“Barquisimeto Místico: Una Pastora entre Cúpulas y Espirales”
**Ficha Técnica**
Título de la obra: La Divina Pastora entre Cúpulas y Espirales
Artista: María — Arte Macarré
Técnica: Mixta sobre lienzo
Dimensiones: [Agregar dimensiones reales]
Año: 2025
Cliente: Encargo privado (USA)
Ubicación de destino: Colección particular, Estados Unidos
**Concepto curatorial.**
Esta obra forma parte de una serie de encargos personalizados que exploran la espiritualidad venezolana desde una óptica contemporánea y festiva. En esta pieza, reinterpreto la figura de La Divina Pastora, patrona de Barquisimeto, en un contexto urbano y onírico que celebra tanto la fe como la arquitectura emocional de la ciudad.
La pintura fue creada exclusivamente para un coleccionista privado en Estados Unidos, oriundo de Lara, que deseaba una obra que condensara su nostalgia, su devoción y su orgullo por su tierra natal. El resultado fue una pieza que no solo representa a la Divina Pastora, sino que la sitúa en un universo visual donde Barquisimeto se convierte en un escenario de fantasía, memoria y color.
**Explicación del proceso creativo**
1.**Investigación emocional y simbólica:**
Antes de comenzar, se realizó una conversación profunda con el cliente para entender su vínculo con la Divina Pastora y con Barquisimeto. Se tradujo esos recuerdos en símbolos: las cúpulas de la ciudad, el reloj sonriente como metáfora del tiempo vivido, y el espiral solar como representación del renacer espiritual.
2.**Bocetaje intuitivo:**
El diseño inicial se construyó a partir de formas libres y líneas dinámicas, buscando capturar el ritmo de la ciudad y la energía de las procesiones. El personaje central fue concebido como una figura híbrida entre lo sagrado y lo cotidiano: vestida con elementos tradicionales, pero rodeada de arquitectura fantástica.
**Descripción curatorial**
Esta obra es una celebración visual de la espiritualidad larense, reinterpretada desde el lenguaje único de Arte Macarré. La figura central, La Divina Pastora, emerge como símbolo de protección y arraigo, rodeada por una arquitectura fantástica que evoca la ciudad deBarquisimeto en clave emocional y festiva.
La composición está atravesada por elementos icónicos: cúpulas, espirales, relojes sonrientes y cielos multicolores, que no solo representan la geografía urbana, sino también la memoria afectiva del cliente. Cada trazo y color fue pensado para conectar con su nostalgia, su fe y su deseo de tener una pieza irrepetible que lo vincule con sus raíces.
**Proceso creativo**
**Diálogo íntimo con el cliente:** Se exploraron recuerdos,emociones y símbolos personalesque se conectaran con su historia larense.
**Diseño simbólico:** La Divina Pastora fue concebida como una figura protectora, rodeada de elementos arquitectónicos reinterpretados con un estilo lúdico y espiritual.
**Paleta cromática emocional**: Se utilizaron colores cálidos y vibrantes para evocar la energía de Barquisimeto y la devoción popular.
**Estilo Macarré**: Fusión de lo kitsch, lo pop y lo sacro, con líneas dinámicas, patrones festivos y una narrativa visual que desafía lo convencional.
**Ritual de cierre:** La obra fue bendecida simbólicamente antes de su envío, como gesto de conexión espiritual entre artista, cliente y territorio.
**Paleta cromática emocional**
Los colores no fueron elegidos al azar. Cada tono responde a una emoción:
• Rojos y naranjas evocan la pasión y el calor del larense.
• Azules y violetas representan la espiritualidad y el misterio.
• Verdes y amarillos conectan con la esperanza y la luz del trópico.
**Exclusividad y firma emocional**
Esta pintura no es solo una obra de arte: es un relicario contemporáneo. Su exclusividad no está solo en el diseño, sino en el proceso íntimo que la originó. no hago réplica mis obras: cada pieza es un universo cerrado, una cápsula de memoria y emoción hecha a medida.
Serie: San Miguel Arcángel.
**Ficha técnica:**
Acrílico sobre lienzo.
40 x 30 cm.
2022
María Lorena Carrero.
MACARRÉ. 🎨
Hace algunos años atrás tuve de parte de una señora este encargo muy especial, quiso que le pintara a San Miguel Arcángel como regalo de cumpleaños para su hija.
Siempre mi pregunta a los clientes es: ¿Desea la pintura a mi estilo o al estilo realista? y la respuesta fue muy clara, que lo quería a mi estilo. Esa respuesta fue para mi una explosión de alegría y motivación, ya que a pesar de lo lento de mi reconocimiento como artista, ya siento que mi estilo esta subiendo peldaños en la escalera y reconociéndose.
Por otro lado, tampoco nunca había dibujado un San Miguel Arcángel, por lo que este cuadro también fue un reto y los retos me encantan porque me hacen evolucionar.
**Nota importante:** Cuando voy a comenzar un cuadro donde la figura centro nunca he dibujado, me gusta observar primero con mucho detenimiento fotos de lo que quiero dibujar, para que mi mente vaya captando la imagen y se vaya formando, desarrolle la creatividad para la misma y luego con los trazos ya creados en mi mente lo pueda llevar al lienzo.
