The same year he went to Madrid to oppose a public works project, fails to defeat it, and returns to Huesca to take drawing classes in the prive academy of the painter Anselmo Gascón de Gotor.
Ese mesmo ano marchou a Madrid para facer oposicións de deliñante de Obras Públicas, sen lograr superarlas, polo que retornou a Huesca, onde volveu tomar clases de debuxo na academia particular do pintor Anselmo Gascón de Gotor.