Chris Lopez: Experimenting with different techniques

"Every man is an artist". (Joseph Beuys)

About Cristobal Sanchez-Lopez: "I was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1966. Early in my childhood, I used the white walls of my parent’s house as a big canvas and being white it gave me the opportunity to personalize them. Noticing an interest on the arts and weary of seeing me drawing everywhere, my parents decided to send me to children’s art school at age 8. There I started to do my first oils on canvas and learned different techniques, making my first art sales to neighbors and relatives.



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After graduating from high school I continued my studies of the beaux arts at Pau Gargallo University in Barcelona for 9 years where I was awarded two BA degrees in Graphic Design and in Artistic Illustration and Painting. During this period I learned to be comfortable with different techniques while consecutively studying Photography and Set Design for television and stage, dedicating the time between painting and graphic design. Subsequently I had my first exhibitions at several galleries in Barcelona. During the 1992 Olympic Games I participated in the preparation of graphic designs for the Olympic Ceremonies in the same city.

With my cultural background and my exposure to the works of the European masters I have channeled my expressions through my preferred means of artistic expression such as oil, pastel, watercolor and acrylic. During the last decade, my work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in Europe and the United States. Currently I’m promoting my work independently from the galleries including through my website. I have resided in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the past 7 years."

http://www.lopezgallery.com/

More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art

Old Poison (Dangerous Ground 2) by Josh Lanyon

I remember with pleasure the first book in the Dangerous Ground series since it was probably the one by Josh Lanyon with the best romance in it. And it was not only a good romance, it was also quite sexy. Both these aspects I found again in this second book.

Taylor and Will are trying to set in an almost domestic bliss after their experience in the wood. They are not yet living together, they still pretend to have “separate” lives and for the outside world they are only work partners and best friends. But when night comes, they are lovers. Only that it’s not simple, there are still a lot of things to smooth out and some small steps to take, like admitting that what they have is love.

The relationship between them is probably a classic of the cop themed novels. Will is the big and strong federal agent, with a big heart but always at loss with words. He is able to do all the sweet things to prove to Taylor that he loves him, but to say that three words is entirely another thing, something still too difficult. Will is also the more cautious of the two, the one who likes to think over and over things before actually doing them.

Taylor is a burst of energy, during work and private life. He is able to explode with actions and words, and maybe he can also regrets some of them, but always too late. He is at the both time daring and careless, probably the worst side of him and what Will’s silently accused him of. Will probably is not able to say the words, but he is in love with Taylor, and maybe he would like for the man to be more cautious, to consider that now he is no more alone and if something happens to him, he would left behind someone who will suffer for his loss.

Where the other novel was played all outside their day-to-day routine, in a stranger contest both for the reader than the characters, here instead we have the chance to read about their common life. The places they like to go the little things they like to do, it’s another step in comprehend them, but it’s not yet the final step: with the first book we read how their relationship moved on a personal level; now we read how they are getting used to this new aspect of their relationship; we still don’t know how they will face being “exposed” to the outside world, they are not yet going public. There is probably material for a book more, the final step in the building of a long lasting relationship.

http://www.loose-id.com/Dangerous-Ground-2-Old-Poison.aspx

Series: Dangerous Ground
1) Dangerous Ground: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/284323.html
2) Old Poison

The Rainbow Awards: Third (and last!) Phase: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/850354.html


Cover Art by April Martinez

Old Poison (Dangerous Ground 2) by Josh Lanyon

I remember with pleasure the first book in the Dangerous Ground series since it was probably the one by Josh Lanyon with the best romance in it. And it was not only a good romance, it was also quite sexy. Both these aspects I found again in this second book.

Taylor and Will are trying to set in an almost domestic bliss after their experience in the wood. They are not yet living together, they still pretend to have “separate” lives and for the outside world they are only work partners and best friends. But when night comes, they are lovers. Only that it’s not simple, there are still a lot of things to smooth out and some small steps to take, like admitting that what they have is love.

The relationship between them is probably a classic of the cop themed novels. Will is the big and strong federal agent, with a big heart but always at loss with words. He is able to do all the sweet things to prove to Taylor that he loves him, but to say that three words is entirely another thing, something still too difficult. Will is also the more cautious of the two, the one who likes to think over and over things before actually doing them.

Taylor is a burst of energy, during work and private life. He is able to explode with actions and words, and maybe he can also regrets some of them, but always too late. He is at the both time daring and careless, probably the worst side of him and what Will’s silently accused him of. Will probably is not able to say the words, but he is in love with Taylor, and maybe he would like for the man to be more cautious, to consider that now he is no more alone and if something happens to him, he would left behind someone who will suffer for his loss.

Where the other novel was played all outside their day-to-day routine, in a stranger contest both for the reader than the characters, here instead we have the chance to read about their common life. The places they like to go the little things they like to do, it’s another step in comprehend them, but it’s not yet the final step: with the first book we read how their relationship moved on a personal level; now we read how they are getting used to this new aspect of their relationship; we still don’t know how they will face being “exposed” to the outside world, they are not yet going public. There is probably material for a book more, the final step in the building of a long lasting relationship.

http://www.loose-id.com/Dangerous-Ground-2-Old-Poison.aspx

Series: Dangerous Ground
1) Dangerous Ground: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/284323.html
2) Old Poison

The Rainbow Awards: Third (and last!) Phase: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/850354.html


Cover Art by April Martinez

The Inside Reader: Kyell Gold

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell

I'm very glad to have Kyell Gold as my Inside Reader this week. I recommended his Out of Position to many of my friends, and the response is always very positive. I believe that Kyell Gold's name will become soon one of the favorite among the Gay Romance readers, and I'm happy to be able to say that I'm one of his faithfull readers.