**Proceso de Elaboración**
Luego de observar fotos, tomé el lienzo y comencé a dibujar, la magia comenzó y en realidad les comento y quizás no lo crean pero en este dibujo en particular, comencé a dibujar y de repente mi mano fluyó sola como si la llevaran y en cuestión de una media hora ya había dibujado todo el cuadro tal cual como lo había imaginado en mi mente.
🎨 **Así comenzó mi proceso creativo.**
Cada color aplicado en los espacios dibujados fue cuidadosamente seleccionado, buscando siempre el equilibrio entre armonía y contraste, bajo una atmósfera lúdica. Jugué con la interacción entre colores cálidos y fríos, y descubrí que esta obra me llevó a explorar una estructura inusual en mí: la presencia de muchos espacios pequeños. Esta característica me exigió mayor concentración y una mirada más detallista para lograr combinaciones cromáticas coherentes y expresivas.
Luego avancé hacia lo que llamo *la decoración final*, una etapa clave donde impregno la obra con **mi sello personal artístico**. Cada espacio ya pintado se transforma en una micro pintura dentro de la pintura. Trabajo con capas de pintura difuminadas, transparencias, puntillismo en distintos diámetros según el área, y líneas en blanco y negro —horizontales, verticales, oblicuas y curvas— que sugieren una sensación de cinetismo. Finalmente, aplico pequeños toques con pincel fino y grueso, enriqueciendo cada rincón con textura, ritmo y movimiento.
Aquí pueden observar como comenzando el proceso de la aplicación del contorno con el color negro. Ya la figura en abstracción comienza a aparecer.
Después de colorear los contornos con el negro, terminé mi obra colocando mi firma artística.
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Título: Guerrrera. Colección: Rostros de Mujer || Macarré
Para mi colección de rostros de mujer decidí pintar a la mujer GUERRERA.
Guerrera nace de la mujer que lucha, que no se detiene ante la adversidad, es esa mujer que con su mirada y valentía desafía al mundo e impone su fuerza.
Sin más, espero que mi pintura sea de tu agrado y permita que ella sea la que te hable al contemplarla.
FICHA TÉCNICA:
Medidas: 40 x 30 cms.
Técnica: acrílico / lienzo.
Año: 2022
Autora: María Lorena Carrero.
MACARRÉ
Al dibujar cada trazo, cada línea iba destacando la forma a esa mujer escondida mirando al infinito, buscando su fuerza, su arraigo, su resiliencia.
Al terminar el dibujo, comienza la explosión del color tanto en mi cabeza como en el lienzo. Luz, vida y mucho color que hace florecer un estilo único y original abstracto figurativo . Guerrera invoca la belleza explosiva y la fortaleza escondida en la ternura.
Así quedó mi obra de arte:
Title: Tucano
They say that we artists live in worlds different from reality, worlds created in our imagination which can be real, imaginary or both; also that we are influenced a lot by the environment that surrounds us, people, nature, feelings and emotions.
And so it happens in most cases every time I paint a picture but with the exception that when I paint, everything that disturbs me, saddens me, robs me of peace disappears because it creates an imaginary channel of peace, tranquility, calm and happiness, aspects that are transferred to my works where there is LIFE, LIGHT AND LOTS OF COLOR.
With this work TUCANO, I want to represent my gratitude to this beautiful country Costa Rica which is in its essence: country of pure life, pure green, pure nature, pure fauna.
Costa Rica has six species of toucans that vary among them by the color, shape and size of their beaks, they have become very popular birds and have been recognized as cultural heritage birds.
I hope you like my work:
Technical Data:
✨ Acrylic on canvas
✨ 40 x 30 cms.
✨ Year: 2022
✨ Author: María Lorena Carrero. MACARRÉ
Elaboration Process
This is what TUCANO looked like, which I mounted on a mini easel that I made myself.
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The Wolf's Motives (Sold) || Macarré
A work of art born after reading Rubén Darío's poem '.
Fragments extracted from:
[https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/d/dario_ruben.htm]
(Félix Rubén García Sarmiento; Metapa, 1867 - León, 1916) Nicaraguan poet who was the initiator and maximum representative of Spanish-American Modernism. In formal, stylistic and musical brilliance, there is hardly any author in the Spanish language who equals Darío of the first stage, the fully modernist stage of Azul (1888) and Prosas Profanas (1896). When his aestheticism diminished, and the ideal of art for art's sake gave way to new concerns, his masterpiece, Cantos de vida y esperanza (1905), emerged, in which the absolute mastery of form no longer has mere beauty as its only objective, but serves to express an anguished intimacy or socio-historical concerns, such as the future of Hispanic America.
Transcendent compositions appear in other books of his: El canto errante (1907), Poema del otoño y otros poemas (1910), with pieces such as Margarita, está linda la mar... and Los motivos del lobo, and the book containing his most extensive composition, Canto a la Argentina, which with other poems was published in 1914. Among his prose works (not counting Los raros and the prose pieces contained in Azul), it is worth mentioning Peregrinaciones (1901), La caravana pasa (1902) and Tierras solares (1904), among other works of lesser interest concerning travels, political impressions or autobiographical notes.
