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

 Hello readers! In this blog, I shall take you to Trogir, a historical seaside town in Croatia. The weather was splendid when we visited, simply perfect for picture taking. Moreover, I felt my yellow and magenta outfit was giving some proper Croatian fashion blogger vibes. The combination of a glorious sunny day and me being happy with what I wore resulted in an exceedingly large number of photographs. I had fun posing, and presumably my husband had fun taking my pictures for we ended up with a lot of photographs. Now, I have a lot of photographs I can use as references for my fashion illustrations. Moreover, I have enough photographs to properly show you Trogir in all its sunbathed glory. After some thinking, I decided to divide this travel post into two parts. After all, dropping one hundred photographs isn't exactly reader friendly. So, let's start our Trogir virtual sightseeing! I'm happy to be your guide today. We  visited Trogir back in March, parking at some distance...

Hello dear readers! In this post, I'll share three original fashion illustration of an outfit I wore to visit Stobreč (Croatia). While I was in Split, Croatia, I also paid Stobreč a short visit. Following my visit, I decided to illustrate the black and burgundy outfit I wore. Sometimes I illustrate my own outfits. Why not? That way I can have an actual illustrated version of my closet, not just a digital version on this little place to call my own. And to think I thought that digital closet from Clueless was the coolest thing? This is way cooler! I used acrylic paints on mixed media paper for these illustrations. Some would say that acrylic paints are not suitable for fashion illustration, but I have been breaking that rule ever since I started doing fashion illustrations years ago. I even used oil paints for my fashion illustrations. For those interested in the fashion illustration making, I will walk you through the process in this post.  I didn't find these illustrations as ...