Sketch to afford a better mood =)

Hello!

it's obviously been a long time since the last post of mine. the reason is unique and serious: my sister is leaving in a few days and ,if you add this to the rest of my everyday problems, I have no time and mood to post! Yet, I have to notice that sometimes ,when I have a quite melancholic and sad mood, I find it helpful to sketch.
I can remember since I was a child the plot of a fary tale over a young painter. She had a major problem that wouldn't allow her to paint and create beautifull picures: she couldn't chose a colour to use. She was so much attached to all of the colours that every time she was ready to use one she could hear the rest of them yelling: "Use us please! Why won't you???!!!" And so she was spending her time doing nothing and feeling bad about it, until once she saw a rainbow. She was so happy that she d found a way to use all of her colours-friends that she decided to sketch and paint only rainbows and she became very famous out of this :)
Well, and that is to point out that I have same kind of feelings over the colours. I really like to see them all together, not because they are yelling at me (I am totally sane :D), but because they give me a happy, energetic, childish feeling. So, I am really trying to use at least all of the basic colours in every little childish sketch-psuchotherapy of mine. =)
That is a quick colourful sketch I made for the ceiling. Maybe one of those days I will find some time to sketch it around my light. Isn't it happy and funny?! :D

This is a motif i made that looks like the open tale of a peacock! That's why i am going to name it: A tale of a peacock! It may be a poor motif but it deserves a name as well!!
Above you can see a sketch (it's actually a blot!)
that I made when I was really angry and sad for some reasons. It is a sun (in case it is not obvious :D) behind prison bars! And next to it another sketch a little abstract. It could be a sun, a flower or even a sharp cog!!! You choose :D. And that's the advantage of being not too specific when you want to picture sth ;)

Kisses!!!

New Mango Dress!

This is what I bought today :new Autumn Winter Mango Dress 49 euros.

I try it on with shirts, t-shirts, blouses and I noticed that with each top it looks different: with short-sleeves shirt classy, with white shirt back-to-school-look, with t-shirt minimal! Do you like it?

Bangles

Do you like bangles?Here I present you some treasured ones from our collection.

up to down:
black bangle Pull&Bear 2 days ago about 8 euros
brown wooden bangle some shop in Prague
cyan bangle H&M
wooden bangle a gift.
floral bangle Accessorize, gift from sis.















Golden bangle from Xanthi's bazaar some years ago
black and red bangles from INDISKA, a shop in Stockholm

It's a sketching Tuesday!

I might have not mentioned that I enjoy sketching with my favourite little black pens. Recently my sister had the idea to buy a whole bunch of colourful pens that you can see above. I think I 've always preferred sketching with pens or pencils (sometimes at the tip of a school book page ;) ) instead of tempera and brushes. Its simpler, quicker and the whole process is like a game that I always want to play, especially when I have nothing to do. You see, carrying tempera and brushes everywhere is not possible whereas all you need for a sketch is a thin black sketch pen and a piece of paper! The result can be painted at home with colourful pens or anything else or even in Photoshop (my choice) and ,thus, you can create a nice picture out of a little pattern you've thought! :)

One of my favourite sketches (of those I have painted :) ) is a butteftly wing I made during the last August. I was sitting on my couch for 3 or 4 hours thickening lines or adding spots in order to finish one single wing. But I had already thought Photoshop's many potentials ;). And so, after I scanned it the result was:

My scanner is short of childish and immature and it never shows fully or appropriately all lines!! And so i really needed the picture editor to show some lines more clearly. After I did, I picked for the butterfly a deep green which is (usually) my favourite colour and a dark cold purple to surround it. I was about to use it as the demo cover for the band Clock Stooges where I participate by doing the vocals (and I am going to talk to you about it one of those days!). So i added the demo's name as the butterfly's body and woilla! Here is my little butterfly, isn't it cute?

I went on designing my favourite black patterns and using them as buttefly wings, it could be described as an obsession with the butterflies!! So my next pattern was a little bit more tricky because it was not clearly a butterfly wing and I had to work a little bit more to give this butterlfy look it eventually has.
My initial pattern (it's kind of showing my mood, I was pretty confused those days!) :

On the right side you can see its final state :) A butterfly with a broken wing which I used in the Clock Stooges' logo! You can see it if you follow the link given by the first butterfly on the top of the blog.

