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BoldBrush Recommends: Paco Martin
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Biography
Paco Martín has been passionate about colored pencils since the time he was in Elementary School in Madrid, Spain. He kept such passion alive during his school years and through College, even when he pursued a Bachelor's degree in Forestry Engineering and later a Master's Degree in Renewable Energy. He found a way to feed his love for painting at the same time that he fueled his interest in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry. Surprisingly, he still found some time for music and guitar playing, which is his second passion.
When he was in College, Paco realized that all the self-taught techniques that he had acquired that far were not enough. He needed some formal training and guidance, and he found it through the lessons of Sarita Muñiz. He learned how to paint with oils and he was captivated by pastels. The new learning also helped him to still improve with colored pencils, and Paco realized that colored pencils were his technique. However, he felt that there was a long way ahead of him in order to become the best version of himself as an artist.
Over the years he has explored incessantly pastels and colored pencils, striving to perfect his technique, experimenting, trying out different brands of pencils and paper, and facing bigger artistic challenges every time. He attended pastel courses with important Spanish artists like Aurelio Rodríguez, Rubén Belloso, or Enrique Donoso. Through these masters he learned a lot of valuable techniques that he was able to apply with colored pencils. When he felt he was ready, Paco burned his ships and decided to devote himself exclusively to colored pencils.
Little by little, he realized that he could reach as much realism as he wanted using colored pencils. At the same time, the technique allowed him to communicate the strongest emotions. Colored pencils became his language as an artist. His work became meticulous, even obsessive, carefully observing the world around. He experimented with shapes, volumes, textures, and composition, trying to recreate the harmonious beauty of small objects of everyday life, which are a form of art for him. With his strong background in Mathematics, he has found a connection over the years between the two beauties of Math and Painting, and he likes to incorporate aesthetically pleasing geometric shapes, designs, or golden sections. However, he is now focused on the study of the human figure, which he is introducing in his next paintings.
The last few years have been very positive and productive. At the same time, he has developed a network of fellow artists friends from Australia, Canada, America, United Kingdom, Malaysia... where he learns a lot while he tries to contribute. One of his goals is to spread this beautiful technique within Spain, where it is not as popular as it deserves to be.
Paco has become a member of different colored pencils associations (AUSCPA, Pencil Art Society, CPSA, UKCPS, CPCAU, IGOR) and he has received recognition with several awards. At the same time, he has achieved the Master status by the CPCAU and the designation UKCPS. He has started to share his gift with other enthusiasts, leading several master classes and exhibitions in Madrid, Spain, and Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as different workshops on colored pencils in Spain. These have been a very rewarding experience for the artist, and, at the same time, they have been a gateway to sell his paintings. He carried a solo exhibition in Madrid in 2016 with 46 colored pencil and graphite paintings, and since 2016 he has sent artworks to different exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Germany, and the UK.
He still feels he has a lot of challenges ahead of him, always trying to capture the delicacy of everyday life with just some humble colored pencils.
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