Hollow

Lise Szymanski´s incredible work

Da jeg startede mit frivillige arbejde for Røde Kors,i marts, var jeg utrolig heldig at møde og arbejde sammen med en absolut fantastisk person:Lise Szymanski! Altid smilende, altid i godt humør ,altid parat med en godt råd, hun er bare en fantastisk lady og endnu mere en utrooooolig dygtig kunstner og forfatter ,med rigtige ’’magiske hænder’’(faktisk har jeg aldrig før mødt en person hvor dette udtryk var mere rigtigt!)

Se bare her, hendes sidste patchwork bog (den sidste af 4 udgivende) smuk og inspirerende,som hun var så sød til at give mig som gave til min fødselsdag; altså denne romantiske og søde make-up pung,som man kan se i bogen på siden 29. Man kunne godt forestille sig at en symaskine helt sikkert har været involveret i processen, men nej,det er altsammen 100%’’hand-made’’(hvad sagde jeg:magic-hands har hun !!)!!! Kære Lise,tror du at jeg vover at bruge en så special gave til min make up ?? Neeeej, det kan jeg simpelthen ikke!Denne lille søde pung er lavet for at blive beundret,ikke brugt!Jeg føler mig så heldig for at ha´ lært dig at kende! Tusind tak for alt, kære Lise!

I feel so lucky to meet and work together for Red Cros with this

absolutely great person,artist and author:Lise Szymanski!

Just take a look at the wonderful work she have done:

here is her last book (out of 4 she published,for danish and german

market)she was so sweet to offer me as a very special present for my

birthday,as well as this sweet and romantik make up case,which can

be seen in the book and which I don´t dare to use it,so beautiful it is!

Everything she have done is 100% hand-made,no mashine was

involved(even if one can be tempted to believe is was,when seeing

the perfect cutand lines)´cause Lise is the lucky owner of 2

magic-hands,by all means!

Thanks Lise!

Den lille Katiushka

Drifting back to a time of innocence

trying acrylics

I modified a bit the image in PS ,because the board was too big

to get inside a ''home scanner'';down here is the original painting

30x40cm acrylic on board

(sold)

The memories unfold

''(...) If we are- or we not-or we have been good kids

Older getting today,badly parents we miss (...) ''

craving

my good old shoes

mine favorit sko..var de. Men nu,er det slut!

this used to be one(two?) of my favorite shoes...

the unique ''custom-made''shoes I ever had.Well,honestly,if it

would have been 100% on my taste, would have actually been

boots with long heels:but I chose at least the material,size and

(more or less) the model.And they faithfully served me on my long

trips!But now,that´s it! Our long term love is over,as they refuse to

cooperate with my feet.I thought I will offer them to someone else...but

(daaamn!), I´m a nostalgic person,I just can´t ''let them go'':))and as they

are so nice,quiet and useless,probably.... I´ll frame them. What else?

Contagious for IF

explanations are not necessary

Maternity

because tomorow is a special day

for mothers allover the world: Happy Mother´s Day!!

Glædelig Mors Dag!

Parade for IF

a little shy& lost city-bird, in her parade costume

so,so cold...

this week was so cold and windy...

Black cat

number one rated in superstitions hierarchy

(hierarchy for IF)

Smilla

Maia

thanks Valerie,you too!:))

...as well as all the wonderful

people ''from the right''(side of this page)!

Oua incondeiate

Romanian traditional eggs decoration

Hristos a Inviat!

Ortodox Church celebrate Easter today. Eggs decoration using bee-wax and natural pigments is a very old romanian Easter tradition.Is transmited unchanged from generation to generation and require a very sure hand,dedication and nevertheless a mountain of patience.

en lille kolibri med stor hjerte

impossibility fot IF

Fleeting snow

God Påske! Happy Easter!

talisman for IF

Søstrene Grenes Kunstprisudstilling 2009

was a nice surprise in January

Mange tusind tak!!!

Resolve

Can one ''resolve'' the perpetual fight with own inner demons?

New Year in Denmark

This was the (final version )New Year´s postcard I´ve made for the language school I attend.Below you can see also the start point drawing.

It pass through many transformations in order to give the right feel and message(thanks once again to my friend and classmate,Monalisa,for her precious help!).I don´t exagerate if I say it was a really great and fun experience and a chance to learn,big time!

Like,just for example,the fact that an official greeting card, involve more formalities and nuances than I thought about before. But I agree with what Margot Hansen,institution´s headmaster annotate and this is the reason why,the girl from the original draw get a more neutral-androgine character as well as the original message:'' Merry Christmas'',wrote in many different languages inside the danish flag-like wrapped-heart,became ''Happy New Year''. We are there,a mega- mixture of nations,races,social-statute and religions(this international atmosphere is something I´ll really miss later).The New Year rather than Christmas is something more meaningful,neutral or better said''available'' for everybody regardless religion or culture.So this was:))

Jeg har lavet dette postkort for Sprogcenteret i Slagelse. Det var ikke nemt men det var sjovt og (all in all) en god oplevelse,hvori jeg har puttet megen følelse.Kortet er trykt i 60 eksemplar og sendt til forskelige samarbejdene institutioner som NytÅrs hilsen.Hvis de har fået ét,håber jeg de kunne lide kortet:))

Happy New Year 2009!!

