Book for Melissa

Dears,

I think it make sense to post it separately.

We know that Melissa’s book is gone to Tim and that she cannot get it back. I hope that everything is ok with Tim and he will answer….

In the meantime I think it will be nice if we start a new moly for Melissa. As I already said, I’m ready to buy and start this book if you guys will participate in the drawing. I already know that Barbara is ok to take part. Can you pls let me know if ok for you? If we all agree on it, I think Melissa should give the theme J

A great day to everyone,

Natalia

Alechinsky is on the way to Slovakia!

I got really interested in Alechinsky's theories and I did some reading about them. There is a book on Google Books which goes into some details about his use of colour, line and text. What I decided to do with my entry was to progress from fairly figurative drawing into more abstract shapes (which often marked his art). All in all, I felt that the metaphor of Lodz, the city once called a Promised Land was not compensated. 

Русалка - Nat's book is nearly ready...

... just waiting for ink to dry, so I can scan it, before sending it along...

Progress Chart

Danica's book, Frida Kahlo theme

My contribution in Danica's book on the Frida Kahlo theme.

I tried a self-portrait, as most of Frida's paintings are self portrait illustrating her sorrows, pains, questions... with greenery around, like she also did in her paintings.
It must be one of the most difficult paintings in my life!! I never did a self-portrait and find it doesn't quite looks like me...

My right hand side is colored, and my left hand side is black and white. It must be because I sometimes feel incomplete. Sometimes, not the whole time, because I am smiling anyway and it doesn't make me feel unhappy. Mostly frustrated or melancholic sometimes, and it questions me. I am 40 now and my biological clock ticked away my possibility of having any children.
From my belly grows a tree of endometriosis. 
Especially the media and community that makes me feel like an incomplete woman because I don't have any children. Women are supposed to have children, don't they?
But I'm a happy woman anyway and there's soooo much to do in this world to make it a nicer place for other people's great children to grow up :-)

Ella's book, My entry

Ella's book, My entry, a photo by 3MW on Flickr.

Here is a not so great photo of my entry in the Brandt book. I used the images from the post below to create a Brandt style gate for the Capitol in the fictional world of Panem (Hunger Games). Marker, Metallic ink & Watercolor pencil.

Brandt - Hunger Games?

Ok. I don't know if the Hunger Games books and movies are a big deal outside of the US....but can someone honestly tell me that you don't see Brandt's influence on the book covers??? Look at the birds. Coincidence? I think I know exactly how I'm going to approach my entry to this moly. May the odds be ever in my favor!