I LOOOOVE painting with coffee. The smell… mmmm. You can add layers and layers, each one intensifying the natural sepia hue that oozes from the brush; you can leave puddles to stay still in a spot until they dry very dark or lightly glaze washes over parts of the paper hardly leaving a slight almost invisible tint. Coffee is the green version of watercolour. Environmentally safe art… yesssss. Well, who would’ve thought that this eco friendly medium were to become the object of attention for a teen project presented by the Union County Public Library of North Carolina ? I am thrill to be invited by Jill [...]

I’ve been involved with fitness and exercising since my teens. I took it seriously enough to become an IFBB national bodybuilding champion and a personal trainer. I even organized and produced a bodybuilding contest and judged a couple of other ones. Even though I’m no longer involved with the sport or certified as a personal trainer, I’m always researching, reading and investigating. Through the years I’ve contacted several fitness experts in search of answers. I must confessed that I’ve harassed a few of them to the extend of annihilating any possible further communication. I’ve had literally worked them up to failure. For all these reasons [...]

Back on 2001 or so when I started my love affair with art, like all newbie’s, my thing was drawing a lot in pencil… people, faces and such. Realism is and will always be my first love in art. But like the real “first loves” in our lives most of time they remain in a platonic state (yes, I know, I use the word platonic pretty often in most of my articles, soon I’ll find a synonym… or could it be that I have a platonic love affair with the word platonic…mmm, I don’t now. Whatever.) Where was I? Oh yeah, realism. Well, the thing is that, thinking [...]