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So, today I'm coming to You with a collage card I've made in Canva.
Once I was experimenting (and I'm still doing that) in this programme.
Below you can see the net result of my experiments.
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| complicated thoughts, graphic. |
It looks quite surreal. I called this card with a floral motive complicated thoughts.
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Here comes the 21st comic strip from the series the Four Seasons in Four Frames (in short: 4 in 4).
This time the main character of the story is Autumn.
PLOT:
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere Autumn is taking a stroll,
and suddenly she notices that leaves are falling off of her dress.
As always you will find the translation of bubbles below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
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Honestly I've never got a chance to create something on a circular medium.
And I was really curious how will I deal with that.
So it became my aim - a tondo. Tondo is a term for a work of art created on a circular medium.
And today's the chance to show how I dealt with this chalenge.
I was wondering a bit about what I want to draw, or paint on a circular paper. I came up with an idea of a romance between an acrylic paint and a black pen. It's not the first time I'm doing this kind of experiment (previous works: lost in the dream, At first sight?).
Below you can see the net result of my work.
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Once in 2019 I created a poem about butterflies inspired by certain article. Mentioned article concerned the morpho butterflies. The original title is motyle metamorfozy.
Here you can read a mentioned poem if you're interested.
I thought it would be interesting and challenging to translate this poem. Obviously, I prepared a special background, so it would become a part of the Poetic Graphics series.
Hope you'll find it entertaining.
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So, here comes the new work from the series Wild Fantasy which was developing for a quite long amount of time. I'm not even sure how long this post will be, it definitely will be pretty long (I hope you won't feel bored during reading this).
Before I get stuck in showing the creative process of today's work let me remind You what is Wild Fantasy. This series consists of the black-and-white pictures with colourful accent which were made with pens. All of them happened because of ideas recorded on paper as doodles - ideas showing ladies in outfits with colourful accent with animals, and sometimes with flowers (it depends from the background I chose for the picture - sometimes it's the environment, sometimes it's architecture). So far I've created images with colours like green, blue, red, and violet. Actually, back in 2023 I intended to make a picture with the yellow accent. Due to the certain circumstances, I've reached a conclusion that it would be better to realise a picture with violet accent first, and save the yellow one for later.
So now, let's start the long story about the Wild Fantasy with yellow accent.
Enjoy!
This doodle was the starting point. Here you see long-haired lady with white top, and a full-length skirt with spiral ornament. This skirt was supposed to be yellow. As for spiral ornament - it's supposed to be Klimt's reference. I imagined this particular figure surrounded by an environment in the style of Art Nouveau.
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Back in 2014 I travelled to Tatra mountains in order to see Morskie Oko. The beauty of the lake was mesmerising, and this journey inspired me to wrote a poem Poszukiwacz skarbu. Here you can read an original poem if you are interested.
It's really old poem. Recently I thought it would be a good idea to translate poem, prepare a special background for it, and made it a part of the series the Poetic Graphics.
Hope You will find it enjoyable.
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| the Poetic Graphics: the Treasure Seeker, graphic. |
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So, it's time for the 20th comic strip from the series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames", which is also known as 4 in 4. There are 2 protagonists of this short story - Summer and Autumn.
PLOT:
Under the maple tree Summer and Autumn met in order to perform a certain ritual.
As always the translation of bubbles is below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
FIRST FRAME
Autumn: ... So, there is just us - Spring is sleeping, Winter's exhausted because of the heat.
Summer: In sum, I'm not surprised about it.
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Lately I was working on a drawing showing two sitting ladies leaning against their backs. I felt an urge to draw them because of a certain photo which I found in thin book with aphorisms (there are quotes like "Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study." by sir Francis Bacon).
In the upper part of this photo you can notice a photo in the mentioned book. When I looked at this photo I thought it would be fun to create a picture with two figures sitting like that. But show them in a different way, in a dreamy setting.
