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Kangaroo With Girl – #NatureDoodlewash

Kangaroo with Girl - Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo
Kangaroo with Girl – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

Today for my #NatureDoodlewash  hike, I had an imaginary walk across the wonderful Australia a land that I always wanted to go visit…and it didn’t happen yet! Maybe one day!  For this watercolor I was inspired by a beautiful Magazine Cover that portrait a model holding a Kangaroo. A couple of weeks ago I was visiting a Barnes and Nobles Book store and I loved that cover so much that instantly I had the urge to sketch it.

I am so glad that I had my sketchbook with me and while sipping a coffee I sketched. I followed pretty much the lines and the pose, but I changed the girl expression and colors giving her a different look.  I wanted her to have purple hair  and be a whimsical girl. She hold the cute kangaroo on her shoulder close to her neck. It is a portrait very similar to the “Girl with a Bird” I made not long ago.  I love Kangaroos and I really enjoyed to paint once again an image of love. I hope that you like it!

Kangaroo with Girl - Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo
Kangaroo with Girl – Original Watercolor ©Carolina Russo

I also want to dedicate this illustration as symbol of friendship to all my friends here on the Blogosphere!  And to all my Australian friends that are many!
Thank you to all for brightening my days! ❤

 

Coming Soon Event!
A month of watercolors! A great challenge, 31 days 31 watercolor paintings! I will participate joining Charlie at Doodlewash he is the creator of this magical event and of  “The World Watercolor Month”  from now on each year in July will be celebrated! Yay thanks to Charlie! 😉 This event will unite Artists around the World joining together this Ultimate Challenge! I am so honored to participate! This is the first year it just got officially approved! You can learn all about it here!

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Details about my doodlewash:
 watercolor outlined with black ink pen. I used  French Artists Watercolors  Sennelier  l’Aguarelle 12 demi-godets half-pans travel metal box  and Pigma Micron Black ink #005 and a Pink gel pen. Painted over a Mixed Media  Sketchbook!

With this watercolor I am also  joining Charlie at doodlewash  for a  #NatureDoodlewash

You all are welcome to join us with your doodlewash! If you do, don’t forget to “Tag” your image.

 

#NatureDoodlewash

 

Happy Doodles!

©Carolina Russo
©Carolina Russo

©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

And Featured Is, Events, Featured, Friendship, Life, Meet and Greet Fridays, Nature, Photography, Uncategorized

And The Featured of the Month is…

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And FEATURED is…Miriam Blaker!

 

YesterdayAfter  Featured of the Month  May 2016

Miriam Blaker
Miriam Blaker

Hello everyone during last two months I made beautiful new connections.  Thanks to everyone for  the participation to our weekly Meet and Greet Fridays I had the opportunity  to discover and connect with numerous and inspiring Blogs and it is not easy for me to choose only one each month.  I was able to made  my pick for the month of May. I had to choose between all the wonderful Bloggers that left their Blog links at our weekly event Meet and Greet Fridays this week was #11!

This month we will have the opportunity to travel around Australia and read all about it !

Today I am very pleased and honored to introduce you my new  Featured of the  Month and featured is…freelance writer Miriam Blaker and her beautiful  Blog


OUT an’ ABOUT –
Loving life on and off the Tracks

 

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Morning lights – Photo ©Miriam Blaker

 

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©Miriam Blaker

I connected with Miriam  about two months ago we came across each other Blogs and we followed and stayed connected. Miriam is a lovely friend here on the Bloghosphere I always love her comments to my posts. She has a lovely family and live in Australia on the outskirts of Melbourne,  she love to travel and professionally writes about all her adventures!

Miriam posts on her beautiful Blog are a joy to read and are accompanied by her beautiful and interesting photography. Published freelance writer, she contributing with numerous Australian Travel Magazines.


This is an excerpt of her About page…

Hi, I’m Miriam. Thanks so much for dropping by and checking out my blog.   I’ve been putting words to paper ever since I can remember and, in my late twenties, a Comprehensive Writing Course lead me to my passion – writing about places I visit and the people I meet along the way.  I also discovered it’s a great way to journal life.

It was then I decided to try writing for magazines. It was hard work and it took years, but today I can finally say I’m a published freelance writer. Along with some casual copy-writing work it’s exciting to be contributing regularly to a number of well established Australian travel magazines, which you can view here.  And equally exciting to be writing my own blog.

My travels have taken me to Europe, Asia and the Pacific however I’m now enjoying the delights of my own backyard, right here in Australia.  So whenever I can I hit the road and write, I take photos and relish the great outdoors. I hope through this blog I can share my life, not just on the tracks but close to home, doing ordinary everyday stuff.

When I’m not traveling I live on the outskirts of Melbourne with a wonderful man who shares my sense of adventure and two teenage children who keep me on my toes. I enjoy the simple pleasures of life: keeping fit, walks with my dog, dance and Zumba, playing my guitar, good food, red wine, dark chocolate, hanging out with friends and generally trying to make the most out of life.

Come with me as I get out and about in this world where we’re all connected. And, if you want to comment on any of my posts, or just say hello, I would love to hear from you” – Miriam


I hope that you enjoyed this new Feature of the Month and to know more about Miriam life adventures please visit her Blog!

 

(Please Miriam grab this Badge and post it somewhere on your Blog linked to this post!) ❤

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How to be Featured on YesterdayAfter?

Stay Connected! Participate to the Meet and Greet Fridays weekly event leaving your Blog link, Follow here and on my other social media be active! Inspire!
You never know…maybe next Month I will choose YOU!

 

 

 

Wish you all a wonderful rest of the weekend!

Congratulations to Miriam to be the Featured of the Month May 2016

Stay connected for the next month feature!!!

-Carolina

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©Copyright CarolinaRusso – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Events, Featured, Life, Photography

Today FEATURED for the week is….

Australia Sidney - VIVID Randomness 2015 - Photography Lignum Draco©
Australia Sidney – VIVID 2015 – Photography Lignum Draco©

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And today FEATURED is.
…. Lignum Draco
would be on my sidebar for the week #7!

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… about nothing in particular, because
“Candid photography is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”.
Photography by Lignum Draco, “The Wood Dragon” since 2013.

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Hello everyone today FEATURED on YesterdayAfter is Australian Photographer Lignum Draco and his Blog Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera I am very honoured this week to introduce his wonderful Photography here to all of you. When you visit his Blog  you feel to be travelling in Australia! 🙂
My passion for photography lead me to discovered Draco few months ago I was amazed by his incredible monochrome street photography, and all his work. He describe himself as shy but he has a great personality, we have been connected since then. I am an “Amateur” in photography I am always very inspired to see the work of others that I admire and I like to share it.
Draco is not new to be Featured, he has been in other great places, also Featured on WordPress Freshly Pressed for his wonderful Street Photography. Every year he witness and photograph a great Artistic Event “VIVID” that takes place in Sydney, on his Blog you can see all that beauty!

Now I suggest you to enjoy the visit pretending to walk around Sydney through the eyes of Lignum Draco

Have a wonderful weekend you all…

-CR

YA_FeatureIf you have been Featured here…
Please grab this and post it somewhere on your Blog! Thanks 😉