Thirteen is the magic number: a collection of art by Francisco Fonseca, from Porto, Portugal

Francisco’s a young, skateboarding farm dude who started drawing from around 5yo, and was already selling art by around age 12.

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I find he does a wonderful job of knitting together various styles and influences in to an inventive, rustic whole that flows easily from piece to piece. In a sense, childrens’ art for adults, that also happens to give me a sort of ‘all is right with the world’ feeling.

At the end I’ll add a running interview with him, as well as his Instagram.

Here’s the interview, with lots more art:
https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/illustrator-saturday-francisco-fonseca/

And his Instagram (detoxified):
https://imginn.com/_francis.co/

Funnily enough, while I was working on this collection, I happened to be listening to a nifty bossa nova stream. I guess Portuguese was the theme of the day. If that kind of music interests you, you can listen to the stream here, via any of six different ways:

https://somafm.com/bossa/