In 2010, Palabra de árbol won the second prize at the XIII Edition of the Illustrated Stories Award by the Badajoz’s Council. In addition, the book was selected by the students of the Guadiana Public School as the best book of the year. Published December 2010 by the Badajoz’s Council, the book sold out its first two editions in a …

rblazquezfPalabra de árbol06.01.2014

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rblazquezfLas ciudades de colores09.01.2013

A little blue lamb? That’s weird! Why is blue this lamb? At first everyone looked at this little lamb through different eyes. Even his mother tries to wash and wash the little lamb, but he still blue. And though at first, the color of this corderín seems a problem, soon everyone will realize that we all have something unique and …

rblazquezfEl Corderín Azul06.01.2012

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Aurora G. Rivas – Writer of “El Corderín Azul”

• Picture book
• Illustration
• Editorial Pintar-Pintar
• 2012
• watercolour + collage

A little blue lamb? That’s weird! Why is blue this lamb? At first everyone looked at this little lamb through different eyes. Even his mother tries to wash and wash the little lamb, but he still blue. And though at first, the color of this corderín seems a problem, soon everyone will realize that we all have something unique and not by being different we are worse.

Imagine what would happen if one day the rain stopped and neither people nor animals nor plants could drink water. In this context a sheep gave birth to a little blue lamb that will give us all a lesson. A sweet story full of poetry and metaphor.

I worked the idea of the opposition between the dry landscape and the rainy scenary with the color. The watercolor started in intense orange tones and as the story progress they turn into blues and violets. The colors helps to complement a poetic environment, they complete the metaphor.