Signature | Name Paula Bonet | |
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Occupation Writer, Illustrator, Painter Similar People Francois Truffaut, Paco Roca, Sonia Pulido, MacDiego, Elisenda Roca Profiles | ||
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Paula Bonet (born 1980 in Vila-real, Spain) is a Spanish book illustrator and painter. She has taken part in various projects and books, such as, the book of poems called "Si uneixes tots els punts" (“If you connect all the points”) written by Estel Solé and the work "T'estimo, ets perfecte, ja et canviaré" directed by Elisenda Roca. She became famous mainly because of the illustrations she began doing in 2009, she has hundred of thousands of followers in social networks.
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Paula bonet
Biography
She was born in Vila-real. Since she was a child loved everything related to drawings and the way of expressing herself artistically. At the age of 14 she joined into a drawing academy in the city she was born, thanks to this she started flirting with what would be years later her profession. After completing secondary school, she decided to study Fine Arts against lots of her closest familiars and friends who told her that she should study other careers which have more professional output. When Paula was 17 was admitted in the Polytechnic University of Valencia for studying Fine Arts. Once she had already completed these studies, she decided to spend time abroad completing her university studies. She travelled to Santiago de Chile and for four months she studied at PUC. After that, she went to New York thanks to a scholarsship and studied at the NYU six months. Almost every summer since she was 25, travelled to Urbino (Italy) to take some prestigious short courses.
She was very clear that studying abroad would help her open her mind, searching for new horizons and discovering new influences. For four years she is going to find difficult to combine her teacher job in a school of Valencia (Spain) and her illustrator job. So she decided to concentrate totally in illustration, after five months she moved to Barcelona, where she could find greater artistic movements. Nowadays, she receives new job offers almost every day. She gained lots of fans because of people talking about her, most of her public was women. After that, her illustration skills appeared in buses, murals and advertisements. She has exhibit in some European cities, such as, Porto, Florencia or Paris, without forgetting Barcelona and Valencia. She is almost a fan phenomenon, she has 200.000 followers in social networks.
Illustration techniques
She used to work engraving (lithography, screen printing, chalcography) and oil painting techniques. In 2009 started introducing illustration in her works. She feels comfortable drawing illustrations and adding texts. Paula tryes to make it fifty-fifty. The illustrations to support the texts and vice versa. “They are not explained illustrations neither illustrated texts.”