Autumn is a very special season of the year in so many countries, full of colors and changes. The possibilities to play with those fall colors are amazing!

People are afraid to break soft pastels. It is painfull to see your work smashed into little pieces, but in some way, it also has a certain beauty…

Natalia Leonova, Soft pastel artist. Painting process with Mamut pastels and her impressions about Mamut.

Inspiration can come from the most diverse places.
From a book, a movie, a situation or a walk... I live near the Mediterranean Sea and the colors are abundant.

After several months of work, some other months of testing, and some more spend on pastels production I finally (finally!) release officially Mamut as a Soft Pastel brand… And Graciela Bombalova “Bogra” visits the studio to test the Mamut pastels!

Few days ago I had the chance to visit and meet an old color master. Maybe the last Handmade Oil Paint color artisan in Spain. Since it came to my ears that there was still an artisan manufacturer of oils in Spain, I had no doubt that I wanted to meet him!

At home we love celebrations! And we celebrate both Easters, but I particularly love the orthodox one… We take our time to choose the white eggs, (Which are difficult to find lately!) to paint and decor them, and then we make some egg fights!

In soft pastels, as in so many other aspects in life, sometimes things may not go as planned. Lots of things can go wrong… Maybe the texture, maybe the thikness is not enough, or the pigment had problems….Or maybe I forgot to add that ingredient in the formula (?)

Carl Jung, the father of deep psychology, used to say that everything that can be named is because we know its opposite. We know for sure that the opposite of Black is white but…What would be the oposite of grey? There is no opposite of grey as there is no opposite of pink. Grey is what it is called achromatic neutral

Each day I have the chance to look and admire this big one on my way to picking up my son... Yesterday had a special light, colour and all the flowers where blooming since the last week or so... Just spectacular and amazing! Spring is here, no doubt