Reversible Sea bag

Hi friends!
do you remember my sea project? i took some recycled fabrics, which suggested me the many moods of the sea, to make this enjoyable bag...

Of course the fabrics with an own story make me think about the waves, each one has a story as well....
This project took me quite a lot, mostly to find the right scraps and combine the lines, but i'm very proud of it now!

The tote came from the book Style stitches, an Amy Butler's work edited by Chronicles books. I made some changes to adapt it to my needs of course.

I really like that book.... you can find it here

This bag is a gift from a sailor girl..

Here spring is going on ,  these days we had Irish weather, showers and intense glimpses of sun, colours at their best intensity...i love this season, when it's still a bit chilly outside, in the night, and you can breeze real fresh air... the river is nearly in his full amount, and i'm happy for the earth.
You know, after the Great Snow, we had so hot days that the white treasure went away in the air before to have the chance to nourish the soil, and the past week - before the rain started- we already where in drought alert.
Well, this is a pic from yesterday morning walk

Have a nice day you all!!

The Butterfly Circus

Friendship cloth 1

This project was born by the online class " Whispering hearts", about which i spoke few posts ago.
And then i think became something else.

I saw how many hours is possible to spent on a few cm of work... and i decided to give this energy to a bigger aim.

As we are different colours of the same Light, so we can have different personalities and can, of course, happen that they sounds very different each other.

I decided to work on this, giving my time and creative energy to build a rainbow of friendness toward a person quite distant from me... creating an astral union, so that it will reveal its sunray in the matter.

That was my aim.

And i think it worked.

Yesterday i delivered this cloth to S, and i could see how the difficulties to interact with this being, were mostly in my mind, and in my fear and not acceptance of the different.

Dear friends, this very long 3-weeks workshop was very usefull for me...and hand sewing is also a very good zen practise, too.

I share with you even a song which i received from an Italian friend which sings beautifully...it's a R. Tagore song, in the first part it's spoke in Italian with english undertext..

Have a wonderful thursday, folks!

Whispering Hearts

Hi friends!

here i'm again...snow is continuing to fall, this time it reveals us the show together with the wind, which blows it from upside down and let it make a real dance...

this morning i simply let it fall..i've not the duty of office, and so... i just look at the show as it is: a wonder of God!  ^_^

I share with you the evolution of the first week of work about "Whispering Hearts", an on line class i took with the Master of crazy stitching art, Jude Hill.

This for me is a complete new thing, so i enjoy it without thinking too much about the final point it will lead me at.. anyway, my aim is always to can combine my love for painting and for fabrics..it will happen one day...because who seeks shall find!

At the moment, this work takes all my free time, i just feel to come to it every time i need art..

i' not painting from a lot ( the real paint, not commissions, that i had a few..), but i  look forward to new inspirations growing underneath like the new spring signs under the earth...or better, under the snow!

I had a few parcel, the day that snow let us breath a bit...

I'm very happy about these... some laces from Sonia Cantè' s blog, she made a so lovely wrapping and i really appreciated my first blogger shopping.

The book " Diapason" , about which i spoke few posts ago, and a new book of Mataji Nirmala Devi, the most beautiful i found until now, it talks about Jesus and His Divine Mother...

And i also wish to share with you today, a new song i felt in love with, of the extremely talented american singer Kari Jobe... 

 

Have a wonderfull week end you all, folk!

Diapason

This is my last discover on children book master pieces...
i found it on Bologna Fair site, as in March will open the Chilndre book fair, and every year they organize many awards.. this work won as the "Opera Prima", that is the first published work of a new illustrator.
Here you'll find the original version, that is Francais, even if i think this book has only images and so....you don't have so much effort to do in translation!
This kind of works, without text, are my favourite as in my opinion are for everybody, in the largest sense of the word, young and adults and every nationality...
In Italy this book has been titled "Concerto per alberi" (concerto for trees) and i also like this choice..

As it is a limited edition (2010) i decided to bought it, and i'm very curious to see it now.

This past week has been a little troubled inside...and i also discovered was a week with a real powerful magnetic storm coming from our Sun... that invest the eteric body of the Earth and, consequently, of every being on it.

Here some images of this present storm.

This storms will help to operate a tranformation towards the Light of the Acquarius Age, or the dawn of Satya Yuga ( about this theme you can find a lot of infos on the book The sacred Science of Shri Yukteswar, the Master of Paramansa Yogananda) , where we are going to.

Related to this, here you can read the 2010 interview to Satya Sai Baba, a very enlighted guru who has lived on this Planet.

This storm should been end around today... my eteric body is a bit happy to be able to have a bit of rest to adjust the changings...

Happy week end!

Feliz Navidad!

Dear Friends,
with this wonderful notes and this image ( my father is the artist and it's our 2011 crib ) i wish for all of you lightful moments, relax, quiet days with your beloved and... mostly this feast is dedicated to the Real Light that everyone of us have inside, and possibly it can shine with Jesus's birth!
Happy new beginning of 2012, a very important year it seems, but in the eternal present every moment is a gift..
i'll leave for some weeks and for sure i'll share with you my new inspirations coming from the trip (that's a surprise...)
 Aloha !

Creativity Stretches

Hi friends!

this week is the first off work...yep!

and i could think about the idea to enlarge my studio taking even the room next to it...that actually is a perfect roof!