I invite you to read the poem Los Motivos del Lobo and understand how my work was born. Here is the link:
[https://biblioteca.org.ar/libros/656369.pdf]
***Los Motivos del Lobo || The Wolf's Motives***
Technical specifications:
Technique: acrylic on canvas.
Size: 60 x 60 cms.
Year: 2023.
Author: María Lorena Carrero.
MACARRÉ.
Process
I made the sketch in 2022 after reading the poem as the client suggested. Whenever I am commissioned to paint a work with a specific theme, I always give my clients a sketch so they can see if it is what they want or if they want to suggest changes. In this case, my client loved the sketch and that's how I set out to paint with total freedom.
This is how my work of art turned out
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Elephants || Macarré (Sold)
A challenging assignment for me, painting realism.
This painting was commissioned by a German man who loves elephants, when he asked me if I could paint elephants for him, of course I said yes, but I confess that I had NEVER painted elephants, much less in a realistic style.
Well, this is how my elephants turned out. I hope you like them.
TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
🐘 Size: 100 x 70 cms.
🐘 Technique: Acrylic/canvas.
🐘 Year: 2023
🐘 Style: Realistic.
🐘 Author: María Lorena Carrero V.
MACARRÉ 🎨
ELABORATION PROCESS
This step of starting by drawing on the canvas for me is the most important when starting a work. This is where I work on proportion, perspective, vanishing points, dimensions and other things. I never start painting until the sketch tells me I am ready. This step can take me a week.
When I start painting, I always work from top to bottom, as I learned from my mother, I start with the background and then the image center of interest.
I worked on the elephant with earth colors: browns, ochers, yellows. Giving the sensation of movement in his ears was an arduous task of a lot of concentration, observation and detail, each fold had to configure the depth and each light the three-dimensionality.
Symmetrical harmony was what she had to achieve in twin ears of great proportion, as well as the posture and position of the legs protecting her baby.
🙅♀️Al natural, tousled and very me, I was doing the chores at home, I passed by, I looked at my work and as always the addictive instinct took over my being and I could paint. Happy and grateful to God for giving me the gift of drawing and painting above all, this fabulous challenge.
Mama elephant almost in its entirety, its proportion was what I expected, each brushstroke gave it shape with well thought out lights and shadows.
The last step: painting the baby elephant. The same symmetry in ears, folds in its skin, posture and protected look, details in contours that would define a separate and smaller body.
And this is how my work of art was left, proud and in love, it was a commission so I had to sell it, I would have liked to keep it.
Its new owner was fascinated and very happy with the result. My elephants are in the living room of his home, next to another elephant artwork by another well-known German artist. This also boosts my motivation to keep learning and fighting for my dreams. YES I CAN.
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Title: You as I (Sold) || Macarré
From the Enamorados collection I present my work: Tu como Yo. I made this work in March of this year for an exhibition in San Jose, Costa Rica called Vientos de Cambio, the dynamic consisted in creating a work from a song and/or poem by a Costa Rican artist and so I chose Roque Dalton's poem "Yo como tu", and Tu como Yo was born.
The poem is interpreted as in the comparison of the beautiful loves of life with the things of nature, this poem when listening to it, carries a magic of peace, of haven and protection, adjectives that I wanted to transfer to my work and that by itself will speak to the viewer.
I hope you like it.
You as I
🌟 This work of art went to the Humbolt Auditorium in Costa Rica in an exhibition called: Winds of Change.
💠 NOTE: I applied a special technique of rubberized putty to this work before applying the acrylic to create textured effects and reliefs.
***Technical Data:***
Acrylic /canvas
60 x 60 cm.
2022
Author: María Lorena Carrero. MACARRÉ 🎨
Sketch
Elaboration Process
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How to make a surprise box || Tutorial
The month of December is for Costa Rica, apart from Christmas, the month of graduations from preschool to university. In this sense, many families celebrate these events with lots of joy, gifts and typical food.
The tutorial that I present to you was a request from a graduating student, that is to say; she wanted me to make a surprise box with many photos of her from birth to the present to give to her father as a thank you for helping her to complete a stage of her studies.
And that is how I started this beautiful project, which by the way, was a great pleasure for the graduate as well as for her father and her family.
Surprise box
💙 Elaboration Process 💙
In the first step I drew the sketch of the first box (the biggest one, the one you can see on the outside), I drew 9 squares of 10 centimeters each. On the other hand, I cut another 10-centimeter square, and from this I drew a heart mold to cut out the ends of the big box.
I then trimmed the ends and proceeded to make the folds with the help of a ruler.
I did the same procedure to make the middle and last boxes. The middle one of 9 cm and the last one of 8 cm. Only these do not have a heart at the ends.
Once I had all the boxes, I decorated them with colored cardboard.
I made a lid for each box
At the end of decorating all the boxes, I glued with silicone one on top of the other in order of size: large outside, medium and small.
I decorated the outside and THIS IS WHAT THE SURPRISE BOX LOOKED LIKE.
NOTE: The graduate pasted her photos on it.
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Title: Volcán arenal || Arte Macarré (Sold)
Near the town where I am living right now there is a beautiful and large lake called arenal, thanks to the fact that from any geographical point you can see the imposing arenal volcano in the distance.
