#petra cotes

[mantarain]

fellas, what would you do if you bought your girl percale sheets, Persian rugs, plush bedspreads, velvet drapes, and a canopy embroidered with gold thread and silk tassels on the episcopal bed, and she fed them to a donkey that she was raffling off? 🧐🧐🧐 

[all-you-need-knw]

Era tan apremiante la pasión restaurada, que en una ocasión se miraron a los ojos cuando se disponían a comer y sin decirse nada taparon los platos y se fueron a morirse de hambre y amor al dormitorio

100 Años de Soledad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[mazurcas]

Petra Cotes

Next to Petra Cotes there was a green circle. Her name cues memories of her standing parallel to me, both waiting outside of math class, with her arm at her waist waiting for an answer or her asking 'Do you love me' while I fed the chickens or me silently crying looking at the ceiling while I whispered to the air Poem 20 of Pablo Neruda.

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[ihugapples]

Intrigado con ese enigma, escarbó tan profundamente en los sentimientos de ella, que buscando el interés encontró el amor, porque tratando de que ella lo quisiera terminó por quererla. Petra Cotes, por su parte, lo iba queriendo más a medida que sentía aumentar su cariño, y fue así como en la plenitud del otoño volvió a creer en la superstición juvenil de que la pobreza era una servidumbre del amor. Ambos evocaban entonces como un estorbo las parrandas desatinadas, la riqueza aparatosa y la fornificación sin frenos, y se lamentaban de cuánta vida les había costado encontrar el paraíso de la soledad compartida. Locamente enamorados al cabo de tantos años de complicidad estéril, gozaban con el milagro de quererse tanto en la mesa como en la cama, y llegaron a ser felices, que todavía cuando eran dos ancianos agotados seguían retozando como conejitos y peleándose como perros.

 Gabriel García Marquez ( Cien años de soledad )

[aprilnash100years]

Basic sketch to use as template for trying some proper illustration concepts. I always tend to like my pencil sketches more than the finished articles.... time to break that mould!

Trying to add some variety in the poses and composition too. Not that you can tell from this pic, admittedly! Proper scans to follow.

[aprilnash100years]

Draft design for Petra Cotes.

This is about meat, fertility and abundance. Inspired by the work of Eiko Ishioka on Dracula, except these would be soft, removable pieces of "muscle" cushion that fasten to a boney structure underneath. Pieces would be gradually removed during the period of rain (and fed to her animals?) exposing a black dress beneath.

[amordepaloma]

Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez