It Is Not Here Yet

All the sighs are present but spring is not here yet.The weather this spring is horrible.If it is sunny it would be windy and cold,if it is warm it will rain or be cloudy and gloomy.It is not fun to go on a bike ride because it is so windy every time I decide to go.The last time I went on a bike ride the wind knocked me off my bike and I hurt myself.I am afraid I am getting a weather depression.The art is the only thing that keeps me with my marbles.

watercolors #9 and #10

These are the next two watercolors I completed as a part of my challenge.I did not have much time for painting the last week or so.I was too busy at my day job and also my daughter was sick for more than four days so I had to take care of her and there was no spare time at all.
In the first painting I tried to use limited pallet of colors and to achieve realistic water reflections.In the second one I was inspired by the city of Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria,which is famous for its picturesque view because its location on the slopes of several hills.I have always wanted to paint it in acrylics or oils and it will be my next project in one of this media.

Show And Tell

At the beginning of this month we had a sale of used books at work.For a couple of dollars you could stock on books for reading,get some videos and DVDs and some other stuff.I got some books for me and my daughter but the things I was most excited about were the vintage ephemera I found there.As you can see here I bought some old greeting cards,personal photos and vintage images.I also bought some body's collection of vintage Valentines.One of them was dated 1939 and was from the teacher to the student.This is my newest passion and I could not help it to brag about my latest findings.

Watercolors #7 and #8

The first one represents a waterfront building and a boat and the second one is a Canada goose.For the seascape I used a photo from Gary Greene's book Artist's Photo Reference-Buildings and Barns.For the goose I used my own photo.

Violin Player-Watercolor #6

For this one I took pictures from TV.It was the New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.I looove to paint musicians!
The size is 9x10,it needed a little bit cropping.

The Bike Trail In Fall-Watercolor #5

I am going on with my challenge.I have a couple more watercolors ready to be posted and I am in a process of working on a third one.
This is the bike trail where I like to ride my bike in the summer.It goes along the river and in the woods and it is so pretty that I can't stop taking pictures of it.It takes care of your body and of your soul as well.After a bike ride down it you feel like a new person full of energy and inspiration.I can't wait to start biking again.I already went biking four or five times but it is still too cold and was not a lot of fun.

A Kitty Named Muffin-Watercolor #4

She belongs to my sister-in-low.I used ink pen and watercolors with this one.

The Flower Place-Watercolor #3

This flower business is situated in Iowa.My husband likes to go there because they have a great choice of plants and a gorgeous garden.I like to go with him because I collect a lot of reference photos of plants and flowers ,trees and birds.

My reference photo is from last spring.

The Old Church-watercolor #2

You can see this old Eastern Orthodox church in the city of Koprivshtitsa,Bulgaria.I suppose it is more than 200 years old.I used my own reference picture which I took when having a vacation there with a bunch of friends more than ten years ago.

A Path In The Park-watercolor#1

This is one of the watercolors I promised to post two days ago.I've been working in watercolors recently improving my skills in this media.I decided to challenge myself to go on doing that till I finish my Canson watercolor sketch book-15 sheets of paper.I have 10 more to go.
This one is not the first one I did but for convenience I am going to call it #1.Gradually I am going to post all 15 of them.
I used my Prang watercolors.

A Portrait Of A Girl

Thank you to the contributor of the picture I found in the Image Library of Wet Canvas and used as a reference for this drawing.I did it a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post it.

This weekend I worked with watercolors but will post them when I have some time to upload them in my PC.

Spring

I did this one just for fun.It is charcoal pencils with watercolor pencils in my Canson sketch book.The size is about 8x10

She Is Pretty

This girl is one of the nudes too but I decided that her face is much more interesting than her body so,I skipped the nudity. It is in my Canson sketch book with charcoal pencils.

Nudes

Somebody in Wet Canvas shared with us a link to a free website she had found with vintage images of nudes.The cards or photos,you can call them whatever you like, are wonderful reference material for artists.Abundance of poses,gestures and beautiful faces which inspire you to practise drawing the human body.It would be better if I could do it from life but so far it is impossible.So I enjoy drawing people from this site.I used graphite and charcoal pencils drawing them in my Canson sketchbook.

Just For Fun

I painted this just for fun trying to imitate the vintage images.I may use it in my art journal.Ink and watercolor pencils on paper,about 4x6 big.

A Little Decoration For Grandma

Although only six- years-old my daughter loves to paint and do crafts.Recently she has started showing interest in sewing.I showed her some basic things and helped her to make this heart for her grandma -"baba "in Bulgaria.We made another one to decorate our Christmas tree a couple of months ago.I am so glad that she loves to do arts and crafts because creative people are never bored.

A Different Creation

Sometimes my creativity takes a different turn.This is what I made a couple of weeks ago. I knitted this hat for myself as I had hard time finding a warm hat to suit me.All of the hats in the store were stocking type, more like for teenagers than for women my age.So I bought this beautiful yarn from Hobby Lobby and knitted it with five needles.

Actually back then when I lived in Bulgaria I liked to knit a lot.Here I lost my motivation spending more time doing my hobby #1 painting.

More Drawings From The Movie

I am still in the atmosphere of the movie.

A Game Of Love

I am having a wonderful time at home.I took a week of vacation and I am enjoying every minute of it.In the morning I will take my daughter to school and then will go on line checking the art websites.After that I will go to my studio to paint or draw.

Today I worked on my Tour de France oil painting.It is a present for my husband who is an avid biker. I also did some pencil drawings from a movie.When I was in Bulgaria last summer I bought a bunch of old Bulgarian movies which I grew up with.Today I watched a movie called A Game Of Love or A Play of Love,you can translate it as you like it.It was made in 1979 and I remember when I watched it for the first time I was really excited.It is a wonderful story told by talented actors.

So,here are two of my drawings, completed with pencil in my Canson sketch book.

Altered Book-Journal2

Here you have two more pages of my journal #2.I did not mention in my previous entry that my intentions were to make it a travel journal for my first visit back home in 2005.I got the book ready,which means I glued bunch of pages together,cut some pages so it did not get too fat and painted some of the pages with acrylic paint.When I got ready I realised that I misplaced the memorabilia and the notes from my trip.Then the flood happened and although it was salvaged I almost threw it away because I had a lot in my plate already.So,recently when I've started thinking about a new art journal i remembered about this baby and decided to re purpose it.In the first layout I was just trying different techniques and the second one is my 2008 list of exciting things or first-time-things that happened to me during the year.I saw it in some body's blog in a different way and changed it to suit me.In the other blog it was a list of 100 hundred things and you had to highlight the things that happened to you.

It is a pretty cold sunny day,today.The temperature is 3deg.F/-15C/.It would be nice if there was not that nasty wind that make it feel colder.