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IF: Prepare

2012-01-18T16:04:00.004+01:00

For this week Illustration Friday topic"Prepare" I did a couple of sketches for a simple recipe with bananas that I'd like to send to They draw and cook:)Hope to finish it for the end of the week:)

IF: Highlight

2012-01-05T15:30:00.004+01:00

I couldn't find something for this week Illustration Friday topic "Highlight",then while sketching this little fox arrived.Don't know why he decided to put his television under the highlight but this is what he did.It's like a little storyboard so maybe one day you'll find an animation with him:) Wishing all of you a Happy 2012

Transformers Ark

2012-01-05T11:12:00.003+01:00

Escape from Cybertron imagined by my boyfriend Andrea

MERRY XMAS 2011

2011-12-23T10:13:00.002+01:00

We'd like to wish you all a

MERRY XMAS

and a

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Drawing...drawing

2011-12-19T16:44:00.004+01:00

Finally after months I menage to finish an old pencil:)Last friday I had some hours free and finished A Xmas card pencil and also the pencils of "Stripes"done for Illustration Frday:)Tomorrow I'll color this card and in the next days I'll show you also the Stripes illos:)

IF: Stripes

2011-11-11T12:54:00.004+01:00

Only a quick sketch for Illustration Friday of this week,hope to colour in the next days.While waiting for my boyfriend I thought that there is nothing better that having our best friend with us(even if is a zebra) and our preferred striped pajamas:)

Children's book rally

2011-10-22T15:39:00.004+02:00

This is a sneak peak of "Toofs" for Illustration Rally ,if you want to see it entirely click here :)

Illustrated by us and written by Jennifer and Estelle Poulter

Daredevil & Hulk

2011-08-02T18:39:00.004+02:00

Andea draw this for two friends of us,she loves hulk and her husband loves daredevil.So for their wedding a little fanart for them:)

Friends Wedding

2011-07-05T18:34:00.004+02:00

The 25th of June our best friends

Alessandra and Cristian finally got

married.The wedding was wonderful

and they were fabulous.

We wish them a great life together:)

Big Surprise!

2011-05-26T15:54:00.007+02:00

Today when I came back home I found a big surprise

in my mail box.My dear friend Monica sent for my

birthday this wonderful postcard of his town and

best of all this birthday card and bookmark drawn by her.

Her illustrations are sweet and colorful so visit

her here

THANKS MONICA

IF: Dusty colored

2011-04-20T16:48:00.005+02:00

This week IF topic is Journey.

I didn't menage to draw it but I finished

an old one that I think it can be good.

My little mouse is reading in an old library

and probably he isn't the only one that

travel with imagination while reading.

I want to wish all of you

HAPPY EASTER

IF: Duet

2011-04-07T20:14:00.010+02:00

On Monday I tought to have a lot of time

to do the IF illo "Duet" but today I realized

that the week is almost finished and time run

away.This isn't so good for the Duet topic,

but while sketching I had to draw this

lovely boy with a strange hat with one cat,

no with two cats as you may see.....:)

I hope:)I have to decide to optimize

better my time to do what I like the

most....drawing!

Roma Comics

2011-03-16T11:12:00.003+01:00

At the end of this week in Rome will be

a comics convention,I'll be there with

my boyfriend,hope to find new comics

and to make photos.

IF: Layer

2011-02-24T19:38:00.004+01:00

This week also I menaged to do only a quick rough:)

I absolutely have to find a way to finish all these

roughs,but it seems time is getting away and I

don't menage to stop it:(

Ayway here is my idea for IF topic"layer"

I found out that it means also hen that do a lot of

eggs,so I thought about one that is on the top of

a egg's mountain that will be used by the

Easter bunnies.....one last thing,the little

hen is also knitting....well is quite

annoying to do eggs all day:)

IF: Sweater

2011-02-16T15:35:00.002+01:00

This is a collage from my moleskine,I was on

a bus and waiting to come back home. I did

some sketches for this week Illustration Friday

"Sweater"In this period is Carnival here and

you can see a lot of children masked,but is also

quite cold so they have to wear sweaters on

their carnival costumes:)

Some are happy and think only to play with

confetti then others as the little

girl on the right are sad,she can't show her

fairy costume.

