Sunday, June 19, 2011

Verona

Roman arena

 Piazza Bra

 Inside the Roman arena


 Piazza Erbe




 Gelato!

House of Juliet ("no documentation has been discovered to prove the truth of the legend, no documentation has disproved it either" - from the information brochure)


 all the love messages on the outside wall of Juliet's house

Our traditional italian dinner




Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Milan

Duomo di Milano

 In the piazza in front of Duomo. what is it?
 One needs a lot of strenuous training to explore Italy.
 View from the roof of Duomo.

 On the roof of Duomo.


 Dinner. It was delicious.
We can always find some Roman ruins in Italy.
 I hope you recognize these people.


 Science and technology museum.








 Three random people and italian police horses. Note those stylish blue hats. 
 castello sforzesco

 Nina's shirt + graffiti

Monday, June 6, 2011

weekend

              N's weekend plan 


H's ice cream recipe 

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

2 more chairs


2 more chairs, originally uploaded by agpolaris.

In some sort of parallel universe I play with birds and cats and sometimes knit peacefully.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

apples and oranges


apples and oranges, originally uploaded by agpolaris.

I was trying to be clever here - apples and oranges and ... wait for it - dog and cat, wait, wait - white and black! I had this idea for a while now - to do a series based on food phrases - "meat and potatoes", "wake up and smell the coffee", "forbidden fruit", "go bananas", etc. maybe i will also brunch out into animal phrases :) "hot dog", anyone?

riding a white bunny in the winter

Another painting on brown paper. First I painted it with a watered down acrylic paint - it became very wavy, had to iron it after it was dry. For the drawing/painting i used acrylic paints - face, hair, dress, butterflies; white marker, black prismacolor marker. I love using white marker on dark paper, there is something magical in how the shape emerges from the background, the reverse of it - putting dark background around the light shape does not feel the same. i wonder why.

Playing around


blue, brown, and orange, originally uploaded by agpolaris.
Experimenting some more - with brown paper. It is a construction paper from home depot, I think it is usually used as floor covering when walls are being painted. It absorbs paint very quickly, everything is dry in seconds.
As for the subject - I always liked nests and eggs - especially eggs I have many sketches with eggs and chickens in it, should do something with them soon.