Art sessions for children at Wimbledon Park

Me showing the Iguana

Elena is of course part of the group and my inspiration!

Every Monday afternoon me and a friend are running activities for children at Wimbledon Park. I am in charge of the arts sessions. What's special about them is that they are completely in spanish, targeted to children of spanish speaking families, who like us, are living in London and whose parents want to reinforce their language, creativity and spanish/latin culture. Today we learned letter "I" for Iguana, Isla and Indio.

Latest collections featured on Print & Pattern

More good news! My latest pattern's collections were featured yesterday on Print & Pattern.
http://printpattern.blogspot.com/2011/05/designer-gabriela-larios.html

Cuentos from my Childhood Part 2

I am very excited to finally share this artwork. Above you can see a picture of the book called "Cuentos de Cipotes" where the inspiration for this Folk Tale's project comes from (as mentioned on a previous post). I created this illustrative pattern to decorate Elena's bedroom and familiarize her with elements of the salvadoran culture, our country of origin. I am still thinking about the possible uses and applications it could have, for example bedding?
I have created more Folk Art designs which I will be posting very soon!

My latest pattern collection on Pattern Observer

Good news! My latest pattern collection has been featured today on Pattern Observer.
http://patternobserver.com/2011/05/04/gabriela-larios/
I am flattered and happy to be featured amongst so many talented studios and designers!

Cuentos from my Childhood Part 1

This is a sneak peek of a project I am working on at the moment. A sweet naive folk art pattern inspired by the book called "Cuentos de Cipotes" written and illustrated by famous Salvadoran Artists Maya and her father Salarrue. A charming children's book full of folk tales which take place in picturesque and colorful little rural towns of El Salvador, my home country. When I was very little I used to "read" it aloud without knowing yet how to read making up new stories by looking only at the pictures.
The term Chumpes is the folkloric way in which people in El Salvador refer to turkeys, part of the rural life's scenario depicted in the book.