Year: 2015 (June 22, 2015) Photo

15″ (L) x 12″ (H)

Painting media: Oil paint

Art: Utility Panel

Artist: Alfredo Carreño

Alfredo Carreño

Considered one of the pioneers of the visual arts in Mexicali, Baja California, Alfredo Carreño is a sensitive artist who pours his feelings and emotions in the work with hand and brush full of life. The colors and elements of his work tell stories, they talk by themselves and show who he is better than what could be said with words. His passion can be perceived at the moment of being in presence of his art.

He was born on October 1954 in Mexicali, Baja California, son of the military Carlos Carreño Garcia and Mrs. Rosa Maria Valenzuela de Carreño, the youngest of 3 brothers. From an early age he showed an affinity for the arts in general music and in particular for drawing. He was a young spirited prankster, but who also greatly enjoyed the solitude and privacy. During the first years of his adolescence he heard by the first time to Spanish singer Massiel, who became the muse of his biggest inspirations and led him to decide on the path that would define his life. Art was the most appropriate way to express what he felt, and thanks to the inspiration that was Massiel, the art became his life, his career and passion.

Luc

Year: 2006 (September 6, 2006)

16″ (L) x 12″ (H)

Painting media: Acrylic paint

Art: Canvas

Artist: Norma Carreño

El Mago & La Bruja

Do Witches and Wizards?

Have you ever wondered if witches and wizards really exist in this modern world? Well yes, they do exist, and they are quite active in the modern world. You might also be a victim of them without knowing what’s really happening within your body.

Today, many well-educated scientists are beginning to believe its existence. In fact, they even began studying about its spiritual powers and mysteries.

Witches and Wizards broadly means the practice of, and belief in, magical skills and abilities that are able to be exercised individually, by designated social groups, or by persons with the necessary esoteric secret knowledge. Witchcraft is a complex concept that varies culturally and societally, therefore it is difficult to define with precision and cross-cultural assumptions about the meaning or significance of the term should be applied with caution. Witchcraft often occupies a religious, divinatory, or medicinal role, and is often present within societies and groups whose cultural framework includes a magical world view. Although witchcraft can often share common ground with related concepts such as sorcery, the paranormal, magic, superstition, necromancy, possession, shamanism, healing, spiritualism, nature worship, and the occult, it is usually seen as distinct from these when examined by sociologists and anthropologists.

Luc

Year: 2014 (November, 2014)

8″ (L) x 10″ (H)

Painting media: Acrylic paint

Art: Canvas

Artist: Don Luc

Homage Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí attributed his “love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes” to an “Arab lineage”, claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

Luc

Year: 2006 (September 9, 2006)

19cm (L) x 13cm (W) x 40cm (H)

Painting media: Acrylic paint

Art: Terracotta

Artist: Luc Paquin

In 2006 spring, while visiting the Jamaica market, I had bought a nice terracotta figure of ‘La Virgen de Guadalupe’, Mexico’s mystical figure and patron Saint. It is an icon that is omnipresent in the society here and I was thinking of painting it whenever I had some time.

Finally between late August and early September both Normita and I decided to get back into painting, as we were looking for some creative projects that would be fun to do, and be great at relaxing us. I picked up some acrylic sealer, new brushes, and some tubes of acrylic paint at the art supply store, to complement what we had on hand and went at it with gusto.

I really enjoyed the fun of mixing bright colors to paint the ‘Virgen’, and while I was doing that Normita made a nice painting that we recently got framed and put over our bed. Here is my contribution to the decoration of the place, and I’ll take a picture of Normita’s painting and post it, it she gives me permission.

Luc