This state of mind is reflected in the back of the drawing ?
IP : Yes, and also in the position in which they appear and the colors. I think the whole design reflects that everything I understood about their pregnancy .
Are always happy mothers or not?
IP : They are by chance, because I think anyone who wants to do this is going thru a good pregnancy, if not, they will not recorded .
And you employ only watercolor ?
IP : Watercolor, colored pencils and pen.
But you have used this kind of material because it is easier to draw ?
IP : I thought watercolor conveyed much what I think is pregnancy, is very delicate, colorful and fluid and I thought it had to do with this state.
Now that Thomas has two years of age, how this adventure has been so far ?
IP : Actually BellySketcher has not two years because it only happened after Thomas was born, mainly because I was working at the time a studio was a starting slowly, so it 's only a year and a half. It has been quite a rapid progress and a lot of fun, I'm loving this project .
It is a project that takes you a long time, you begin now to schedule future mothers ?
IP : Yes, every time, because of the workload. I had to leave the place where I worked and then started exclusively with BS. Now it has been difficult because of Nicholas, because of more and more work .
With Nicholas you did the same thing?
IP : No, unfortunately ( laughs ). I have drawn little of Nicholas, much less that Thomas because I have to draw pregnant women and babies and that leaves me little time.
Of all the orders that made you you had some more unusual or strange request by mothers ?
IP : Sometimes, but are always challenges .
Challenges in what sense ?
IP : They ask me things that I do not even know how to approach, are very heavy . Have received orders of women that in late pregnancy lost their baby, but still wanted a design through photography, because this period was important for them. Or ask me to represent a pregnancy that did not reach the end for some reason, are difficult times and are very heavy because they are complicated .
But you end up doing it?
IP : Yes, I do, because I realize that those moments are the most important because it is the only way to represent these sorrows.
And now you expect from the BS in the near future ? Because you already have a new partnership .
IP : Mariot is essentially portraits , arranged a way for people to have a set , get one with the picture, he has a technique that I always admired and then you get the BellySketcher drawing more fluid, all in one . But in the future I want to continue drawing .
