tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90982272853218938632024-03-13T16:55:33.540+00:00Drawings and Fabulous PoufsA blog dedicated to everything drawn, poufed and painted by Gaby de la O.Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-80837184938453859912018-12-09T04:48:00.003+00:002018-12-09T05:06:05.747+00:002018 just gone!This has ben a tricky year for the Fabulous Poufs.<br />
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I have birthed a baby boy, and with two more kiddos around, it has been nearly impossible to finally move to an empty room I am planning to set up as a studio.<br />
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However, there is always a fifteen minute, an hour, or two... to create.<br />
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I just wanted to share here that I have been taking advantage of those hours in the night when not too knackered!<br />
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These works are made with Neocolor II wax pastels and some ink here and there.<br />
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<br />Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-23479494447984256622017-08-17T03:17:00.001+01:002017-08-17T03:17:35.798+01:00Presenting the Black Noire series<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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As you may know, having two small children, and on top of that, being pregnant with the third it's not easy (as I've discussed numerous times, sorry not sorry) finding time to draw. <br /><br />Not giving up creating and keeping drawing is a massive passion and over the last few weeks, I've found a very convenient technique that allows me to create, draw and splash the canvas after my two little ones go to sleep. YES long live the Poufs! <br /><br />This is a snippet of the series that I, in a very practical and I'm too tired to think of anything else kind of way, have entitled "Black Noire!" <br /><br />All of them available now in my shop. <br /><br />Hope you like them. I'm off to bed to collapse into a deep deep Black Noire (hopefully) sleep! <br /><br />Have a look.</div>
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Dear all,<br />
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It's been almost four months since we moved from London to Xalapa, Mexico.<br />
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The experience in itself has been pretty much full on, and I hope i can find some time to chat about how we are doing here.<br />
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However, I am glad to say that it has been incredibly satisfactory to paint during the evenings, and just using watercolour has given me the chance to work on my illustrations a bit faster.<br />
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My shop has been recently stocked up with some new prints, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/FabulousPoufs" target="_blank">so please go and have a look!</a><br />
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More news still to come!<br />
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Love,<br />
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Gaby x<br />
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<br />Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-91672619090965728952016-10-30T13:37:00.001+00:002016-10-30T20:45:47.885+00:00It's Autumn already!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-73562729460625654182016-08-03T00:00:00.000+01:002016-09-15T22:12:14.326+01:00Doodling around<div style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-63948818390904828032016-07-26T00:00:00.000+01:002016-09-15T21:47:13.505+01:00Back to drawing and painting<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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It has been more than a month since my last post and it is unbelievable how many things have happened in just a few weeks… Time is flying!</div>
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I have a beautiful baby boy attached 24/7 on me, and I am also very glad to say I have survived the dreadful first new born weeks. I have managed so well on this one. No post depression, breastfeeding going smoothly, not even overwhelming lack of sleep.</div>
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I have even managed to do some Poufs which I am very keen to share with you. So Im back on track!</div>
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I have also some ideas for these ones, so I am thinking to open my Etsy shop again so anybody interested to acquire them as prints they will be available very soon. The production and marketing is still something I just started to work on. So stay tuned!</div>
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Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-86922343783212315522016-05-11T00:00:00.000+01:002016-09-15T21:38:10.748+01:00Finding time to draw my very pregnant self.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Not too long now. Any day, any minute, I know my little boy will be coming to this world. In the midst of nursery shopping, hospital bag preparations, and final job instructions for my maternity leave, I managed to find some time to do some drawings.<br /><br />Following my interest on the demonstration against women’s violence in Mexico, I found myself more aware of the possibility of letting myself go and flow with whatever I felt necessary to keep drawing.<br /><br />At 37 weeks and heavily pregnant, I am giving in the opportunity to explore how my body feels and aches, and how it automatically prepares for labour, contracting and making funny shapes. This has certainly given me some raw material to find inspiration.<br /><br />Last night I couldn’t go to sleep so I went to the living room, grabbed my A2 pad, carbon stick and sat on the floor. Some interesting characters were born during that tiny time between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m.