinated with two persons offering things through the group Free Your Stuff Berlin. First, with a girl that offered a Matisse painting in an aluminium frame, and second with a guy offering some colour cardboards that I can certainly use for the markets. After my shift at the Berlin Workstadt, I headed my way to the house of Alex and Ono in Prenzlauer Berg. These fellas are two beautiful cats that I sit from time to time since August 2021. I spent the afternoon with them, working a little bit more. Then I headed my destination to pick up the painting and the cardboards. During my trip, I started to draw on my phone, initially just faces and then capturing the people around me. I took the two pictures without the authorisation of the involved subjects, who where so concentrated on their phones that they didn’t even realise I drew them, right as that guy on the M2 that I drew time ago. The stuff and some surprises The Matisse print is bigger than I imaged, around 1,2m wide and 40 cm high. Initially, I thought I’d re use the frame for one of my paintings. But now that I see the image called “Women and Monkeys“, I’m considering to keep it, it is a really nice composition. When I arrived to the second point, the guy who received me saw me with the big frame and immediately offered me more frames and paintings. Of course, I was very curious to see what we had. In the end, I finished picking up a big frame of 1×0.7m and a smaller squared frame of around 40 cm that I’d probably use for (Labyrinth 01). But tell me dear reader… I insist with this question: would you be upset if I draw you without your consent?Do you have cats? Good evening 🐈‍⬛🐈 Lufo

¿Qué pasó? (186)

July 5, 2023

La canción ¿Qué pasó? del grupo Bersuit Vergarabat me inspiró las líneas que hoy les comparto. El dibujo es una composición hecha apenas unos días antes de pintar la Partenopea in rosso e verde 09/09/2019, Nápoles, Italia 🇮🇹 Maldita espera, es el mejor tiempo perdido Bersuit Vergarabat es un grupo musical argentino que marcó fuertemente mi adolescencia. Sus letras bohemias y sus mensajes escurridizos, su rock de protesta y su esencia de guitarreada frente al fogón representaron para mi una imagen ideal en aquel el momento en el que yo también quería protestar contra todos, irme a vivir a las montañas, y vivir del aire y del pasto de las sierras de Córdoba para curar mis desilusiones. “Maldita espera, es el mejor tiempo perdido”… dice una parte de la canción, y eso pensaba mientras estaba en Nápoles en 2019. Me sentía en la espera de poder volver a Berlín, pero también pensaba que lo que estaba haciendo era el mejor tiempo perdido. Estudiaba y avanzaba en mi doctorado, y cada vez faltaba menos. Ese remolino de pensamientos pasaba por mi cabeza casi 20 años después de cuando intentaba encontrar inocentemente los acordes de esa canción con mi primera guitarra. Hoy, en vez de compartirle muchas más de mis palabras querida lectora, le dejaré la letra de esta canción, en la esperanza de que le brinde alguna reflexión interesante: ¿Qué pasó? Te torcieron el brazo…Y no bajaste más ni a la veredaNuestras pasiones cansadasEntristecen a esta era que acaba… Sola en tu guaridaSos el secreto de una ciudad perdidaQuiero cantarte para no olvidarteUn día y por siempre Si una gran caravanaSacudiera tus pupilasCon una procesión de ciegosQue trafican luces sin brillo Si tus faroles no ardenPor lo menos dame de tu carneEn mi canción te has perdidoNo encontrarte trajo mala suerte, y pregunto: ¿Qué pasó? (x4) Se apaga el cielo, está descoloridoY no lo ves de mirar hacia el frenteEl hambre ciego mordió a tu solEl mar por miedo perdió su quejido eterno ¡Maldita espera!Es el mejor tiempo perdidoTe apagas, me apagué o me apagásO qué haces, o qué hago, pregunto: ¿Qué pasó? (x8) Como yo vivo hoyEsa maldita espera…Como yo vivo hoyEsa maldita espera…Y esa maldita espera… Pero dígame estimada lectora… ¿Qué pasó?¿Qué pasó? Buenas noches 🎸🎶 Lufo

What happened? (186)

