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)

Rescue

or another (but the same one:)))

Forgotten for IF

and he was so prepared for....

Bratescu-Voinesti va spune ceva?

Lady Night

Noaptea trage perdeaua de intuneric asupra lumii

The Night pull above the world the darkness courtain

Love me tender...

Night serenade under the balcony...

Sub balcon eu ti-am cantat o serenada...

Birds

leaving the nest...

Microsoft Paint-my scanner replacement,
for the moment
Fara scanner e cam greu...

Baby-fish

Worry II

''Have you read my diary?

Now you have a reason to worry!'':)

Being an aspirant illustrator,I must confess I´m worried

that sometime in search for originality and expressivity

I can forget that I actually make illustrations for kids.

I have some illustrated books at home which have terrorized

my childhood:).A bit grotesque collages,very metaphoric,

with silouhetes and characters mixing each other.

Now I look at them with admiration!Are really great!

But is also true now I´m an adult.Must be a dilema,isn´t it?

To whom should an illustrator think about first?To his artistic

needs-to kids pleasure-to parents pleasure(in the cases where

is impossible to have all satisfied)? Well,is a prety much retoric

question,because I´m sure it dosen´t exist a general rule

to follow,but I keep wondering

Inca ma intreb la ce principii ar trebui sa faca apel

o buna ilustrare a cartilor pentru copii.Pastrez inca

ceva carti ilustrate care mi-au terorizat copilaria:)

Acum,privindu-le imi par incredibil de originale si

de bine lucrate. Dar acum sunt adult:)).Dilema,nu?

Worry

I´m worried.

I´m worried when I see majestic animals like elephants,or

other ones,treated just like decorative anexes of their owners

I´m worried when I see people who still consider

amusing and artistic the animals torture for circus spectacles.

I´m worried we still use cages and find pleasure in keeping

another living creature in captivity just for fun.Worried...

Book

I had the chance to illustrate this book,published in 2007.

How sad,at that time I was ''running'' with full speed between2 jobs, in a

special school and in a foundation.I made all 9 illos agains time,with

the tools I found near my hand on that moment:a mixute of watercolor,

rest of oil color,pencils and so on,not even a good linner for details:(

I followed the author´s wish for cover(well,I wanted another one:)).

The stories are trully beautifull.She couln´t publish them before

Revolution,in 1990,because of the missing contain of subjects

like tractors,agriculure,working people,pioniers, etc,and

other ''cult-icons'' of that period.The manuscript get dust in shelf

for more than 50 years.I hear now,the book is a succes:)!!

Not every time the things are comming on the right moment

in your life,but it´s good to know you´ve done the best for...

Am avut sansa sa ilustrez cartea de povesti,a scriitoarei Georgetta Florentza Marincu

(pentru connaisseuri,este autoarea monografiei ''Cioburi de istorie'',

pt. care a primit premiul ''Ion Neculce'')

Ce pacat ca,la momentul respectiv nu am avut nici suficient timp,lucrand

contra cronometru cu doua joburi,nici unelte cat de cat potrivite.

Povetile sunt tare frumoase,au stat intr-un sertar mai bine de 50 de ani

( se poate observa lucrul acesta dupa felul in care sunt ortografiate unele

cuvinte:)).Pentru cei care gasesc interesanta informatia:cartea a fost

publicatain 2007,la Editura Autograf MJM.

Morning shadows

This morning brought so much light and this beautiful shadows...

Sometime simple things like this can ''light'' the whole day:))

Unfortunatelly I couldn´t get with my mobile the real,whole beauty.

But as much as I captured I share with you:))

Have a good week-end!

In dimineata asta,muuuulta lumina si cateva umbre atat de frumoase!!

Nu am reusit sa surprind 100% frumustetea reala a momentului,

dar atat cat am surprins impartasesc,cu drag, cu voi:))

Sa aveti un sfarsit de saptamana frumos!!

I´ll try to post from time to time captures of this simple things beauty

Til lille søde Marie

''For little sweet Marie'',my niece

a litttle card I made for the day she was baptised.

The broken ''info-papers''are comming from an old eastern

(..and not just eastern) tradition

for good faith:the ''black faith''will get lost in information

let´s say:)and will abandonate the search for her.Don´t ask me

how the good one will find her,is assumed that she had acces

to the whole information through the new born´s familiy

Pentru micuta-dulcea Marie,nepotica mea,

un desen facut iute in ziua in care a fost botezata.
Hartiile rupte(la noi e turta rupta:))reprezinta un

talisman,impotriva ursitoarei rele,care desigur

neavand informatia completa,se va pierde pe drum si

va abandona cautarea:)).Nu intrebati ce se intampla

cu ursitoarea buna:in principiu ea are acces la info intreaga:))

Aspirant illustrator

Morna´s comment made me think...

Even if (by pure coincidence) I illustrated a book for kids in 2007,

I still can´t call myself an illustrator:I´ll doit for sure when I´ll feel

that I reached a certain level in drawing and a more clear style.

For the moment I´m still ''aspirant'' in status,in search for my own style and

''admirer'' of many incredible artists I just discovered, seeing their work online:)

I must say I´m very grateful for all the encourageing comments I received from all of you,

since I started posting here!

Thanks a lot and have a great week !

Electricity

Drakespeare

One of the advantages in being a dragon is that you

dont´t have to worry about electric bill:)

After doodleing a while with dragons,I end up combining the 2 themes from

IF and Monday Artday(electricity and monsters) and this is,

a new member in dragon´s family:

''Drakespeare'',a voracious books devorator

well,I actually just find out that someone else invented this name before,

so maybe I should re-baptise him:))

I´m out of paper

I used instead some math pages

Sleep

under the wide blankett of dreams and nightmares...

a sketch for ' 'sleep'' idea

oops...

I found out,experimentateing, the answer about this ''tools icons''appearing and disappearing in a mysterious way ...disregard the message bellow.Speaking about my tehnicall skills:is clear,I´m still in stone age:))!

Working Class Hero

 

Seed

my very first try for IF :''Seed'' -this one in medical emergency- A little seed with a BIG existential problem:))))))): ''to be or not to be'' ...a seed ,to germinate or not; hard decision... :)

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