“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me.
The sea.”
― Gary Paulsen, Caught by the Sea

                                         

  pastels play on a Sunday afternoon, feeling inspired as the sun was shining


fine art#art#pastels#drawing#abstract#expressionism

Swimming in the air

Water...
Waves...
Elements...
Nature...
Thoughts...
Emotions...
Feelings...
Movement...
Restlessness...
Incompleteness...
Light...
                                                                                        

Latest work.... possibly to be finished....

Whose back?

Get an unexpected sunny day, a frustrated Sicilian girl leaving in one of the coldest country in Europe and the necessity of making the most out of such a rare occasion..the result is the following..I guess because I am missing home recently, and I have been missing a big part of myself, the creative one; but I knew exactly that this was the opportunity I was waiting for! My boyfriend took me to one of the few beautiful place around Swindon, Stanton Park..it was an unusual picnic, my bag was loaded with paint brushes, oil paints, cloths, and most of all we were carrying around a canvas and an easel! :)
The light, the nature around me played a big part in the making of the painting, even if unfortunately I couldn't finish it on the day ( and it's best, it wasn't supposed to happen that way)
These are the stages:

                                 The Beautiful Park

                                   The canvas and the easel

                                     The raw material

                                               The painter

                                   Work in progress

Then the wait..after two days, of thinking and thinking this is the result..
I forgot that  feeling of satisfaction in throwing paint on the canvas, on myself, on the walls! relief!

                                 
                           Hopefully, I will carry on painting from now on..I have waited far too long!

Have I lost it..or have I lost myself?

It has been a while, maybe too much since I last painted. Normally when I get the need to paint  my hands get restless, the only thing I can compare it to is when you wake up in the middle of the night and you need to drink,  your throat is so dry it feels like you are about to swallow your tongue.

For some strange reason I haven't felt this way in a while; normally when it has happened before it was a sign  that something was wrong in my life, something missing, something that required a change, something that I needed to do but maybe I was too scared of doing.

Lots of things have happened recently, not necessarily good things, I had to cope with things that go completely against my person and my understanding. Maybe is because I had to behave in a way that is not mine that I have being feeling drained, if it makes sense. I thought I transform this feeling into art, as I would have normally done in the past, so I grabbed a canvas yesterday, converted my kitchen counter into a mini work shop and I just started to drop some colour here&there. It felt good, I was excited again..then I don't know what happened, I lost it! The connection between me&the canvas was gone! I felt devastated, it just wasn't working. Like when you think you have found the man of your life but you catch him cheating on you possibly in your bed!  I just lost it..I lost myself.. I felt so bad, so empty..I threw it in the bin, how sad is that?  That made me feel even worse, where am I? I lost it..or I just lost myself? 

Chairs= Love :)

I have been meaning to post my latest work for a while, but unfortunately the winter laziness  has knocked on my door! Luckily my thirst for new projects hasn't stopped though :)


These days the price of things, and furniture in particular is just mad! and to be fair if I can I try to save as much as possible, I go around car boots or just ask the people I know if they have anything they want to get rid of so that I can have it to play with :)
My boyfriend's mum had two unused chairs in the garden that luckily for me she didn't want any more, you won't be surprise  if I tell you how excited I was when my boyfriend asked me if I could be interested in them.
I only worked on one of them, even if I already have the paint and the rest of the tools ready to be used! :)
                                               
             This is the chair as it was given to me:
                                              

 These are the guys that helped me doing the magic :) (as I was telling you I have the tools ready for the making of chair number two, which is going to be violet, excited!)

                                Work in progress

    Mesdames et Messieurs it's with immense pleasure I give you My New  Lovely Chair <3

      A closer look to the details I tried to keep from the original 

Hopefully I will update you with the other chair shortly, Ciao Belli <3

A social network should be a useful mean of communication where people find interesting ideas, keep informed and inspire each other... Luckily for me I came across an amazing Facebook page where people can donate for free things no longer needed or simply try to get some money out of bits and bobs around their houses... So yesterday, while at work bored as hell!, I saw this amazing bar stool for sale for only £8! I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH IT! I could already portrait that beauty in my lounge behind my counter with the other two babies of mine! ( my other two bar stools!) There was only a problem! Not driving in this country yet, I didn't know how to collect it! The only option was to get the bus to seller's place, try to fit the stool in the bus and walk back home! ?!?!!??! The seller, a lovely girl, offered to deliver it to my house for only £2 more, when she offered that I could hear the bells ringing :D 

Now, when I said I could already picture that beauty in my lounge I forgot to mention a little detail! Of course I had to make some changes.. So after a bit of sand paper process, instead of going for white which has been my recent choice of hue, I opted for a lovely and bright Duck Egg shade... Ladies & Gentlemen is with immense pride that I give you Mr Bar Stool :)

My New Passion Part#2

I just can't stay still, it is a matter of fact! I wanted a coffee table but I didn't really have a clear idea on what I wanted. My favourite shops are Charity Shops or Second Hands Shops in general. Sunday I went out to buy just few tools but the case (or it was fate ) sent me to this Charity Shop where for £5 I bought an amazing coffee table that under my crazy hands changed completely! This time the ingredients were: strong arms to get the table from town centre to my house!, lots of Love, passion for what you like to do, believing in yourself (ALWAYS!) and voila a Shabby (lovely) Chic coffee table... I am so proud of it :)






                                               Before

   Work in progress

                                   

And Ladies and Gentlemen...