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My daughter’s masterpiece :)

Here it is my sweet daughter’s painting. We also need the final picture of it. Gosia is very proud of her creation. As you can see, she used the same technique, she was really good at following the steps. We both learned a lot.

I was painting!!!

This is my new creation step after step (the final photo is not ready yet). My friend invited me over with the idea we would paint together. I took my artistic daughter with me and three of us started painting. We were painting all day and my friend taught us how to paint using her [...]

Three paintings

These paintings are in my head. Picasso Marie Therese Walter – I have to search for more details Picasso Deux Personnages 1934, Two People: Marie Therese Walter and Her Sister Reading Picasso’s 1968 painting Musketeer With Pipe

My Picasso :)

I promised to explain more about Picasso and the ideas in my head and I just had no time for that…. So, month later, this is Woman in a Hairnet by Picasso and my copy of it. After lots of research I found picture of the original piece and it turn out it was more [...]

Color Theory

Talking with Crystal, reading books about mosaic I found chapters about how to choose colors in the art. I usually choose colors instinctively, my eyes tell me what works and I just feel what looks good or not. It is great to know the facts standing behind my feelings, so I started looking for more [...]

You never know

I should finish pink box, blue frame or two pendants which are waiting to be glued… but not this time… This time I took paint brush into my hands and I made frames for my friend. The friend has beautiful hand made silk for sari… the pattern is perfect for as many different designs as [...]

2010…

Last post I wrote in May 2009… Lots of new things happened… My family moved to new place, this time same city, same country, same continent… lucky me not many changes at that point… We had beautiful summer, our daughter started Kindergarten… I started learning how to do mosaics… and here it is New Year [...]

Old and new.

For almost 20 days I did not paint any piece and finally I made a new photo frame… This note should be about it… but I also prepared a card for my friend and I used watercolor and it was a strange experience… I could not paint with watercolor… I spent whole my elementary school [...]

First photo frame with daisies

In February I painted the frame with daisies but I have never finished it… Two months later, at the end of April, finally I spent time to do it The main green color on the back is too light but I have new green color as the base and this one  is really strange…  is [...]