This is my brother. Quite cute, huh?

Well, he started drawing Mangas a few days ago, and I have to say I am very impressed by the outcome.
He is 11 years old and if he goes on like this, he will beat me by 18 for sure.

Have a look!

“Hey, you know what? Let´s have an art trade! I pick out one of my pictures and you send me one of yours!”
So that was basically the idea that came up on one of the art chats on Jared´s ning site.
If you know me from facebook, you probably have seen some of his comments on my wall.
He is an artist, a teacher and a philosopher, appart from being very funny and open-hearted.
Check him out here:

http://www.jaredknight.com/
http://twitter.com/jaredknightcom
http://www.youtube.com/user/jaredknightcom
http://www.etsy.com/shop/jaredknight
http://jaredknight.ning.com/ (here you can find his classes!)

So, what about the trade?
I wanted to make a customized illustration, that showed him as my favourite animal: a cat.
It is a mixture between outer appereance (the glasses and the eyecolor) and inner appereance
(the lotusheart and the water lilly).

I found his painting yesterday, stuffed into my mailbox by the mailman. How thoughtful!
It was packed in bubble wrap and as I teared it off, white bits of the canvas showed.
“Holy shit, I ruined it!” I thought, but actually that was part of the painting! (Or Jared? Did I really mess it up? *lol*)

As I flipped it around, I read the name “Internal”, which I think is very suitable, for the colors mostly show black, purple and blue (the latter two being the colors of creativity). Quite interesting also is the fact, that some kind of silhoutte shows on the right, where the color is missing.
(But that is just the human desire to see something in every abstract painting.)
I also like some red points showing through, like something deeper and passionate luring through the darkness.
The composition alltogether is very fiery and driving, like some sandstorm of emotions.

So, what do you think? Comments!!!!

This is a painting I made today for a friend of mine, as she will move into her new flat next week.
It is about 1m x 1m (or 40inches x 40 inches). Used materials are color pigments, acryl and water color.
The colors are soft and her facial expressions are knowing, wise and lush.
Just as I imagine a Buddha to be. I want her to look after my friend and give comfort in hard times.
My boyfriend (who knows her aswell) added some signs at the side.

Oh, hey there! It´s been a while!
Since everything went a little wild lately, I´m trying to get more organized and write here on a more regular schedule.
(Bad Nelly! How dare you leave those readers alone? Grmpf!)

So, what´s new? I am on my way to self-sufficiency, making my way as an illustrator and artists and hoping to make people happy with my stuff.
There has been a developement towards cute cats with ornaments. I think that this brings out the personality of the cat even more and I plan to do customized pictures of people or their pets too. If you are interested in having yourself or your little friend portrayed like this, just write me a message.
There is quite some reading to do before I will know all the wits about opening an etsy store, so I will post all small steps here.
I am curious about making acrylic jewlery too, though I know very little about it by now.

Has anyone else got the feeling that 2010 will be special? I know, I know, the media tells us this every damn year, but I don´t.
(well, there is a point at saying “Hey girl, your blog isn´t even one year old, but you can come back at me, when I do the same at 2011, ok? Deal?)

By the way, we have about 45 guppy babies. From one mother.
I can´t believe it, I wonder how she managed not to burst into pieces.
Can you imagine what this would look like on a human being? A hot-air balloon mama!!!
She seems to be mad about being fat though, for she ate quite a couple of her own babies before we could take her out and into another aquarium.
Still the babies are very cute and clever. I´m curious what color they will be.

Today the PS2 game “Shadow of the Colossus” finally came in and I have to say that this is probably the game with the hugest landscape that I know.
The scenery is beautiful. There is nothing except you, your horse (now I´m getting all girly, but that horse is a cutie! Appart from the fact that the way you have to controll your horse comes very close to how you would have to do it on a real horse…), some lizards and eagles and that´s about it.
Oh, and of course the colossuses. (is that the correct plural? If yes: That word is epic fail. Colossusesesesuses. Uhm, yes.)
But I guess there will have to be an extra post about this, for this is far too good to be handled in a few sentences.

I hope the new year treated you kind so far! Seeya soon!

This is an illustration I have done last week, inspired by the techniques of Suzi Blu.

I love the combination of dreamy patterns with playful and gracious animals like cats.
As soon as there are more of them, you will find more about it on etsy or other shops. Informations will be posted here.
Enjoy!

When it comes down to embroidery my mind goes back to the times in kindergarden,
where I spent hours with needle and thread to produce a quirky house and a sun.
Mothers tend to love their cildren´s work in general (or at least they pretend to),
but most of us have bad memories about this juvenile phase of handicraft.

Not so Cathy Cullis. Here work is honest, pure and filled with emotions.
She likes to experiment with dyes on linen, which makes her objects very vivid.
But have a look at it yourself.

autumn love

I don´t like dolls too much, but these ones are an exception.

octavia & rabbity friend

And by the way, this is her shop.