Glass .

Glass wall with finished carpet and light fixtures.

That what happen today.

When life is not perfect, you just make every moment beautiful. 

Happy San Patrick's Day from Chicago River!

Chicago River turning green for this holiday.

I got flowers.

I got flowers for March 8. I love Hyacinth, they smell so nice, so strong. Here is a painting I am doing for someone. It is far from being done. I will need some hint of wings. The cat died, so early, young, he was loved very much. 

I got myself some art materials to brighten up my day 

and start using it right away. Brush turned to be a bit too 

soft  for my liking, but inks are gorgeous.

Breakfast under the sky.

One of our beautiful breakfasts outside. Drawing to follow.

Glass and feelings.

Feeling pretty down sometimes and didn't keep up with posts and other things. Shouldn't be too hard...

to start being more active again.  Here is painting on a glass, where I can be free with color and use my imagination.

It is sort of floral.

Was pretty limited color palette, believe it or not. With bigger selection of colors possibilities are endless. Love doing it.

Playing with textures.

Sketching in Morikami Japanese garden in Delray Beach, Florida, with 2 flat brushes and Rembrandt watercolor.

I finally got to try this 2 flat brushes, I wanted for a long time. Synthetic Da Vinci wash brushes. I used vintage Rembrandt watercolor in Zeta sketchbook, which was my companion on my trip to Florida.
Japanese garden was perfect place for it, every corner looked beautiful, I think, I could spend a month there sketching non-stop and learning.

Bamboo trees, small bridges, lake, waterfalls, rocks.

It takes around 2 hours to walk around, to look at the museum with clothes and examples of a life style from Japan at the beginning of the century.

Carrousel Sin Fin.

Carrousel Sin Fin... My interpretation of one of my favorite songs by Federico Aubele " Carrousel Sin Fin". I have been carrying this image in my head for a long time, since the concert, it was on my to do list. I didn't know the lyrics, couldn't find translation online, so just obeyed the feelings from this song, just trusted the melody.

Here is the actual song. Carrousel Sin Fin.
May be someone, who understand Spanish, will tell what this song is about? I used ink, bits of gold paint, didn't scan well, few Kuretake pens. We should always do what we planned, even if t is not coming out the way see it in our heads. I feel better now, even it is not exactly what I was dreaming about. 

Sunrise and sketch with "perfect" pencil.

Beautiful morning.

This freezing weather keeps me mostly indoors, but sometimes I can't keep my pencil still. On one occasion I spoiled myself with sushi, my favorites, with eel, and drew a guy, while waiting for the order, and at home. Would be so nice to go to eat with someone, very patient friend, and sketch there, for longer...

Beautiful today, August 7.

Awaken as usual by my elderly cat Chuck, I wandered around till I saw the sun rising, and it was so beautiful. Inhuman beauty. We were looking at each other, sun and I, nothing else existed.

Fierce beauty. It is all around us, we just have to stop and notice. We don't have to live as "expected by society".  Urge to live, urge to draw.

Out of paper and few photos.

I am out of paper and can't make a trip to the city to get to the Dick Blick Art store or NYC Central, or Pearl.
Have small pads only. So posting couple of photos from yesterday, wishing it could be paintings.

Photos in sepia almost like paintings.

I wish I have better camera to capture moments of life. Behind Inna is my book bag with 2 Stillman & Birn Sketchbooks I prepared for yesterday, but scribbled only one lousy sketch.

Photo. Morning sun.

Spectacular view. Made my heart beat faster. Can't wait to start sketching it one day.

Blackberry breakfast.

This is still life with blackberries and cups and at the same time it is an intense stare at the breakfast scene, trying to absorb every little detail of berries, sweet baklava, green desert plates, shaped like a flower, tea kettle, all this fragile peaceful beauty of a family breakfast, which is soon will be gone, will be replaced by the darkness, like everything else, will become someones distant memory, maybe not even mine.
I used ink and Kuretake and a little bit of salt. Scanner cannot show shimmering specks of salt or sand, or jewelry sparkles, covering the whole drawing.
BTW, this tea kettle is done, got destroyed by Sandy, like most of electrical stuff at home, I already got a replacement, different shape, different color, how it will fit in my drawings?

Sandwich with lox.

I went a little bigger than usual, it is around 11"x15", Winsor & Newton paper. Wish I have bigger scanner, may be it would be possible along the road.
One of the hopeful mornings, one of the happy breakfasts, delicious sandwich with smoked salmon and eggs halfway scrambled, halfway omelet, sunny conversation, brief hug and happy painting. One of the days to remember.

Great talent.

I saw this on Twitter today and really want to look thru all that movies about amazing Pina Bausch. Just looking at her movement gives chills. Language of dance.

BonJour.

This little breakfast scene is about our everyday mornings (or mornings when we are together), rushing, exchanging couple of sweet words, cereal with blueberries and almond milk, sun, dancing on the BonJour french press coffee maker, wonderful smell of coffee, filling out corridor outside of the apartment up to the elevator, basically a moment of life lived fully and appreciated.
I used ink and  a little bit of Kuretake on wonderful paper I got in "Dick Blick" on one rainy day in Manhattan, when I decide to spoil myself. Ink loving this paper. I wrote "Almond milk" in Japanese.

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