Francisco Toledo's Faves

Meet my cat Anzu. https://instagram.com/p/B3mIfeaBF85/

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Here’s a bunch of oldies from ca. 2000-2005, which I came across while moving houses...

Drawing of beautifull rock piles at Lapland mountain( called tunturi)

In the Finnish mythology killing of a bear was followed by a great feast in honour of the bear (peijaiset), where a substantial part of the celebrations consisted of convincing the bear's spirit that it had died accidentally and hadn't been murdered. Afterwards, the bear's skull was hung high upon a pine tree so its spirit could re-enter the heavens. The bones of the bear were then buried under the pine. Reference for this work is my old drawing of karhunkallopetäjä/bearskullpine in the Riisitunturi. Also practice sketch of bear skull and at last photo i took of pine.

Playing with colored inks at fountain pen

Play of shadows & light at leaves

A more impression version of Marjaniemi lighthouse

Another ”serie” what i’ve been drawing lately. Weird creatures or living trees at woods.

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

Exploring different methods and ideas

Small doodles on post-it notes to kill the time in an annoying job years ago. I came across these while moving houses recently.

Charcoal on gessoed sketchbook paper

I’ve been doing ink doodles somewhat like this since the early 80s but I have to give a shout-out to Visoth Kakvei for greatly influencing my style the last couple of years.