MERRY XMAS

We found this wonderful picture on the web,

we thought it was perfect to

Wish everyone a joyful and peaceful

CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Music sketch

First we want to thanks all the people

for the kind words about our book,

We are doing the last corrections on cover

and then we'll need only to write the

text.

So also this week for Illustration Friday

"music" I menaged to upload only a

little rough did it before going to sleep

IF: Unbalanced

I wanted to colour last week illo,

but we are finally quite at the end of

our children book,only the front and

back cover and lettering and............

Finished!

So we decided to post an old illo, for

IF topic "Unbalanced"....well the guy

in background lost his balance discussing

with a "good"guy....

IF: Blur

Even if I didn't menage to complete
the illustration,I decided to post
the illo for IF "Blur"It's only a rough
I did this morning.I was thinking
how much blured isthe limit between
reality and imagination for children,
sometimes we should try to remember
how it was,for usbut also for them.

IF: Frozen

This is an old illustration me and my boyfriend

did years ago but I thought it could be right

for this week IF topic"Frozen"

Normally one think about cold things but

you know these old western movies when

time seems frozen:)

Last news: we are doing the last illos for the book

and (probably we are mad)but we begun doing

comics lessons to teenagers,it will be a great

experience but we are also a little scared....

perfect for Halloween:):):):)

"Toofs" Sneak Peak

Here you are a sneak peak about our book"Toofs"

written by Jennifer Poulter.We are doing it

digitally,it's a great experince .

Will his big brother

survive the little one that is testing his new teeth?

A book about teeth and relationship

IF: Germs

Also this week I menaged to do only a rough for

Illustration Friday topic.

When I think about germs I think about flu and

all these days reading a good book,a flavoured

cup of chocolate ,my lovely cat and a lot of

handkerchiefs.At the end germs aren't so bad!

I'd like to thanks all friends that did comments

and a patiently waiting my pencils coloured

but me and Andrea we are trying to finish

the book .

IF: Pattern

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Pattern"

I have to say that the idea arrived thanks to a friend

of mine ,mother of a little girl that last week told

me about her little one that decided to colour with

pastels the wall of her room,so I figured her doing

the same thing but with her little hands.

The dog wasn't in the story but I like how

children and pets normally interact.

IF: Infinite #1

This morning I received a postcard from

Infinite Space ,but how will they menage

to come back ?The spaceship for some

reason became too little for them:)

This illo is from my boyfriend Andrea

that have the idea for this week

Illustration Friday topic.

IF : Welcome

Here I am ,finally I menaged to do a new

illo for Ilustration Friday "Welcome"

Sometimes we wait for something far

from us instead of looking around us.

Hope to colour it in these days,I say hope

because I'm uploading this image from

a friend's computer because ...............

Lucky me.....my monitor decided to die

yesterday :) :)

I'M BACK

Here I am,finally I menaged to write again

in the blog,I've been a bad blogger in these

months.I'm not very good in writing but

First of all I want to thank

Joanne May for an award given to me

2 months ago and

AtelierBrigitte for another award 1 month ago

"Thanks and sorry for not answering you before"

Sharing-Books.com :published!

Before the loss of our dog this was the good news we wanted to

share with all of you

Thanks to Jennifer Poulter that sent one of his wonderful poems

" Cat_Factorium" we had the possibility to publish on

sharing-books.com an illustration did for the poem.

Go and check it if you have time!

Goodbye Blacky

This week I wanted to come back to my blog

with good news,but this morning Blacky

our dog passed away.He lived with us an

year and a half after we found him in the country.

He was old , had problems for walking and he was

without an eye but he menaged to give love to

all of us and we tried to give him a house and

all our love.

This is a message for everyone:

DON'T ABANDON and DON'T ABUSE YOUR PETS

Happy Birthday to my blog

Today is 1 year that I bigun with my boyfriend Andrea

this blog for submitting to Illustration Friday.

I have to thank everyone that commented to

our illustrations in this year,a lot of things

happened (a writer called us for a children book)

but the best thing is that we met a lot of new friends

So without your support nothing could happen

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU

Awarded

A great thank to Joanne May for giving me this award,

she is a fantastic artist and if you like fairy and celtic arts

you have to visit her blog.

Here are few rules if you accept the award

Feel free to deliver this award to eight other people

(or as many bloggers you would like) and include the

following text with the award on your site.

" These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.

They are not interested in self aggrandizement.

Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut,

even more friendship are propagated.

Please give more attention to these writers."

Here are my blogs choise:

1 Paige Keiser

2 Beatrice Billard

3 Faruffa

4 Edrian Thomidis

5 Peter Breese

6 Eric Barclay

7 John Blackford

8 Beenznrice

9 Mai Kemble

IF: Craving

Also this week the only thing I menage to do is

a rough for Illustration Friday topic "Craving"

We are working hard in these days for the

children book we are doing and so this is what

I can do for the moment,but once the book

will be finished I'll colour all the illustrations ,

it's a promise for all the friends that so kindly

do comments in this blog,they are a great

support for my works.