July 5, 2023

The song ¿Qué pasó? (What happened?) by Bersuit Vergarabat inspired the drawing I am sharing with you today. The mini artwork was made just a few days before painting Partenopea in rosso e verde. 09/09/2019, Naples, Italy 🇮🇹 Damn wait, it’s the best time lost Bersuit Vergarabat is an Argentinian musical group that strongly marked my adolescence. Their bohemian lyrics and their slippery messages, their protest rock and their essence of guitar-playing in front of the campfire represented for me an ideal image at the time when I also wanted to protest against everyone, to go lost into the mountains, and to live off the air and the grass of the Córdoba mountains to cure my disillusionment. “Damn waiting, it’s the best time lost”… says a part of the song, and that’s what I was thinking while I was in Naples in 2019. I felt like I was waiting my return to Berlin, but I also thought it was the best time wasted. I was studying and making progress on my PhD, and the end was getting closer and closer. This whirlwind of thoughts was going through my head almost 20 years later of the moment in which I was innocently trying to find the chords of that song on my first guitar. Today, instead of sharing many more of my words with you dear reader, I will leave you with the song’s lyrics, in the hope that it will give you some interesting food for thought: What happened? They twisted your arm…And you didn’t go down to the pavement no moreOur tired passionsSadden this era that’s ending… Alone in your lairYou are the secret of a lost cityI want to sing to you so I won’t forget youOne day and forever If a great caravanShould shake your pupilsWith a procession of blind menWho traffic in dull lights If your lanterns don’t burnAt least give me some of your fleshIn my song you are lostNot finding you brought bad luck, and I ask: What happened (x4) The sky goes out, it’s discolouredAnd you don’t see it from looking straight aheadBlind hunger bit your sunThe sea out of fear lost its eternal whine Damn waiting!It’s the best time lostYou turn off, I’ve turned off or you’ll turn me offOr what do you do, or what do I do, I ask: What happened (x8) As I live todayThat damn wait…Like I live todayThat damn wait…And that damn wait… But tell me dear reader… Was this Tuesday also glorious for you?What did you have for lunch? Good evening 🥗🪩 Lufo

Primo classificato - Receiving the certificate

Primo classificato (176)

June 25, 2023

29/05/2016, Avellino, Italy 🇮🇹 I guess this is the closing post related to the urban sketchers contest organised by the FAI (Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano) in Avellino. Here are all the previous entries: In today’s pictures you can see how the prints were set up inside the auditorium used as a showroom. I didn’t really do much: all the prints were A3 modules so I stuck one under the other with tape, and then hung each column made by 5 drawings each with two clips from above. However, the result was quite nice: an organic and at the same structured composition, with a lot of colours and contrasts. Among all those drawings I can see many stories related to the time and place where each of them was made. The last picture shows the moment when I received the certificate for winning the 1st place in the competition. I also remember the heat of blushing because I had to give a little speech to the public 😅 But tell me dear reader… Should I rebuild that drawing wall digitally?Do you like to give speeches in front of an audience? Good night 🎤🎙️ NFT You can collect this post as NFT using Lens, check it out 👉🏻 here 👈🏻

19.35 m2 of dreams (175)

June 24, 2023

02/06/2016, Salerno, Italy 🇮🇹 In yesterday’s story I talked about the exhibition in Avellino. Today I show you what the prints looked like when they were all together: a 19,35 m2 (13,02 x 1,485 m) collection of drawings made in Italy in the period 2011-2016. Among those drawings I can clearly see my evolution: the first shy doodles when I took off from Cordoba airport on 14 July 2011, crying like a baby for having achieved what I considered a miracle ([Story 41 , Story 42]). The drawings of 2012 show another Lucas, more confident and thirsty for knowledge, with gestures capturing more and more details of reality. In 2013 and 2014 I was already making very wide and pronounced perspectives (which ended up leading me to spherical perspectives), with strong contrasts and a more established technique. 2015 and 2016 were years with explorations that began to combine physical reality and my surreal dreams. This language led me to new mixed compositions that come out of reality and connect with a more dreamlike, whimsical world… But tell me dear reader… Would you have space to hang these drawings at home?What has been the miracle you have achieved in your life? Good evening 🪽✈️ NFT You can collect this post as NFT using Lens, check it out 👉🏻here 👈🏻

Originals and copies (174)

June 23, 2023

04/06/2016, Salerno, Italy 🇮🇹 2016 was the year I started doing public exhibitions with my drawings. One of these presentations was in Avellino, after the competition for urban sketchers that I have mentioned before here and here. The theme of the exhibition was the celebration of the 5 years since my first trip to Italy, and the trips I made within Italy once I moved in 2013. So, I proposed an exhibition with (almost) all my drawings from Italy between 2011 and 2016. However, I did not have all my sketchbooks from 2011 and 2012 because some of them were stolen during my stay in Paraguay. For that reason – and also to unify the sizes of all drawings – I made prints with which I covered the two main walls of the exhibition hall. But a problem arose when I saw the prints and compared them with the originals: the colours were totally different! This happened due to two things (mainly) 1 – the printer converted the colour palette, killing the original settings; and 2 – the scans follow the drawings as they were originally, but the watercolours lose saturation with time… However… after looking at the result a couple of more times… I think they weren’t that bad after all…. But tell me dear reader… Do you prefer the original or the copy?Should I scan my drawings, matching the original colours, or do I have to tune it as I like? Good evening 📠💬 NFT You can collect this post as NFT using Lens, check it out 👉🏻here 👈🏻

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