July

I just had to do at least one underwater one! And here it is :)

Since there were no mentions of Riennahera lately, it's about time it happened. So: it is her blog's birthday today!

Other than that, Harry Potter was pretty brilliant. I wanna go again!

January

It's been a few (very busy) days. I have them all done now, it's just a matter of getting stuff scanned... Perhaps tomorrow, since today, I was busy pretendng to be Al Bundy (as 4 people now have pointed out), yesterday I was pretending to be a hard-working art student (in fact I am horrendously hard working slave to art), and other days... Things weren't quite ready yet.

This one is Riennahera, again. I never get bored of drawing her, and I don't think she does either. If you get bored of it... Well, tough! Some are not based on her though, just you wait!

September

Another month. I have almost completed this mini project - I only have a couple of drawings to finish off. They will appear on the website in one bulk once they are completed... Perhaps. ;)
This one is actually one of my favourites. Outfit again - Riennahera's. There really are a few in there that were not ripoffs ;)

March

This is a very special one with brazilian tapir baby. It has nothing to do with march, but is super-cute. And outfit again, comes from fabby Riennahera, who got A2 in Latin. We are all very proud.

August

Continuing the theme of posting the images of months during an incorrect month - I present to you August. Outfit as seen on Riennahera last August ;)

New layout!

Oh the glory of the new layout! I wanted something new and something Autumny - at least more than the last one.

Also check out the TWIN SISTER (although not identical twins) layout I made for Riennahera!

Now I should just crack on with new website design for my portfolio... Hmmm.

Recycled Saloon Canvas Bags!

This is going to be a fairly long post, prepare yourselves! I present...


This is a set of canvas bags I did a long while ago for a specific saloon/recycling event, which was organised by Alchemy Arts. (The Fi's sister :)). I have sold quite a few of them since on various occassions, but now that I finally got myself together and made the etsy store, they are all available on Etsy! I just really wanted to put a post together with all of them and have them all exhibited in one place - both ones I no longer have and ones that are still for sale. So, here we go!

Here's the first one of them - Malin and the Eelcat! Or to be more precise, Malin and Linda dressed as cowgirls. (If you click on the name it will take to to more photos).












Next one in line is the slightly shy Red Lady (number one, as there is another red beauty).















This one here is the Green Girl! Nature loving cutie.
















Then there is the Pretty Purple!






























And the Red Lady number two! (She's out of stock)


And finally, the Blue Bimbo... Or is it?!
















Model is obviously Riennahera :)


One last thing I'd like to say is that Malin and the Eelcat were finally updated (and I am intending to do it on more regular basis now - yes, again...)

Morningside Makers Market

This month I had a stall at Morningside Makers Market. It was the very first time I did anything like that (I mean, I has been on stalls, just never had one with only my stuff on it!).

I was selling cards, prints, canvas bags and some original work. Overall it was a great experience, but I think I have learned a lot too. I'm glad that at least my stall didn't look empty (thanks to advice of Carmen of Craft Reactor :) )

If you didn't make it but are dying to buy my work, some of it will be available on my Etsy store :P

Here's a couple of pictures:



Special Great Thanks go to:

• Laura D., for spending 4 hours with me cutting cardboard, putting stuff in polypockets and doing other highly uninteresting things

• Riennahera, for spending even more hours with me at the stall keeping me company (and looking after it when I did a home-run caused by me forgetting my business cards

vector Riennahera

I was trying some new ways of doing things, and started drawing a bit more in Illustrator. It's actually quite fun if you know what you are doing :P. This is the first one I did from scratch in Illustrator, but I think I'll make a little series of those.

This is my usual muse, Riennahera ;). (the truth is that she's the only one happily volunteering for being drawn/painted).

At the moment I am trying to finish off completely my portfolio site. More news soon (when I do finish it).

Riennahera

Marta was kind enough to pose for me couple of days ago. I really enjoy doing stuff from life and a good conversation, so this was good fun :). As much as it might not really look like her that much (that was my first lifeportrait in a while, so need warming up and stuff - yes, excuses) I still quite like it.

Click to zoom.

There also is 2 new pages of eelcat published!

New Year & Christmas :P

It's a bit late, but I've been pretty busy lately.

This is a Christmasy artwork based on Riennahera's request:

Other things that have been happening are that I have been ill most of the time and still am. It is pretty annoying, I hate feeling not 100% well.

I also updated the Malin and the eelcat comic, entire 3 pages at once! Which I never do. Also a short statement can be found there.