Back again

After a long break, while we were really wondering with my sister what we have to say and if we want to say it to the blogosphere, I decided to come back. And keep blogging. I don't know about what, but the truth is that I have big fascinations with several things, deep as philosophy or swallow as clothes and I want to share them. Or I want to create a box of memories that will be pretty enough for other people to see.
Another truth is that I'm changing my mind all the time. So if this is my last post, don't be surprised.:)
For now, my halloween costume:

and another pic

They are not all that nice bcos I took them with my iphone. But can you guess who am I dressed like?

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THE RED QUEEN 

from alice in Wonderland movie!

B/W Sketches!

Hello, hello!
:)

On Friday i am taking exams on a lesson called Electronics. I have been lucky enough to pass the lab of this exam, but the real thing is coming...... ! And during my small break I found the time to post some more sketches I have made. ;) It's nothing really great actually appart from abstract (as always!) lines, circles and motifs compined together, but it feels good making them! And afterwards, it feels good posting them! So, this one was made by me and Angeliki (a.k.a Alice) in a ship. We were travelling to Skopelos for summer vacations and had one mp3 player with us. It was unfair! So we quited listening to music and decided to do sth together:

the second one is a silly happy girl with huge hair :D

Rainbow Sketches

Congrats Alice :)
We are all glad that you found them! So this is wise on behalf of you, making a conclusion after an every day mischance. I will make an effort to expand this thought. First of all, it is true! When you miss something, you do appreciate more it after all. Secondly, when a mischance happens, it is a huge mischance if it happens to you during a bad period, while it is less important during your better days. So, I think that people are like jars that can afford certain capacity of bad feelings! If you are empty of bad feelings, one piece of them will not really mind you. If you are full of them, one little thing can make you burst out into tears! It's like... overdose.

Today, i want to share some sketches I have made during the last weeks. I will dedicate this post to my colourful sketches and later I am going to have a post for my black sketches. So, rainbow sketches are the one that make our mood, that fill our eyes. Rainbow is connected with happy feelings and also, it is connected with pluralism. That means the peaceful co-existence of many, different ideas. It is not surprising that a rainbow flag is the flag of homosexual people. (Rainbow flag) So, this is it: variety, co-existence, tolerance.

So here are my happy sketches:

Half-finished room

It's 00:41 and I have been having my birthday for the last 41 minutes :))
My mood is better I think. Who's responsible? I don't know. Could it be birthday? Could it be the fact that I am leaving in 5 days to visit my sister in Netherlands? Who knows?! It could also be the fact that I have a semi-finished room and that I already started dying my sister's old room. The colour will probably be a bright green. I call it: the toothpaste green! We also have matching curtain and light. I will show it to you as soon as it is finished or at least semi-finished.

And these are some pictures I took of my new room at night with only a small source of light. On the ceiling a part of my drawing is obvious. I haven't still decided the complete shape and colours but it is definitely going to look like a rainbow :). Also, you can see my favourite band's poster: Pink Floyd.And here is half of my sister's curtain. She used to have two pieces of curtain, an orange one and a toothpaste-green one. Sorry angie, I had to split them!!! :D

I will come up with more soon.
Kisses

cOLOURS, CoLOurS, ColOURS!

Υeah!
After two whole years of meditation and wondering processes I ended up findind the colours for my room! I have been dying my room for 4 days, although it is the smallest room of the house. Whether this is a result of my lack of technique or normal I cannot tell. But I can certainly tell you the winning colour:


the colour of the little pot accompanied by the same colour in a brighter tone :)
I call it a strawberry pink and think that it is so representative of hapiness. It is merriful and joyful and I think it is going to affect me in a positive way, hopefully.
The reason I chose this specific pink is because I feel the need to capture all the hapiness I have expreienced in my life (specifically during the last 2 years) and keep it as a precious feedback for some harder days to come. I wanted a message of optimism and so I chose to have a room that will look a lot like a candy :D
I hope this won't affect my appetite! I am not sure of the meaning and the psychological effect of the colour but I think it represents friendship and it's as well energy-giving colour (along with all the "warm colours"), not really relaxing. I guess I 'll dye my sister's room with a "cooler colour" in order to find some peace and relaxation inside my house.

Of course I am going to ask her about the colour!!!!


So, today the third of the four walls was finished by me. One more day without any mistake and hopefully my candy-room will be ready. And I am really bound to show you some pictures!
Referring to colours this is a picture of my very first large laundry.
What do you think about the colours?! What do you think about my assiduity?!

Candy Kisses


ps: a very interesting and fun site: COLOUR LOVERS
:)

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!!!

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!!!

Making summer jewels

Hi again! Since the last post, I returned from work, cleaned up a little my bedroom and then devoted myself to make these 'summer jewels'. The bracelet is going to serve as a 'goodbye gift' to my friend and colleague Vagia, because she is leaving Thessaloniki to continue her studies at a University in Switzerland.

The necklace is for my friend and colleague Xenia. I should have made it long ago though. She waited a lot for it, I hope she won't get disappointed. The beads on the top that seem not joint to the necklace were later joint with silver wires.
Making jewels is like a puzzle, you never know how long is going to take to match all colors, shapes and textures of the beads... And this match is kinda random and magical. Sometimes it's just not going to happen.