Flickr + Art + Summer

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My Art ♥

Yesterday started, officially, SUMMER! :)

This summer, even more than the others before this, I'm back to my illustrations and drawings and paintings -not that I left them but I wasn't drawing for myself but for University and it is not the same thing, not at all, so...-. I'm creating so much that when night comes I am extremely exhausted and have no energy, not even for a tiny dream.

Some months ago I created my Flickr page and I've been unploading my art, it's a great place to find great artist and awesome inspiration! If you wanna check it out and comment or whatever you want, you are welcome to do it. Oh, and as I guess you know, I'm still on my "photo inspired" project which was to take a picture and draw it, re-inventing the people on it or giving it some message. So, if you'd like to be drawn or you'd like to surprise someone with their own illustration just send me your photos to my email (safiri.7@hotmail.com) and I'll be drawing it soon.

Christmas: Well, as a since forever Christmas' lover I could not not write something about it in here, right?
This year, it seems to me, that Christmas came faster, like it was in a hurry for a good and fun celebration after a long and also fast year of work and new experiences. We are already two days from that wonderful and joyful night and I am not ready yet. Why not ready? well, because I haven't bought/made all the presents nor I bought all the ingredients for my cookings, neither fully decorated my home. Nevertheless, I am already full of that mysterious tickling feeling that every Christmas Eve comes down from the sky and embrace us with lights and joy and love. I love it, it reminds me when I was little and I'd got all nervous and excited waiting for Father Christmas and not his presents exactly, but that feeling that he brought meaning that it was a good year and that a new year would come soon to start over and continue some things or end some others.

Alright, I think this is everything for now. Yeah. I'll go back to my drawing, I'm doing an especial "Merry Xmas" illustration and I wanna finish it before I get to travel to the city and but all the ingredients for my cooking that I have left.

I won't be posting until after this weekend so:
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Lots of love and twinkling stars.
Safi.

PD: Today I've learn: I haven't forgotten how to paint with colour pencils (it's been a long time I don't use them!*) ♥

¡Ouch, me quemé la lengua!

Peeero, me acabo de quemar la lengua con el mate! Changos!
En fin, hoy no tengo ganas de escribir en inglés asi que le doy al castellano, gente! Y sí, volvamos a mi lengua madre!!

Desaparecida del blog por muuucho tiempo! creo que esta vez vuelvo en castellano, tengo épocas de idiomas, al igual que todo.
¿Qué estuve haciendo? Facultad, la respuesta es Facultad. Trabajos prácticos, parciales y millones de cumpleaños ¿cómo es que todo el mundo parece haber nacido en Noviembre? Lo bueno es que al parecer se me despertó algo adentro: artística y emocionalmente. A fin de año suele sucederme que me acontece todo, me encanta alguna persona y se me ocurren mil ideas para probar nuevas técnicas en dibujo o pintura o me entras muchas ganas de coser y diseñar.
Gracias a Odín, ayer empecé un curso de Stencil y por la Madre Tierra que está buenisimo! Además, el lugar donde se dictan las clases: No te metas con Raimundo tiene una atmósfera artística de dibujo-diseño-graffiti que es fantástica y super inspiradora, además de dos gatitos super adorables que se la pasaban caminando por encima de nuestros stenciles :) Como iba diciendo, este curso me está calmando las ganas de agarrar cualquier cosa y crear crear crear... lo cual todavía no puedo hacer porque, como seguro se imaginarán, estoy en medio de parciales y entregas finales; así que este curso me hace bien, goody good.

Estoy, también, más cinéfila que de costumbre, película que me encuentro o recomiendan película que veo... ME ENCANTAN! Por ejemplo, entre ayer y hoy vi Resident Evil (que ya había visto pero la repetí porque adoro a Milla Jovovich), Cuatro Bodas y un Funeral y recién terminó Main Street. Entre otras cosas, gracias a Cuevana me estoy deborando series como 2 Broke Girls, New Girl y poniéndome al día con Glee. Sí, bastante!

Y por supuesto, esta es la época del año en la que me empiezan a surgir proyectos nuevos de los cuales les voy a contar uno solo porque es el que más o menos está decidido. Un desfile, oh yeah, un desfile para fin de año 2012 junto a una compañera de la facu que es una artista y diseñadora muy grosa!! Así sí, eso, tenemos que arreglar detalles y etc pero las ganas están y eso ya es suficiente!

Cosas de ahora: haciendo un trabajo para la cátedra de Fotografía e Imagen digital de la facu... Tipografías con vectores, de las cuales más adelante sabrán más. Hum, mucho dibujo e ilustración también, trabajando en posters de películas a partir de canciones románticas para una entrega final, y LA MUJER para la cátedra de Pintura III, también trabajo final. Tengo una semana y media para hacer todo eso -que es mega bastante(?- pero con muchísima energía y ganas de ensuciarme! :P

Algo más? Ah, sí, la imagen de este post, mi mate nuevo, diseño de Vajilla Dibujada ♥
También tenía un collar especial que acabo de comprar a un amigo artesano -Kin Joyería Artesanal- pero mi querida Olivia (sí, mi cámara tiene nombre!) está sin batería asi que a esa se las debo...


Algo más? Sí, quiero comprar vestidos, shorts y remeras remeras remeras para este verano! Ah, y espero vender cuadros para poder irme de vacaciones a Bariloche... EN TREN!! Si alguien esta interesado en el arte entonces pásense por Du Freaks que hay variedad de estilos para elegir!