<br /><br />This exercise proved better than trying to sleep or rest during the day. Even meditation, breathing techniques, yoga, you name it… This was way better.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />Today, as I was cautiously and slowly carrying my 15 kg toddler asleep on one arm, a 2 kg grocery bag on the other and around 3kg of my bump weight, up 16 steps to get home and soaked as rain caught me on my way back, I thought… Wow. we mothers are truly amazing, truly strong and spirited. Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day in Mexico, last Sunday, America celebrated their mothers too.<br /><br />F*** it. Us mothers, do not need your spa vouchers or last minute holidays, we need equal pay, equal rights, the assurance of walking safely at night. We need equal distribution of parenting and household management. We need access to a good and paid cleaning service otherwise!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPptWAC2CB02m6OPvBkpuB5r0H11kAxEHTOXRHebNCz0kRbKHWnAwfhmdXcI6iLhrgB3rLtdwPoKmRMAMlwsnBpBjE9M5lQi58LX_LWSiIeNoMTSmnHflYIJcw18hWkcfQtYE1zdNUs4I/s1600/IMG_7062.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPptWAC2CB02m6OPvBkpuB5r0H11kAxEHTOXRHebNCz0kRbKHWnAwfhmdXcI6iLhrgB3rLtdwPoKmRMAMlwsnBpBjE9M5lQi58LX_LWSiIeNoMTSmnHflYIJcw18hWkcfQtYE1zdNUs4I/s640/IMG_7062.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tbvRX9FGuM-yzbSLOGF6-uLl1Hj9d0NoFgZ5s2RHKUolIagTswIITOyoGWGrLNGdwU8yyxKhhNitV87IrJpcuo3y2abiDkUFNanUwt0tEYcHlWSQj5D6AS6LRuws6LUKgupQ48ytoiE/s1600/IMG_3015.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tbvRX9FGuM-yzbSLOGF6-uLl1Hj9d0NoFgZ5s2RHKUolIagTswIITOyoGWGrLNGdwU8yyxKhhNitV87IrJpcuo3y2abiDkUFNanUwt0tEYcHlWSQj5D6AS6LRuws6LUKgupQ48ytoiE/s640/IMG_3015.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Hormonal art</b>, I call it.<br /><br /><br />I love it.<br /><br /><br />x<br /></span>Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-77130416118323841572016-04-25T00:00:00.000+01:002016-09-15T21:37:04.609+01:00The portraiture of suffering, shame, pride and bulged bodies in uncertain times.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Hello everybody!<br /><br />This week I have been working on a new project. A completely different thing from my regular practice of creating intricate Fabulous Poufs designs.<br /><br />This week I decided to take part on one of probably the biggest demonstrations of my home country about violence against women. On sunday April 24th, several feminist organisations and women in Mexico demonstrated in various cities against a mind-blowing wave of violence in Mexico.<br /><br />I would like to briefly explain how it all happened for me.<br /><br />(Last) Tuesday. Morning.<br />My daughter is at nursery and I have plenty of time (finally! tears in my eyes…) to grab my brushes and quietly work on a watercolour I had left unattended. Looking for something to listen while I worked, the name of Kara Walker popped. “Who is she?” – sorry Art world, I’ve been a mum and I have no shame on telling that I have been living in a Cbeebies world.<br /><br />I looked into <a href="http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/">A Sublety of the Marvelous Sugar Baby</a> exhibition and a talk at Harvard came along. I started watching it.<br /><br />Her creative process explaining on how she came up with this installation was so clear and inspiring. Most of all, I really loved to hear from her thatshe could not escape being political and talk about race.<br /><br />And then I thought…<br /><br />Where are the renown Mexican artists talking about political issues and making a statement of the current problems that our country is dealing with? Women’s rights? Students being killed by the military, journalists shot in the head for being outspoken? On-your-face-shameless Political Corruption? Where is that work that speaks up? <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/16/tate-moderns-turbine-hall-of-fame-the-best-and-worst-artworks-so-far">How come that an opportunity to make the most out of the public international space</a><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/16/tate-moderns-turbine-hall-of-fame-the-best-and-worst-artworks-so-far">is not being taken</a>?<br /><br />I thought it was time to take part, at least from this side of the world and start a project on women’s issues because I experienced it on every single day when I lived in Mexico City. I was one of thousands of women, many more before me, dealing with sexual harassment, filthy words whispering in your ear, struggling every morning on what NOT to wear to provoke men on the street. I even had somebody taking photos of my legs and under my skirt. Oh yes, I had experienced all that.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />After all this time working on a more European style for my Poufs, I was very happy to rediscover Pre-hispanic art. Something that definitely was closer to home and my heart. Finding the classic iconography of Mexican skulls (calaveritas) and Day of the Dead imagery was certainly everywhere. Indigenous costumes with wide skirts and colourful broad shirts. But then I found these female figurines of Tlatilco, from Central Mexico that they struck me rather interesting to compare with the European goddess figurines from Ancient art.<br /><br />I wondered about the shape of the Mexican female body… Do they match with what we see on TV shows, on advertising campaigns for beauty products, hair products? You must know that more than half of these advertising images we grow up with in Mexico are rammed with tall, slim and blond white women.<br /><br />What do I see in these photographs? Wide faces, long dark hair, dark lips, dark race. Mexican women.<br /><br />Pledging for justice.<br /><br />Crying out for justice.<br /><br />Standing for their rights, for their jobs, for their daughters.<br /><br />This has been a very fulfilling exercise and I certainly do not see myself giving up anytime soon.