Sometimes you gotta smudge

My art teacher used to tell us not to smudge the picture with our fingers when drawing, and ever since I have tried to follow her advice. But this time, after a loooong while, I slipped and I smudged. And boy, did it feel good :D I got myself a new sketchbook a while back and now I finally got it started with this picture that I drew from some old issue of Tush-magazine.

It's almost Christmas and I'm getting excited - hope you're having a nice pre-Christmas time as well :)

-Maria

Santa and I

Bought all the presents, saw the Santa, did the small Christmas elfs and ate some good cheeses with my bu.

<3

D

Inspired by Tove Jansson

One of my favourite books is The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My (Kuinkas sitten kävikään) by Tove Jansson. I got it for Christmas 1992 and at that time it felt exciting and a little bit scary. Now that I kind of found it again, I realized how great art it is: there are windows through pages that make the next/previous page part of the illustration, brilliant!

I got this silly idea to dress after the book's illustration and colors, and here is the first outfit. It was this vintage blouse that fit perfectly for the colour board and it has a knot on the collar, just like Little My :) The fur I had to add there because of the cold, and I think it takes the feeling to the 70's which is kinda funny. The lace-up shoes (typical to Little My) are vintage.

Have a nice weekend :)

-Maria

(The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My, Finnish translation published 1952 by WSOY)

Winter, snow, happy happy

View from my window today at 1 pm, the days are so short...

This weekend I've been taking it easy. Yesterday I went for a walk because of the perfect winter weather, today I made delicious apple pancakes for breakfast and then spent pretty much the whole day at the same spot drawing (finally!). I'll show you the final outcome later on :)

-Maria

Tokyo ry:n perinteiset joulumyyjäiset @ Lume

Today I visited a market with my talented friend Amanda (check out her blog here). It's a traditional event before Christmas where students of Aalto University - School of Art and Design Helsinki are selling their pieces of art: graphics, textiles, glass and ceramics, jewelry, paintings etc.

This is something I got: "Rapua rapua" -necklace by Pohatta Design. I really like the colour and the fact that the designer has found a way to make use of something that normally gets thrown away as waste.

If you're in Helsinki this weekend, I recommend you check this happening out. It's open until Sunday 28th between 9 am and 6 pm at Media Centre Lume (TaiK building), Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki. You get there by trams 6 and 8 or buses 68, 71 and 74 for example.

Have a nice weekend!

-Maria

Nude silk/pre Christmas party

small pancakes with cava

I always tell everyone to follow they intuition when it comes to choosing the right clothes. When you get the "ooooooh I GOT to have that" feeling, you know that you gotta have that piece. When I saw this nude silk shirt I new rigth away that it was a destiny for us to meet. And yes, I had that WOW feeling right away after seeing the shirt. These pics are from few days back when we celebrated the coming Christmas in a cottage. Ate a lot, had a great laughs and enjoyed the company.

- D xx

We complete each other

Zara lookbook October: D's Cape and my trousers. We split the trends ;)

-Maria