New website

Hi my friend! 

I will no longer be using this blog since I have a new website Les Chérubins by Dominika https://lescherubinsbydominika.com with integrated blog. I started creating a new website awhile ago and launched it just yesterday. I am excited to hear your thoughts!

Sending you my smile with love!

Dominika

Lovelies for Sugar&Spice

I have to admit, I love enamel mugs and these one I've created for a special client who has a gorgeous cafe/restaurant in Doha are so special!

I am really in love with them, they look so lovely and sweet and they are going to be a perfect addition to that gorgeous cafe. So happy and honored I had a chance to design them :D

Photos curtesy: Sugar&Spice Qatar

Patterns

Hi my dear friend,

It's been a month since I joined the Make Art That Sells students and alumni in a challenge of making something every day for 100 days. I've decided to make patterns in different techniques. So far I am doing them digitally because it is much faster when you need to make one each day. They are just a quick drawing and than translated and finished in photoshop. I also use Adobe capture to make a new pattern from the existing in just a second.

Here are some of them

I really hope I will manage to get it to the ned of 100 days without skipping a day.

Sending you a smile with love,
Dominika

Hand painted baby bodysuits

One of my favorite thing is when clients ask me to make something for newborns. I love creating something cute and gentle. Sindy asked me to paint baby bodysuits for 3 arriving babies and they are planing to take a photo for Christmas with babies wearing them. Can't wait to see those photos.

I have to admit I am a bit disorganized and I think the reason why is that I am all the time traveling. After that I need couple of days to settle down and get in a creative mood again. My last short trip was from 8th - 11th September, we went to our dear friends wedding to Cyprus. The celebration was in a small village on the hill called Lofou where we were also accommodated in a beautiful traditional guest house Apokryfo. We had the best 4 days there surrounded by friends and couple's families.

Cheers!
Sending you my smile with love,
Dominika

Happy 5th Bday to Les Chérubins!!!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥   Happy 5th Bday to Les Chérubins!!!   ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

Fifth year was a year of changes. After 4,5 years of life in the desert in Qatar, I moved together with my husband to Europe. It was not an easy decision but we are happy about it. 

Cracow main square

Moving to a completely new city, Cracow in Poland at the end of August 2015 where I don't know anybody or anything was a bit stressful. First few months I was pretty sad: no more creative friends, no more markets to attend, no more regular customers. Then little by little I started knowing the city, meeting new people, found some creative people, joined the International Women Association Krakow... started getting orders from their members, also from some of my regular customers who don't care where I am or where I am shipping from :D just care that I am still available to make something unique for them :D bless them!!! 

My studio space in Krakow

Highlights of the fifth year

In November I made and donated a painting I called "Let's make the world a better place" to the International Women Association (IWAK) for auction and all funds went to "Przedzkole specjalne Nr.100" located in Nowa Huta (it is a special institution dedicated in supporting the development of children with special educational needs -www.wboxi.com/site/przedszkole100.pl

"Let's make the world a better place"

Through IWAK I found out about weekly fashion workshops at Slow Fashion Cafe where I now learn how to make clothes for myself. I also use their sewing machines to work on my own projects like toys and pillows. It was where I met Tamara and we are now making customized hand painted clothes together. She is designing and sewing clothes for kids and women and I am painting them :D

Around Christmas time I participated in 2 markets together with two of my local friends. I presented special Christmas collection of paintings, cards, bookmarks and gift tags and a few hand painted toys. I liked the one called Krakow LAL and would like to participate in it again because it is only for companies who make products for kids so people who come to visit are looking for products for their little ones.

 Krakow LAL

In March I joined the Make Art That Sells Bootcamp for artists 2016 which ends in July. I am trying to keep up with the assignments but with lots of traveling and custom orders I am falling behind. Great thing is that I have all the pdf's for the assignments so I can do them later but pity my work won't be in their monthly online gallery.

On 19th May 2016 I organized a little Spring exhibition with 13 members of the International Women Association Krakow at Sheraton Hotel which was a great success and I am hoping for more events like this. Exhibition was open for IWAK members only.

IWAK Spring exhibition

As I mentioned before, this year included lots of traveling. New Year celebration in New York as well as lots of trips to Croatia, since we are just 9 hours drive from home and our families. 

Union Square Market, NYC

Have a nice summer!

Sending you my smile with love!

Dominika

Hand painted white cocktail dress

Hi my dear friend!

I want to share with you my latest project a hand painted white cocktail dress. The dress was made by Tamara Matvisin in Cracow and I painted it with colors for fabric. I also used beads as well as golden thread for some of the details on the dress.
It is so great I have met Tamara, she is so talented and willing to design and make all the things my customers are asking for. They just send me the measurements and with a little bit of magic Tamara turns fabrics into a dresses or skirts... ready for me to paint them. So I don't need to look for clothes and buy them in shops, everything is unique, tailored and made by custom order.

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic
detail on the sleeve 

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic
detail on the back

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic

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Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic
 

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic

Hand painted white cocktail dress by Dominika Bozic

More of your unique projects are waiting for me to make them and I am so excited.

I am having a little surprise next time so make sure you do visit my blog or follow me on Facebook page or on Instagram next Wednesday!

Sending you my smile with love,
Dominika

New hand painted cuddle pillow

Hi my friend!

Lots of things are happening in my studio. I am working on several projects including a logo design, a wedding invitation design and a memory album design. I am also working on a new task for the Fritzi Flock community - an illustration on a theme "The early bird catches the worm". Here is my sketch and I am planing to make the painting on canvas with acrylics.

sketch for the Fritzi Flock Friday assignment "The Early Bird Catches The Worm"

illustrating the elements for the memory album

Last week I finished another project - a hand painted cloud cuddle pillow for little Lara and thanks to the Slow Fashion Cafe in Krakow where I go to sew my pillows I managed to finish it on time. I really enjoy going there as the IWAK (International Women Association) Slow Fashion Design Group is meeting there every Tuesday so we can chat and exchange ideas and see what others are working on. 

hand painted cloud cuddle pillow

hand painted cloud cuddle pillow

Please give me a follow on Instagram or like on Facebook to see what is new :D

Sending you my smile with love,

Dominika