Mugs

My "Snowy Owl" painting is now available on mugs!

 

 This hunting fox is also a design for a mug.

If you would like to have a mug with any of these paintings, let me know! :)

DIY project - clay brooches/ magnets/ ornaments

Hi everybody!

Today I will share a little tuttorial with you. I'll show you the way I make my clay brooches, magnets and ornaments with my drawings.

 

Gingerbread cookies

Christmas without gingerbread cookies? Of course not! They are not just beautiful and delicious, they are fun to bake too. You can make whatever you want :)
 

Little illustration for the Christmas book for children "Päkapikk on detektiiv."

 

Last Christmas I made a gingerbread house for my love. I wanted it to represent our happy future, us in a cute farm house with a beautiful garden, and couple horses, of course ;) 

 

 

Updates and needle felted creatures

For a couple months I have been pretty quiet in all the social medias, but working on some interesting projects, both large and small. One of them was illustrating a Christmas book with poems for children. Thanks to this I got into the Christmas mood a lot earlier this year :) Working on this project was very exciting and I just can't wait to see the final result. I think it's going to be very pretty. The release date is December 6. After that I will be able to post some illustrations and pictures of the book online. I might even make some sort of book "give away" game... I'll keep you updated :)

 

Recently I felt like I wanted to do something other than drawing and painting, just for a little while, so I kept myself busy by needle felting creatures and making brooches. I made a whole flock of sheep :) Some of them will be presents for my family, as little talismans for the next year, 2015, the year of the sheep.

 

 

I have also updated my Etsy shop. You are welcome to come have a peak!

 

With love,

Ilona

Fixing an old suitcase

My little DIY project. This old suitcase needed a new liner. I used a USSR era wallpaper that I found in my grandma's storage room. I think it fit the style of the suitcase pretty well.

 

 

Our little puppy was making sure that I did everything right.

 

I used PVA glue, also know as wood glue, white glue, or carpenter's glue. First I covered the sides and corners, then I used one longer piece of paper for the rest.

 

And now it's almost like new! Later I will change the handle too. Then it will look even beter :)

 

Paintings and brooches with dogs

I did some digital paintings of different dog breeds, and used them for making clay brooches for some breeders as a custom work. Here you can see yorkshire terrier, saluki, english cocker spaniel, cavalier king charles spaniel, airedale terrier and of course chihuahua.

 

 

 

 

For making brooches, I used a very thin matt photo paper for prints, oven baked clay, PVA glue and varnish. I'll try to make a little tutorial with pictures next time, and show you the process of creating clay brooches.

 

And for those, who are interested in having one of this cute dog brooches: very soon they will be available in my Etsy shop for everybody! Yay!

 

With love,

Ilona

 

My etsy shop - The Artist in Love

I reopened my Etsy shop! Yay!!! I'm soo excited about it :)

And now I'm slowly filling it up with my arts and crafts. One of the chalenges for me is taking good photos of the products. I have an older Canon EOS dslr camera, which is a great camera, but not having a good place for photo sessions makes things a little more complicated. So, along with painting, drawing, and crafting, I'm also learning to be a better photographer. I found some really simple and useful tips in a free online book by Christina Greve. Maybe her tips will help you as well.

 

But now I want to welcome you to the shop of The Artist in Love! I hope you will enjoy your visit. Later I'm going to add more to the "About" section as well, where I'll tell you more about the name of the shop.

 

 

 

With love,

Ilona

Brooches

Here is one of my projects - clay brooches with my colorful characters, which you can use on your shirt, scarf, bag and make them look more interesting! 

  

 

 

 

Let me know if you are interested to have one of them :)