I also sketched something quick yesterday that I would like to share it with you as well. I decided to name it "Sometimes I feel so happy that it hurts" which is a name i thought while I was sketching. This is a feeling that I have felt sometimes and the only way to explain it briefly now is to say that sometimes you get to win something you had wanted for a long time and simultaneously lose something you had for a long time because those two cannot co-exist. Personally, I 've felt this way many times and I think it is a glorious priviledge of growing up and living an adult life. That's my sketch and now I stop writing so that we won't get too melancholic!


And so, that's all with sketching for today :)

bye!!!

Up to date with some abstract photos

Hello!!
Today it was a fairly rainy and foggy day just like my sister said! That means only one thing: autumn is here! Here in Thessaloniki students (who weren't too successful during the last year) take exams in September, people go back to their jobs and a big event takes place opposite the university campus:ΔΕΘ or Thessaloniki International Trade Exhibition. This is a major attraction for people into trade and economics but also a "hot potato" for syndicalists, leftists, anarchists and ,thus, a sparkle for the match of demonstration.

This is not the right place and the right time for a political conversation or analysis though! This is just the recent news that surround me and form my mood! :)
So, let me skip those and just post two more abstract pictures of those I used to take in Xanthi:



And so here we are about to live one more September.....
Greetings

Red Hot Sweet Tomatos

Hi all!
Today is a rainy, cloudy day and I'm on my blues "Do you read me?".
When September starts, there is a long list of things to prepare for the winter. My mother starts by capturing summer breeze and freshness into small jars! Marmelades, tomato pulp with onion or basil, grilled red pickle peppers...Yummie! I won't give any recipes though.. First of all, because my mother uses magic spells in the kitchen and she wouldn't like them to be revealed! And secondly, because I prefer not to know, but enjoy the result..:)

Joan Jett Outfit

While my sister talks about love swirls and magic blue, I enjoy my little materialistic world: my closet. A new outfit, called Joan Jett with a sweet purple touch. I got the inspiration from the videoclip "I hate myself for loving you" .

Shoes VANS, tights very old and used, skirt Pull&Bear last year,
t-shirt BSB (I bought it on sales about a week ago), waistcoat Mango,
funny purple umbrella H&M, red bangles Indiska (?) shop in Stockholm.

Falling in love and my totally blue room

Hello! How's your mood going?

Today I would like to speak about falling in love with something or someone and also I would like to show to you (as I had promised!) a view of my totally blue room in Xanthi, as part of a fully blue life.

Yesterday, I had the chance to meet again after two years on of my favourite roomates while still in High School. That girl has always been living in a swirl of a love fume. Actually, she would often find herself passionate about a person with all of her heart, having this feeling flood her existence. Of course, this is something that we all need and like to do. However, in case we don't, I 'd like to focus a little bit on the essence of love.

There are two seperate recources of energy for a person: by digesting food he finds the energy that his body needs and by falling in love he finds the energy that his mind needs. The real motive behind every difficult and tiring task you have succeeded in is your love over its result. This is what gives you all of the energy you need in order to complete it in the way you consider to be the best possible. Food is an essence of course but ,no matter how many energy drinks you might have drunk, you cannot exceed your abilities! Love is what makes people go further and evolve and it hides the tremendous strength of will. A spiritual hunger, a real weapon in your hands to face all of your difficulties.... :)

GO PERSISTENT BY FALLING IN LOVE!!!

And now the revelation of my blue room.... You can see in this photo one part of the curtain and the walls ehind it. Can you figure out the difference in the colour? NO?! This is because it doesn't exist one!!! :P Can you imagine 4 walls in the same colour and matching furniture? Short of a melancholic environment that has affected all of my melancholic moments in there!



And that's a common blue view out of my window:




Good for me I have escaped from this totally blue room :)

Farewells!
:)

Privacy please!

Hello!

today I 'd like to mention a few things about privacy. The most important of them is: I NEED PRIVACY!!! Have you ever felt the need to stay alone in a place for a long time? The desperation for some silence around you? The deep will to think over yourself and your life, to go around naked in the house or listen to extraordinarily loud music? It is normal and human, understandable and in most cases easily found.

My main point over temporary volitional isolation is that during your life thousands and thousands of stimuli pass in front your eyes and you need to process and think on them in order to be able to recognise, categorise and maybe use them in your life. When you are constantly socialising you don't have the time to do this important process in your mind! Socialising is a totally different process that absorbs your energy! So get rid of people! ALL OF THEM!!!

I am just kidding... :P

Well, all I wanted to do today is to dedicate this single tiny post to my great need for isolation. This feeling today is filling my brain all day long. Seems like I need this cold dark breeze of loneliness!

Have a nice day!!
madly yours