Then I draw my cat,

he loves to sleep inside my sweaters:)

IF: Dusty

2011-01-26T16:36:00.003+01:00

This is my first 2011 post,I menaged to do

only a rough but happy to post on IF.

This week topic is "Dusty",as you can see

my little friend is a bookworm/bookmouse:)

probably you'll say : where is the worm?

The funny thing is that when I looked

in the dictionary I found out that in english

is a worm and but in Italy we use mouse:)

One last news is that I have a gallery in a nice

free site ,if interested click here.

If: Mail

2010-12-23T16:09:00.004+01:00

This is a fast rough for Illustration friday"Mail"

the little mice are finishing the last Xmas mails

to send to all their friends and with them

me and my boyfriend Andrea want to wish you all a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

full of joy and peace:)

Immovable colored

2010-11-17T16:13:00.005+01:00

This was for IF Immovable,I finished the color version

only today,hope you like it:)

Lucca comics 2010

2010-11-06T14:31:00.009+01:00

Lucca Comics and Games, full of people and artists

Here you can see one of the best fantasy illustrator

"Ciruelo"in his stand:)

And people,people and a lot of cosplayers:)

Dream Chaser's Magazine cover

2010-10-28T18:43:00.004+02:00

Wonderful news:) This morning we received

the link to Dream Chaser's Magazine with our

illustration cover ,if you want to see the

magazine preview click here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/125246

Then this is our 100th post,so happy birthday to our

blog :)

And the last news is that tomorrow for four days

we'll be in Lucca for the comics and games convention:)

I'm totally out of mind,I can't wait tomorrow morning:)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all:)

Spooky coloured

2010-10-22T20:00:00.004+02:00

Thanks for all the comments,

this is the colored version,

watercolors and some photoshop.

I'm not totally happy with waterolors,

but hope you like it:)

Happy Halloween to all

Spooky 2

2010-10-18T16:36:00.003+02:00

This is another idea for spooky,even if it

isn't so spooky,but I liked the idea about

cats coming out from a book.Only a rough

for the moment:)

IF: Spooky

2010-10-18T16:23:00.006+02:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is Spooky,

this is the first thing I thought,probably you'll

say..."I don't see spooky situation:)"but...what about

the poor pumpkin head make up?I think next time

he'll be scared by this lovely little girl:)

In the next days I'll color it:)

I'm on TWITTER now!

2010-10-13T18:29:00.002+02:00

A friend of mine said: Finally you are on Twitter!

So here I am and if you want to Tweet with me

you can follow me here:

http://twitter.com/#!/Theartofpuro

Save the animals

2010-09-30T18:22:00.005+02:00

This morning I read that the time to send

illustrations for Ripple is finished,but I wanted

to load this illo that was in my moleskine.

To remember that there is no ending time

to love them and protect them.

IF: Immovable

2010-09-01T19:39:00.004+02:00

I can't belive it,finally I menaged to draw

something new,hope to finish it for the end

of the week.This is for the IF word

"Immovable",don't know all of you but

I'm sure that if you ever had a dog,he was

immovable when it was time to go to the vet.

August news

2010-08-18T12:45:00.002+02:00

Hi everyone,we had a full August,we had to

paint our house and my boyfriend's

parents moved to a new house,so we've been so

busy that only now I found the time to write

again in the blog.

We have a good news and a sad one:(

The sad one is that our book "Toofs" won't

be realised at the end of August but a little later,

so thanks to all the people that commented on it,

hope to give you soon the new date.

The good news is that there is an article

about us with some images on september

Dreamchasersmagazine by Sarah Bash-Gleason.

If you want to see a preview click here:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/104997

News about children's book "TOOFS"

2010-06-22T12:03:00.004+02:00

Great news about our first children's book"Toofs",

it will be realised for iphone at late August by

Picpocket Books.If you want to know more

about the author Jennifer Poulter and see a

preview of the cover you can read the interview

that Jennifer had on the blog of Susan Whitfield.