Why not?
I like to change and mostly, to see new pieces of land while i' m working!

Well, this space is mostly created for my sewing projects; it's very strange how tables get very easily overwhelmed by things, and call for more space, for other tables where to place new projects and crafts!

^_^

Actually  i have one corner for painting, one for pottery, one for pc and sewing machines, one for everything else + little projects... and this new one, of which mostly i like the idea of projecting a new space full of love and creativity! have you ever seen my studio?

I made new experiments about how to make a fabric hard enough to be painted on, with oil colours.... so i tried many traditional ways...sugar, corn flour starch, vynavil... and maybe i'll find the right one for me!

And my Santa's laboratory is going very good...Elfs are really helpful here!
This is a sewing project, for a gift!

I'm Joy!
This is the daily Mantra!  ^_^
Enjoy your life!

The Book of the Day

The Treehouse (Marije and Ronald Tolman)

Today i suggest you this Illustration Book, it was a wonderful discovery for me!
we could say it's at the mean time a book for a child and for anyone who loves Art.

This could be a nice gift for Christmas.... and moreover, for every kind of language...there are no words at all.

To your heart the translation!

Painting of the Day

Today I share with you a nice painting of Vincent Van Gogh, (Van GOgh Musem, Amsterdam) for me a refreshing spot ..
it remebers me the fresh wind of North,. And absolutely i admire his tecnique, first of all the base colour, always between light blue and violet.
Great Master!

an interesting work about paper

My dear Friends,

today i wish to piont out for you this website which show the work of some French Guys...really interesting in my opinion.

http://www.papieraetres.com/accueil.php



Hope you'll enjoy!

Elf at work

divine identity keeper

how thick this cup is!

coming soon a new painting

works in progress.....    and a faery tale---

have a nice day!

Enlightment

At least i do not take a brush from one and half month... too much stress and rushing here and there.
thare will come the right time again.

this work, was born in a project for USA, but for some reasons i was not happy with the backboard.
then, i received a commission, a very urgent one: less then a week to prepare a painting, a little one, which should go in Sri Lanka, to a very rich business man who has in his house painting from the biggest European painters of nineteenth Century.

ops...i said...and what could i give to this place?
no one of the ideas was ok, and still i had my veins without colour inside... when this little jewel came out to help me.
and so...

it has been realized using oil colours on a thick fabric, and the "lake" has gold leaf on, for someone it seemed to be a carpet with trees instead of treads...
^_^

A stormy birth-breath

Well, the new artistic Era was born in total confusion.

Lots of tasks at work, for the Martial arts school beginning the year, for some translations for interviews and websites for friends... 

I sewed a bit to understand how i could manage to melt this art with the one already i use, but this remained a strange primitive experiment.

Totally normal, i would say, the first day is already a bit stormy.

you don't really understand what is happening.

More, the upcoming fall is creating an Eco to my inner fragility, and combined with daylife stress make me tell:

take  a breath,but  a very deep one.

I started a sewing school, and i hope to surprise you with new inspirations!

enjoy your present!

A new Era

Do you know what happened?


my friend Sara, lent me her electronic sewing machine, able to sew even hard and thick fabrics, so now i 'm experimenting new way of thinking at my work...


enjoy your weekend!

the sensation is to give birth to a new life...

right: contamination

melting, exploring  different arts, media, cultures.
this what springs me out.


:)

a very special gift

It's a real gift to be able to meet great artists, not great just because famous, but for their honour, and the force of the creation...it's very often that they are unknowed and living a very private life.

one of this, is called Sara Finato. I hope to post soon something about her.

She studies mosaic and now experioments painting with glaze acrylic colours, and is making a very interesting research about visual education for small kids in school.

She actually works more in classrooms and is growing there, on the stage.

Sara is one of that person without a time, out from the art-business and  fashion, always projecting, studing, struggling for the dying Academic ambients we have in Italian art schools, and with the strong wish to share discussion about Art and to create a real team of good artists.

A real storm.

Well, one day i was working in studio and she came in happy and smiling with a gift.

A PAINTING

FOR ME!

and more, it was a protrait!

i never received such a gift....

sorry for the bad photo....i was as usual, in a hurry!

Wall painting

Hi Guys!
here some pics of my last work on commission...traditional flowers for a bedroom...enjoy!!

Hannah Nunn, a shining soul

http://www.hannahnunn.blogspot.com/

Here's her blog and you can reach even her site.
I discovered this artist just for case, and i still am in love with the shining atmospheare of her work and soul, so that i wish to share with you all this.
Enjoy!
and...have a nice week :)

Light Your Soul- Solo exhibition

14 may- 30 june 2011 
Villa Verucchio ( Rimini) 
 ITALY

Feltrosa remembers

Hi Friends!

here some pics of the class i did in feltrosa 2011, Gambettola (FC- Italy), a very important workshop and meeting of feltmakers and textil art.

I worked with Rutsuko Sakata (http://www.rutsuko.net/eng/profile.html ) , a great Japanise artist .Above you can see some of her art pieces with flower coming ot and not stiched bu growed out from nuno felt

In this meeting, there was also Nina Demidova, a Russian very sweet yong lady, teaching wraps and dress making. This very colorfull pieces you see in the photo, are so light and fll of shades, that seems born from nature.

And hereMandy Nash, (http://www.mandynash.co.uk/ ) another great designer about felt.

Here a working moment...