illustration

It’s a Jungle out There!

Posted by Cedric de Alicoque on March 13, 2013

Posted in: Mexico, Photography. Tagged: Art, Artist, Arts, City, DailyPost, elephant, entertainment, Giraffe, Gorila, illustration, Jungle, Lion, Mexico, Mexico City, nature, outdoors, Photograph, Photography, postaday2013, postaweek2013, Purpose, travel, Urban, vacation, Weekly Photo Challenge, White Tiger. 8 Comments

A wall that seemed with no purpose.

We never know what we have that can be used for the artist we have within.

Color of Light

Posted by Cedric de Alicoque on February 2, 2013

Posted in: Mexico, Photography. Tagged: Art, Arts, butterflies, came, Color, Crafts, DailyPost, frame, Glass, illustration, Light, Mexico City, nature, Photograph, Photography, postaday2013, postaweek2013, stained, Stained glass, style, Weekly Photo Challenge. 10 Comments

This is the first piece I made when I started one of my long long time hobbies. Stained glass.

Some of my work in case you may want to see is at http://www.colordeluz.com for a short time since I am shutting down that site.

The construction of the Torre Latinoamericana started in 1948 and ended in 1956. It has 44 stories, and at that time it was the tallest building in Latin America with a height of 188 meters. It was also named the tallest building outside the U.S.

What makes this building important is its resistance to earthquakes. Have in mind that Mexico continually has telluric movement. It withstood the 1957 earthquake of 7.7 richter scale when the Angel of Independence fell from its column. It would withstand the 1985 earthquake of 8.1 , and the later earthquake of 7.9 on march 20th this year.

Nowadays the same mexican technology is used to build skyscrapers on high seismic risk areas.

If it shakes, we have the recipe….

Paintings, Choose Your Style

Posted by Cedric de Alicoque on May 24, 2012

Posted in: Mexico, Photography, postaweek2012. Tagged: Artists, Arts, Colonial Paintings, colonial style, illustration, Mexico, Paintings, Photography, postaday2012, postaweek2012, tequesquitengo, Tequisquiapan. 8 Comments

At Tequesquitengo, which is a very nice and painteresque little town, they have a paintings fair. The ones that predominate are Colonial Style, but they have every kind.