Now talking about the new illo,I thought which is

the most craving thing for a children...

growing isn't it?

Finally published :Night of the crabs cover

This week been full of work and the only

thing I can do is give this wonderful news

for me and my boyfriend.

Finally the book cover "Night of the crabs"by Guy N.Smith

that we did for Ghostwriter Publications

is published,we are so excited :)

IF: Cracked

I'm late,I'm late ,I'm late....:)

As always I'm late for Illustration Friday

and for visiting my friends blogs.

This week topic is Cracked and yestarday ,waiting

for a job appointment I did this rough on a

piece of paper.I was thinking about the word and

I thought that when I was a little child I asked myself

what the little insects do when they disappear in the walls.

So this illo came out ,hoping to finish it in these days

IF:Contagious

This week Illustration friday topic is"Contagious"

I did this simple illustration for a t-shirt and

thought it was a good idea for the topic.

Sleeping in these warm days is contagious

and is one of the thing I love the best.

Parade in colour

Yestarday was my birthday,hurray for me :)

my first 40 years old... so as a gift to

everybody I decided to colour the illustration

I did last week for Illustration Friday.

Hope you like it.

IF: Parade

Here I am again after a difficult time of my life,

my grandmother died after Ester ,now quite a month

passed and I begin again doing all the things I left

and so I finally menaged to do a new rough for

Illustration Friday(hope to colur it before friday)

and again at work on Jennifer Poulter children book.

This week Ilustration Friday topic is "Parade"

HAPPY EASTER

This week we had some family problems

but now Easter arrived and it seems everything

is going better,so we want to wish everyone a

HAPPY EASTER

IF: Poise

This week illustration friday topic is Poise

I did this illo last week during a moment of

relax and when I saw this week topic I thought

it could be quite good.When I did it I was thinking

about something I saw when I was little,I was on

holiday in a country house and one morning I saw

a little mouse drinking milk from his tail after he

had put it in a milk bottle.It was so cute.

Thanks to everyone for the nice words last week,

I'll try soon as possible to colour all the roughs I did

IF: Subtract

Finally here I am again,maybe not 100%

but anyway I menaged to do a rough for

this week Illustration Friday topic"Subtract"

Well probably there isn't need to explain it

but I love to see children playing with

animals and in this case who is trying to

subtract the ball......?

IF: Breezy

This week Illustration Friday topic is Breezy,

what is better then sleeping in the breezy night

one near the other waiting for the morning light

as these two bears.

Finally out of bed!

Finally after a week of fever I'm out of bed,but

I have to say that I fell like the cat in the image.

Unfortunately I did't have the force to do no

illustrations but the positive part was that

everyone was at my service...:) and I could

sleep how much wanted:)

But now at work again

Thanks for the award

So many thanks to Faruffa for the award,

a great and talented artist,if you don't

know her you must visit her blog full

of imagination and an amazing view of life

Here there are 7 things I love:

1. all kind of sweets

2.reading before going to sleep

3.sleeping

4.drink chocolate when out is cold

5.rainy days (but only if I'm at home)

6.our cat expressions

7.going out with friends

And now the 7 bloggers I pass the award

Edrian Thomidis

Charlie Creek

Enigma

John

Michael

Get Zapped

Bella

IF:Time

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Time"

What a wonderful word,you noticed that

sometimes you have too much of it and

sometimes it isn't enough.

This week we hadn't time to do a new illo

so we thought to use one I did years ago

for a springtime topic.

Work in progress_Climbing

Not finished yet,but I menaged to ink it

IF:Climbing

This week Illustration Friday is: Climbing

"What a joy climbing the mountain to

discover that the old hermit went for the

winter holidays and a storm is arriving!"

Unfortunately last week we didn't manage

to post something and also this week we

weren't sure to menage to do it.

We are working on some characters for

a book written by JR Poulter who asked us to

illustrate one of her poem.

But Andrea decided to do something that we hope

to finish before the end of the week,while I was

sketching some characters.

IF: Contained

Watercolour
Watercolour and digital

This week Illustration friday topic is "Contained"
I haden't much time to do it but I wanted to do
something in watercolour but when I saw it scanned
I wasnt' very happy with it so I used photoshop on it.
I don't know wich is better,I'll let you decide.
About my interpretation of the word I imagined a little
mouse trying to fish the moon that is contained(this is
what he thinks) in a little lake near his house .

IF: Resolve

This week Illustration Friday is "Resolve"

The idea is from Andrea that decided to colour my pencils.He imagined our little bear resolving
to come back ,for Xmas,at home after a long journey,
because nothing is comfortable like home