a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

 Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! It's almost ten. I've had a long week and I'm quite tired and sleepy. However, I'll try to wrap this post up for you tonight. What kind of post? Well, a post about art. Fashion art to be more precise.  I've been on a roll lately with my art posts. After a period of not posting my art at all, due to a variety of reasons, I started posting my art in every post. I got back to my destination art series, and now it's time for another post in my fashion art series. Friday Fashion Illustration  is somewhat of a regular feature on my blog. Today I'll share two watercolour pencil fashion illustrations of mine. I sketched both of them this Summer in my A3 mixed media sketchbook. I sketched the long yellow dress first, and then the blue and read one. The medium for both of them is watercolour pencils on paper, the same brand I always use. I find watercolour pencils to be quite practical, especially for sketching. I often use the...

Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers!  If you have read the post title, you'd probably figured it's time for some art, that is, a new TRAVEL WITH MY ART posting. In this post, I'll share an acrylic painting inspired by a lighthouse that is to be found in Sućuraj on island Hvar, Croatia . This is not the first time I painted this lighthouse. I've painted it a couple of times before, sometimes from memory, and sometimes using a photograph as a reference. In fact, I'd shared one such art attempt in this art and destination travel series before. As always, in this post I'll share all my previous travel art postings, so you can find that lighthouse seascape as well. Furthermore, you can see other paintings that have specifically been inspired by Sućuraj village on island Hvar. The painting I'm sharing today is done in a modest format, slightly smaller than typical than A4 dimensions.  I used one of my own photographs as a reference for this painting. I'd ta...