To read the interview and see the cover click here:)

Save the animals

2010-06-14T20:47:00.003+02:00

This is in response to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf.

Donated artwork for animals.

To learn more visit Ripple blog

IF: Trail

2010-06-05T14:38:00.003+02:00

This is an old post that I menaged to colour.

Hope you like it:)

IF: Early

2010-05-25T18:09:00.004+02:00

The time going so fast in these days so even if

it's only a quick....:)very quick rough ,I wanted to

parteciate to Illustration Friday.This week topic

is Early,the only thing that came to me was an

italian(maybe not only italian) way of saying

about wake up very early.

We say wake up with the chickens:)

Well, this little girl woke up very early but it

seems that the chickens aren't of the same

opinion:)

Great Surprise

2010-05-19T18:21:00.004+02:00

Yesterday was my birthday,a wonderful day,

but what a surprise when I found that the

postman arrived with this wonderful gift

that I won.Unfortuntely the pictures aren't

very good,but if you visit the blog of

Joanne May you'll find a lot of these wonderful

piece of art and you'll discover a great illustrator

and artist.

THANK YOU JOANNE

Blogger Award

2010-05-14T12:58:00.003+02:00

Finally after more then 2 weeks I menage to

thank Donna Pellegata for this wonderful award:)

She's a great artist ,I reccomend to visit her blog.

Here you can find the blog I have chosen:

Kit Grady
Atelier Brigitte

John

Here are the rules:

But please do not feel obligated to follow the rules

in order to accept the award:)

1 Thank the person who gave this to you

2 Copy the logo and paste it in your blog

3 Link the person nominated you

4 Tell up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and

at least one outrageous truth.

5 Nominate 7 Creative Writers who might funcoming

up with outrageous lies.

6 Post links to the 7 blogs you nominated

7 Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them

know you nominated them.

Marlow & Underworld

2010-04-24T21:08:00.006+02:00

Before uploading these images on our website

here you are a couple of inking try-outs pages

done with Dario Carrasco(penciler).The first image

is for Marlow,the second for Underworld.

IF: Detective

2010-04-21T15:56:00.003+02:00

Another sketch for illustration friday,this week

topic is Detective.Don't know you but when I

was a child I asked myself why I had a navel,

so what better then investagate on it with the

help of a friend:)I have to work more on the

bathroom but I like enough the two characters:)

Today is a wonderful sunny day and I'm finishing

one of the last illustration I did for IF,hope it will

come out well.

If: Linked

2010-04-13T17:34:00.004+02:00

Also this week I hadn't time to finish the

illo for this week topic"linked"but I menaged

to do a rough sketch.Everyone knows that

mom and children have a great link and

sometimes we forget that fathers do the

strangest thing for their children.So I think

it isn't so strange to see a father helping her

little daughter for her first swim.

RENEE AWARD

2010-04-07T12:30:00.003+02:00

I don't know how to thank for this award.I'm so

honored to receive the Renee Award from Brigitte

of Atelier Brigitte , a great artist you must visit:)

The award was created by Ces in honor of Renee,who

is very dear to her and to many people in the blog world

and beyond.Renee has recently passed away,it has touched

so many people,especially Ces and Bella,who new Renee

for such a long time.If you want to know more about

the origin of this award visit this blog-entry

These are only some of the friends I met in the blog world,

I have to choose 7 bloggers so here they are:

Perspective watercolor

2010-03-31T18:06:00.004+02:00

A little late but I menaged to colour the

little girl with her big ice cream.I did it

in watercolor and then a little touch with

photoshop.Not totally happy with the colour,

let me know what you think:)

Fantasy horror festival

2010-03-23T11:02:00.003+01:00

Here a picture of our best friend Fabrizio Spurio

an indie horror movie director and writer(on the right)

coming back from the First

Fatasy Horror Award.

On the left Andrea my boyfriend:)

If: Expired

2010-03-22T21:51:00.002+01:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Expired",

you'll say ,what is it?Well a very fast sketch that

I did last night .It's only a work in progress,

the little girl reading a book about dinosaurs,some

people say that they are expired...What do you think?

