Finalist in the BIBF Ananas Internationl Illustration Exhibition Book Festival. Beijing. China. 2020 Picture book Text + Ilustration bookolia  2021 Handprinting + Digital Spanish rights sold There are dull, boring, tedious, tiresome, sleep-inducing, interminable, frustrating, horribly humdrum days... or maybe not? The most boring day for you, can be the most exciting adventure for somebody else. Because there is no ...

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Winner of the International Illustrators Exhibiton for the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Italy. 2021 Finalist in the Illustration Exhibition of the 11th International Illustration Meeting of S. João da Madeira. Portugal. 2018 Accordion book Text + Illustration The Secret Mountain Coming soon. 2022 Handprinting + Digital English & French rights sold Mrs Evarista is a little lizard with a big ...

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Educational book Ilustration Edelvives  2021 Digital Edelvives contacted me to illustrate one of the new educational books created by Raúl Bermejo: Grafismo Creativo. It was a very funny project. I enjoyed a lot each spread of the book. The vector styles fits perfectly with the mood of the book.

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Special Mention. Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition in the Shanghai Internacional Children’s Book Fair. China, 2018 Finalist. Nami Concours in the Nami Island International Children’s Book Festival in Seoul. South Korea, 2018 Finalist. Illustrator’s Exhibition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival. UAE, 202 Picture Book Text + Illustration Balivernes Éditions 2021 Digital French & English rights sold This is the ...

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Picture Book Illustration Lantana Publishing 2020 Handprinting + Digital English rights sold You've probably heard the expression “when pigs fly," but did you know that in Spain they say “when frogs grow hair" and in Nigeria “when chickens have teeth"? This book is a rib-tickling collection of idioms from around the world. But the question is: will you believe them...? ...

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Selected for the OEPLI Literature Catalogue – Spain, 2019 Picture book Text + Ilustration bookolia  2019 Colour pencil + Digital Spanish & German rights sold Many of us have suffered when our aunt, granny, neighbour or even the butcher pulling on our chubby cheeks. This is a story about a girl who is irritated about this “cheeks-pull” and decides to ...

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Selected for the Sharjah Exhibition of Illustration – United Arab Emirates, 2019 Picture Book Illustration Ediciones Jaguar  2019 Handprinting + Digital Spanish rights sold ¡Terremoto! It is a story about support, solidarity and friendship. About collaboration without asking anything in return. When the fox loses his house, all the animals in the forest help him build a new home. This ...

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Every year Editorial San Pablo calls a stories contest for children. The winners of this prize publish their tales in a book. In 2018 the title of the book was “My tales for you” and I was very lucky because I had to illustrate the tale of the youngest winner. The story of Adriana Lázaro Sebastián was a challenge for …

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Illustration’s project for the children’s activity book Cinderella. It’s part of the collection Colorín Colorado by Combel and it was written by Ángels Navarro. Kids could make lots of activities: connecting, drawing, counting, colouring to complete… All the activities are based on the clasic fairy tale. The proposal of each game is to estimulate, in a ludic way, the development …

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jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery('.my-portfolio-abuelos').iLightBox({skin: 'light',linkId: 'gallery-image',overlay: {opacity: 0.875,blur: true},styles: {prevScale: 0.75,prevOpacity: 0.75,nextScale: 0.75,nextOpacity: 0.75},path: 'horizontal',controls: {thumbnail: true}});}); Children's book Illustration + edition Cuento a la vista 2014 Colour pencil Spanish rights sold Cuentos para leer con los abuelos (y las abuelas) is a collection of 9 short stories in which the main characters are boys and girls lucky enough to have very special ...

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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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jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery('.my-portfolio-ciudades').iLightBox({skin: 'light',linkId: 'gallery-image',overlay: {opacity: 0.875,blur: true},styles: {prevScale: 0.75,prevOpacity: 0.75,nextScale: 0.75,nextOpacity: 0.75},path: 'horizontal',controls: {thumbnail: true}});}); What do critics say about the book? "Julia does not usually have many nightmares. [...] But, as I said, sometimes she has. And one of the last times, I thought of something that has proved very effective and it is becoming usual, in a small ritual ...

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jQuery(document).ready(function(){jQuery('.my-portfolio-cuentosdif').iLightBox({skin: 'light',linkId: 'gallery-image',overlay: {opacity: 0.875,blur: true},styles: {prevScale: 0.75,prevOpacity: 0.75,nextScale: 0.75,nextOpacity: 0.75},path: 'horizontal',controls: {thumbnail: true}});});   Children's book Illustration + edition Cuento a la vista 2013 Colour pencil Spanish rights sold This is a book full of stories where nothing is normal. Its tales escape routine in order to find what lies beyond reality. In this book we will find a ...

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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.