She knows what she wants
My daughter is 2,5 years old. She dresses and undresses herself already. She only dresses what she wants. I gave up buying her the clothes i like, because she never likes them. So i stopped being angry and just let her dress whatever she wants. She makes odd but very creative mixes of clothes and she […]
These precious things
My daughter asks me many times to climb up to her room’s window and to just be there, looking outside, observing all the daily routines from our neighbours: the guys that pick up the trash, the birds, the bicycles or the big tree that’s in the back of the building. She likes to see al […]
Tasting new Food
These last days food sketches, from our trip to Copenhagen and my daughter’s eating experiences. New posts for the blog thefoodsketcher.tumblr.com … Os desenhos dos últimos dias, da nossa viagem a Copenhaga e das experiências gastronómicas da minha filha. Novos “posts” no blog thefoodsketcher.tumblr.com
“Tudo o que aprendi com os Livros”
Há uns meses atrás, uma amiga que agora trabalha na Fnac, a Carmo, falou-me duma ideia que tinha. Uma ideia que envolvia cadernos, as Papelarias Emílio Braga, ilustradores/criadores portugueses, uma colecção de sketchbooks e um tema “Tudo o que aprendi com os Livros”. Uns meses depois, aqui está o resultado! (Está a ser preparada também […]
The Food Sketcher
Já há muito que não coloco nada no meu blog de desenhos sobre comida – thefoodsketcher. Decidi então terminar e digitalizar alguns desenhos que estavam meio esquecidos no meu livrinho de rabiscos, feitos durante a nossa ultima viagem à India, no ano passado e para matar saudades e salivar um bocadinho, tenho andado a […]
Era uma Vez…
Até há bem pouco tempo, quando adormecia a Rita e me apetecia uma história nova (senão adormecia eu!), costumava contar-lhe uma que fui inventando, um bocadinho de cada vez. É uma história muito simples, contada baixinho, com as nossas caras encostadinhas e na qual a Rita é a personagem principal. Provavelmente ela não entendia o […]
Rita!
Finalmente, um post no blog, desde que desapareci, há 4 meses atrás! É verdade, nasceu a Rita no fim do mês de Dezembro de 2014 e desde então, o meu tempo tem sido todo para ela e dificilmente consigo ter um tempo para mim. Os intervalos em que consigo fazer alguma coisa, durante os […]
Lovely Rita
Só para partilhar uma coisa muito boa que tem acontecido por aqui e que é muito difícil de “esconder”, especialmente quando o meu trabalho e a vida têm sido tão inspirados por esta novidade. Eu e o André estamos à espera de uma mini pessoa : ) No início do próximo ano esperamos que […]
Spargelzeit!
It’s Spargelzeit! The season of white asparagus is on and i have never seen anything like this! It’s everywhere! The season is short, runs from mid-April to almost the end of June and it marks the end of the cold and gray weather and the beginning of Spring and Summer. Usually, in Portugal, we don’t go […]
The Food Sketcher
Some days ago, while i was seating in a coffee shop having tea and a muffin, i was thinking about life and about new ideas to pursue. Yesterday, on a rainy day, i decided to start one of these ideas – basically it’s a blog where i can share many of the food illustrations […]
India Revisited
Some pictures from the last month spent in India. I am very thankful for this opportunity to go back and very thankful to have such special connection with this place and with the friends that always welcome me there. It was wonderful to re-visit some of them in their houses, with their growing families and […]
Food on Fabrics
I have been experimenting with new materials. It is a result from the workshop i attended recently. The one on the right was an experiment (the less visible) with beet juice + rice paste. The other with turmeric powder + rice paste. The results are very light colors, but beautiful. The yellow fabric on the […]
Workshop on Paste Making for Screen Printing
Last Saturday i attended a very interesting workshop, in a very interesting place and festival. It was the annual Druck Festival Berlin, a screen printing festival that shows many artists who use this technique to work, each one with their own style and twists. The workshop was conducted by a Japanese artist – Chika Ito […]
Summer days are over
These last days have been bit cold and rainy. It looks like the summer is over… The sidewalks and the parks start to have the first fallen and yellow leaves. I like to collect them and press them inside my books to make my own herbarium. And in the markets is already possible to find […]
More Giving Back
Another afternoon with the kids. Today my companions were Sandi and Ahmal. And today i decided to think of something to do, because they were starting to get a bit bored by the wood and foam stamps and so i took this idea from the Lotta book – print with leaves and stuff we find […]
Giving Back
This week i started to volunteer for a very nice and useful initiative – Design your Summer. This is a community project for the summer, held by a school from the Berlin State, where kids can spend their summer playing and doing artistic activities, such as painting, sewing, cooking, woodworks, etc. And through this wonderful […]
Hanging around
Spending the weekend walking around with my man, who i have missed for 2 months, having great falafel, hummus, baklavas and cinnamon tea at Al-Faruk, going to a good brunch at Senti and chilling out at Mauerpark Fleamarket. ….. Fim de semana a passear por aí com o meu André, falafel, hummus e baklavas com chá […]