I'm not so sure....:)

Sunshine award

2010-03-15T20:35:00.004+01:00

This week I received the Sunshine award

from a great artist Brigitte of AtelierBrigitte

This award stands for all the goods things that

can and will happen in your life, even if you

sometimes have a hard time with your work,

health,family or what so ever.

It is good to know that there are always people

who will stand by your side and help you through the tough times.

Here are the rules for accepting this award:

1.Put the logo on your blog or within your post
2.Pass the award onto at least 12 bloggers, if you wish

3.Link the nominees within your post

4.Let the nominees know they have received this award

by commenting on their blog
5.Share the love and link to the person from whom you

received this award.

So here you are my nominees:

IF: Perspective

2010-02-27T17:13:00.003+01:00

I can't belive it ,I menaged to post something new,

it's only a rough but I needed to draw something

for me.The Illustration Friday word is

Perspective and don't know you but when I was

a child my perspective was different from now.

Everything seemed bigger,and also this little

girl see her ice cream in a different way.

Won't you like to come back to childhood........?

A big hug to everyone

2010-02-09T19:27:00.003+01:00

In this period we didn't post anything new and

we don't know when we'll menage to do it.

We had a lot of works adding new illustrations

to the children book....YES it's not finished yet!!

The author decided to add pictures and do some

corrections and we have to say it's coming better

then before!:)I love it but...............I have to organize

me better, to do more illustrations for myself!

This adorable picture of Calvin and Hobbes

(I'm a fan of them) is for

all of you that say hallo even when we don't post :)

IF: Confined

2010-01-11T12:56:00.002+01:00

First of all I have to apologize,this is an

old illo,but I thought it was good for this week

topic,I always thought at her as confined in a

mystical place.Hope before the end of this week

to upload something more.

2010 a new year begin

2010-01-07T20:52:00.002+01:00

Maybe someone will say,but all the roughs illos

you said you wanted to finish before the year,

what did you do?Well I have to say I've been a

little lazy:)))

But there are two good news,the first one:

WE FINISHED the CHILDREN BOOK

and now we have to wait to see what

will happen and then we are doing some

try-outs to ink a comic book.

At the same time hope from next week

to draw new children illustrations and,

fingers crossed to watercoulors some old illos:)

Thanks for coming to see what we do and thanks

to the people that with their art inspire us!

MERRY XMAS

2009-12-23T12:46:00.003+01:00

We found this wonderful picture on the web,

we thought it was perfect to

Wish everyone a joyful and peaceful

CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR

Music sketch

2009-11-25T17:49:00.003+01:00

First we want to thanks all the people

for the kind words about our book,

We are doing the last corrections on cover

and then we'll need only to write the

text.

So also this week for Illustration Friday

"music" I menaged to upload only a

little rough did it before going to sleep

IF: Unbalanced

2009-11-17T20:53:00.003+01:00

I wanted to colour last week illo,

but we are finally quite at the end of

our children book,only the front and

back cover and lettering and............

Finished!

So we decided to post an old illo, for

IF topic "Unbalanced"....well the guy

in background lost his balance discussing

with a "good"guy....

IF: Blur

2009-11-11T17:44:00.003+01:00

Even if I didn't menage to complete
the illustration,I decided to post
the illo for IF "Blur"It's only a rough
I did this morning.I was thinking
how much blured isthe limit between
reality and imagination for children,
sometimes we should try to remember
how it was,for usbut also for them.

IF: Frozen

2009-10-22T17:40:00.003+02:00

This is an old illustration me and my boyfriend

did years ago but I thought it could be right

for this week IF topic"Frozen"

Normally one think about cold things but

you know these old western movies when

time seems frozen:)

Last news: we are doing the last illos for the book

and (probably we are mad)but we begun doing

comics lessons to teenagers,it will be a great

experience but we are also a little scared....

perfect for Halloween:):):):)

"Toofs" Sneak Peak

2009-10-08T14:35:00.004+02:00

Here you are a sneak peak about our book"Toofs"

written by Jennifer Poulter.We are doing it

digitally,it's a great experince .

Will his big brother

survive the little one that is testing his new teeth?