The very First Day of the year,come with 2 more ''clandestine presents''

hidden under the courtain!

Godt Nytår!

(Heavily influenced by Agi Keszeg´s sharp pencil)

W from White and Winter

Happy New Year!!!!

''White,like a scandinavian gift!!''-I love the local silver and white

decoration style!All white lamps and candels,silver Herstal´s series

and''Karen Blixen´s Jul'' from Rosendahl,''troldpilen''-with its branches

defying any botanical rule or symmetry,all so popular here,just to

give some examples.Aparently I can´t get enough''white''-feel.That´s

why,everything I touched(with decorative intentions) ended up

looking like forgoted in Chlorine!Green and red were deported

this winter!Maybe I start to suffer a rare form of ''chromato-phobi''

or a ''color-allergy'':))))?Or is,maybe, just the lack of snow:)))

Wish you all the best for 2009,

may it be a year full of succeses!!

Glædelig Jul!!

Merry Christmas, everybody!!

Sarbatori fericite si LA MULTI ANI!!!

Voices

the autumnal cry of dying leafage

(playing with contrasts and lights)

Rambunctious-II

The Time

Illo for a winter story:

''The girl who ask for Time''

''-You pretend you know me?asked Time the litlle girl.You are too young to know what The TIME means!''

I wanted actually to use this illo for IFs ''pretend''.I must say I´m not sure I get right the meaning of being ''rambunctious'' as my dictionary present a less active image, in definition:))

Let it snow!(II)

Similar steps

So many roads,so similar steps.

Aceeasi pasi,alte drumuri

Ens skridt mange veje

Let it snow !

Opinion

A heart...a winter...and a danish flag

Some sketches for ''something'' (shall I call this ''something''-

''a commision''?)I´ll do it for the language school I attend,here in

Denmark.The image is quite blurred but I hope the final one will

look better.I started with the one above,end up with the one below.

Mening.Om DK.

En sketch for noget jeg vil lave for min Sprogcenter.

Og jeg glæder mig meget

this award for me?THANKS BELLA!!

Thanks a lot to a very gifted artist,Bella Sinclair http://bellasinclair.blogspot.com/for nominateing me on her favorites list,I´m so,so honoured !!!

What a big surprise you made me this evening ,I´m speechless!

So sorry and appologies again for my so late answer to your message!

I saw you had hard time writing a ''7''shortlist,will be the same with me

there are so many artists I admire and I get inspired by their work!!

The rules of accepting are as follows:-
1) Put the logo on your blog.

2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.

3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4) Add links to those blogs on yours.

5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

The list I have in my heart is bigger than the one below,

many of the artists I admire had already received this award

..I forgot how to make a link,unfortunatelly,

so I´ll display the list in this primitive way:

Claudia Degliuomini http://degliuomini.blogspot.com/

Agnes Keszeg http://keszegagnes.blogspot.com/

Rene http://painting-pleinair.blogspot.com/

Matias Perez http://matiasperez.blogspot.com/

Irisz Agocz http://artistamuvek.blogspot.com/

Raquel Aparicio http://raquelaparicio.blogspot.com/

Lisa Evans http://www.firefluff.blogspot.com/

Claire Pettifor http://www.madaunt.blogspot.com/

I feel,I should actually write here,again,the whole list with links I already displayed

on this blog and add also new names,because all this so gifted artists deserve

to be awarded:I must tell a big THANKS to all 100 of you

for the inspiration, joy,admiration you fill my heart with!!

WIIINNER!!!!!

Hello everybody!!I´m back for a short time cause I´ll be out again next week.Just pass to say ''Hi!!''and thanks for your nice messages!

I had a great surprise this month to see my ''Sleep'' elected as a second winner for June,on ''Søstrene Grenes''(Danes knows what I´m saying:))!)art competition,

as you can(almost not)see in the image above:)).For those of you who want to have a clear picture,this is the site:

http://www.grenes.dk/01_kunstnerklub.aspx

(press ''vindere'')

To have my work elected by them,was more than touching for me,being a big fan of their institution,of the modern-nostalgic and all in all special atmosphere they created on their shops!
I don´t have big hopes,but with a little luck,maybe I´ll have the chance,at the end of this year,to see this watercolor printed on their shelfs:well,honestly...will be actually to beautiful to be true:))

but one can only hope:))

Have all the best wishes and great-great vacantion!!

on the road /ferie/vacanta

just because IF theme go a bit with this one,I would say that love,friendship,helpfulness are the most precious hoard


En rigtig god ferie til alle
mine dansker venner!!