Everything in Costa Rica is majesty in nature overflowing, and its citizens know how to exploit it very well, each natural site becomes a tourist attraction, making the stays of vacationers a time of natural contact, outdoor recreation and admiration, but above all a call of attention for nature (flora and fauna) that surrounds them and their extreme care.
Arenal Volcano. Costa Rica Macarré; I hope you like it.
Arenal volcano
Technical Data Sheet:
. Acrylic on canvas
. 70 x 100 cms.
. 2022.
. María Lorena Carrero. MACARRÉ.
ELABORATION PROCESS
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Healthy chocolate volcano | Cooking is also an art.
I have been living in Costa Rica for two years now and I can tell you that during this time I gained 7 horrendous kilos that have affected my health both emotionally and physically.
I know that perhaps it is a topic of much debate and sometimes controversy, in my particular case I agree with nutritionists, with those people who learn to know their body and metabolism to start working it and with people who know that only with perseverance, discipline, effort and PATIENCE, success is achieved.
This is how since the day of my birthday July 14, 2022, I made the decision to change my eating habits and resume my exercises again, so from this date until today I have been disciplined, investigative and constant, to remove those 7 extra kilos that do not favor me at all because of my short stature and so my health has been compromised.
My progress has been very noticeable and I have already lost 4 kilos, very slowly but surely, I am in a stage of menopause and taking hormones, besides I suffer from hypothyroidism and these conditions make the process become slow.
In this sense, I took on the task of reading and researching about healthy foods and desserts that were in line with my hypothyroid condition (gluten-free); this particular component produces distortion in the motility of the intestines, causing gas discomfort, swollen belly and pain.
So between various foods and desserts (that I love) and that I have learned to prepare, I wanted to share this delicious chocolate volcano that satiates my sweet tooth.
🧁 Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons ground oatmeal.
- 1 egg
- 1 cambur or banana
- 1 capful of vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- Almonds and/or walnuts (put them through a blender or food processor to break up the seeds) to taste (optional).
- 1 tablespoon of 100% unsweetened cocoa
- 1 sachet of splenda or other sweetener.
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
- 2 tablespoons of unsweetened almond milk or milk of your preference.
Preparation
The banana is mashed and the egg is added.
Add the processed seeds and the sachet of sweetener.
Baking powder and cinnamon
Vanilla and salt
Unsweetened cocoa and almond milk.
And finally, the main ingredient is added, which is ground oatmeal (replacing wheat flour). The oatmeal can be replaced by almond flour (to taste).
Mix all the ingredients well and microwave for 2 minutes. I used these cups to make it easier to flip when the volcanoes were ready.
And so were these delicious chocolate volcanoes, sugar-free and gluten-free, to be eaten without remorse.
✅ Very important: the fact that they are healthy does not mean that they should be eaten in excess or on a daily basis, it is to know how to eat them and from time to time treat yourself to a tasty treat, as everything in life should be.
If you liked this recipe and you prepare it, let me know in the comments.
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Would you like to make an original gift box?
A birthday is always very important and even more so if it is to celebrate that special someone we would like to surprise with something original.
Giving a gift 😃 is like a discharge of happiness that we inject to the person we are giving the gift do you think so? Analyze the times you have been given a gift and remember what you experienced inside, we immediately get a smile on our lips and we go to a state of joy that can not be described. Of course it all depends on the gift you get and who gives it to you. 🤭
When I arrived in Costa Rica I met a beautiful girl whose mother entrusted me to help her with her studies, projects and exams and I am very proud of her because she is about to move on to her next grade of exempted schooling.
She had her birthday last October and I wanted to make her an original gift since she had told me that she really liked the bracelets I made, so I got creative and made her a special present with her bracelets. I hope you make it for someone special too.
Materials used to make the gift BOX:
Block of colored cardstock
Sheets of bond paper with colorful designs (I used dotted).
Sheets of white bond paper.
Fluorescent, normal and permanent colored markers.
Colored ribbons
Scissors, ruler, graphite pencil, glue, cold silicone.
FOR THE BRACELETS:
Mouse glue threads of different colors.
Beads or avalorios (as they are called here in Costa Rica).
Elaboration of bracelets
I GAVE HER 12 BRACELETS IN TOTAL.
MAKING THE GIFT BOX FOR THE BRACELETS
1.- I drew and cut out 4 rectangles of 18 cm long by 9 cm wide on different colored cardboard, which I folded in half and then glued them together to form a cube.
To make the lid of the box I drew and cut out a square of 11 cm on each side, then folded 2 cm inward, cut the corners and glued. Then I drew, painted and decorated the message with the birthday girl's name and glued it from a ribbon to the center inside the lid.
I drew, painted and decorated the sides of the box with motivational messages.
Then to the initial message that I glued on the lid of the box, I added decorative papers each containing a bracelet, these I joined with strips of cardboard in such a way as to create an accordion type.
AND SO WAS THE GIFT BOX WHICH WHEN YOU REMOVE THE RIBBON AND RAISE THE LID, THE SIDES FALL DOWN SHOWING THEIR MESSAGES AND AS YOU RAISE THE LID YOU CAN SEE ALL THE BRACELETS.
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Series: Faces of Women || Beleza || Macarré (Sold)
Beleza: feminine force that attracts, that pierces, that invites, that intrigues, that enchants.