I must confess that I don't read a great number of specifically LGBT books. Part of the reason I started to write gay (furry) romance was because there was very little out there I wanted to read. That said, I have read several books with LGBT themes that stuck with me over the years, certainly enough to compile a top ten list, if we stretch the theme slightly. I'm going to bring in several non-fiction books, because I think that the real experience of being gay is so new and unexplored that the stories might as well be fiction for their strangeness.

1) Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way.” Proust himself, the narrator, experiences an attraction to the melancholy, unfortunate Swann, but the larger part of this work concerns the heterosexual loves of Swann himself. Besides Proust being gay, there is a lesbian couple mentioned in it, and the overall sensibility of the book is very much about the nature of love, so I declare that it qualifies. Besides, the prose is so beautiful (try the newer Penguin translations) that I'll take any flimsy excuse to recommend it. It's about as gay as a successful book could be in the 1800s.

Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (November 30, 2004)
Publisher Link: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142437964,00.html?Swann's_Way_Marcel_Proust
ISBN-10: 0142437964
ISBN-13: 978-0142437964
Amazon: Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way.

( books from 2 to 10 )

About Kyell Gold: Kyell Gold is a California writer who began writing furry fiction a long, long time ago. In the early days of the 21st century, he got up the courage to write some explicit gay furry romance, first publishing his story "The Prisoner's Release" in Sofawolf Press's adult magazine Heat. That led to a novel, Volle, and a sequel, Pendant of Fortune, both of which won the Ursa Major award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel (2005 and 2006). Kyell continues to write with the goal of releasing one novel-length work every year, in addition to various short stories that appear on sites such as FurAffinity and Yiffstar. He was not born in California, but now considers it his home. His age is somewhere between "well out of college" and "retired," as he works full time in the high tech industry. He loves to travel and dine out with his partner of many years, Kit Silver, and can often be seen at furry conventions in California, around the country, and abroad.

Shadow of the Father by Kyell Gold
Release Date: 12/2009
Publisher: The Sofawolf Press
Kyell Gold's books at The Sofawolf Press: http://www.sofawolf.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=37

Shadow of the Father is a novel set in Argaea some sixteen years after Pendant of Fortune. The Argaea series is a collection of three novels and several short stories by Kyell Gold, consisting primarily of homosexual furry romance and erotica. Two of the three novels have won the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel. The fourth novel, Shadow of the Father, is under development.

The Inside Reader: Kyell Gold

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell

I'm very glad to have Kyell Gold as my Inside Reader this week. I recommended his Out of Position to many of my friends, and the response is always very positive. I believe that Kyell Gold's name will become soon one of the favorite among the Gay Romance readers, and I'm happy to be able to say that I'm one of his faithfull readers.

I must confess that I don't read a great number of specifically LGBT books. Part of the reason I started to write gay (furry) romance was because there was very little out there I wanted to read. That said, I have read several books with LGBT themes that stuck with me over the years, certainly enough to compile a top ten list, if we stretch the theme slightly. I'm going to bring in several non-fiction books, because I think that the real experience of being gay is so new and unexplored that the stories might as well be fiction for their strangeness.

1) Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way.” Proust himself, the narrator, experiences an attraction to the melancholy, unfortunate Swann, but the larger part of this work concerns the heterosexual loves of Swann himself. Besides Proust being gay, there is a lesbian couple mentioned in it, and the overall sensibility of the book is very much about the nature of love, so I declare that it qualifies. Besides, the prose is so beautiful (try the newer Penguin translations) that I'll take any flimsy excuse to recommend it. It's about as gay as a successful book could be in the 1800s.

Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (November 30, 2004)
Publisher Link: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142437964,00.html?Swann's_Way_Marcel_Proust
ISBN-10: 0142437964
ISBN-13: 978-0142437964
Amazon: Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1

Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust’s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis’s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann’s Way.

( books from 2 to 10 )

About Kyell Gold: Kyell Gold is a California writer who began writing furry fiction a long, long time ago. In the early days of the 21st century, he got up the courage to write some explicit gay furry romance, first publishing his story "The Prisoner's Release" in Sofawolf Press's adult magazine Heat. That led to a novel, Volle, and a sequel, Pendant of Fortune, both of which won the Ursa Major award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel (2005 and 2006). Kyell continues to write with the goal of releasing one novel-length work every year, in addition to various short stories that appear on sites such as FurAffinity and Yiffstar. He was not born in California, but now considers it his home. His age is somewhere between "well out of college" and "retired," as he works full time in the high tech industry. He loves to travel and dine out with his partner of many years, Kit Silver, and can often be seen at furry conventions in California, around the country, and abroad.

Shadow of the Father by Kyell Gold
Release Date: 12/2009
Publisher: The Sofawolf Press
Kyell Gold's books at The Sofawolf Press: http://www.sofawolf.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=37

Shadow of the Father is a novel set in Argaea some sixteen years after Pendant of Fortune. The Argaea series is a collection of three novels and several short stories by Kyell Gold, consisting primarily of homosexual furry romance and erotica. Two of the three novels have won the Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Novel. The fourth novel, Shadow of the Father, is under development.