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

  Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! In this post, I'll let you take a peak at some art and illustrations in my sketchbooks. We'll also talk art. As I started learning more about art, I noticed that many artists often get triggered by the word 'talent'. I didn't understand why until I gave it some thought. To understand what might upset or even offend artists when people say they are talented, one must ask what is talent? Is talent something we are born with? If you think it is, answer me this- Why I couldn't paint well before I took art classes and started practising more? If painting is a talent one is born with, why I couldn't paint like this thirty, twenty or even five years ago? Why I couldn't paint before I actually invested time in acquiring skills that art takes, before I worked for it? Have I been reborn or is art a skill that anyone can develop? A skill you can even lose if you don't use it? Obviously I wasn't born again, so the ...

Hello dear readers! It is time for the second part of my post about Trogir, a Croatian city founded by ancient Greeks in 3rd century BC. In my first 2025 post about Trogir , I explained why I decided to split my Trogir travelogue post into two parts. It's mostly because of the amount of photographs. Moreover, Trogir is so beautiful it deserves two posts! Besides the digital sightseeing, I also talked the art talk. I shared the origins of my fascination with painting the sea and the boats. In addition to sharing glimpses of my paintings, I shared a fashion sketch of my outfit. There are more fashion sketches to come and perhaps a few proper fashion illustrations or paintings, but all in due time. For now, the focus is still on sightseeing Trogir! In the first part of my post, I showed you the entrance to the city and a few sights, most notably the city cathedral and the historical square it is located on. Today we'll go through the historical Southern Gate to explore the rest of...