Latest Projects – Page 2

A Coloring Party by Becca Borrelli and Ismael Cavazos

I’m pairing up with Rebecca Borrelli, to bring you all a coloring party in late April!

I had the pleasure of meeting this amazing artist back in 2014 at a restaurant we both worked at. If you know Borrelli, you would not be surprised to hear she gifted her trainer (me) with some art as a thank you. Of course, being the empath that she is, she gave a special gift that really fit who I am and what it is I do as an artist. Can you see the clouds coming alive with imagery?

Her style doesn’t just account for the objects, but also the spaces in-between!! I fell in love with this aesthetic and when I learned she was the producer of this amazing coloring book, I reached out to her.

I’m pleased to announce she is letting me ride her coattails and we will be collaborating to bring you this most amazing coloring party. From her representational art to my abstract art we will whet the appetites of all colorists.

Are we the Yin and Yang of the coloring world or WHAT?

Details of the coloring event coming soon…

Why are we doing this?

“Paint books and coloring books emerged in the United States as part of the “democratization of art” process, inspired by a series of lectures by British artist Joshua Reynolds, and the works of Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his student Friedrich Fröbel. Many educators concluded that all, regardless of background, students stood to benefit from art education as a means of enhancing their conceptual understanding of the tangible, developing their cognitive abilities, and improving skills that would be useful in finding a profession, as well as for the children’s spiritual edification.”

A Living Sculpture

In this exciting experiment, I have taken a raw peanut and carved it.

I then placed this peanut in water to germinate – the question was can the plant grow with out the other half of the cotyledon. After several attempts, it worked!

The beard (plumule) on the Old Man in the Peanut grows to become the first leaves that break the soil’s surface on the way to becoming your peanut plant. The hood (radicle) elongates becoming a tap root that goes into the ground to collect nutrients!

This is a living sculpture that goes on to become a living plant!

A-Rad of Summer Break 3 Fame Scribbles for Us!

Alahna Rad (Instagram) of Summer Break 3 fame, dropped some scribbles and I found this bear residing between the lines! I call it “Grin and Bear It”.

Purchase a print of this.

Find out what’s hidden in your scribbles!

**Update. After looking at the gif above, I decided this bear needed an eyelid! See the results here:

Eyelid added

Mark Kistler’s scribble revealed

Mark Kistler‘s scribble reveals:

“Gusts, Dust, the Sun,
Of all the Things that Settled that Day,
He wasn’t One.”

See more amazing discoveries from scribbles here!

And if you want to learn to draw the fundamentals, listen to what Mark has to say:

Thank you for being a patron!

It is because of patrons like you that I am able to bring you the amazing discoveries that I find in that parallel World of Resemblances.

Now, you can go to the next level and do it at PATREON!

Here is my account! Thanks for your continued support.

Sincerely, Ismael (Ish) Cavazos

‘The Skull’ Peanut Carving

Design inspired by Sylvia Orozco of Mexic-Arte Museum. — Day of the Dead Skulls carved from peanuts.

I utilize an inherent feature of the peanut and make good on its resemblance to something else. For this design I’m using the ‘T’ shape on the back-side of every peanut as the front two teeth on the bottom row. In the photo, the first two are an opened peanut unaltered, the third is a peanut with the lines inscribed and the fourth represents a finished piece.