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

Today I'll show you a few oil pastels portraits I did on a mixed media paper. This is a medium I'm still not very confident using. In fact, you could say that I'm still learning how to use oil pastels. I drew these portraits without any plan or intention, just to practice proportions and drawing with oil pastels but I kind of like how they turned out.  If I remember correctly, they didn't take too much time to finish. That being said, I'm not sure are they done or do they need more work. Two of them are dark haired ladies and one is a redhaired lady. I uploaded one of them ( the blue hair lady ) to my redbubble store . I might work some more on the other ones. Scroll down to see more and to see what were the most read posts of year 2020 on my blog. YOUR PICK OF MY 2020 POSTS (MOST READ) Here is your pick of 2020, most read posts (among those published in the last year). My blog views in general for last (and this) year are humble and most views are actually of older...

I planned to publish this post yesterday but that the earthquake in Croatia happened. I would be lying if I said that I wasn't emotionally affected by it. I have both family and friends living in affected areas, so it is only natural I worry about it. I'm only comforted by the fact that Croatia has a lot of experience in helping refugees and is often  much better organized than many larger and more 'developed' countries. We've all seen how ineffective some supposedly 'developed' countries are at helping their own population during some crises that occurred this and previous years. Croats are in that sense wonderfully organized, but still sometimes things are complicated. The housing question was quickly resolved since many opened their doors to victims of earthquake. However, people who own domestic animals (such as horses and cows) naturally do not want  and cannot abandon them, so for them these are hard times as they are spending their days in the cold so...

EN Unfortunately, earlier today Croatia was struck by another strong earthquake. If you can afford it, consider making a donation to Red Cross Croatia or other charitable organizations  you know of and that might help those affected by the earthquake.  HR Nažalost, Hrvatska je danas opet pogođena jakim potresom. Ako si to možete priuštiti, razmislite o tome da donirate Crvenom križu Hrvatske ili nekoj drugoj humanitarnog organizaciji za koju znate a koja može pomoći stradalima u potresu. INSTRUCTIONS FOR DONATIONS- YOU CAN USE THE FOLLOWING BANK ACCOUNT FOR DONATIONS OR MAKE A DONATION WITH A BARCODE BANK:   Privredna banka Zagreb d.d. IBAN:  HR6923400091511555516 NUMBER:  770 TO MAKE A PAYMENT FROM ABROAD - SWIFT CODE:  PBZGHR2X OR USE THIS BARCODE TO MAKE A DONATION  SVE INFORMACIJE SAM PREUZELA SA SLUŽBENIH STRANICA HRVATSKOG CRVENOG KRIŽA* Donirati novčana sredstva za pomoć osobama pogođenim potresom u Petrinji i Sisku možete na sljedeći račun...

 Hello dear readers! How are you? I'm fine. It's been a while since I did a proper outfit post on this little digital place I call my own. It might have something to do with the fact I've been so preoccupied with art projects lately. Today I'll show you what I wore for a visit to Međugorje, a village in Herzegovina. I'm a big believer in shopping one's closet so that is what I did to put this lovely winter outfit together. As you can see bellow, I wore a magenta coat, a red blazer and a t-shirt with my own art print (similar here ), a light beige pleated maxi skirt ( that looks white on the sunbathed photos), a pink bag and a pair of very comfy high leather boots. I felt great wearing this comfy but feminine winter styling . + MORE WAYS TO WEAR A MAGENTA COAT  I'm getting close to 30 wears with this coat! +MORE WAYS TO WEAR A BEIGE PLEATED SKIRT    I might get to thirty wears with this one by the end of the next year. It's a great skirt, I've had it...