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

Athens, crabs and goodbye

Wednesday blogpost #3

Wanna know what I have been doing the past two weeks?

Yeah?

First I went to Athens for a vacation while my husband was in a training there.

I had a little bit of everything, tanning at the beach because our hotel was located right at the beach in Kavouri area,  lots of sightseeing, and a day at the spa. 

Athens - Acropolis

Beach - Kavouri area

Guards in front of the Parliament

I also had a little bit of time to make few illustrations for a May's Make Art That Sells Bootcamp assignment which was to create a set of plates from crustacean pattern imagery.

I made couple of illustrations of different crabs and couple of colorful patterns, all in watercolors. After scanning them and editing them in photoshop I started working on a plate design, combining all the icons together. Really amazing assignment and I hope I will have time to make more of them just for fun. Looking forward to our next and last assignment in June :D

You can find a gallery with over 250 designs from different artists on this link (mine is on a page 4 :D).

And yesterday I said goodbye to my artsy friends from my handmade community QatART. In less then a month we are moving for good from Qatar. They prepared a sweet heartwarming gift for me, a jar full of their messages which made me cry :( I will for sure miss all my friends and all I have built in this four and a half years here in Doha.

QatART artisans at the Summer Party

Sending you my smile with love,

Dominika

Poster for The Global Art Gathering

Wednesday blog post #1

This month Make Art That Sells (MATS) Bootcamp for artists assignment was to make a poster with lettering for the Global Art Gathering in Brighton in June. Oh, I so wish I could go, it looks so cool and the event and all around the event sound amazing.

This is my submission for this month's assignment and you can see the gallery with around 300 designs from other artists in this bootcamp on this link.

For this assignment I decided to use gouache and color pencils.

Sending you my smile with love,
Dominika

Wall Art on a wood slice

Monday blog post #96

Two months ago I joined MAPS (Make Art That Sells) Bootcamp for illustrators and every month we get the assignment to submit at the end of the month. For February our assignment was a wall art on a wood slice with a scenery as a subject.

final work for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

work in progress for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

work in progress for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

work in progress for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

work in progress for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

my submission for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015
final work

final work for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

final work for February assignment for MAPS Bootcamp 2015

All submitted works will be published on Lilla Rogers web page: http://bootcamp.lillarogers.com on 24th February.

Sending you my smile with love,
Dominika