Happy New Year

This year I drown many Christmas cards for our friends.
This two are the most funny :-)

pomegranate

Martha's drawing :-)

Martha drew this couple days ago :-)

ink beads

My first try of DAS modeling clay.
Nice try I hope :-)

end of Fall

Fall is ending.
It's a little bit sad, but in the same time it means that Winter is coming.
With snow, ice, frost, and Christmas!

I draw this Fall picture in our art studio last week.
We have many pumpkins there of different shapes and colors.
Very interesting to draw.

pumpkins and apples
oil pastels on color paper,
30 x 42 sm

Whale

I've made toy whale for Martha.
She very likes it :-)

Fall

Fall inspires me on vegetable meals and autumn sketches. 

Vegetable sketches and autumn meals..

sleeping Martha

I like charcoal. Now it is my favorite material.

I draw Martha, when she sleeps.
That's the only moments when she doesn't move :-)

new necklace

Rainy day

When Martha sleeps I like to draw everything around me.

I made new necklace for my friend.

Inside there is walnut nutshell and cherry pits.

Martha and her Daddy

Martha and her Daddy are the best friends :-)

New toy for Martha

I'm a big fan of Joel Henriques and all the things he makes for his kids.
Yesterday I made a slot box for my Martha.
She really likes it :-)
We used shoe-box, scraps of cardboard for coins, acrylic non-toxic paints and decorative packaging paper for the top.
We paint "coins" with acrylic paint and crayons.

nursing necklace

I discovered new hobby. 

I'm making nursing necklaces :-)

Big violet-and-brown bead is filled with cherry pits.
Big orange-and-brown bead is a rattle.

In green-and-beige necklace I used wooden beads.

Finished box house

At last I made some photos of Martha's box house.
She likes to play in it :-)
My amazing little girl :-)

pencil roll organizer

My Mama gave me her sewing machine to try, before I buy my own one.

So this is my first steps in sewing.

tree

I'm trying to keep sketching on location during our walk in the park with Martha.

But it is quite impossible now. She is running everywhere trying to ketch pigeons and dogs :-) and demanding all my attention.

So I can sketch only when our Daddy is with us.

First year

Twelve days ago was Martha's first birthday.

365 days of varied life for us :-)

She can walk by herself!

She likes books and magnetic letters. And clockwork toys!))

She is totally amazing. The best.

Better than me.

Better than anyone.

The Box House, part 1

I'm making the box house for Martha :-)

Here is the first phase of building.

I plan to finish it for s few days.

It remains to tile the roof, to paint the outside walls once again and to decorate inside interior :-)

the blue cup

"the blue cup"

acrylic, collage on wood
20x40 sm


These are two sides of one wooden board.


I made sketches for this work in my Moleskine.
It was the first time I draw sketches with acrylic paints.

rivers

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7

Turtles

Martha's bath toys -- rubber turtles :-)