A book about teeth and relationship

IF: Germs

2009-10-07T16:12:00.002+02:00

Also this week I menaged to do only a rough for

Illustration Friday topic.

When I think about germs I think about flu and

all these days reading a good book,a flavoured

cup of chocolate ,my lovely cat and a lot of

handkerchiefs.At the end germs aren't so bad!

I'd like to thanks all friends that did comments

and a patiently waiting my pencils coloured

but me and Andrea we are trying to finish

the book .

IF: Pattern

2009-09-30T17:08:00.004+02:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Pattern"

I have to say that the idea arrived thanks to a friend

of mine ,mother of a little girl that last week told

me about her little one that decided to colour with

pastels the wall of her room,so I figured her doing

the same thing but with her little hands.

The dog wasn't in the story but I like how

children and pets normally interact.

IF: Infinite #1

2009-09-22T17:24:00.004+02:00

This morning I received a postcard from

Infinite Space ,but how will they menage

to come back ?The spaceship for some

reason became too little for them:)

This illo is from my boyfriend Andrea

that have the idea for this week

Illustration Friday topic.

IF : Welcome

2009-09-16T17:45:00.002+02:00

Here I am ,finally I menaged to do a new

illo for Ilustration Friday "Welcome"

Sometimes we wait for something far

from us instead of looking around us.

Hope to colour it in these days,I say hope

because I'm uploading this image from

a friend's computer because ...............

Lucky me.....my monitor decided to die

yesterday :) :)

I'M BACK

2009-09-11T18:51:00.002+02:00

Here I am,finally I menaged to write again

in the blog,I've been a bad blogger in these

months.I'm not very good in writing but

First of all I want to thank

Joanne May for an award given to me

2 months ago and

AtelierBrigitte for another award 1 month ago

"Thanks and sorry for not answering you before"

Sharing-Books.com :published!

2009-08-07T17:50:00.006+02:00

Before the loss of our dog this was the good news we wanted to

share with all of you

Thanks to Jennifer Poulter that sent one of his wonderful poems

" Cat_Factorium" we had the possibility to publish on

sharing-books.com an illustration did for the poem.

Go and check it if you have time!

Goodbye Blacky

2009-08-03T12:16:00.004+02:00

This week I wanted to come back to my blog

with good news,but this morning Blacky

our dog passed away.He lived with us an

year and a half after we found him in the country.

He was old , had problems for walking and he was

without an eye but he menaged to give love to

all of us and we tried to give him a house and

all our love.

This is a message for everyone:

DON'T ABANDON and DON'T ABUSE YOUR PETS

Happy Birthday to my blog

2009-06-25T17:13:00.003+02:00

Today is 1 year that I bigun with my boyfriend Andrea

this blog for submitting to Illustration Friday.

I have to thank everyone that commented to

our illustrations in this year,a lot of things

happened (a writer called us for a children book)

but the best thing is that we met a lot of new friends

So without your support nothing could happen

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU

Awarded

2009-06-11T12:10:00.005+02:00

A great thank to Joanne May for giving me this award,

she is a fantastic artist and if you like fairy and celtic arts

you have to visit her blog.

Here are few rules if you accept the award

Feel free to deliver this award to eight other people

(or as many bloggers you would like) and include the

following text with the award on your site.

" These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends.

They are not interested in self aggrandizement.

Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut,

even more friendship are propagated.

Please give more attention to these writers."

Here are my blogs choise:

3 Faruffa

IF: Craving

2009-06-09T15:31:00.003+02:00

Also this week the only thing I menage to do is

a rough for Illustration Friday topic "Craving"

We are working hard in these days for the

children book we are doing and so this is what

I can do for the moment,but once the book

will be finished I'll colour all the illustrations ,

it's a promise for all the friends that so kindly

do comments in this blog,they are a great

support for my works.

Now talking about the new illo,I thought which is

the most craving thing for a children...

growing isn't it?

Finally published :Night of the crabs cover

2009-06-05T19:07:00.004+02:00

This week been full of work and the only

thing I can do is give this wonderful news

for me and my boyfriend.