Of all my collections, with this series I feel in love, each woman's face that I paint, pierces my feelings, my moods, it is as if each one of them were talking about me, it is something that goes beyond a simple understanding.
I invite you to appreciate my work that I hope you like. As always, I am in a continuous learning stage, innovating with new techniques and incorporating my style.
Beleza
Data sheet:
Technique: acrylic on canvas.
Measurements: 40 x 30 cms.
Year: 2021.
Author: María Carrero.
Macarré.
**Elaboration process**
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The dog that did not know how to bark| Children's story
It was a beautiful morning, the sun was shining through the clouds and the trees and flowers looked radiant with their beautiful colors. Pancho and Bruno are two cute little dog brothers, they are both brown but Bruno has a beige spot on his chest. Pancho has been barking and barking since he was born, but Bruno, poor thing, you can barely hear him whimper.
Sara is Pancho and Bruno's mom, she takes good care of them, she as a mom knows that Bruno when he grows up will bark as much as Pancho his brother. In the meantime, the doggy brothers spend the whole day playing.
Several months have passed and Bruno still can't bark, Bruno and Pancho are never separated, they go everywhere together to play.
One day they were away from their mother's house, suddenly in the street, they found some balls and started to play, Pancho pushed one of the balls into the sewer and the ball went into the hole, Pancho wanted to get it out, wham! fell into the hole and could not get out.
Then Bruno, desperate and unable to bark, did not know what to do to help his brother.
At that moment a man dressed as a fireman was passing by, Bruno began to turn around, to jump but he could not get the fireman to look at him, Bruno with tears in his eyes, with all his strength tried to bark, one, two, three attempts and on the fourth, a loud and clear bark was heard, the fireman then saw Pancho trapped, he pulled him out and Bruno excited, barked and barked to see his brother rescued.
The fireman took Pancho and Bruno to the fire station, gave them a home, love and food, also trained them, and now Bruno and Pancho are two little fire dogs.
***🌟AND GLITTERING GLITTER, THIS TALE IS OVER🌟***
**Some of the moments of the elaboration of the book.**
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Title: Passion of Spring : Artemacarre (Sold)
I am pleased to present my last creation elaborated under the realistic style, a work created from the observation of several photos. I began to elaborate my painting and at first I placed a bluish black background and all the roses were red, but during the process which sometimes I publish in my whatsapp status, a special person saw it and fell in love with my painting, then asked me if I could make some changes, and as I always say that in painting everything can be arranged, I accommodated it to your liking and soon my work will have a new home in the United States of America.
For me as a professional artist, I am thrilled by these moments in which my art, my talent and my work are recognized; it is the effort rewarded not only by money but also on an emotional level in self-esteem and emotions found.
I present my work, I hope you like it:
***Pasión de Primavera***
Technical specifications:
Size: 100 x 70 cms.
Technique: acrylic on canvas.
Year: 2022.
Author: María Carrero. MACARRÉ.
ELABORATION PROCESS
From this point on, changes began to be made at the customer's request.
This is how my work of art turned out
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Living Room Center Table. Macarré Crafts.
I am a plastic artist but I also love to make crafts. Lately I have heard a lot the phrase: "What for some is garbage, for others is a treasure" well with that phrase I identify myself.
Now, where did this idea come from? My son works in an appliance store and from time to time the most luxurious kitchens arrive packed in crates of wooden slats lined with plastic, this wood comes impeccably clean, without holes or broken; then, he brings me those woods because in the store they throw them away, I told him to bring them to me and I accumulated them until I saw that I had enough to make the coffee table in the center of my living room, because I bought some furniture and had no table (remember that I am starting from scratch in this beautiful country).
The fact is that I combined the various colors of wood I had and I got a unique, original and exclusive MACARRÉ table. hahaha.
I hope you like it.
MY COFFEE TABLE
Materials I used:
`20 pine wood strips (natural and brown color).`
`White wood glue.`
`brush`
`Reamer`
`Ruler and pencil`
`nails and hammer.`
`MEASUREMENTS: 30 cms. high.`
`50 cms. wide.`
`40 cms. long.`
`Time of realization: 2 weeks`
Process of elaboration and construction
First, I cut the legs of the table with a saw, 30 cms. each.
Next, I proceeded to glue them with the white wood glue and left them overnight.
Then I assembled the upper part, alternating the colors of the wood, measured with the measurements I wanted, cut the boards with the saw and then glued them with the white glue and let them dry for two days.
Then I sanded to remove chips and try to put everything straight (all by hand because I don't have a sander).
After several days of sanding, I assembled the table by gluing and nailing the legs to the board I built, put some weight on them so they wouldn't fall off and let them dry for two days.
Finally, I bought spray polyurethane and varnished the entire table.
This is how my pretty little table turned out.
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Title: Perezosous🦥
There are times when life makes you change all your lifestyles, either in the way you were used to communicate with people, the way you do your jobs and sometimes even the way you see things relevant to your own culture.
I say this because since I emigrated to Costa Rica, I have realized how little interest I gave to the things of my land, not because I did not value them, but perhaps for the simple fact that they were taught to us as children and there it remained as a learning experience and not as a rooting. I believe that what I mentioned has happened not only to me, and by the simple fact of establishing my life in this country I have had to take on the task of learning its culture.
