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I designed and just added a new subject to my Christmas cards collection and titled it “New opportunities”. Have a look at the full collection and details in the boutique.
Wishing that the new year may bring new opportunities to everyone.
“I love tulips better than any other Spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. Their faint, delicate scent is refinement itself; and is there anything in the world more charming than the sprightly way they hold up their little faces to the sun. I have heard them called bold and flaunting, but to me they seem modest grace itself, only always on the alert to enjoy life as much as they can and not be afraid of looking the sun or anything else above them in the face.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and her German Garden
Here we go. On a Winter Sunday afternoon of the new year 2023, we start sketching and paiting again. Tulips and gerberas are among the preferred floral subjects. Dip the brush in watercolors and then create, leaving light traces of color on the cotton paper. New ideas come in the air and we are here to wish everybody marvellous time filled with art.
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For more details, please check on the webpages. We donate 10% of profits from sales to Unicef to help children of Ukraine. Thank you, everybody and enjoy a good start of the new week!
Can you tell, at Winter time, a bright green terrace with the sky for roof, a cozy place for enjoying gardening, planting new seeds and at-any-time-of-the-day-coffee-pause room, might turn to be a good workplace for developping ideas like a small gym where to train your mind and run your projects?
Enjoy a new February week, everybody☕
The big cup lamp: the cappuccino light for any time of the day.
Would it suit well in the kitchen, next to the coffee machine? What do you think?
Please check in the Ceramics Category, in the Art Studio, for details about this beautiful Big Cup Lamp. Welcome!
In the art studio this morning for a photography session of our beautiful lamps made of high quality white majolica ceramics and a blue ribbon as decoration. All lamps have handmade ironwork as holder and an elegant design.
Please, check for the Ceramics Category in the Art Studio to see more details about these beautiful lamps, their dimensions and prices. As always, we donate 10% of profits from sales to Unicef.
Thank you and enjoy your day.
From my photography archive –
Once I took the chance to photograph a small chocolate delicacy, the one in the picture above and, before making the photography session, I wondered:
Here it is your chocolate praline. Is it inviting for a taste? Why? What is your opinion after having a taste of it?
On this Sunday, I had great time drawing this vibrant bouquet of tulips. Indeed, I can’t have enough of these beautiful flowers, which seem to bring a Spring atmosphere even on these last January days. Thank you and wishing everybody a good new week!
Clairefontaine pastelmat cm35 x cm25 – Soon available in the boutique
In the Studio: Photography in black & white. Light and tulips emerging from darkness, an inspiration for life (cm 40 x cm 30). Please, check in our boutique for details and availability for expeditions. Thank you
It’s gonna be the weekend again. Let’s get pampered with a a good tomato soup. By the way, this drawing of mines, which has a couple of plumpy tomatoes in a basket as subject (cm 35 x cm 25), could be an idea to frame for the kitchen wall. For more details, please check in the boutique. Enjoy the weekend, everybody and stay safe <3
“The only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room […] where we meet the first light of the dewy day, the first breath of the morning air, the first glance of gentle eyes; to which we descend in the very spring and elasticity of mental renovation and bodily energy, in the gathering up of our spirit for the new day, in the flush of our awakening from the darkness and the mystery of faint and inactive dreaming, in the resurrection from our daily grave, in the first tremulous sensation of the beauty of our being, in the most glorious perception of the lightning of our life; there, indeed, our expatiation of spirit, when it meets the pulse of outward sound and joy, the voice of bird and breeze and billow, does demand some power of liberty, some space for its going forth into the morning, some freedom of intercourse with the lovely and limitless energy of creature and creation.”
― John Ruskin, The Poetry Of Architecture: Or, The Architecture Of The Nations Of Europe Considered In Its Association With Natural Scenery And National Character
Enjoy the weekend, everybody! <3
In my sketchbook an elegant urban lamp and its wrought ironed swirls is the subject of my drawing on this Saturday at the end of May. Indeed, these are the days natural light stays with us longer and longer and if you look up to the sky, perhaps you will see also little swallows fly and cheerfully play ring-a-ring-a-roses. Wishing everybody a good Sunday and be safe!