Finally the book cover "Night of the crabs"by Guy N.Smith

that we did for Ghostwriter Publications

is published,we are so excited :)

IF: Cracked

2009-05-28T19:51:00.003+02:00

I'm late,I'm late ,I'm late....:)

As always I'm late for Illustration Friday

and for visiting my friends blogs.

This week topic is Cracked and yestarday ,waiting

for a job appointment I did this rough on a

piece of paper.I was thinking about the word and

I thought that when I was a little child I asked myself

what the little insects do when they disappear in the walls.

So this illo came out ,hoping to finish it in these days

IF:Contagious

2009-05-20T22:02:00.003+02:00

This week Illustration friday topic is"Contagious"

I did this simple illustration for a t-shirt and

thought it was a good idea for the topic.

Sleeping in these warm days is contagious

and is one of the thing I love the best.

Parade in colour

2009-05-19T18:12:00.004+02:00

Yestarday was my birthday,hurray for me :)

my first 40 years old... so as a gift to

everybody I decided to colour the illustration

I did last week for Illustration Friday.

Hope you like it.

IF: Parade

2009-05-12T13:27:00.004+02:00

Here I am again after a difficult time of my life,

my grandmother died after Ester ,now quite a month

passed and I begin again doing all the things I left

and so I finally menaged to do a new rough for

Illustration Friday(hope to colur it before friday)

and again at work on Jennifer Poulter children book.

This week Ilustration Friday topic is "Parade"

HAPPY EASTER

2009-04-10T13:55:00.003+02:00

This week we had some family problems

but now Easter arrived and it seems everything

is going better,so we want to wish everyone a

HAPPY EASTER

IF: Poise

2009-03-30T17:56:00.005+02:00

This week illustration friday topic is Poise

I did this illo last week during a moment of

relax and when I saw this week topic I thought

it could be quite good.When I did it I was thinking

about something I saw when I was little,I was on

holiday in a country house and one morning I saw

a little mouse drinking milk from his tail after he

had put it in a milk bottle.It was so cute.

Thanks to everyone for the nice words last week,

I'll try soon as possible to colour all the roughs I did

IF: Subtract

2009-03-25T16:36:00.002+01:00

Finally here I am again,maybe not 100%

but anyway I menaged to do a rough for

this week Illustration Friday topic"Subtract"

Well probably there isn't need to explain it

but I love to see children playing with

animals and in this case who is trying to

subtract the ball......?

IF: Breezy

2009-03-02T17:21:00.003+01:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is Breezy,

what is better then sleeping in the breezy night

one near the other waiting for the morning light

as these two bears.

Finally out of bed!

2009-02-25T20:26:00.003+01:00

Finally after a week of fever I'm out of bed,but

I have to say that I fell like the cat in the image.

Unfortunately I did't have the force to do no

illustrations but the positive part was that

everyone was at my service...:) and I could

sleep how much wanted:)

But now at work again

Thanks for the award

2009-02-10T15:05:00.004+01:00

So many thanks to Faruffa for the award,

a great and talented artist,if you don't

know her you must visit her blog full

of imagination and an amazing view of life

Here there are 7 things I love:

1. all kind of sweets

2.reading before going to sleep

3.sleeping

4.drink chocolate when out is cold

5.rainy days (but only if I'm at home)

6.our cat expressions

7.going out with friends

And now the 7 bloggers I pass the award

IF:Time

2009-02-10T14:49:00.004+01:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Time"

What a wonderful word,you noticed that

sometimes you have too much of it and

sometimes it isn't enough.

This week we hadn't time to do a new illo

so we thought to use one I did years ago

for a springtime topic.

Work in progress_Climbing

2009-01-29T16:09:00.001+01:00

Not finished yet,but I menaged to ink it

IF:Climbing

2009-01-27T17:02:00.004+01:00

This week Illustration Friday is: Climbing

"What a joy climbing the mountain to

discover that the old hermit went for the

winter holidays and a storm is arriving!"

Unfortunately last week we didn't manage

to post something and also this week we

weren't sure to menage to do it.

We are working on some characters for

a book written by JR Poulter who asked us to

illustrate one of her poem.

But Andrea decided to do something that we hope

to finish before the end of the week,while I was

sketching some characters.

