Illustration Friday - Citrus (again)

Today I want to try something new , something I didn´t try until now. My inspiration came from Belinda Del Pesco Fine Art Blog (from November 2006 ) and has name collograph print.
Collographs are made by assembling a collage on a substrate, inking the surface, and printing from the inked & wiped face of the collage. This was my idea , of course it was the first time I try something like that so maybe results are not so satisfied like it could be . I have not printing ink , so I made print with use of black acrylic color. I "print" it with small tea spoon :-) . The picture itself is tiny 43 mm x 12o mm , is "printed" on aquarell paper and is colored with watercolours. I must say that probably no one recognize what is on the picture (that´s why I add a photo what it could be ) but it was definitely a fun ! I will repeat this more time ! Try it , too !

Illustration Friday - Citrus

Done with inkliner and watercolors in daily sketchbook

Long weekend in Prague

There was a several free days here in Slovakia which I spent in my favourite town , Prague , capitol of Czech republic. This city has always full hand of things to see , to hear , to visit , to taste. This time my visit was so "artsy" , I visit performance of several musicals ( dark Excalibur , monstrous Golem , crazy Láska je láska ) . I try make some sketch there , but actors was so quick and dynamic , that I finally had only pictures of several pieces on the stage :-) So , in my sketchbook is picture of official banner of muzical Excalibur , done in pen and watercolor.
One of the place, I always don´t forget to visit, is lovely little tearoom "U zeleného čaje" . Great variety of tea from all over the world, good for snacks too. When you seat here over the cup of smelling tea , you can see exactly the same picture of shop´s windows like past several hundred years. The nearest is in my sketchbook now, done in color pencil.
Greatest joy waits for me.. I find the shop where sells Moleskine notebooks . Now, I am proud owner of small watercolor Moleskine, too . I have to test it, of course, so first sketch is done in pen and watercolor on place Kampa , under the Charles bridge.
And they sell not only Moleskines, actually it is a bookshop, probably the biggest in Central Europe , Palác knih . And right there I met one of my favourite writer , Mr. Robert Fulghum . Mr.Fulghum wrote new book What On Earth Have I Done ? and here was book signing (I am not sure this is right meaning - simply he signed new books )

I must mention visiting old Prague castle , famous Cathedral of St.Vit,...and so on. You must visit Prague , you feel history on each square meter there. And because , human body need food not only for soul , there was some pub visits during these days ,too :-) . Do you know famous Czech beers ?

Gumball 3000 (finish) in Bratislava

Today´s entry in my blog was planned quite another way....First time in history of Slovakia was route of rallye Gumball 3000 crossed through borders of Slovakia and checkpoint was right on the Hviezdoslavovo square.
Gumball 3000 this year means 7 days, 17 countries , 3000 miles (4800 km ).It starts 29. april in London and through Amsterdam,Frankfurt, Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Athens, Tirana,Dubrovnik would come to Bratislava, later to Berlin and back to London.
Today´s entry was planned be full of drawings of nice cars , but ...I wait for several hours on checkpoint but no cars occurs until midnight. And it seems that Gumball 3000 finish its 2007 route here in Bratislava.

Issued by Maximillion Cooper on behalf of The Gumball 3000 Rally - 21.30 / 03 May 2007. : Following our earlier release reporting yesterday’s accident - As a sign of respect we have decided that this year's Gumball 3000 Rally will not travel any further and will end in Bratislava this evening, May 3rd 2007.
As the organisers of the rally we feel that it should be stopped as a mark of respect to Vladimir Cepulyoski who died today after an accident involving one the participating drivers.
We are very saddened by what has happened and feel that it would be wrong to continue. On behalf of Gumball 3000, we once again extend our deepest sympathies to his family and we are doing everything we can for them.
This is the first time anything like this has happened in 9 years of travelling through over 40 countries with 1000's of drivers and it is with deep regret that I make this announcement.


This is picture of bridge SNP over river Dunaj in Bratislava, on top of pillars is rotating Restaurant UFO , where tonight party was planned.

Dinosaurs from Patagonia

One of the most important in South America, THE EGIDIO FERUGLIA PALAEONTOLOGICAL MUSEUM , Trelew, Argentina (thanks for the link, Martin) prepared unique exhibition "Dinosaurs from Patagonia". This touring exhibition is now installed in one of shopping malls in Bratislava , in Aupark. It is really fascinating to see this enormous dinosaur skeletons which lived some tens of millions of years ago.
Done in ink liner Centropen and watercolors in daily sketchbook.

EDM#116 : Draw something green

Done with watercolor and watercolor pencils. Believe me, in reality it is more greenish , it seems my scanner is blind for green .Second picture "green" is from past , yesil is green in turkish. This is a manner, I try to learn and remember foreign language on my vacation holiday place.
Done in watercolor and liners.

Happy birthday Miška

Today my clever daughter is 16.
All the best to you, Miška !
This is real "personalized" post stamp !

Deň narcisov - Daffodil Day

Today was a Daffodil Day in Slovakia. It was 11th year from 1997 when collectors from Cancer Society (Liga proti rakovine) are exchanging small yellow badge in shape of daffodil against small voluntary contribution in favour of oncologic patients.
* This daffodil is done in ink roller Centropen and watercolor pencil in my daily sketchbook.

Dnes už po jedenásty krát sa na Slovensku konala verejná finančná zbierka na podporu mimovládnej organizácie Liga proti rakovine Slovenskej republiky. Táto organizácia ako jediná medzinárodne uznávaná organizácia riadi na Slovensku program boja proti rakovine spoločne s VAMI všetkými. Minulý rok sa v rámci kampane Deň narcisov vyzbieralo 18.373.517 Sk. Táto suma umožnila podporiť mnohé regionálne projekty, psychosociálnu starostlivosť, klinický výskum a informačné programy zamerané na prevenciu, starostlivosť a poradenstvo.

Illustration Friday - Green

Done in watercolor pencils .

Happy Easter 2007

Short trip to Egypt

* new Blogger :-(

it seems not working :-(

*new blogger from now