Visual Alchemy & Artifacts of Remembrance
My friend Artist Magny Tjelta post this interesting video and book “Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear – by Elizabeth Gilbert it is a great message that worth to listen and be shared! <3 Visit Magny Blog
Today for April month celebrations I celebrate National Amaretto Day!
I didn’t know until today that was existing an unofficial National holiday dedicated to the Amaretto liqueur and absolutely couldn’t miss this one since the Amaretto antique origins are from my beautiful native country Italy! Ciao mia Bella Italia!!!
The word Amaretto means “little bitter” is created infusing almonds or apricots seeds or both together in brandy or pure alcohol obtaining a delicious almond a little bitter natural flavored liqueur mostly served after dinner in a pretty old-fashioned glass it pair very well, served with holiday foods and desserts, that have nutty and warm spice undertones of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg. Amaretto it is also used as base to prepare a variety of cold and hot cocktails. Also well-known are the Amaretto cookies.
Amaretto is a very antique liqueur there is an old Italian legend saying that was created from a woman living in the Italian city of Saronno in the 1525 she prepared the Amaretto in appreciation giving it as modest gift to a Church commissioned Artist one of Leonardo da Vinci’s pupils that had to paint the Sanctuary frescoes. The woman was the muse that inspired the Artist when he had to paint the Virgin Mary.
My watercolor shows the bottle of a well-known Italian Amaretto brand but for creativity I wanted to write “Amaretto Italy” I haven’t written the brands name I just left that out to the imagination! LOL
A nice old-fashioned glass and some good Amaretto cookies!
It was fun to doodle this I hope that you enjoy!
Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor with black ink finish. I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron black Ink pen #005 and #05 over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!
With this Celebration of National Amaretto Day, I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image#doodlewashaday.
#doodlewashaday, #NationalAmarettoDay
Happy doodles and have a great day or evening!
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
I love illustration and I enjoy sketching in general, and this time is not one of my jewelry sketches that I use to share here more often. I am having fun sketching realistic eyes, it is amazing the effect that can turn out just playing with a HB #2 pencil and a couple of pastels or watercolors to give a hint of color. I made these sketches pretty quickly, so it is a very rough practice drawing and please forgive my photos that are not super great!
I am planning to make other ones more in a high definition. If you step back a bit from your screen you will see that this eye it is pretty realistic!
Please leave me a comment and let me know what do you think? :-)
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
Find the beautiful in everything
our souls are streaming life in everything
inspiration comes from our everything.
-CR
#NationalHaikuDay
Read my Haiku 5.7.5
Haiku and Photography
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
Save The Elephant Day!
Today my April Celebration and doodlewash is dedicated to a wonderful, intelligent and very sensible animal that I love the Elephant!
They are beautiful wildlife creatures, and they need all of our support to keep them safe and secure in their habitat on this planet. It is very sad that beautiful and fascinating creatures like them are under life threats in some areas, I have seen online horrific photos.
Today is Save The Elephant Day let’s make this not just one day but every day, we can show our love and support spreading the words, visiting websites dedicated to animal protection, we can do anything that we feel, can help to raise awareness in protection of their days to come! As I am also a Jewelry Designer I made a choice long ago and it is to never ever use “Ivory” elements in any of my creations.
My watercolor shows an elephant that is worried about his future, but that is there ready to run free and happy any day of the year without worries.
Details about my doodlewash:
watercolor with black ink finish. I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron black Ink pen #005 and #05 over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!
With this Celebration of Save The Elephant Day, I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image#doodlewashaday.
#doodlewashaday, #SaveTheElephantDay
Happy doodles and have a wonderful day!
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
I am a little bit late on this one!
My day was busy, I had very little time to create my watercolor but I did it! This is a late night post of my doodlewash dedicated to a beautiful animal that I adore!!! The Dolphin, I couldn’t miss to celebrate National Dolphin Day! <3 this wonderful and sweet ocean creature. One of my wish is that I would love to swim with one of them ;-) for now I only had the opportunity to see them far away from the beach on the California Coast.
My watercolor shows two happy dolphins because that’s the way I see them. I made it in about 15 minutes.
Details about my doodlewash:
it is a watercolor with ink finish. I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron black Ink pen #2 over a Mixed Media Sketchbook!
With this Celebration of National Dolphin Day, I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join with your doodlewash! Tag your image #doodlewashaday.
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
April Celebration National and International Days!
Today is dedicated to “Draw a Picture of a Bird Day!”
In honor and inspiration of this Day I decided to Doodlewash a California Bird specifically one that I enjoy to see often from my window and it is a very cute little yellowish-green bird with sometimes a visible orange color crown on the top head, the name of this bird is the “Orange-Crowned Warbler”
I enjoyed to celebrate this Day and drawing this lovely bird very much! <3
Details about my doodlewash:
it is a watercolor with ink finish I used one of my favorite French Artists Watercolors the Sennelier l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box and Pigma Micron black Ink pen #2 over a Sketchbook!
About April Draw a Picture of a Bird a Day Origin and how it all started:
Origin 1943 United Kingdom – Dorie Cooper
In 1943, Dorie Cooper’s mother took her to a hospital in to visit her uncle who was wounded in World War 2. While there, Dorie attempted to cheer her uncle by asking him to “Draw a bird for me, please.”After seeing her uncle’s bird picture, Dorie laughed out loud and proclaimed that he was not a very good artist, but that she would hang the picture in her room nonetheless. The complete honesty and acceptance of his niece did much to lighted her uncle’s spirit. Other soldiers at the hospital also had their day brightened by the event and so, every time Dorie came to visit, they held drawing contests to see who could produce the best bird pictures.
Sadly, just three years later, young Dorie was killed in a car accident. At her funeral, her coffin was filled with bird images that had been made by soldiers, nurses, and doctors from the ward where her uncle had been. The people who little Dorie had touched decided that the little girl who brought hope to the ward by drawing birds would be forevermore remembered on her birthday, April 8th.
Draw a Bird Day is not a recognized official holiday but it is one of the most heartfelt holidays of the year, honoring the soul of a beautiful and innocent, little girl.
To celebrate Dorie’s birthday, be inspired to draw a bird of any kind and share it! <3
With this Celebration I am also join Charlie at doodlewash celebrating a National or International Day with a doodlewash! You are welcome to join us with your doodlewash! Tag your image #doodlewashaday
Source(s):
Google search.
National Geographic
#doodlewashaday
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
Music is like Poetry on a pentagram words written over musical notes!
Today for the April Poetry Month I like to share the beautiful words written by EWIAN for the song
Fragile Ghost included in the latest Album release “We Need Monster” read the lines, listen and enjoy the dreamy atmosphere!
-CR
Fragile Ghost
And then we kissed the moon.
Loved us secretly.
I thought I felt ensouled.
I thought I felt alive.
©Ewian
Independent rock band
youtube.com/Ewianmusic
#AprilPoetryMonth2016
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com
Inner Voice
The calming sound of nature was only interrupted by the noise of my steps hitting the ground walking up the hills following an unknown trail. Suddenly the thoughts in my mind were freed and unlocked while breathing wilderness in the wind. Let go was the insistent inner voice I was hearing.
-CR
©Copyright Carolina Russo -yesterdayafter.com
#AprilPoetryMonth2016
“LOVE is everything LIGHT is the TRUTH create your own HAPPINESS”
-CR
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