Der Frühling
Die Sonne glänzt, es blühen die Gefilde,
Die Tage kommen blütenreich und milde,
Der Abend blüht hinzu, und helle Tage gehen
Vom Himmel abwärts, wo die Tag entstehen.
Das Jahr erscheint mit seinen Zeiten
Wie eine Pracht, wo Feste sich verbreiten,
Der Menschen Tätigkeit beginnt mit neuem Ziele,
So sind die Zeichen in der Welt, der Wunder viele. Friedrich Hölderlin
Ein gutes Wochenende euch allen <3
“I was for a while troubled with the haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade—the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not know then that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.” ― William Wordsworth
Wishing a good weekend to everybody!
When we build … let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think … that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us! – John Ruskin
A sketch from my visits to Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde museum – Stockholm, to wish everybody a good weekend and enjoy Summer!
Eine Skizze aus meinen Besuchen bei Prinz Eugens Waldemarsudde Museum – Stockholm, um allen ein gutes Wochenende und einen schönen Sommer zu wünschen!
“Die Zeit verlängert sich für alle, die sie zu nutzen verstehen.” Leonardo da Vinci
A fork is expression of the journey that goes from history to art, through gastronomy. So, the object of narration is also means of encounter among cultures, symphonies of sounds and natural light.
Eine Gabel ist Ausdruck der Reise von der Geschichte, über die Gastronomie, bis zur Kunst. So, ist das Objekt der Erzählung auch Mittel der Begegnung aus Kulturen, Sinfonien von Klängen und natürlichem Licht.
On this day, March 8th, women are celebrated all around the world. Indeed, every day of the year is a good day to celebrate women.
An diesem Tag, dem 8. März, werden Frauen auf der ganzen Welt gefeiert. In der Tat ist jeder Tag des Jahres ein guter Tag, um Frauen zu feiern.
March just began and we started the weekend by painting a cute little wise squirrel. He sits peacefully on a log of tree in a field of rapeseed. Indeed, even though he looks in a relaxed mood for enjoying the weekend, he seems very interested in the subject of his reading. Very inspiring, isn’t he? <3
Anemone Flower Print is ready for the order. The wooden frame and shades of colors we chose match Anemone flower print. The subject is a lovely choice to decor a wall space in your living room.
For more details, please check for Anemone Flower Print among the products in Photography & Prints category in the boutique. Thank you!
We started this morning with a warm espresso coffee. Then, it was the turn for painting a small decor to welcome February, the new month, and to light up the new weekend!
Wir haben heute Morgen mit einem heißen Espresso begonnen. Dann war es Zeit für ein kleines Dekor, um den Februar, den neuen Monat, zu begrüßen und das neue Wochenende zu erleuchten!
Christmas is in the air and we are thinking about welcoming family and friends in our homes, around the table, enjoying soft atmospheres, pleasant conversations and delicious food. At this proper, have you alreday thought about particular table decorations for the special occasion? Any detail can work to make a great success of your dinner or lunch with your guests.
Nature is always a fantastic source of inspiration and few, genuine elements can decor the table with simplicity and elegance. During this third Advent, I enjoyed carving hearts of different sizes from pulpy red peppers. It took me only few minutes. Then, I made little sticks of carrot (about 4 cm each), in order to shape the pistil, and cut round discs of carrot. I used long toothpicks for fixing the hearts of sweet red pepper to a floral foam: a little carrot disc was to secure on the back side of the heart, while the little stick took place on the center of the right side of the heart. Indeed, as the work went on, the little hearts of red pepper looked like beautiful flowers of Anthuriums. I finished by adding different shades of green all around the bouquet, a couple of branches of Aquifoliaceae and fixed a candle in the middle of the decoration. I hope you like the floral idea for your Christmas table and you will enjoy trying to make your own bouquet with sweet red peppers.
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