Campeche fish market .
and make a brush to paint some rough brush strokes of his imagination . But first he was a cartoonist . He is mentioned as the first cartoonist in Mexico . That was on the beginning of the 1930 › s . He did it for many years for the country › s leading publishers and in the meantime painted with the passion that characterized him , but never with the intention of showing , because he did not want his work to be for sale . It took years to realize that show his work in galleries was necessary . His other passion was mountain climbering and he joined it with that of painting . Loading easel and paints next to the backpack and the ice ax , was carried on each ascent of mountains , to bring what he called « notes » that in the study were the base for great canvases . For his love of those mountains , it was decided to do his first solo exhibition in 1965 , with exclusive mountain themes .