for business and general enquires: donada@mdonada.com
current related links: Watdafac Toys | Oscura plata | Thee Order ov The Hobohawk
Named by EL PAÍS newspaper new best emerging artist in 1998 · Worked at Cartoon Network · Worked for Inkapache · Lecture and workshop at Museo ABC, Madrid · Teacher at IED (Instituto Europeo de Diseño) · Lecture at La Central, Madrid · Children´s book illustration course at Central Saint Martins in London · Owner of Shake! Cobra Shake! record store (rip) · Father of Gssh! Gssh Records · Former member of Stay Gold, Ponyboy, The Mushitcians and Grabba Grabba Tape · Publisher at (Thee Order ov) The Hobohawk (formerly known as Watdafac Gallery) · Co-Father of Oscura Plata · Hates tea, eggplant, ketchup and mint · Suffers from Thalassophobia ·
MDONADA
ILLUSTRATOR & G DESIGNER
Some favorites: Tracing paper · Black Magic Higgins or Kaimei black ink · Tombow Fudenosuke japanese brush hard pen · Red/blue pencils (no specific brand) · Hydrus color ink · Vallejo watercolor · Chartpak AD markers · HB graphite pencil (specially propelling/mechanical pencil) · Edding 1800 pen · Windsor & Newton or Princeton brushes · Daler-Rowney Pro White or Kaimei corrector · Holbein Acryla gouache · Leuchtturn1917 or Moleskine notebooks · Xerox machines and photocopies · Adobe Photoshop: multiply layers, Gaussian blur, add noise and sharpen more · Vintage and old magazines · Trash · Tracing paper · Acrylic black ink · A3 scanner · Random images from Internet · 4 Process printing · Screenprinting · Riso printing · Cut and paste · Black & white · Punk · DIY.
WATDAFAC TOYS
TOY SCULPTOR
Short story : Watdafac started as an “art gallery”/platform run by artist Manuel Donada from 2011 to 2013 that focused its energy to promote the so called “Art” in its many aspects and faces with exhibitions, events and publishing books. The Gallery was mostly influenced by punk, comic, illustration, Pop culture imagery and the Art Brut. After a long hiatus, it has turned now into an independent handmade toy factory. This was an inevitable new adventure.
OSCURA PLATA
FATHER FOUNDER
Marginal, ¿y qué?: OP is a countercultural platform and a vehicule based in Madrid. Its a collective of libertarian and subversive ideas that stands against and fights with rage any kind of oppression, either spiritual/psychical or physical.
¡NO PASARÁN!.
FIRST STUDIO, Madrid.