<br /><br />G.<br /><br />#24A #VivasNosQueremos #NoesNo</span>Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-31447297952183958182016-04-13T21:41:00.000+01:002016-09-15T21:46:53.995+01:00Not so pretty.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Having in mind the recent horrendous gang rape cases related to a rise on violence against women in Mexico, I could not help myself to somehow think about how little we have accomplished to lessen street harrasment, sexism and rape in this pretty country of ours.<br /><br />These drawings are all about rage and body counscioussness.<br /><br />Please take a moment to read the case of Daphne <a href="http://www.latintimes.com/los-porkys-things-know-about-high-status-junior-gang-getting-away-rape-video-375942">here</a> and that one of Vice Magazine correspondent <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/woman-gets-sexually-harassed-posts-video-on-twitter-and-gets-trolled-for-it_uk_56ea7203e4b03fb88ede9bcf">Andrea Noel </a>in Mexico City.<br /><br />See you shortly.<br /><br />G.</span>Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-4323005335483486832016-03-30T21:44:00.000+01:002016-09-15T21:45:41.186+01:00Some Spring news.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For those of you who have wondered where I have been these past few months oh well… Last time we met I had published some Halloween art, drawings and watercolours. By that time, I was full on creating the drawings that would take part in my colouring book to be released this year. Well, it was soon enough after I posted the Scandinavian Pouf that I found out I was pregnant.<br />
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So amidst the rush, the horrors of the fist trimester and a wriggling toddler up and about there was no time left to dedicate my time to do more drawings.<br />
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I also decided it was fine to have a break. Maybe you missed it, but I was waking up everyday at 5 a.m. to work on my drawings. I just had to stop.<br />
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I also focused on my job which is Managing Director for The Institute, an organisation that comprises 8 english language schools in Mexico.<br />
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Life was busy, too busy for the lovely Poufs.<br />
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Now I am 7 months pregnant, happily enjoying the first blooms of spring, my toddler being in nursery making friends and catching up with GOT and Call the Midwife. I feel happy and getting as much rest as I can before life changes again with the upcoming arrival of a new baby boy.<br />
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I am still drawing and colouring. And I am currently looking for somebody who would like to produce my colouring book.<br />
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In the meantime, I will try to have this website as updated as possible.<br />
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The shop is always open though! And I do have some watercolours available for sale if you just send me an email.<br />
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Will post a gallery of those ones soon enough.<br />
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Hope you all are enjoying Spring too.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />It has been a couple of hectic and busy days in the house of Poufs that I haven’t had the chance to update my blog recently. However, I wanted to share with you that this week I have been working on these four new watercolours, which proved very successful during <a href="http://fabulouspoufs.com/2015/09/21/nunhead-art-trail-review/">Nunhead Art Trail </a>last month.<br /><br />They are A4 original watercolour and ink and are available to purchase.<br /><br />If you are interested please do not hesitate to contact me. </span><div>
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This is the final design for the Dutch Garden Pouf for my colouring book. Hope you like it :)<br />
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I am also in the process of moving this blog to another page, so hopefully that will be done in the following days. If you are following via Google and Blogger, make sure to watch this space for important updates!<br />
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Dear friends,<br />
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Sorry I have been a little bit away from my blog this week... However I've got loads to show you today!<br />
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I would like to share with you a little bit of the process of designing a Pouf. The lack of time and the fact that my book collection is currently being stored in Mexico, only allows me to do my visual research online.<br />
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For a Dutch Garden, seems obvious what you would go for: tulips, still lives, Rembrandt, narcissus, anemones, roses and cute folk art children.<br />
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I start drawing and getting some ideas together. These are some initial drawings and photos of the inking process. </div>
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Here you have it, the final design for The Tropical Garden Pouf.<br />
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I need your ideas and input about these Poufs! I would be thrilled to read your comments :)<br />
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I am very excited to finally share the behind the scenes of the next Fabulous Pouf design for my colouring book.<br />
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This time I have gone for a tropical garden theme.<br />
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Although I know that the term "tropical" is broad and usually mixed with different regions of the world, I thought that this might be a good start for more designs related to the luscious and the exotic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the idea of "tropical" from 50s magazines with heavy pigment prints. </td></tr>
