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

 Hello! Welcome to a new Friday fashion illustration post. Technically speaking, the two fashion illustrations I'm sharing aren't new, but this outfit is. New in the sense that I haven't posted it before, not in the sense that the clothing items as new!  As you know, I'm the queen of shopping my closet. In this post, I'll share an outfit I wore for a wedding I attended recently. Ever since I got married and moved to Herzegovina, I had to become an expert wedding guest. In Herzegovina, you get invited to everyone's wedding, especially if you're Catholic. It's not unheard of for a wedding to have up to a thousand guests!  Once again I shopped my closet for my trusted items. I pulled out an elegant black midi dress with ruffles that I got in a collab ages ago and that I still wear. Upon glancing these photographs, I realized that I illustrated this dress before. So, I decided to post it in my Friday Fashion Illustration series.  The outfit was quite simple ...

Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! I'm back with a new painting! In this post, I'll share a quick landscape sketch I made inspired by island Malta. I actually painted this on a back of one of my sketchbooks. The back of that sketchbook is made from cardboard, so I guess the medium is acrylic paints on cardboard. I actually like painting on cardboard for some reason. Maybe it takes me back to my DIY roots. I've always enjoyed creative projects, arts, crafts and that sort of thing. Even now when I took proper art classes, and learned to do art properly, I still enjoy quick projects, mixing media, as well as almost improvised paintings.  This painting was a quick seascape depicting Ghajn Tuffieha bay (Malta). As readers of my blog surely know, seascapes are my passion. I've done many detailed seascapes in the past, but this one is anything but detailed. This Malta seascape is quick and energetic. It's almost Impressionist in its brush strokes. Instead of focusing ...