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

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 ...

Hello! Today I'll be reviewing the third novel in Dune series: Children of Dune .  This novel was published in 1976 and is a sequel to Dune Messiah which in turn is a sequel to original Dune novel. In case you are not familiar with Frank Herbert writing, there are six novels in the Dune series. Moreover, there are more books set in Dune Universe that were written by other writers. I will probably not review those books because I didn't find them interesting and enjoyable enough. I mostly write book reviews for my own pleasure. Naturally, if you have read any of these, I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you have any book recommendations to share, please do. If not, that's alright as well. We can always talk about something else in the comments. As always, I do my best to avoid spoilers, but since I'm reviewing a series, there are bound to be some. If you don't want spoilers, I recommend just skipping this review.  If you remember what I wrote in my last review...

Hello, dear readers! How are you doing? Today I have another book review to share with you: Dune Messiah by Frank Hebert. This novel is the second book in the Dune series and it is significantly shorter than the first novel. If you remember, I already reviewed Dune . Earlier this month, I published my book review for Dune by Frank Herbert . I promised to review other books in the series as well. Initially I planned to review all the sequels to Dune in one post, but I changed my mind because all of these books deserve separate reviews. In other words, I decided to publish a separate book review post for each sequel. These kind of detailed book review posts sometimes take a long time to put together, but I don't mind. Being a fairy creative person, I also like to play with the visual part of my book reviews and add a bit of bit of my own art and photography. I don't just copy paste my reviews from my goodreads profile, I like to 'polish' them up for my blog.  That is on...