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It was a very exciting and sunny weekend for The Nunhead Art Trail. I had the opportunity to visit some artists' homes and shops displaying their work. I could also see that on Sunday there were many families around the area ringing doorbells and popping in.<br />
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Personal highlights include <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Nick-Cobb-240967659375576/timeline/" target="_blank">Nick Cobb</a>'s 21-foot-long <a href="http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/welcome-to-cardboard-city-peckham/#.VfuoQu8t-BU.facebook" target="_blank">model</a> of Rye Lane, <a href="http://www.sanchialewis.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sanchia Lewis</a> naive inspired and highly texturised paintings and <a href="http://www.garryparsons.co.uk/" target="_blank">Garry Parsons</a> paper work on Papa Bear furniture shop. </div>
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I am also very happy to have sold one of my watercolours, the very fist one of the series. They will still be displayed at Bambuni for another week with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/byflounder" target="_blank">Victoria Peel's </a>works so if you are in the area and you are interested to purchase one, give me a shout by emailing me or send me a tweet :)</div>
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You can see the detail of the remaining ones clicking <a href="http://fabulouspoufs.com/Potpourri-Poufs" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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Thank you to all Nunhead Art Trail organisers! It was a wonderful experience to take part, meet and connect. I am very glad to live nearby and hope to see you all very soon. </div>
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So hear you have it, my version of an <b>Italian Garden Pouf.</b> It has been quite an adventure to manage and work on this Pouf this time. But I am glad it is already here. I am sure I will have to come back at it and add some more details, but this works fine for the moment. </div>
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As I explained earlier, I am on a new adventure designing several Poufs for a <b>Colouring Book</b> project. If you are new to my blog, make sure you follow me in <a href="https://instagram.com/fabpoufs/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>for more updates. </div>
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So this week our Fabulous Pouf for the colouring book project is TA DAAAA! an <b>Italian Garden</b>. </div>
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I really enjoyed doing the research for this subject! It kind of reminded me of the old times at uni when I was studying Art History reading about Mannerism, the elongated forms, the idea of the house and the garden as a whole, and most of all, the <i>fantastico!</i></div>
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I particularly love the <b>fountain of Diana</b> from Villa d'Este portrayed above. I loved learning about that mystery book called "Hypnerotomachia Poliphilli" or <b>The Dream of Poliphilus</b>, where the idea of garden design comes from. </div>
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And what can you find in an Italian Garden? The question is, what is it there not to find! Labyrinths, secret gardens, grottos, water tricks and even monsters and giants!</div>
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Here you can find some images of my notes, my "mio' mini-board and the Pouf. With some luck and extra caffeine, I will be able to finish the ink process, but you can have a glimpse of the almost finished Pouf below:</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Oh well hello there!!!!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">I would like to take this opportunity to
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NAT is a 2 day event, from Saturday 18<sup>th</sup>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I am very excited to take part in this year's NAT. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the meantime, make sure you have a look at the wonderful artists on the NAT website here <a href="http://www.nunheadarttrail.co.uk/">http://www.nunheadarttrail.co.uk/</a></span></div>
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P.S. I can not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believe that it was already one year ago when Matt and I and 3 month old Emilia embarked on a very naive walk to visit some artists studios. We even made a rookie mistake and tried to push the pram along some ridiculously long stoney path! Not a good look. Well done 2014 us, you plonkers! (Pic below taking a much needed break while we tried to work out where the hell we were) :)<br />
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As promised on my last post, here you have it, the French Garden Pouf. Traced, scanned, and, as you can see if compared with the original drawing, sporting new haircut!<br />
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Off to the following Pouf, what will the next one be?<br />
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Good day everybody! As promised I am still working on my colouring Poufs and I thought it would be nice to share with you some drawings and inspiration for the second pouf: A French Garden :) <br />
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My main inspiration I must confess is Jean Cocteau’s “Belle et la Bete” movie from 1946. I have been seeking out the original posters from the movie and I must say I find them truly mesmerising. In my collage, you will see a very strong touch on lavender and other French wild flowers. A beautiful maze, intricate glasswork, lilies...more of that to come!!!!<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal;"><br /></span>
