Cat's shadow

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     In today's post you will find another graphic which was created thanks to an old photography. A mentioned photo shows my cat which was sitting on the windowsill. That day light was plunging into the interior in pretty magical way.

     I experimented a bit with this photo. The most visible changes are an addition of the primary colours and blurring.

     Below a graphic you will also find haiku I've written in 2017 (its english version I've made a year ago). This poem somehow fits into graphic's theme.

attempt to embrace

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     Yesterday I was searching for an inspiration for backgrounds for the future "the Poetic Graphics". Among all of those old photographies I've found the one from over four years which you could contemplate below.

I've made this photo in November 2016 during a walk.

     Those trees and their branches looked marvellous. Thanks to them a photography resembles a painting with craquelures. 

        It looks so fascinating that I started experimenting with photo in graphic software. To be honest I was a bit surprised by the final effect.

the Poetic Graphics: the Uncertainty

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     Now's the turn for the fifth post concerning a cycle the Poetic Graphics. This time I made a graphic with english version of my ekphrasis based on Frida Kahlo's the Broken Column (and you could familiarise with original version there). During reading her biography, I emphatised with Mexican artist pretty much... And that was the reason why I wrote this poem.

the Poetic Graphics: the Uncertainty, graphic.

Summary of 2020

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It's time for the second summary on this blog. During writing the first one I thought I should take a fresh look on certain matters and remind myself of them. It emerged that it was necessary to understand this year was full of experimenting and searching.

So, let's start!

• This year I published 23 posts and - so far - it's a record! Yay!
• In the end of October I published the 100th post! This little jubilee is also noteworthy.
• I changed a few things in order to improve blog's functioning. For example I shifted a bit blog's visual design. Plus, I've made a division on the right sidebar - I've separated Finished Aims from My Cycles... And I think it was a good move.

At the end of 2020 a female guitarist is playing something calm

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     In the last post in this year there will be one of my aims - a female guitarist. I haven't got a clue at the beginning how should I portray her... Finally playing on the guitar make me aware which pose looks the best (and drawing a guitar was kinda problematic). 

A Guitarist, pencil and oil pastels on a paper, 14,8 x 21 cm.

     During creative process I decided to experiment a bit. I used a pencil for a young guitarist sitting on a wall and oil pastels for background. I thought about the fourth story from anime Mononoke (2007) where the grey world became lively thanks to smelling various scents.

So... That's all.

As a new aim I chose... a portrayal of a Samurai 

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(because this year's One Piece was really awesome, entertaining and inspiring... For me it was one of those rare things that made 2020 quite tolerable)

♪ Yuki Kajiura - Fake wings

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Ok, my dear readers

I wish you a Happy, Calm and Great New Year!

May your dreams come true!

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