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!

Landscape - birch and lupins

Commissioned work.

Medium: watercolor 

Pop-up Tartu

This is a special gift for a very special and wonderful person I've met on an April Fool's Day :) in my lovely hometown Tartu... for a person who became very close to me!

Pop-up Tartu:
It's the first time I did something like that. I had to think much about how to make everything work like I want and find creative ways for solving problems. But... it was lot of fun! ;)

Work in progress pictures:

What to do if the cardboard that you wanted to use for a cover have a lot of holes and you can't cut them because then the size of the cardboard will be too small?

Answer: You have to change disadvantage into advantage!

Red ribbon helped me a lot with this :)

Warm wishes to everybody!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas my dear friends! I hope you have a wonderful day with people you love!

It will be, probably, the last entry for this year, so I would love to wish you also a very happy New Year! I believe it will be great! :)
 

"The Perfect Bait" by Bobby Chiu

Just bought for myself a new and amazing book by Bobby Chiu "The Perfect Bait" (my Christmas present for myself ). I'm sooo happy because of it! Bobby Chiu have always been a great motivator and inspiration for me and his advices helped me a lot, especially at the beggining of my artistic way.

If you are an artist and you're interested in this book, now is the right time to get it ;) For a limited time there is free shipping world wide and you get access to the audiobook version as well.

More about the book: http://theperfectbait.com/about.php

P.S. I'm already started to listening an audiobook and already feel myself very inspired! :)

In the forest

Hello everybody!
Here is one illustration I made last month:
 

AiW Art Jam

I've been invited to participate in "Alice in Wonderland" Art Jam/ project. The goal of this project is to make a visual translation of the book.

You can find more information --> here.

I got paragraph 520:

`It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.

`Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice.

 

All illustrations should have been made in B/W, so no colors this time.

But the original work is done in blue tones.

My Etsy shop

Exciting news :)

I opened my shop on Etsy.com (ilonas.etsy.com) where you will find my original art.

At the moment there is some hand painted mugs with my original designs. But in the future I plan to add a lot more interesting things.

I really hope that you will like my shop and maybe you'll find there something for yourself or your beloved ones!

 

Enjoy the visiting and have a great week!

 

Couple photos of mugs :