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What I do for this first stage is print some images and glue them on a special A5 sketchbook. I know it's simple, but I am enjoying the process of “story boarding” and it is my intention to share the pages and notes at a later date. <br />
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So here she is, an English Garden inspired Pouf. You will find roses, posies, peonies, daisies and much much more. A sneaky fauna accompany the design, one shall not forget some tea of course! and an umbrella just in case.<br />
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Will tell very soon!<br />
<br />Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-39432111456917862752015-08-28T20:38:00.001+01:002015-08-28T20:38:37.090+01:00English Garden (Behind the scenes)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Good day everybody! As promised, an update of the new adventure. </div>
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It has been two hectic days squeezing some drawing time into a busy schedule, but I can finally say that this Pouf is ready to be presented in the blogosphere! :) </div>
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As mentioned in the last post, I am working on a Colouring Book. I have decided that a nice start theme would be The Gardens Of The World. I've decided that the best place to start (actually I do not why) was an English Garden.<br />
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Let me walk you through some of the process, which I think might be interesting to share. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Some drawing inspiration and material used: Selfridges stationary and Edward Gorey - Can you spot him?</td></tr>
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Firstly, I had to work on my schedule and this means, that I had to wake up early...earlier...way too early to find proper quiet time. So I started at 5 a.m. However, not everything is perfect, and Emilia just gave me an hour to finish the tracing this morning. </div>
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Lesson learned: When you feel motivated, an early hour is nothing. </div>
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Secondly, I met my inner Art Director. And that means, that I had to keep in mind that the Pouf I was drawing had a specific intention: deliver a product that everyone will find easy to colour in. </div>
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"Leave more white areas" "Now polish your line" my inner monologue was ticking...</div>
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tracing work was hard, it was not fun! This is my first attempt to do it. I've always worked with ink to paper, pretty straightforward. Whatever that line is doing, I would let it be and let it flow. Oh not this time dear, not this time...</span></div>
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This time, when the drawing was finished, I felt the need to polish the drawing a bit more. My inner Art Director was giving me a hard time on this one...</div>
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So I retraced it.<br />
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The full, complete, real thing, will come in a separate post, but I am working on some minor details... so please stay tuned ;)<br />
<br />Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098227285321893863.post-86805130122871542882015-08-26T21:16:00.000+01:002015-08-31T21:32:32.381+01:00It's coming...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This little story starts like this:<br />
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<b>Thursday: </b>I noticed that an old classmate from Goldsmiths, Jacky, had contacted me on Facebook. She sent a message but I couldn't read it. With a baby-turned-toddler and day job set on full blast , I am not very Facebooky these days...<br />
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<b>Friday:</b> Read the message. Words were encouraging, with the idea to jump into the colouring book craze. I agreed it was not a bad idea at all and it might be feasible.<br />
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(I had thought about it before, but decided to concentrate my business on retail. If I ever start my company with the Poufs, I would better put these ladies on products... I thought)<br />
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<b>Friday night: </b>Brainstormed with Matt to quickly put the ideas together and map them out on the canvas business model.<br />
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<b>Saturday:</b> First ideas, themes, coming to mind and down to paper.<br />
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<b>Sunday and Monday</b>: Drawing, drawing, drawing.<br />
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Tuesday: Finished first draft of what could be the start of something cool.<br />
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A roller-coaster few days!<br />
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I am jumping on the colouring book craze! But more than that, I want to sail my own ship and do my Fabulous Ladies proud.<br />
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The ship will set sail on her maiden voyage in some months to come. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the journey.<br />
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I will be updating on progress at regular intervals in the coming months.<br />
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Please give me your thoughts!<br />
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Gaby<br />
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<br />Gabyohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18064783708411807043noreply@blogger.com0