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Jul 10, 2011
1 min

Sketching @Abracadabra, Santurce

Well, I had never tasted any of the two “artisanal” beers they had, so I tried them both. I googled one of them, Blue Moon beer and it’s apparently brewed by Coors Brewing Company… However, it is an unfiltered beer with cloudy appearance, spiced with coriander and orange peel, so it is an unusual enough beer to feel special. I liked it; a bit sweet to my taste, but I could have a couple some other day. We also ordered something to eat I can’t remember now, but it was good

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Luis E. Aparicio

Jul 4, 2011
1 min

Garabateando #4 @Piñones: Results

This past Saturday our sketching group “Garabateando.com” went to Piñones, right in between Carolina and Loíza. We met at a restaurant called The Reef; a dear friend of ours is on vacations here and had invited a bunch of our friends to gather there, so we used it as our sketch location so we wouldn’t miss any of the activities. The Reef is at a seaside spot with nice views; we spent a very entertaining afternoon with some great friends. Here are some of my sketches: The

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Garabateando #3 @Placita de Santurce: Results

Luis E. Aparicio

Jun 26, 2011
2 min

Garabateando #3 @Placita de Santurce: Results

Yesterday our sketching group “garabateando.com” moved to La Placita de Santurce. La Placita creates an interesting dynamic that has become one of the top meeting and entertainment spots in the metro area. Here is the refurbished building of La Plaza del Mercado, an early 20th century marketplace, and its small square or “placita”. Plenty of small bars and restaurants surround the square, so it is definitely one of the places to visit if you come to Puerto Rico. By the way

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Garabateando #2, Puerta de San Juan: Results

Luis E. Aparicio

Jun 26, 2011
1 min

Garabateando #2, Puerta de San Juan: Results

I’m a week late on posting this, so I better get going. Last Saturday we had our 2nd official Garabateando.com event at the Puerta de San Juan in Old San Juan. It was nice that my father-in-law spent a little time with us, but it was really a nice surprise that he sketched a little. That is what we’re all about, that people at least do a couple of scribbles with us, so it meant a lot to us that he did. We were there for almost two hours, and we tried to get to sketch at t

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Luis E. Aparicio

Jun 15, 2011
1 min

A virtual paintout to kill time

A street in New Zealand... Although it is not the same as sketching on location I find amusing the idea of the virtual paintouts. I am trying a new set of Yarka watercolors, so the virtual location was better than nothing. I first washed in w/c and then sketched over it with the bleeding Papermate flair. Then retouched a bit with the waterbrush. I really like the results I get doing the line drawing after the color; I’ll be trying that next time out. #sketching #waterbrus

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Luis E. Aparicio

Jun 13, 2011
2 min

Garabateando en Ponce: Results

Yesterday we held our first official event of our sketching group Garabateando.com in Ponce, PR. This weekend we were in Ponce, PR because the annual architects’ convention was held there. So early in the morning we went to the convention. My wife and I both had polo shirts embroidered with our logo, which drew some interest among our friends and several of the exhibitors. They said the idea seemed fun, so we expect some of them to join us in future dates. We had lunch and th

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Our new sketching group: garabateando.com

Luis E. Aparicio

Jun 9, 2011
1 min

Our new sketching group: garabateando.com

My wife and I have just started a sketching group named garabateando.com. Garabateando (Spanish for doodling) targets not only art enthusiasts, but everyone else who hasn’t picked up a pencil since childhood. We believe it is a great and fun activity that non-artists are missing. We want to promote sketching as a form of entertainment and as a way to meet new people and places. We will be meeting every Saturday at 2pm at different places around Puerto Rico. We will mainl

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A wonderful experience at Taller (D)Espacio

