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.

 

Päkapikk on detektiiv II

Here is couple more illustrations from the Christmas book for children "Päkapikk on detektiiv".

 

"Awaiting"

 

"Frost boys"

 

Book presentation

On December 6th in Tallinn was presented a beautiful Christmas book "Päkapikk on detektiiv", wich I illustrated. It was really nice event with gingerbread cookies, muppet show for kids and book signing. I was happy to see so many parents with their kids enjoying this event with us!

 

Me and book writers Tuuli Seinberg and Evelin Banhard.

 

 

Päkapikk on detektiiv

This autumn I made many beautiful illustrations for a childrens Christmas poems book entitled „Päkapikk on detektiiv“ (“Elf is a detective”). It was fun project that put me in a Christmas mood a long before actual holiday :) Now the book is finished and available in book stores! It turned out really cool!

Very soon, on December 6th, there will be a presentation of this book in Tallinn. So exciding! But before that I want to share couple christmassy illustrations.

 

 

More will come.

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 :)

 

Nasturtium

These flowers have a large seeds and are easy to grow. They bloom with orange, yellow and red flowers. They prefer sunny, dry locations and do well in poor soil. Nasturtiums are also pest resistant, which ensures a successful planting. Both their leaves and flowers are edible and can be used in fresh garden salads.

Cosmos

Cosmos are easy to grow. They do well in dry weather. Flowering is best in full sun, although partial shade is tolerated. Flowers are white, pink, magenta red, and are especially attractive to butterflies.

Decorative Pumpkin

An original, easy growing plant. Grow fast and have a big, yellow flowers. Pumpkin prefer full sun, but partial shade is tolerated. Loves fertilizing and watering during the growing season. Fruits of decorative pumpkin are usually not bigger than 10-15 cm, but their shape, texture and color can vary a lot.

An amazing plant for a child's garden.

"Plant Me"

"Plant me.“ My new collection of greeting cards!

Each cards has different flowers in handmade decorative pots, and a little package of seeds inside. At the moment there are three different plants: decorative pumpkin, cosmos and nasturtium, but in the future I will make more.

It is a very cute and memorable gift for your friends, loved ones, any nice people you want to thank, or even for a young gardener who is curious about growing their own flowers from seeds.

These cards will keep your kind and warm words for a long time, and will make beautiful memories for both of you. And they are a nice decoration on the shelf too. The little surprise that grows, blooms, and gives fruits will make this gift even better as time goes on.

Another surprise is hiding in the seeds. In order to find out the exact color of the flowers, or the exact shape of the fruits, you have to plant the seeds and wait until your plant will tell you the secret.

These three plants are easy to grow. Even beginners and the youngest gardening friends will be able to successfully grow them, and see the result of their work in the first year.

More pictures  and short descriptions of each cards and plants will come soon!

Cheers!

Flowers for the cards

These paintings were done for my new project, for the new collection of greeting cards "Plant Me". More information and more pictures of this project will come very soon!

Fairytales about love and my illustrations

In June I was working on two illustrations for the children book with fairytales about love, and now this book is released!!! Yay! :)

I got my copies today - it's wonderful book, it can be very good present for kids and especially for little girls :)

Book is available in Estonia: Petrone Print

Excerpts from the book 

Illustration for the story based on Nigerian fairytale. 

Illustration for the story based on Iraqi fairytale.

Cheers ;)

"Spring" - my first animated short film

My first animated short film is done! Ehey!!!
It is very short and pretty simple, but I hope you’ll enjoy it ^^
It’s called “Spring”.

With this short I’m participating in a little competition and I will be very thankful if you will support me and give me your votes (click “Like” button at the bottom of this page --> LINK). Thank you!!! ^^

I’ve asked before will I succeed or fail… well, let’s see:
-I’ve had no experience and no knowledge about animating in Adobe flash, but with this work I’ve learned a lot of new things and developed new skills.
-I’ve had time to finish my short until 20 march (I’ve started in the beginning of march) and I finished it week earlier.
-I did all work by myself.
So for me it’s definitely SUCCESS!
I thought before that it is an impossible mission for me…but I did it and I’m very happy :)
Also I’ve had so much fun working on this short!

For the end I want to say thank you to Youtube and all the awesome guys who share their knowledge with others and of cause to Adobe for their flash professional help guide and adobeTV!
Big thank you for the music to Grizzly616!

I wish to everybody happy springtime!

Success or fail?

I've started a new crazy and mega fun project. It's something I've never done before and I have less than a month to finish it (for today it's left 18 days).
I'm very exited, cause if everything goes well you'll see something very interesting from me... yeah, there is a possibility of fail, but who cares ^^ Like Bobby Chiu said "true failure comes from not trying". So I'm going to do my best and we will see what will happen.

Oh, you whant to know what I'm doing? Ok, I'll tell you... *whisper* I'm doing a flash animated short film ^^
It will be very short and simple, but hopefully cute and funny.

I've never worked in flash before, but with the last two or three days I learned how to use it (understand the basics ^^)... I have a story, some kind of storyboard, background, two characters with details... so I hope I can start to animate them tomorow.
Oh, so much thing to do! I feel like I have to remove sleeping time from my schedule ^^
 
So, what it would be? Success or fail?
We will see it at the end of the month!

Some works from last year

Here is some cockers I drew in the end of 2010:

(Paper texture by akinna-stock)

And now I want to tell you about my forgotten project from the last year. I worked a lot on this, but the final result didn't satisfied me enough and I neglected this project. But overall I think that idea was pretty good and maybe I'll return to this latter and redo all things I don't like.

So, here it is - buttons with different dogs:





I have experimental buttons of each dog, so if you are interested in any of this buttons you can send me e-mail for more information.

Calendar for 2011 is now available

Here is the front and back cover for my calendar :)

Calendar is available here: Ilona's Shop
Size: 28x22cm
Calendars have an extra heavy protection backing sheet for safe hanging.

Hope you'll like it :)
Have a lovely week!

Calendar for 2011 - part IV

Five final illustrations for my calendar... I hope you'll like them :)

February: Tea party

June:
I'm wishing from a star...

July:

Picnic with friend.

August: Ice cream :)

December:

Preparation for the Christmas was so exciting for me in childhood... I loved to decorate rooms and especially christmas tree. When everything was done I felt that magic will happen soon and Santa will come to our home :)

The calendar will be available in Deviantart very soon.

I need to think about the front cover... probably I'll draw for this something new.

All illustrations are done with Derwent Inktense pencils on Canson paper (300g/m2), size 14 x 19 cm. All originals of paintings are for sale.