Now, seeing how important it is for its inhabitants, its customs, its roots, its traditions, its folklore and its fauna and flora, I dared to investigate the tastes and artistic sensibilities of the Tico citizen and the many foreigners who visit us daily, and I found that they are essentially based on the beautiful colors of its fauna and flora.
So lately you have seen that I have dedicated my style to paint toucans, macaws, horses and lots and lots of green (in my style of course).
Today in special I present you PEREZOSOUS, this little animal with a tender face which was catalogued as a national symbol of Costa Rica, in a law approved last July 2021 as a protection for the population of this species.
🦥 PEREZOSOUS 🦥
Technical data:
Acrylic on canvas.
30 x 40 cms.
Year: 2022.
Author: María Lorena Carrero. MACARRÉ
Step by step
This is how my lazy
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Activities to do at home
Today I bring you a fun activity to do with your children at home, it is about creating an outdoor restaurant with a sheet of paper, scissors and colors and / or markers to paint.
In these times when technology became part of our lives, we as moms, grandmothers, aunts, guardians or other roles, we can make our children and ourselves have a space for creativity; that is, for our children to learn by doing.
So find the materials and make this fun activity that takes some work, but the result is sure to please your child.
Read the steps carefully and let your imagination run wild.
LET'S CREATE!
These are the materials I used
First I folded the sheet like this
Then I drew what will be the chairs and table.
Then with the scissors I cut only the vertical lines.
I then folded up the cut
In this step came the tricky part, I carefully flipped the folded squares and took them outwards to make the effect of the chairs and the table in third dimension.
Ready, this step was the most fun for me, drawing and painting, because I am ARTE MACARRÉ. Notice that I drew a piece of cake, a cup of coffee and the backs of the chairs.
Finally, the piece of cake and the coffee cup that go on the table I left a tab on the base that I folded and glued with silicone and I put the backrests on the chairs.
***This is what my restaurant looked like***
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Title: Colorado || Macarré
Today I bring you a beautiful work that I made for a collective art exhibition of Venezuelan Plastic Artists, which was held at the Museum of Barquisimeto, Lara. Venezuela in the year 2019. My work COLORADO was exhibited in room 7 of the Museum along with outstanding and talented fellow artists.
It was an honor for me to participate in an event like this, because it was a way to show that despite the adversity that we lived and still live in Venezuela, we artists are resilient and we are always willing to make our art known.
In this work I applied my style but innovating in blurring, perspective, firm strokes, and proportion, as I call it, climbing one more step on the ladder to evolve.
It was three weeks of hard and beautiful work, which left me very satisfied and happy with the talent that God gave me to give to the world.
I hope you like my COLORADO HORSE.
***COLORADO***
***TECHNICAL DATA:***
🔹 Technique: Acrylic on canvas (drummed).
🔹 Size: 100 x 80 cms.
🔹 Year: 2019
🔹 Author: María Lorena Carrero (MACARRÉ)
PHOTOS OF THE OPENING OF THE GROUP EXHIBITION
Elaboration Process
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Macramé an art for bracelets
Each art is unique and each one imposes its own style, particularly with macramé, which is the art of making knots with threads.
From my pedagogical point of view, making these bracelets helps to reinforce the development of different cognitive, psycho-motor and emotional aspects, since the process involves important factors such as: attention, discipline, constancy, fine motor skills, laterality, direction, correspondence term to term, motivation, among others.
Each bracelet is a challenge at the moment of making it, that's why I like, apart from combining the colors I want, deciding what kind of weave it will have and the length it will have, it produces in me a sensation of peace and tranquility, as it happens when I am painting.
🧡 Red and white bracelet | Macramé
Materials:
3 white threads of 1,50 cms long.
3 red threads of 1,50 cms long.
(they can be of any material you choose).
Base to hold with its clamp
Scissors.
Tinder or lighter.
Elaboration Process
1) I joined the 6 threads at one end with a knot leaving 10 cms towards the ends.
2) Press the threads of the knot upwards with the clamp of the board (if you don't have clamp or board, look for something heavy that does the same function).
3) I started by making the S knot (simple knot) with the color of your choice, you must take all the threads of the same color to make a single knot over the other.
4) In this way, the knots should be assembled by color and thickness.
5) When I finished with the desired size to the wrist of the hand, I finished with a knot joining all the threads.
6) I then joined the two knots at the beginning and at the end to cut the remaining threads to the same size.
7) Finally, I made the union knot or slip knot of the bracelet, I placed the 6 threads on one side and the 6 on the other one on top of each other, leaving the opposite ends, I pressed them with the clamp but if you don't have it, it is not a problem. Then with a 15 cm thread of the color of your choice I joined the threads and began to make S or simple knots, as many as I thought necessary.
8) I cut off the excess ends and burned the tips with the lighter.
This is how my bracelet turned out
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Hand-painted blue jeans jacket
Today I bring a proposal that is always valid; customize or give a new look to those forgotten garments to use them again and now feel proud to wear them, because we arrange them to our taste and our comfort.
That's what happened with my old blue jeans jacket, it was too big in the sleeves and narrow at the cuffs and I couldn't wrap it around my arms; that's why I decided to cut the sleeves, paint it and give it a new use.
