Don Pepino y el Festival - 13.5" by 10"

By Daniel Ortega Beltrán

Drawing on Paper

"Don Pepino and the Festival"

Inspired by a North American city. Pittsburgh is part of me. For some reason of fate, almost everything I paint ends up going there, and I know it is well received. Without knowing the northern city, I’m able to imagine it — all I need are a couple of images and writings I find on the internet, and to feel the affection I have for some of its inhabitants, whom I hope to meet someday — its baseball team, its bridges, and a Cuban-American who walks through that city and whom I appreciate very much.

For this special drawing, I made myself a cucumber juice, and with a bit of it, I moistened a brush to blend the graphite from the pencil.