Love to be back in my hometown, Madrid.

Nice video by András Farkas showing the process of my wall in Budapest for Színes Város. Featuring some of my crappy english speaking too.

Autumn in Budapest… photo:Farkas András

I finally could finish the wall that I started in Budapest last month, and couldn’t finish due to some construction delays.
Here it is, a still life (or bodegón) artwork inspired by the vanitas paintings of artists like Pieter Claesz, but adding some more color and items from the folk Hungarian culture.

Great times with Annita and the Szines Varos crew, Noemi, Hanna, Peter and Farkas, the guy behind most of these photos. Many thanks!

Meanwhile in Las Vegas….

Back in Dubai doing a few artworks for Toro+KO, a venue in City Walk by chefs Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer.

First round in Budapest.
I was invited by Colorful City (Szinos Varos) to paint this nice wall in a good location in Budapest. Unfortunately there were some construction issues that didn’t let me finish the mural, an artwork inspired in the classic still life paintings by Pieter Claesz, where he explored light and colors, as well as life, death and the limited pleasures of life while we exist.
Since the Colorful City theme for this year is food culture, I found this kinda relatable.

Coming back to Budapest soon to finish it. Thanks Noemi, Hanna, András and Peter for your support.

Sketchbook stories

Summertime 2017 (so far)
Menorca, Yvoire and Castelnou in the pictures.

I did an artwork for a hard-to-pronounce festival in a hard-to-pronounce place this past June in Germany: “Umsonst & Draussen” in Würzburg.

The artwork became the identity for the whole festival, it was used on many things along with the custom typography, from posters and wristbands to banners for scenarios, etc.

Maybe one day I can make my own festival and blow people’s minds with my weird taste of music.

Colliure, France.
Menorca, Spain.
Thuir, France.
Castellnou, France.
2017

Custom ‘89 BMW K75. (Commission)

Modified bike by Braap motors
Photos by Roberto Alegría

Les Nomades.
My contribution for @muralfestival 2017

A 7-story sweet (and a bit tricky) wall, located at ParcCité (Parc Ave with Sherbrooke) in Downtown Montreal, Quebec

I had a different sketch for this wall that I changed two days before starting for this new idea showing what the nomad life means, what’s ahead and what you leave behind.

I had a blast here, many thanks to the all the people behind MURAL for making it all easy and fun. Good to see familiar faces and get to meet a lot of new ones too.
Adiós Montreal! 

New prints hot off the press!
I just released this 6-color screenprint in collaboration with @station16gallery and @muralfestival
Edition of 50. Signed and numbered.
Get it at the Station16 gallery or online here:

https://www.station16gallery.com/collections/all/products/ruben-sanchez-untitled

Been painting a long wall this past weekend at Primavera Sound Festival split with a nice crew @amaiaarrazola @zosenbandido @marinacapdevila @txemy @mina_hamada and @cristianblanxer

My contribution to the wall is based on ‘The Party’, the old famous movie featuring Peter Sellers.

Many thanks to the whole team at TheCreative.net and everyone involved

All photos by David Acedo

Skateboarding stories.

I had the chance to paint this beautiful vintage bus located at my local skatepark in Spain, Skate Agora, where they host every year the Street League contest.
For those of you who aren’t into skateboarding, the Street League is like the SuperBowl of skate and turns out that one of the 5 stops of the World tour (2 in Europe, 3 in USA) is in my neighborhood.

The artwork that I worked on is inspired in different stages of skateboarding: exploring, slamming, pushing… slamming again.
Four characters showing each of these features in one side and a perfect kickflip over a tree on the other side, like the evolution of the skater and all the struggle and determination behind it.

Not a big fan of Street League or anything related with the mainstream transformation of skateboarding but that’s a different story. This project wasn’t directly related with it, just with the local park but I gotta say that I’m happy to have had the best riders and friends from all around the world having fun in my neighborhood.

Many thanks to Montana Colors and Skate Agora for supporting this, I’ve been wanting to paint this bus since the first time I saw it in the park and it’s always cool to play at home!

Hyped to be part of Mural Festival 2017. See you in Montreal!

Just came back from Bordeaux (France) where I spent almost a couple of gypsy weeks having a mini residency and show at Darwin with my friends Javier Mendizabal, Julián Lorenzo and Diego Cabezas.
We’ve been working and having fun together for ‘Immersion’, the idea behind the show, which is inspired in how the human is interacting with the Ocean, what’s our impact and how can we change that. We have collaborated with a couple of NGO’s specialized on this so they can inform the visitors as they see the artworks.

A great experience, we’ve developed our artworks on the go and I’m excited to have had the chance to collaborate with my friend and sculptor Diego Cabezas on some pieces for this show.

From May 5th to 25th at Darwin Gallery, Bordeaux.

Many thanks to Javi and Carine for make this happen and for take care of us, and the amazing crew at Darwin, especially Tristan and Seb.

Wall with my friend Txemy in Barcelona.

Emotional balance. 

Reason vs. Emotion, the uncontrollable struggle of these two human behaviors as opposed as inseparable. 

Thank you Adobe & Behance’s 99u Magazine for this interview in their past issue.