Book Description

I publish this book, "No pressures", Canary Islands drawn, in english and digital format due to the success of a first hardcover book in spanish edition, “Sin presiones”, sold out in 4 months, with the desire to allow access to those who could not have it in their hands at the time."No pressures" was born from a personal desire, to publish a hundred of my drawings and watercolors made during my last 10 years in the Canary Islands. The book is basically divided into two sections. The first, more descriptive, focuses on showing my sketches of the Canary Islands, especially Gran Canaria and Lanzarote. The second is more didactic and shows the various techniques I use in my sketchbooks and my favorite topics. When I thought of publishing a book, choosing my sketches of the Canary Islands seemed the most natural thing to me. First, because I have lived here for years. I have drawn on the eight Canary Islands, but in this book two islands, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote, have more prominence because I have lived on them, and therefore drawn, more. Second, because Canarias is very drawable. For me it is easy to draw in the Canary Islands: its climate, its light, its different landscapes and cities, its slow pace of life, allow me to grab a notebook and start drawing at any time of the year. And third, because here I got to know the phenomenon “Urban Sketchers”, which encourages us to draw a situation, to show on the Internet what we see with no limitations other than time, ability and personal style. This ebook contains in its 48 pages, in vertical format, the same drawings, watercolors and texts of the paper edition. Each chapter begins with brief words of introduction, showing 103 watercolors and sketches, 10 of them panoramic, and 4 photos, a selection of the hundreds of watercolors and urban drawings that I have done in recent years in the Canary Islands, many of them published in social networks like Instagram, Twitter or Facebook and seen and appreciated by many people. The book also includes the words of 9 artists with whom I have drawn in different places, about drawing in general, about urban sketchers, about my drawings, or about me. This ebook has needed modifications to adapt it to the vertical format: the pages of the paper book are grouped two by two vertically, the double-page panoramic drawings of the printed book are joined to facilitate their placement, reducing their size and have been grouped in pages. To contemplate them well, the expansion possibilities of the electronic book reader should be used. I trust that you will like this "No pressures" ebook. It is the first of a collection that I have called as my blog, “Acuarelas y apuntes - Watercolors and sketches". I will appreciate the comments on it to improve it or complete it with new publications. THANKS. For a better quality of the drawings, the author recommends the printed edition. To do this you can contact the author through the information at the end of the book.