Inspiration Day: Xul Solar

Weather: cold, windy and rainy.

This week the weather was just perfect, just the way I like it... with all nature dancing in the cold wind and inspiration coming down on me with every raindrop :) But I my throat aches!
Anyways, it was a good week, I went with my Drawing class IV (from Uni) to the Natural Science Museum (here in La Plata, Buenos Aires) and it was really awesome. I've always loved going to the museum, and drawing and taking pictures there was something I was longing to do for a while. Bees, beatles, butterflies, birds... I love drawing fauna, it's like, don't know, just fun to do it and it kind of teaches me a lot about figures and body structure.
It was a good week also because I finally decided what to do (regarding my life and likes and etc); so, next year I'm gonna start an other new career: "Political Science and International relations" which will let me develop the social side of me I was always eager to express (not sure if that is the right word!). And, that I want to take Fashion designing more seriously and make a living out of it by designing Prêt à Porter and a casual brand with t-shirts, shirts and hoodies alone (more like Ready to wear).

Hum... the inspiration for this "Inspiration Day" is an argentinian artist named Xul Solar which is not a recent discovery but I am digging in his work (homework for Uni) and I really love his vanguardist way of painting. He worked mainly with worlds and creatures he invented himself, flags related to argentine nationalism and some other cool stuff.
I leave you the link to his Museum (for he was one of our greatest artist back in the early 20th century) if you wanna know more about him.

butterflies from the museum

my drawing at the Museum

"Marina" by Xul Solar

My latest acquisitions... aren't they cute?? ♥
-the moon stone ring (made by an artisan friend) and some hair clips-

So, this is everything for now.
It's rainging heavily outside and thunders and lightnings are all shaking the sky... I love it!
Have a great weekend!

Today I've learn: pizza and chatting 'til 7 am with friends is so bloody good!
Kisses and raindrops.
Safi.


PS: HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!! ♥♥♥

Draw Spontaneously

After many many crazy and blue things happening around Winter, the sun came out.
It's awesome how nature can give you all you needed long ago, like a smile in your face or just a bit of life inside all this Winter clothes. Thank you sun!

I still gotta study a lot and September plans some heavy stuff for me but somehow Owl City, Joe Brooks and Puffy Ami Yumi are giving me wings to fly with this first pre-Spring winds. Drawing is helping a lot also; with some new ideas, some new energies and new colour markers I'm trying to create a brand new kindom... that needs a name soon. The idea is to draw spontaneously out of the music I'm listening at the moment or the movie I'm watching or even the talk that were having some people that I came through... details, that's the main idea of this project: pay attention, let go, fly and draw spontaneously (what a difficult and beautiful word it is!).

Alright, I'd write more and more stuff that are popping out my head in thsi moment (stories mostly) but, as I said, I gotta study a lot so...
Goodbye for now.
Today I've learn: When in sorrow eat an apple and laugh with friends.

XX
Safi.

Patience

designed by Vivienne Westwood

I've been trying to work in an other style of drawing (a new one because I was getting bored of the old one) and yesterday night when I was just sbribbling... it came out from my pen and the classic music I was listening to. It is a kind of girl with long arms and legs, and their faces have long noses and little red lips. Their wardrobe is a mix of the '30s-'40s and contemporary fashion.
I only draw girls when I make this kind of studies because they are my main characters, but, then I keep going and draw other things like animals and landscapes, etc. Now, I've been doing a kind of children story with the technic of paper cutting and I started doing it with the old style... so, I just hope I don't mess it up with the new one, or an ugly mix of both. Gotta finish it soon. It looks lovely until now. ^^

Ok, what else? I was going to write about this sandals designed by Vivienne Westwood that I fell in love with (the ones in the the picture above)... but I have no time. Tomorrow I go back to the University and I have to finish some homework: the children storybook due Friday, and a couple of paintings due tomorrow... oh, and two drawings due Thursday. Tuesday gotta a birthday party!!! ^^

Anyway. I'll try to make something with the new drawing style so then I'll load it here... ok?? would you like that?? :P

Loads of kisses and hugs (xoxo) Today I've learn: There's no good in worrying about everything too much. Just keep calm and have a cup of tea! Yours, Safi.

Free as a bird

Well well, I'm back again... after (I think) a month without posting. You know why.
Today, lovely people I'm in the middle of my Winter Holidays. And what was up with me until today??
-Lost a course at Uni (laskdjklajsdlkas NOT my fault!)
-Presented three skirts at the Fashion designing course for which we used as inspiration "Tim Burton". So it was pretty goth and dark and Alice's style. GREAT SKIRTS! I gotta thank my friends Rosina, Belén, Micaela and Cecilia for those. Thank you girls!
-Bought many things, such as paper, colour pencils, markers and stuff like that so I won't get bored during holidays.
-Met my old Primary School friends for the um, "Friends day". Was absolutely fun!!!
-Draw fashion.... A LOT!!!! For which I used as inspiration: "What would I wear if I were a rock star..." and it came out from that a lot of lovely things, I hope one day I made in fabric and thread.
-Watch like a thousand movies (I am an addict).
-And now I am going to sew my "Bag of Ideas".

Well, I had a pretty indoors holidays so far... but! but at least I go out when going to the gym, right? RIGHT? :3
Anyways, I like it this way. Not going to the city like I do every single day when I go to Uni... I feel relax and happy and energic and I'm very inspired by everything. Very productive! I wish it was like this once in a while during classes... I wish.

Alright friends. I am going to try to sew my bag and then try to needle felting. Yeah!!!
With alllllll my love and great mood, Safi.
XOXO

Today I've learn: Sunny days make everything a bit more easy.

Drawing makes me good!

Things are not going as I was expecting them to go... NONE of them, NONE! And when I wake up happy and nervous and excited, thinking I'll get some good news, they fail... I fail. First I stay quiet, deep in silence looking at the floor or some distant dot in a wall; then, anger rise up until my neck and start getting all red. After that I just stop talking, walk away and start drawing with the music during my way home.
I learnt from last year that crying for this kind of shit doesn't work, it makes it worse... No, now I just let everything rise until my neck, turn red and walk away so I can draw a bit. Drawing makes me feel so good! Thanks.
That shit happened again today (two times in a week, I should be destroyed...) and my friends immediately told me to calm down... poor them, worried...
In order of WHAT am I going to do about all that shit (and the rest that is still coming) I don't know what to do. I'll do my best -as I was uselessly doing all this time- and if it comes everything wrong again I'll turn red and walk away silently every time until Holidays arrive to save my sanity. That's all, there's nothing more I can do...

One more thing, I'm no longer freaking out for Eclipse's release... my trying of NOT crying or anything ruined it. Sorry.

Now... gotta go and paint a bit, I have a LOT to do for tomorrow but I'm fed up for today, really fed up, so I won't die to finish everything.

Today I learnt: Drawing on the bus is so much fun!
XOXO
Safi




PS: Thanks for reading my complains... this is the only place for me to do so.