Luis E. Aparicio

May 29, 2011
3 min

A wonderful experience at Taller (D)Espacio

Two friends of mine, architects Alexandra Betancourt and Maitée Hernández started an amazing project about a year ago called Taller (D)Espacio. Located in Santurce, PR, they introduce youngsters to an impressive array of art, design and architectural experiences usually reserved for first year design studios at architecture schools. However, their students range from seven to sixteen years of age. Yes… Seven! They asked me if I could spend a session with them as a guest instr

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Luis E. Aparicio

Apr 17, 2011
1 min

Sketchcrawl 31: San Juan, PR

I only could sketch for a couple of hours, as I had a class, but my industrial design students joined me at the end of the class and participated as well. I always had wanted to sketch the courtyard of the building I teach at, which is the restored building of Hospital de la Concepción. The second sketch is a view of the gallery around the courtyard. The third sketch is the Castillo San Felipe del Morro, as seen from the main building of the School of Fine Arts of Puerto R

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Luis E. Aparicio

Apr 3, 2011
1 min

Virtual Paintout- Japan

Here I used my son’s Faber Castell Manga Shojo set and my Copic markers; I am really enjoying sketching this fast and loose. *edit: LOL@ my Japanese calligraphy… I’m probably cursing there on that sign… #sketching #Japan #loose #virtualpaintout #architecture #markers #sketch #Copic #dibujo #drawing

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Luis E. Aparicio

Mar 23, 2011
1 min

Lunchtime virtual sketch-out

I had an impromptu sketching session today at lunch; had almost 50 minutes free, so I went virtually to Cape Town once again, as part of The Virtual Paintout. After navigating for a while, I finally settled for the view. As I hadn’t planned, I could only use the few items I had at hand at the office: 32 lbs. Hammermill Laser Printer paper, felt-tip pens, a Sharpie and a four or five almost-dried-out Prismacolor markers. Really tempted into rendering with fluorescent highl

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Yesterday @ Guajataca, PR and today @ Cape Town, South Africa

Luis E. Aparicio

Mar 21, 2011
2 min

Yesterday @ Guajataca, PR and today @ Cape Town, South Africa

Yesterday I went on a family trip with my wife and son. We took with us some snacks, a cooler with ice, water, some cheese, yogurt and home-made ceviche for lunch. We drove to Guajataca, which is in between Quebradillas and Isabela, at the northwest part of the island. It was a beautiful and breezy day. We took turns driving, so both of us did our warm-up sketches on the freeway. After we had lunch we spent some time sketching. I managed to do just a few, as I wasn’t fe

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Luis E. Aparicio

Mar 17, 2011
1 min

Ode to Hideous

Could somebody PLEASE incorporate Aesthetics 101 into Engineering Curricula? When an otherwise beautiful landscape is completely disregarded and desecrated with all sorts of “engineering marvels” we should really be offended. Today I sketched the view from my work’s parking space. Not even mature trees can cover up and hide the magnificent display of towers, power cables, antennas, chimneys, cranes and transformers. It is like if they throw all the items listed on their c

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Luis E. Aparicio

Mar 17, 2011
1 min

Experimenting with Copics

Last Saturday Prof. Leytham lent me his Sailor brush pen so I could try it. It is designed for Japanese calligraphy, which brush can produce beautiful lines of different widths. I fell in love with it and will be purchasing one promptly. Tonight I wanted to see if the brush tip of my Copic markers would work in a similar way. I decided to try them on one of my sketchbooks, a Hand-book with heavyweight sheets. These are supposed to take light watercolor washes, but as soon

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Luis E. Aparicio

Mar 14, 2011
2 min

The Sketching School 2011, San Juan, PR

This weekend I’ve was “kind of” invited to participate in a class called Sketching School. It is a class taught by Prof. Tom Leytham at Norwich University in Vermont, in which he travels with a group of architecture students for 9 intensive days devoted to sketching and watercolors. Prof. Manuel García Fonteboa told me that they were going to be in San Juan this week and he wanted me to meet Prof. Leytham, and that I may go ahead and sketch with them. To make a long story

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