IF: Contained

2009-01-14T16:13:00.007+01:00

Watercolour
Watercolour and digital

This week Illustration friday topic is "Contained"
I haden't much time to do it but I wanted to do
something in watercolour but when I saw it scanned
I wasnt' very happy with it so I used photoshop on it.
I don't know wich is better,I'll let you decide.
About my interpretation of the word I imagined a little
mouse trying to fish the moon that is contained(this is
what he thinks) in a little lake near his house .

IF: Resolve

2009-01-07T16:11:00.004+01:00

This week Illustration Friday is "Resolve"

The idea is from Andrea that decided to colour my pencils.He imagined our little bear resolving
to come back ,for Xmas,at home after a long journey,
because nothing is comfortable like home

IF:Clandestine

2008-12-31T14:35:00.004+01:00

This week topic is "Clandestine"

This time the illo is from my boyfriend

,he did this years ago,it's old but we

liked the idea of a sailor living on the sea as

citizen of the world

MERRY XMAS

2008-12-24T14:58:00.004+01:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

from Monica and Andrea to everyone

Wishing you joyful holidays and your

hearts full of happiness

IF:Voices

2008-12-23T14:10:00.002+01:00

This will be my last rough for this year,I wasn't sure

to menage to do this week Illustration Friday topic

"Voices",even if I had the time to draw only a rough.

Talking with Andrea we thought to a little mouse

who think that probably somewhere in the galaxy

there is another little mouse trying to hear voices

from out of space .

And thinking about voices we want to wish you all

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a joyful

HAPPY NEW YEAR

IF: Similar

2008-12-09T22:20:00.003+01:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is "Similar"

This week I posted an old and at the same time new

illustration,old because we used old characters and new

because we imagined one of the dragon looking to another

and shouting :We aren't similar!

Award!

2008-12-08T16:24:00.006+01:00

I want to thank Monica for this award she has a great talent

and also a great heart

Here are the rules. The winner may:

1.Put the logo on their blog;

2.Put a link to the person that sent them the award;

3.Nominate 5 blogs for the award.

I'd like to nominate these very talented and creative people and their blogs:

Eugenia Gina

My Place over the hill

I Piccolini

Studio Lolo

Mustang Musings

IF: Balloon colored

2008-12-05T10:02:00.003+01:00

Thanks to all that commented the sketch of

this illustration ,here you are the coloured version

hope you like it

If: Balloon

2008-12-01T18:24:00.004+01:00

This week illustration friday topic is : Balloon

Maybe you'll think is a little strange to see a

dog walking like this,but the idea arrived looking

at my dog.My dog is very old and we found

him last year in the country,hewas without an

eye and he could't walk,now he walks only inside

our home and I'd like to walk with him also out

so my imagination saw him floating in the air.

This is only a sketch,I'm working on the colour version

I Got Tagged Again

2008-12-01T17:29:00.002+01:00

I got tagged again at the end of november by the great artist owener of the fabulous
blog Bobo's Fun Place,twice in a month probably is too much but I'm happy and I think it's also a funny way to kow new blogs and bloggers.

These are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules.
3. Tell six quirky yet boring, unspectacular details about yourself.
4. Tag six other bloggers by linking to them.
5. Go to each person's blog and leave a comment that lets them know they've been tagged.

Now I have to write 6 new thinks about me:
1. My cat sometimes thinks to be a dog(He lived and still living all his life with a dog)
2.I love the mountains
3.One of my preferred writer is Ray Bradbury
4.Me and my boyfriend love to go to everykind of little markets
5.Due to my long black hair some friends call me Pocahontas
6. I love Miyazaki movies

And now lets tag someone else:
Fox in Socks
Vhrsti
Elise's Art Garden
Kathleen Rietz
Thefrogblog
Mustang Musings

If:Opinion coloured

2008-11-27T15:58:00.003+01:00

Don't know how I menaged to colour it but

I found the time to do it in watercolours ,

with a little use of photoshop by my lovely

boyfriend Andrea

If: Opinion

2008-11-24T19:54:00.005+01:00

Also this week I menaged to do only a quick rough

for Illustration Friday topic" Opinion"

Don't know how many people have the same

problem but in these days I noticed that

opinions most of the time are like soap bubbles,

people changes them so faster

I Got Tagged

2008-11-24T18:54:00.006+01:00

I got tagged by the very talented Joanie(Appleheadart)
This is my first time and I'm honored and I couldn't
think about it.I want to thank Joanie,her illustrations
are wonderful and she has a great style.