This jacket was also very heavy so I had to leave it in Venezuela, someone will be using my Macarré art.
I hope you like this process.
HAND PAINTED BLUE JEANS JACKET with my artwork: Fishbowl of Dreams
CUSTOMIZATION PROCESS
WITH MACARRÉ STYLE (FISHBOWL OF DREAMS)
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Painted T-shirts
I remember that during the Covid quarantine and still being at home in Venezuela, every day I was looking for something to paint to keep me entertained, at that time of course I couldn't go to my gym, so I decided to paint one of my white t-shirts from going to the gym.
I used paints to paint fabric and the results were as expected, after washing it several times it did not lose the colors and the paint did not fall off.
Well, this t-shirt didn't come in my suitcase, someone will be wearing them in Venezuela. I just wanted to share with you my art also on t-shirts.
I hope you like it.
Going to the gym
◀ Front part
🔽 Back side
Process
After I painted it, I cut off the collar and sleeves and stretched all the edges well.
This is what my new flannel looked like and ready to wear with my sportswear, too bad I left it behind.
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Painting is fun!
Imagination and creativity are two potential tools that all human beings have, some of us discover them faster than others because they have emerged at a young age and others, like me, as an adult.
What I mean is that in my studies and throughout my professional career I have come to the conclusion that all people have the ability to create, only that each person will reflect it in his style and in the direction to which they are inclined. Thus, for example, a child who from an early age feels an inclination towards numbers and is passionate about them, will probably create viable channels to make his learning more attractive. Or in the case of a person who is attracted to words and reading, perhaps he will develop ways to express himself through writing, either by creating books in all or some of his narratives or like me, who as a teenager reaffirmed my vocation as a teacher and as an adult, I discovered my talent for painting and now in my style I dedicate myself to it with great passion.
Today I bring you a very funny way to investigate how we can discover the talent of our children to paint, (well actually in my 20 years as an educator, I never observed a child who did not like to paint 😉) This fun way to learn by doing, is what is called meaningful experiences, experiences that the child will keep in his memory box and when the time comes he will take it out of the box, take it, mold it and make it grow with creativity to make it and make it known.
I invite you to do this activity with your children, whether you are a mom, dad or other family member, or if you are a teacher or babysitter. Remember to always keep your patience, but above all put a lot of love in your actions and words when you do it, be a guide, let your child explore, touch and feel, manipulate, and observe processes and results.
In the end the reward will be in the long run, you will be sowing seeds to reap ripe fruits of superior intelligence. I hope you like it:
Painting Flowers
Materials to be used to make this painting:
. Disposable cardboard toilet paper cylinder.
. Straw
. Scissors.
. Paints (they can be gouaches, tempera, acrylics, cold paints and you can use the colors you want).
. Support (cardboard, cardboard, wood, canvas...)
. Tape for gluing.
Let's have fun!
Take a cardboard cylinder and draw a line with color or pencil in the middle of it, then with the scissors start cutting strips reaching the line; when finished expand these outwards and you will have the shape of a large flower, this process you are going to do two more times, with smaller sizes. When you have all the cardboard flowers, you are going to use the big one first, stamping it on the cardboard after having dipped it in the paint of the color that the children have chosen (preferably).
For the medium flower it is best that you look for a paint that contrasts with the background of the large flower so that it stands out, you can also combine several colors.
🥰REMEMBER HERE WHAT COUNTS IS CREATIVITY AND FUN 🎨🖌.
With the straw you will make the same cuts with the scissors at one end to make the flower smaller. Dampen with another highlight color to make it stand out from the previously applied ones.
Something very important is that the child learns that all activities have a beginning, a development and an end, like everything that is done in life, for this, tell him that the painting is ready and that it needs to be signed with his name to become a work of art and can be exhibited for the world to see.
PLEASE 🌟 always exhibit all your works as if they were the most expensive works of art in the world, with this you are strengthening your self-esteem and developing potentialities of a successful person in life.
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Richala y Carola | Cuento Infantil
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Little fish
This time I bring you an easy and fun artwork, which you can do with for yourself or for a special person, either for the covers of notebooks, notepads or special occasion cards.
In this tutorial you can see how to work with permanent markers working with different ranges to achieve colorful and well blurred effects.
Remember it is only a matter of attitude when it comes to drawing and painting, that is, it is a time to create, have fun and dream.
"ART IS LIFE, LIGHT AND COLOR".
I hope you like it and make your own little fish.
Little fish
Materials:
White opaline cardboard.
Charcoal pencil 5B
Permanent markers
School colors.
White acrylic.
Round covers.
Step by step
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Title: Toast to life and love
Today I bring you a very special work for me, since it was created to be presented in my first exhibition in this beautiful country Costa Rica. Excited? very much, since I was invited thanks to my effort and artistic trajectory and to the recognitions obtained throughout these years.
I am Macarré, a Venezuelan migrant, proud of this opportunity to represent my beautiful country Venezuela in the exhibition:
" Toast to life" in San Jose, Costa Rica.
In this work I highlighted what is most meaningful to me in life, life itself and love, I also wrote short micro messages that allude to the beauty of love and living life to the fullest.
