New Year´s resolutions

Draw, draw, draw....did I mention draw? Now seriously: I spent 2012 practicing gesture drawing heavily, trying to make it a habit. This will remain during 2013, but I aim to increase the load on finished pieces.
Earlier today I was reading Walt Stanchfield Lectures volume II and stepped into the following Sanskrit poem related to this new year´s resolutions we all do by the end of the year and forget during January:

Look to this day 

for it is life

the very life of life

In its brief course lie all

the realities and truths

of existence.

The joy of growth

the splendor of action

the glory of power

For yesterday is

but a memory

And tomorrow is 

only a vision

But today well lived

makes every yesterday

a memory of happiness

and tomorrow a vision

of hope

Look well, therefore,

to this day!

Have a great 2013:)

charcoal portrait

Charcoal and White Chalk on paper

Pen & Ink Portrait

Pen & Ink on sketchbook

Cottage Sketch

watercolor on sketchbook

São Roque - 2012

Short Animation: Pauliceia canta Ty-etê

Beautifully animated short from NUPA:

NUPA is a public free animation studio-school in São Paulo. Ty-etê (True Water) is the main river in my city.

MASP

watercolor, pen & ink on sketchbook

watercolor sketch

Av Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, São Paulo

Watercolor on sketchbook

Da Vinci Watercolor Studies

Several studies on Da Vinci´s works

Watercolor Pencils on Paper

Charcoal Portrait

Charcoal on gray paper - 9x11in / 20x30cm

Rhino

Gouache on gray paper from picture taken on a zoo visit.