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Occasionally, I find a strange pleasure in taking photos of trees. There's something fascinating in staring at complex trees' branches as they try to reach the sky. It's a usual thing for me to experiment a little with these photos in graphic software.
This is why this post came into being - I've created another surreal graphic based on a photo which you can see below.
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| I took this photo during the stroll in January 2024. |
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Today I would like to share a new work with You. The idea of woman wearing yukata and holding a fan appeared in my mind. Honestly, it is quite possible that hot summer days have something to do with her holding this fan.
Uchiwa was a model of a fan for this drawing. Uchiwa is a handheld, traditional type of Japanese fan which has a form resembling a paddle. This coolish accessory is usually decorated with various patterns. So I designed a pattern with a ginger cat in the fan's centre, surrounded by forget-me-nots on the blue background.
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Work called roses which you can see below was prepared with intention of using it as a background for get-well card for someone.
The net result I obtained made me think about roses so that's the genesis of this work's title.
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| roses, graphic. |
A story about this abstract graphic could've ended in this moment.
Then I felt a sudden urge to experiment with roses.
And I got carried away with experimentation.
HELLO!
Here comes the 19th comic strip from the series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames", which could be also known as 4 in 4.
This time the protagonist is Spring.
PLOT:
Sudden change of weather, and one may wonder what Spring has to do with it...
As always translation of bubbles you will find below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
SECOND FRAME
STRIP: In this moment
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Lately I wanted to practise drawing an architecture. This exercise would be helpful when I'll be doing a Cityscape (one of my 3 aims). So I was searching through various photographies on postcards, or in the books. And I found an inspiring one. It was a photo showing Curia Julia (Latin: Curia Iulia) in the Roman Forum which comes from the book about past and present Rome (the polish edition of R. A. Staccioli's book).
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| Forum Romanum, Curia Julia's building. Source of photo: R. A. Staccioli, Rzym kiedyś i dzisiaj z rekonstrukcjami, Rzym 2008, s. 23. |
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Back in the 2023 I made a photo of a barberry, and immediately took a liking to it.
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| I took a photo of this barberry at the beginning of March, 2023. |
The reason I'm writing about this photo is creation of a graphic from a cropped fragment of this picture (a photo's centre). Then I started to play with it in graphic software. I wanted to create a completely new graphic. After flipping, combining copies of a photo, et cetera I obtained this effect.
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Here comes the 18th comic strip from series "the Four Seasons in Four Frames" (in short: 4 in 4).
This time the protagonist is Winter.
PLOT:
Winter is staring thoughtfully at an apple but suddenly a mysterious, shaggy creature disturbs her serenity...
As always - translation of bubbles is available below the comic strip.
ENJOY!
HELLO!
Welcome back mermaids! It's been so long.
The last one work with mermaids I've published here was blue mermaid. Amazingly enough, there's a similarity between blue mermaid and Mermaid's charm (that's how I called new mermaid art). The posture of mermaids is alike.
This is Mermaid's charm.
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| Mermaid's charm, watercolour crayons on a watercolour paper, 14,8 x 21 cm. |
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In previous year I made lost in the dream. This work was different because I used acrylic paints for the first time. Additionally I used black pens in order to draw on a painted cardboard. I found this experiment so entertaining that I made another work in similar manner.
You can look at this work below.
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| At first sight?, acrylic paints and black pen on a cardboard, 13,4 x 19 cm. |
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So, the whole idea for today's work appeared in my mind as an image of mysterious woman holding a flower. But which flower should I portray? That's a question. At first it was a bit difficult riddle but then I made a selection, and chose iris.
In quite unexpected conclusion an image of Iris, goddess from Greek mythology emerged.
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| The doodle I made in order to record my vision. |
I drew a design on A3 paper.
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New year has come. It brought us all not only an additional day but also a hope for a better future.
It's time to summarise my activity on the a-r-tistic blog in 2023.
So, let's begin!
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| Summary 2023, graphic. This graphic shows fragments of works I've made in 2023. |
