Calendar for 2011 - part I

I'm working on paintings for the calendar, which will be available in Deviantart Prints Shop.

The theme of the calendar will be - "Little moments of happiness", there will be positive and cute illustrations inside.

Originals of paintings I'll put later for sale. They are done with Derwent Inktense pencils on Canson paper (300g/m2), size 14 x 19 cm.

Here is paintings for January, May and September:

January - "Together"

May - "...he loves me...he loves me not...he loves me!!!"

September 

Body art

I’m always open for something new and interesting, so this time I tried myself in body art. I spent this weekend (25-26 September) on Motoshow and HTG Custom Show 2010 – the biggest auto show in Estonia, doing body and face paintings. It was great experience for me!

I was painting mainly on children, so I had to paint very quickly, cause they can’t sit still for long time… It was quite intense work, but fun :))

When it was possible, I let children choose the colors and details for their paintings, so they were able to participate in creating process.



It was so nice to see, that all these little paintings I did, made people little bit happier :))

Last photo - peacock feather painting on my hand :)

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What else am I doing?

I'm working on my projects, new paintings and couple comissions, also have an interesting ideas in my head for the future.

One of the projects is a calendar for the next year, there will be very positive and cute illustrations... hopefully :) 

"Save a Whale. Eat a Mermaid"

This painting is for the challenge on Sketchoholic.com. Goal was to make an illustration for the following: 'Save a Whale. Eat a Mermaid'. I finished this in time, yahooo... :)

Tomorrow evening I'll update this post and write here about the voting results.

Update: So, voting is finished and here are the results: I got thrid place.

I want to thank people who gave me their votes! Thank you very much, I really appreciate it!

Sketches

I'm sketching every day, so on my table and book shelves... hmm... everywhere around me are piles of paper with sketches and drawings. I desided to show you some of them.

The first sketch is for the challenge on Sketchoholic.com - illustrate the following 'Save a Whale. Eat a Mermaid'. I think it's cool challenge and it's fun to do it... hope I'll find enough time to finish illustration in time.

Here is another mermaid sketch. I can't say that I'm a big fan of mermaids, but I like to draw them.

Next is life drawing. I look on somebody short time and then try to sketch him. This is not easy for me... people move all the time, goes away and so on... at the begining I thought that this is impossible mission, but whit the practice sketches become better and I really hope to improve this skill much more.

Bellow - random sketches.

The first one was made while listening Coldplay - "Fix You"

Creature From Under the Bridge

My submission for Children's Illustrators Club August topic: Creature From Under the Bridge.

Autumn

Just little illustration :)

Maybe I'll use it for the calendar on Deviantart... I'm not sure yet :)

We'll Sleep on the Water

This is my submission for Children's Illustrators Club monthly topic: We'll Sleep on the Water.

On this painting is the same turtle as my needle felted tortoise with the secret :)

Life is like zebra

I've read somewhere that life is like zebra - white stripe, black stripe, white stripe, black stripe...ass (yeah, shit happens, sometimes)... and again white stripe, black stripe, white stripe...

I drew this for myself... like a reminder that white stripes will come, no matter what. And when shit happens, it means only that something good will happen soon :)

Tartu Sketch Grupp :)

UPDATE: Gruppi tegevus on peatatud määramata ajaks.

Mis võib olla parem kui joonistamine?

Joonistamine toredas seltskonnas, muidugi, koos teiste kunsti fännidega :)

Mõtlesin luua Tartu Sketch Gruppi, mis koguneks kord nädalas, ning koosneks inimestest kellele meeldib joonistada.

Milleks on seda vaja?

- Võimalus huvitavalt aega veeta :)

- Võimalus suhelda inimestega sarnase huviga, näidata üks-teisele oma töid, kuulda teiste arvamust

- Võimalus õppida üks-teiselt midagi

- Ning kõige tähtsam - võimalus joonistada koos ja lõbusalt aega veetes tõsta oma joonistamis oskuse taset.

Iga kord võib valida mingi teema joonistamiseks või teha visandeid inimestest ümberringi, või lausa üks-teisest. Vahel võiks isegi väikseid joonistusvõistlusi teha.

Kõik on see mõeldud selleks, et motiveerida inimesi joonistama, saavutama uut ja kõrgemat taset joonistamises, ning säilitada armastust ja kirge kunsti vastu.

Oodatud on kõik: alustades nendest, kes alles avastasid endas huvi joonistamise vastu ja lõpetades nendega, kes isegi magavad pliiats või pintsel käes.

Kus ja kuna see toimub?

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Soovitatav on ka hea tuju :)

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Inspireeritud leheküljega Sketchoholic.com

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This message is for people who live in Estonia, in Tartu, so I wont translate all of this.

Briefly: I will start the sketch group in Tartu. We will meet and draw together :)

Inspired by Sketchoholic.com

Clowns

Some months ago I had a little discussion with my friend about clowns and in the end of talk I promised to draw a clown for his birthday :) So, here is my little present for him... Happy Birthday, Gaetan!!!