Into An Ink Spot*

A book of pictures found within ink and watercolor stains

*The original title of the book in Spanish is En un lugar de la mancha. A play on words quoting the famous sentence which Don Quixote De La Mancha begins with.

This book collects a good part of the drawings and texts that I have published in Spanish on my blog during the last ten years. Most of them I have also translated and unwisely published in the English version of my blog too. But as you can see, my grasp of English is not the finest. Also, the titles and texts of this particular book are full of silly puns similar to that of the title. For these compelling reasons the printed edition is, for now, only available in its original Spanish language.

Chapters:

The book is organized into three chapters. The first two replicate the categories of the blog with (more or less) the same name in which each text/drawing was originally published. And the third, gathers several drawings originally scattered into more vague sketchbook categories.

Clicking on the covers bellow you can flip through the pages of each chapter tailored for online reading.

Chapter one:

Illustrated Bestiary

Fantastic beasts born overnight during the hypnotic wandering of the pencil or the pen on the white paper surface.

Illustrated Bestiary on the Skethcbook

Chapter Two:

Folktales

A compendium of apocryphal illustrations for Made-up anonymous and oral tradition stories.

Folktales from Nowhere on the Skethcbook

Chapter Three:

Mud Stories*

*"Romances de barro" in Spanish

Vignettes brought together by the unmistakable and inevitable influence of the southern swamp slum of the world where they were created.

Mud Stories on the Skethcbook

About the printed edition

Each copy was printed and bound by myself in my studio and published in November 2019 by Minusculario Ediciones (our small art and illustrated books press).

Size: 15x15 cms
Hardcover edition with matte laminated dust jacket
Interiors: 84 color pages 150grs matte paper