Sa aveti cu totii o vacanta frumoasa
si relaxanta!Ne vedem in iulie!!

The summer holiday just started,
so I´ll be ''out on the road'' for a while:))
Thanks for all nice messages,inspiration and encouraging words I received from you since I started this blog!
Such a nice experience!
Wish you all a good and relaxing summer holiday!

High Hopes

IF´´Balloon``(sorry for coming with this old one,I didn´t had time for something new)
just some info i could get and post, like Jennifer suggested,for thouse of you,bighearted people who find and try to save baby birds fallen from the nest-when you can´t find a veterinary or
a specialized help in good time. Better to repeat also the things I found,talking with an old romanian doctor
From his experience:
1.if the nest is found and you put the bird back,supervise it in first24hour to see if the parents are not rejecting the baby
2.if you can´t find a specialized help,never feed the bird before you know which species it is:the diet can be different from one to another( fresh insects all can take):with less food-you have a hungry baby;with too much food-you can have a dead one;
3.the baby -bird should be placed in a warm place,as similar as possible with his nest:in a dark box or half covered one:most of them are photophobic and stressed in an open place,if they never left the nest.If they are big enough an open space is indicated so they can practice the fly.I´ve heared there are some special electric-warm boxes for kitten which can be used as well to keep the bird warm enough.
The food should be hashed in very little pieces or made a paste,the water or this paste can be gived by serynge.There are some birds who can not toleratte the seeds the thrush is well known for it.The same for blackbird,she can take though canary food.Big atention with the earthworm(angleleworm):this one can transfer a lethal parasit,better to get red worm or others worms( head off and paste made) which can be found on fisher shops. Never use ants .
Other things blackbirds,thrush,nightingale(and other from the same family ) can eat:
instant piure for babies(Milupa,for ex),boiled egg especially the yolk,cow cheese(but is a special one in Romania...not sure is the same caw cheese everywhere),little pieces of cow heart,fruits and vegetable a big list(f.ex:apple,chery,banana,
carrot,winegrapes without seeds etc.),cow meat made
almost like a paste. You can aplly this menu also to spparows, rocklet, raven,including seeds.Also if you give them bread,neved give fresh one.Feed them 3 times a day-not in the night,unless is a night-bird.Don´t bring too many people and activity around .The ''stress'' factor is also a deadly one for little wild birds.

exist also a birds book by Doris Quinten (I don´t know the title)where she give some info about how the wild baby birds

can be treated.

I hope this informations can help...

appologies for my awfully english :(

(sort of)Punchline for IF

or another (but the same one:)))

.....

I didn´t wanted to write this but I feel I owe you this information: is hard to say the little blackbird died yesterday after a short agony.I´m so devastated that I hardly can contain myself...That´s why was necessary to delete the pics i posted before,because I simply can´t see them,hope you´ll understand me..Thanks a lot,to all of you for your kind messages and advises:I don´t know what I´ve done wrong and I can´t help thinking is me the one who killed him,not the cat.I saved along the time so many sparrows,or crows in worse conditions,with borken wings,broken legs,or half paralised:a miracle they survive!

To save this little one, lets say ''in one piece'' without broken wings or legs,without any visible damages and next day have him gone,is something unbearable:I knew blackbirds are more sensible,that´s why I asked for help.They have a diferent diet-can´t take seeds f.ex,so when I found the info,I gave him as was said shredded carrot,boiled yolk of egg and strawbery(the last one he really like it a lot)and planned to find other things later.No people around, box with plastic sheeds covered with paper and cotton just to be sure is warm enough.I didn´t searched for the nest,because many times the parrents reject the baby if is touched by humans,but now,I think maybe I should have done it.In the evening something was not that good,he started to have a bad balance,but even in the morning at 6AM when I fed him ,was not that bad,he took the food,few hours later when I was back he was almost gone...Was imposible to find a vet,I was ringing at many offices:no answer or mashine answered.I ended up calling my mom in Bucharest for an advise,but was away to late.

To not repeat this sad experience again,I´m now in search for informations and see what can I do here,in Denmark,for this situations.I´m affraid here are not shelters for special help,like I saw(with admiration)there are in USA,or UK.

If someone else from DK is reading this lines,please,let me know what is the procedure here?Most of danish people are bighearted and animals lover,so for sure,must be somewhere at least a 24 hours vet service for emergency situations. For the moment everybody told me just about the usual appointments they have with vetenerian for their pets,but I launched the SOS,so maybe tomorow I´ll have more info.

Susan,Jennifer,Bella,need to tell you again thanks...

I can´t forgive myself for what was happening with this little one...

Forgotten for IF

and he was so prepared for....

Bratescu-Voinesti va spune ceva?