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

 Hello, readers! This February I reviewed the first three books in the Dune series: Dune , Dune Messiah and Children of Dune . Today I will review the three remaining novels in this series: God Emperor of Dune , Dune Heretics and Chapterhouse: Dune . Naturally, since I'm reviewing sequels and comparing them one to another, there are bound to be some spoilers. Do skip these reviews if you want to avoid spoilers completely. If you are a fan of Frank Herbert, I also reviewed  and recommended some other works of his such as novels  The White Plague and The Godmarkers , so feel free to read those reviews as well. Scroll down to read the fourth, fifth and sixth novel in Dune Chronicles.  GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE, BOOK #4 IN THE DUNE CHRONICLES I absolutely loved this book even if some see it as a weaker work. God Emperor of Dune is different from others novels in the series, and while I can understand why it might be off putting to some, for me this is the most beautiful and p...

It's Friday and you know what that means. Time for another Friday Fashion Illustration - a regular feature on my blog where I post my original fashion illustrations. Today I stole half an hour to illustrate something that I actually wore today.  . I have been doing a lot of fine landscape painting lately, so a quick fashion illustration felt almost like a break. So, in a way I took a break from the more ambitious paintings I have been working on lately to draw this simple fashion sketch and some other ones. When I'm in hurry like this, I like to use watercolour pencils because the sketching and the colouring process can be fairy quick. I'm also trying to use reference more (as you might have noticed) in my drawing. Moreover, today I'll share another fashion illustration with you and that one is of an older outfit I wore back here  in 2016. Both of these illustrations were drawn with watercolour pencils (from Staedtler)  in one of my larger sketchbooks. Scroll down and ...