May 22 - Goth Day

May 20 - Weights and measures day, Strawberry picking day

May 13 - Frog Jumping Day

This day was inspired by Mark Twain's short story "Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county". You can listen to it here (it's just 14min long)

May 10 - Train Day

Some Russian University students riding on top of the train. The young woman in front of the orange cat is my mom.

May 9 - Lost Sock Memorial Day

April 20 - Easter

April 17 - Bat appreciation day

April 14 - Look up at the sky day

April 15 - Bicycle Day

April 13 - Scrabble Day

April 12 - Happy Birthday Vera!

April 11 - Barbershop Quartet Day

April 10 - Sibling Day

April 8 - Draw a Bird Day

April 7 - Beaver Day and No Housework Day

April 6 - Tartan Day

April 5 - Pillow Fight Day

March 27 - Birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich

March 26 - Go Birding Day

March 25 - Reading Tolkien Day, waffle Day, and Pecan Day

March 24 - Happy Birthday Harry Houdini

March 20 - Extraterrestrial Abductions day

March 19 - Poultry Day

March 18 - Fertility Goddess Day

March 17 - Submarine Day and Saint Patrick's Day

March 14 - Pi Day and Albert Einstein's 135th Birthday

march 13 - Ear Muff Day

March 11 - 1969, Levi Strauss Co. starts selling bell-bottom jeans

March 9 - Panic Day. Drop everything and panic!

March 8 - International Women's Day

Klara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg

March 7 - Georges Perec's Birthday

Georges Perec - a french writer, the author of "Life A User's Manual" (La Vie mode d'emploi) (great book), he was a member of Oulipo (workshop of potential literature) and he wrote a 300 page novel without using letter e. 

march 6 - Michelangelo's Birthday and day when silly putty was introduced

for illustration friday - Voice

this illustration is from my 2014 calendar

main characters from the calendar - grey creature and orange cat have various adventures every day. here they are singing with the pig on march 1st - National Pig Day.

March 5 - Multiple Personality Day

 Zmey Gorynych - Russian dragon with 3 heads

March 4 - 1877, Swan Lake premiered in Moscow

March 3 - I want to make you happy Day

March 2 - Same Old Stuff Day

March 1 - National Pig Day

February 28 - Public Sleeping Day

on the subway!

February 27 - Polar Bear Day

Pretty soon polar bears will need boats to get any food

 a page from my 2013 calendar - everyone knows that polar bears are common mode of transportation in Russia

February 26 - Tell a Fairytale Day

Kurochka Ryaba (Speckled Hen) - Russian Fairytale

and a tiny video:

my old watercolor of speckled hen - now I see, it is not speckled.

February 25 - Renoir's birthday

Luncheon of the Boating Party

February 24 - Birthday of Wilhelm Grimm, the younger one of Grimm brothers

There are characters from 6 Grimm fairytales in this picture - Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Fisherman and His Wife, Rapunzel, and Town Musicians of Bremen

February 23 - Tennis Day

February 22 - Happy Birthday Chopin (and my uncle David)

February 20 - love your pet day

February 19 - National Chocolate Mint Day