I hope you like it and of course its elaboration process.
Toast to life and love
Technical specifications:
Technique: acrylic on canvas
Size: 40 x 50 cms
Year: 2021.
Author: María Lorena Carrero.
MACARRÉ
Elaboration process
This is how my work of art turned out
This painting has a colored acrylic base where I introduced textures and on top I placed white so that when painting the drawn colors would stand out in their splendor.
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Black horses
There are few occasions when my inspiration gives me the opportunity to paint horses in a realistic style, I will not deny that I love to paint them, little by little they have become a passion, and even more when I challenge myself to make them as real as possible.
This particular painting aroused in me a great interest from the moment I saw the picture, it was two horses that I had to paint; that is, two challenges. I call my realistic horses: CHALLENGES, because with them I demand myself not to be messy in the painting, and when I impose myself not to be messy, the word RULES begins to appear in my mind.
Norms and concepts to work on: proportion, perspective, vanishing points, shadows and lights in the most perfectible game; in short, a whole class of painting at its highest level.
These horses are not perfect, but every time I paint a horse I strive to make each one better than the other and in this way I am learning and evolving in the art of painting horses.
I hope you like it:
Black horses
Technical Data Sheet:
Technique: acrylic on canvas
Size: 60 x 60 cms
Year: 2022
Author: María Lorena Carrero.
MACARRÉ
**Step by step**
***This is how my work of art turned out***
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Title: Rufo and Pancho
Today I present my work Rufo and Pancho, this painting has a beautiful conception, it was born after my daughter came to Costa Rica five years ago, we had at home our two dogs, dad Rufo and son Pancho, my daughter was more attached to Rufo and it hurt her a lot when she left him and not only her but Rufo too, because three months after my daughter left, Rufo died.
That is why I made this beautiful picture which I was going to bring to her to put in the veterinary clinic where she currently works, but for reasons of money and space I could not bring it so she decided to give it to one of her best veterinary friends in Venezuela, so Rufo and Pancho is in a veterinary office decorating with their beautiful colors and memories.
I hope you like it:
Technique: Acrylic on canvas.
Size: 80 x 60 cms.
Year: 2020.
Author: María Carrero. MACARRÉ.
A reminder of how this beautiful painting was created.
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Tittle: Last Dinner
"What for others is trash, for me is a treasure". This was the case in the year 2019, when I found a frame with its board as a support that my mother had thrown away because it was moldy and discolored, it was then that when I saw it I picked it up and took it home where I prepared to restore it and turn it into a work of art. This is how I did this beautiful job, I hope you like it.
LAST DINNER
TECHNICAL DATA:
Technique: Acrylic on wood
Size: 42 x 70 cms.
Year: 2019
Author: María Lorena Carrero
RESTORATION OF THE SUPPORT AND FRAME
The frame had a shiny gold paint that was chipping, I used the extra coarse sandpaper to remove all the paint and its base.
This is how the frame and the wooden support were left ready to be painted.
ELABORATION PROCESS
I PAINTED THE FRAME A DARK MATTE BLUE.
THIS IS HOW MACARRÉ'S LAST SUPPER TURNED OUT
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Title: Sensations : Step by step
⭐ "Colors and dots that lead to awaken feelings of joy and peace."⭐
It is said that artists are always in continuous movement, that their eagerness to create is unlimited, that they are fanatical about their art.
That's how I feel, and I tell you, every day throughout these 11 years as a plastic artist I have realized that I am addicted to my art, to my colors, to my creations, that I can spend hours drawing and painting and the world stops just for me, it is my magic moment of peace and happiness.
Every day I discover in each material new ways to transmit what I keep inside me, either with my paintings or through my children's stories, this is how I innovate and try to somehow add touches of artistic madness to my work, but always with my style: MACARRÉ.
Today I bring you a painting with a different style contribution to what I was used to, I innovated with pointillism to enhance my usual style.
I hope you like it.
Technical Data
Technique: Acrylic on black canvas.
Size: 40 x 40 cms.
Year: 2021
Author: María Lorena Carrero. MACARRÉ
Step by step
This pointillism technique can be applied with any instrument that has a round tip and is filled with paint to create a perfect and beautiful circle. The rest is imagination and creativity at its best. I had a lot of fun.
This is how my artwork turned out: Sensations
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Title: TRONADOR || Macarré
A great pleasure to greet you.
Today I bring you my most recent art creation, a realistic painting with a horse full of energy, vitality and a lot of panache.
This realistic style is not the one I usually use but I am passionate about painting horses in all styles, that's why I dared with this one, and I love how it turned out, and I am happy with it.
I hope you like it and enjoy the process and the result.
Technical specifications:
Technique: acrylic on canvas.
Size: 100 x 80 cms.
Year: 2021.
Author: María Lorena Carrero. MACARRÉ
Step by step
I always draw the silhouette of the horse, trying to maximize proportion, symmetry and position, basic concepts that must be in harmony for the desired achievement of the horse's painting.
After painting the background, I begin to stain with a dark base, in this case a shade of brown shadow and then give the light and brightness with ochers, yellows and white.
My horse is taking shape as I paint it.
NOTE: This work of art was sold two days after it was created.
After three weeks of work, this is what my horse Tronador looked like.
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