If: Mail

This is a fast rough for Illustration friday"Mail"

the little mice are finishing the last Xmas mails

to send to all their friends and with them

me and my boyfriend Andrea want to wish you all a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

full of joy and peace:)

Immovable colored

This was for IF Immovable,I finished the color version

only today,hope you like it:)

Lucca comics 2010

Lucca Comics and Games, full of people and artists

Here you can see one of the best fantasy illustrator

"Ciruelo"in his stand:)

And people,people and a lot of cosplayers:)

Dream Chaser's Magazine cover

Wonderful news:) This morning we received

the link to Dream Chaser's Magazine with our

illustration cover ,if you want to see the

magazine preview click here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/125246

Then this is our 100th post,so happy birthday to our

blog :)

And the last news is that tomorrow for four days

we'll be in Lucca for the comics and games convention:)

I'm totally out of mind,I can't wait tomorrow morning:)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all:)

Spooky coloured

Thanks for all the comments,

this is the colored version,

watercolors and some photoshop.

I'm not totally happy with waterolors,

but hope you like it:)

Happy Halloween to all

Spooky 2

This is another idea for spooky,even if it

isn't so spooky,but I liked the idea about

cats coming out from a book.Only a rough

for the moment:)

IF: Spooky

This week Illustration Friday topic is Spooky,

this is the first thing I thought,probably you'll

say..."I don't see spooky situation:)"but...what about

the poor pumpkin head make up?I think next time

he'll be scared by this lovely little girl:)

In the next days I'll color it:)

I'm on TWITTER now!

A friend of mine said: Finally you are on Twitter!

So here I am and if you want to Tweet with me

you can follow me here:

http://twitter.com/#!/Theartofpuro

Save the animals

This morning I read that the time to send

illustrations for Ripple is finished,but I wanted

to load this illo that was in my moleskine.

To remember that there is no ending time

to love them and protect them.

IF: Immovable

I can't belive it,finally I menaged to draw

something new,hope to finish it for the end

of the week.This is for the IF word

"Immovable",don't know all of you but

I'm sure that if you ever had a dog,he was

immovable when it was time to go to the vet.

August news

Hi everyone,we had a full August,we had to

paint our house and my boyfriend's

parents moved to a new house,so we've been so

busy that only now I found the time to write

again in the blog.

We have a good news and a sad one:(

The sad one is that our book "Toofs" won't

be realised at the end of August but a little later,

so thanks to all the people that commented on it,

hope to give you soon the new date.

The good news is that there is an article

about us with some images on september

Dreamchasersmagazine by Sarah Bash-Gleason.

If you want to see a preview click here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/104997

News about children's book "TOOFS"

Great news about our first children's book"Toofs",

it will be realised for iphone at late August by

Picpocket Books.If you want to know more

about the author Jennifer Poulter and see a

preview of the cover you can read the interview

that Jennifer had on the blog of Susan Whitfield.

To read the interview and see the cover click here:)

Save the animals

This is in response to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf.

Donated artwork for animals.

To learn more visit Ripple blog

IF: Trail

This is an old post that I menaged to colour.

Hope you like it:)

IF: Early

The time going so fast in these days so even if

it's only a quick....:)very quick rough ,I wanted to

parteciate to Illustration Friday.This week topic

is Early,the only thing that came to me was an

italian(maybe not only italian) way of saying

about wake up very early.

We say wake up with the chickens:)

Well, this little girl woke up very early but it

seems that the chickens aren't of the same

opinion:)

Great Surprise

Yesterday was my birthday,a wonderful day,

but what a surprise when I found that the

postman arrived with this wonderful gift

that I won.Unfortuntely the pictures aren't

very good,but if you visit the blog of

Joanne May you'll find a lot of these wonderful

piece of art and you'll discover a great illustrator

and artist.

THANK YOU JOANNE

Blogger Award

Finally after more then 2 weeks I menage to

thank Donna Pellegata for this wonderful award:)

She's a great artist ,I reccomend to visit her blog.

Here you can find the blog I have chosen:

Roberta Baird

Dawn

Duncan

Juliette Crane

Kit Grady
Atelier Brigitte

John

Here are the rules:

But please do not feel obligated to follow the rules

in order to accept the award:)

1 Thank the person who gave this to you

2 Copy the logo and paste it in your blog

3 Link the person nominated you

4 Tell up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and

at least one outrageous truth.

5 Nominate 7 Creative Writers who might funcoming

up with outrageous lies.

