Happy Birthday Daisy!!

 

I love you Daisy!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

 Wishing you all the love and chocolate in the world!!

xoxo
joanna and daisy :)

'' Love or nothing ''

My little muse at it again :)

 

 

    Here's a little peak on what I am working on for my exhibiton this summer. It's a 3D painting with a winged heart that will hang from the little window I created on the painting.
    I finally came up with the title and wrote my artist statement last night. I've been wracking my brain for weeks now, trying to come up with the title and last night as I was looking through my  work folder, I found this pop art picture of Daisy. Just perfect!!  My work is about all about love and relationships so...
'' Love or Nothing '' it is! Do you like the title?
The following is part of my artist statement.

   ‘’Love or nothing” is about finding happiness and love. Isn’t that what life is all about?! To be able to find our other half…our soul mate?.. but we all know that it isn’t always easy. The journey is sometimes long and bumpy!! Oh those bumps! The journey would be boring and flat without them.  

  Life has to be viewed with humor,  otherwise...

  This is what I want to convey to my viewers. Love or nothing at all!! We won’t compromise, right?! 

   Love is in the air, can you feel it?!
 
Have a great weekend, my friend :))
xoxo

 

Acropolis

Every time I visit the Acropolis, I realise how lucky I am to be living in this city! I am in awe! Living here is not always easy, but walking under the bluest sky I have ever seen and walking on the ancient and traditional streets of Plaka erase every dark shadow on my mind...anything is possible, I tell myself as I walk on these cobblestone streets. I was walking around today with a smile on my face :)

I love the architecture! I had coffee at this beautiful old mansion, turned into a cafe and didn't realise until after I had left that it was the same place the Maris Callas had taken singing lessons!! I must go back and take pictures for you to see!  The outside was so ordinary...until I went inside through a small yard..downstairs through a wine cellar, to the ladies room. The whole stairway leading to the cellar was soooo dramatic as the opera singer herself.  Candles were placed on the stone stairway. creepy but dramatic. I will go back to take pictures.

 

As I was walking, I fell upon the cutest little shop that makes puppets. Shadow puppets are big here in Greece and Karagiozi (on the left side) is the most famous character in Greek folklore. He originates from Asia Minor and came to Greece in the 19th century.
Have a great week!!
xoxo

row your boat..

Well the bathroom doors at the Boogie Bar are all done and finished and what fun that was!! So now the plan is to start getting ready for my upcoming exhibition, which will be this summer in Sifnos. I don't have a theme or title yet but I keep envisioning fishies everywhere.. Lol
I have been working in my journal to help ease into the swing of things...so we'll see where that leads to.

Meanwhile...I'm keeping to my strict plan of painting during the day and animation at night...sooo I want to share my latest animation. I'm learning how to make blinking eyes and mouth movement. I need a lot of work in lip syncing...that's hard! but I'm determined to make it right. One of the fun things in animation is that when you design characters, you have to add a bone skeleton so they can move! so after I'm done drawing the little people I add bones to them!! hahaha

Boogie Bar

I've been commissioned to paint my characters on the bathroom doors, at Boogie Bar, a new place that opened a few weeks ago, here in Athens. Its my first commission for the New Year and I'm pretty psyched, since I've never done anything like this before :)

Blondie will be for the girls bathroom and Yellow for the boys. I was there yesterday painting and already they were getting a lot of attention from the customers, which made me extra happy!

xoxo

back in the groove

No more excuses, the holidays are over..and it's time to focus, right? It always takes me a while to get back into the swing of the things, after Christmas.. Are you the same?! lol  I'd feel much better if I had some company in this! hahaha    This time a had the excuse of running around like a crazy person to fill out last minute orders, so I guess a much needed rest was in order.

But it's back in the groove now :)  and to get back in the flow of things, I took out my very neglected journal and finally finished the last four pages! whew! so now I need to start a brand new one, and I'm glad it will be with the new year :)
I need to make a confession at this point...cough, cough, I have been having a secret affair with... animation...during the holidays..(plz don't tell my journal)  But everything is under control. I promise.
I've made a strict schedule for myself. Paint during the day and animation at night. That way everybody is happy!! right?!
Just to let you know, I've missed you my friend!! Hope you are well and smiling :)

xoxo