Hoy aprendí: que quiero armar una revolución artística. Y lo voy a hacer!
Besos y lucesitas de navidad ♥
Safi.

Here comes the sun

I did not have anything new to tell you, my dear readers, nor anything to show you either. Now, this last week, I awake my spirit and I'm drawing and illustrating and creating a lot.
I asked some friends, some boggers and mr. Google some pictures to draw, people from the world that I put down in paper and colours. I opened a Flickr account and I posted some of the illustrations I already made! Check it out, maybe you are part of my art and you don't know it yet!!! :3

by me ♥

What else??
We're starting to feel the heat of the upcoming Spring, trees and flowers are blooming and I am already sneezing because of pollen. People dare to use brighter colours and smiles are coming out from scarves and jackets. I love Winter but th reborn of nature with Spring is something soooo wonderful that I cannot stop feeling the new energy from mother Earth :)
Anyway. This new Fickr account and my nonstoping illustration were the things I wanted to let you know for now. If you want to be drawn, please send me the picture to my email account
with your name and your blog :)

Have a great week!
Kisses and colours!
Today I've learn: some people DO grow up!

Safi.

December is AWESOME!

I always had a thing for December, for me it has always been the best month of the year because classes finished and in came Christmas and New Year. But this year, I think, it has been the best December of my life. Why?
Well, I just had my very first Fashion Show, not a whole collection but a dress in the collection we made with my partners at the Fashion Designing Course I attend. The theme was CIRCUS and I came with the idea of a Fortune Teller, the ones from the old Circus, the ones from the 1930s and, well, this was the result:

(Modeled by Guada Moyano)

I'm very very very happy with the dress, very! It was kind of difficult at first because the design I made was complicated, but everything turned out great!!
More news, well, just yesterday my teacher from the course sent me an email asking me if I wanted to be part of a group he created for Independent Designers... OMG!!! You can't imagine how loud I shout!!! I mean, I just started this year with the course and with sewing... I've always liked drawing clothes and stuff like that in my illustrations and now, and now, and now. I inmediately said yes, even though next year is gonna be busier than this, it is an oportunity I can not let pass, right??
Well, I'm so happy.

What else?? I made this video about Espon-Illustration, which is an idea I've been working on lately about drawing anywhere with anything you have on hand.
(Here's the link)

And, what else?? I'm doing amigurumis right now, I'll keep doing them 'cause it's a lot of fun and very relaxing ^^ Then I'll post something... oh, about all the sweet food I'm gonna cook for this Christmas.

Goodbye for now.
Today I've learn: I really really really love Mori girls' style.

XOXO
Safiri.

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.

Dicoveries

(Secong post of the day... wow!)
Hum, in the last five minutes I discovered a bunch of great things that I MUST post here so not to forget names, links and from where inspiration came from.

Firstly: Alice Magazine which is an online magazine that offers the reader a series of great artists and artisans and designers. I found many things here... especially related to paper which was what I was looking for at the beggining. Excellent!
Secondly: and via Alice Magazine, I run into Marmee Craft that is a beautiful blog from Marjorie Liucci who lives in North Carolina, US. She works mainly with themes like forest animals and ladies and then pictures them into dolls and paintings. Just lovely!
Thirdly: Well, I already tried this technic of papercut but I haven't been able to find any artist that does it as well, always found the images alone... until just now. Rob Ryan is a british artist that works entirely with papercutting and screen prints, but not just small papers... he also works -along with his colaborators- in huge peaces of paper that he turns into beatiful and great pictures. Genious!
(I leave you this link to a vid of him working: http://www.vimeo.com/11460856)
Fourthly (last but not least): John William Waterhouse was a british painter from 1849. He worked mainly with literary themes and female characters from Greek and Arthurian mythology. I loved his delicated work into the human figures and the beautiful touch of a fairy-tale style he gave to his paintings. Gorgeous!

Alright, this is everything for now. It's raining outside so I am very much inspired.
XOXO
Safi

Children's storybooks

I love this movie. One of my favourites!!

Ok, yestarday's attempt of needle felting failed. Why? well, I tried to do it with a regular needle but didn't work out, so now, I gotta try getting the actual needle I need to do this technic. Sad, I know.

Anyways. Despite me saying yesterday about writing today about my passion for vintage fashion, I decided to write about an other of my passions, the one that I have been practising most lately: illustration.
Last week, when I told a friend about my idea of give a bit of my life to this creation of children's storybooks she said: "We think (her and another friend) that that book you made last year is the best thing you've ever done". Well, blushing! Furthermore, what I say is that I really really really love doing this, this mix of cute and naïf stories with nice illustrations; it's like going back to my childhood everytime, or that I go back to that land I use to go when I was little and I started to write and invent and imagine.
So this, this is one of the ideas I have for my life. There are three in my mind at this moment... not decided which one I'll give more time and use it as my main income, yet. I'm not in a hurry though but... I'd like to start deciding already because, well, you know, I'd like to start saving for an apartment and a "I hope" future England-moving-into thing... and also, to direct my energies to that ability(¿?) for, sooner than later, get a job that involves it.

What else?? nothing more I think... oh, yeah, IT'S RAINING and it looks like snow... is not but, it's nice. ^^

What I've learn today: I like weird people and weird stuff.
XOXO
Safi.