6 Post links to the 7 blogs you nominated

7 Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them

know you nominated them.

Marlow & Underworld

Before uploading these images on our website

here you are a couple of inking try-outs pages

done with Dario Carrasco(penciler).The first image

is for Marlow,the second for Underworld.

IF: Detective

Another sketch for illustration friday,this week

topic is Detective.Don't know you but when I

was a child I asked myself why I had a navel,

so what better then investagate on it with the

help of a friend:)I have to work more on the

bathroom but I like enough the two characters:)

Today is a wonderful sunny day and I'm finishing

one of the last illustration I did for IF,hope it will

come out well.

If: Linked

Also this week I hadn't time to finish the

illo for this week topic"linked"but I menaged

to do a rough sketch.Everyone knows that

mom and children have a great link and

sometimes we forget that fathers do the

strangest thing for their children.So I think

it isn't so strange to see a father helping her

little daughter for her first swim.

RENEE AWARD

I don't know how to thank for this award.I'm so

honored to receive the Renee Award from Brigitte

of Atelier Brigitte , a great artist you must visit:)

The award was created by Ces in honor of Renee,who

is very dear to her and to many people in the blog world

and beyond.Renee has recently passed away,it has touched

so many people,especially Ces and Bella,who new Renee

for such a long time.If you want to know more about

the origin of this award visit this blog-entry

These are only some of the friends I met in the blog world,

I have to choose 7 bloggers so here they are:

Faruffa

Edrian Thomidis

Monica

Evilla Prunella

Mai Kemble

Emily Grandin

Froggie

Perspective watercolor

A little late but I menaged to colour the

little girl with her big ice cream.I did it

in watercolor and then a little touch with

photoshop.Not totally happy with the colour,

let me know what you think:)

Fantasy horror festival

Here a picture of our best friend Fabrizio Spurio

an indie horror movie director and writer(on the right)

coming back from the First

Fatasy Horror Award.

On the left Andrea my boyfriend:)

If: Expired

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Expired",

you'll say ,what is it?Well a very fast sketch that

I did last night .It's only a work in progress,

the little girl reading a book about dinosaurs,some

people say that they are expired...What do you think?

I'm not so sure....:)

Sunshine award

This week I received the Sunshine award

from a great artist Brigitte of AtelierBrigitte

This award stands for all the goods things that

can and will happen in your life, even if you

sometimes have a hard time with your work,

health,family or what so ever.

It is good to know that there are always people

who will stand by your side and help you through the tough times.

Here are the rules for accepting this award:

1.Put the logo on your blog or within your post
2.Pass the award onto at least 12 bloggers, if you wish

3.Link the nominees within your post

4.Let the nominees know they have received this award

by commenting on their blog
5.Share the love and link to the person from whom you

received this award.

So here you are my nominees:

Ginger Nielson

Joanne May

Shirley

Loni Edwards

Donna Pellegata

Flippin kids

Cally Jane

Heather Hanlin

donny

The enigma

Paige Keiser

Peter Breese

IF: Perspective

I can't belive it ,I menaged to post something new,

it's only a rough but I needed to draw something

for me.The Illustration Friday word is

Perspective and don't know you but when I was

a child my perspective was different from now.

Everything seemed bigger,and also this little

girl see her ice cream in a different way.

Won't you like to come back to childhood........?

A big hug to everyone

In this period we didn't post anything new and

we don't know when we'll menage to do it.

We had a lot of works adding new illustrations

to the children book....YES it's not finished yet!!

The author decided to add pictures and do some

corrections and we have to say it's coming better

then before!:)I love it but...............I have to organize

me better, to do more illustrations for myself!

This adorable picture of Calvin and Hobbes

(I'm a fan of them) is for

all of you that say hallo even when we don't post :)

IF: Confined

First of all I have to apologize,this is an

old illo,but I thought it was good for this week

topic,I always thought at her as confined in a

mystical place.Hope before the end of this week

to upload something more.

2010 a new year begin

Maybe someone will say,but all the roughs illos

you said you wanted to finish before the year,

what did you do?Well I have to say I've been a

little lazy:)))

But there are two good news,the first one:

WE FINISHED the CHILDREN BOOK

and now we have to wait to see what

will happen and then we are doing some

try-outs to ink a comic book.

At the same time hope from next week

to draw new children illustrations and,

fingers crossed to watercoulors some old illos:)

Thanks for coming to see what we do and thanks

to the people that with their art inspire us!