These are the rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules.
3. Tell six quirky yet boring, unspectacular details about yourself.
4. Tag six other bloggers by linking to them.
5. Go to each person's blog and leave a comment that lets them know they've been tagged.

Details about me:
1.I love reading
2.I'm mad with chocolate
3.Tigger is my favorite characters,I have my and my boyfriend bedroom full of them
4.My feet are always cold
5.I have so many books and comics that I could open a bookshop

And now let's tag people I like their works:

Faruffando
Kathy hare(Moongazing Hare)
I Piccolini
Monica Carnesi
Sketched out
Comic Critters

IF: Pretend

2008-11-19T22:18:00.003+01:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is Pretend

Once there was a little elephant pretending

to be a bird and even if his wings were little

he was happy with his little friends

IF: Wise_coloured

2008-11-13T16:02:00.004+01:00

I menaged to finish to colour it with watercolours

and a little of photoshop

IF: Wise

2008-11-11T16:56:00.003+01:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is :Wise

This week also we are very busy,but we wanted

to partecipate ,so this is a rough for the topic that

I hope to finish before the end of the week.I'm not very

sure the illustration is right for the topic,I thought about

our cat,I belive he's a wise cat because he always seems

to know which is the right thing to do every time.

IF: Repair

2008-10-25T16:31:00.003+02:00

Illustration Friday topic this week is"Repair"

I wanted post something new but time isn't

with me ,and I'm preparing with my boyfriend

work examples for the next week Convention

"Lucca Comics and Games"

This is an old illustration we did for a

RPG Magazine,well,there will be a lot of

things to repair after this explosion.

Happy Halloween to everyone

IF: Late

2008-10-22T17:05:00.004+02:00

This week topic for Illustration Friday is "Late"

and in these days I can say "this is my word"

it seems I'm late in everything.As you can see

this is only a rough that I'll probably finish to

colour next week due to a last minute work.

For the topic I thought to a little cat during

summer nights,he's so motionless that even

fireflies settle on his tail,ears and nose

Illustration Friday :Strings Coloured

2008-10-17T17:33:00.002+02:00

Finally I menaged to colour this week topic

Illustration Friday "Strings"

This time instead of digital colours I decided

to do it in watercolors.I'm not very happy

with the tree,let me know what you think,

all comments are welcome

IF: Strings

2008-10-14T13:14:00.004+02:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is : Strings

My little friend don't like the falling of the

leaves so he thought to find a solution

This is only a rough ,I hope to colour it before

the end of the week

IF: Sugary colours

2008-10-13T14:42:00.002+02:00

Thanks to all that posted a nice comment last

week,I finished to colour it ,hope you like it

IF: Sugary

2008-10-06T16:34:00.004+02:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is " Sugary"

We thought that one of the sugary day of the year

is Halloween and who might think that instead of two

little children masked ,these are two little bears

waiting for sweets

Finally after two weeks we menage to add a new

illustration,we've been ill and we are finishing a work,

but we hope to colour this illo before the end of the week.

IF:Island

2008-09-16T14:56:00.004+02:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is Island

As you can see it's only a quick rough,unfortunately

this week we are busy with a work but we wanted to

partecipate to IF anyway.This week we had here one

of the first rainy days and the streets were full of water,

so we thought to a little girl using a piece of soil as a

safe island

IF: Clutter

2008-09-09T19:37:00.002+02:00

This week topic for Illustration Friday is Clutter

IF: Memories

2008-09-02T20:45:00.003+02:00

This week Illustration Friday topic is: Memories

We have to admit that we've been shocked when

we saw the polar bears in Alaska sinking.

One day we'll see glaciers only in old paintings,

maybe painted by a lovely bear disappeared.