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The InkTober Worldwide Challenge

September 30, 2016October 5, 2016 Carolina Russo

78315df6f0f901f4-weblogo — October Challenge 2016

31 Days 31 Drawings

Every October, artists all over the world take on the InkTober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.

Anyone can do InkTober just pick up a pen and start drawing!

Illustrator Jake Parker is the creator of this great challenge and initiative started in October 2009. Jake created InkTober as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.

I am very excited this year to join Jake and participate to this great challenge with artists all over the world! I really would love to create all the 31 ink drawings. Last July I participated and completed my challenge for the “World Watercolor Month” 31 Paintings in 31 Days, very similar to InkTober. Tomorrow I am ready to start this new challenge with a new sketchbook, inks and my creativity. I will try to post my drawings daily and if happen that I am too busy to post it doesn’t means that I am not drawing then look for to the next day post. Be ready for my new InkTober Gallery.

Visit Jake Parker website for more details, inspiration and lots to learn. I exported here the rules and Official prompt list for the month.

The Official 2016 Inktober Prompt List:

319c74ab8d74a39e-2016promptlist — Prompt List

If you like to join the challenge don’t forget to always add the hashtag #INKTOBER2016 post your ink drawing online on your Blog and/or on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter…add the tags to any place you share your drawings online!

I hope that my friends artists here on WordPress will join this challenge with me!

I made a second Instagram account dedicated to my Art please follow me there! @carolinarussoart

Now let’s get paper and inks and have fun!

Thank You!

©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Emotions, Reblog, Uncategorized, Videos

What dos it take to truly live a creative life?

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Carolina Russo

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! ❤ Visit Magny Blog

61zWb3xvBBL._SX342_QL70_ — A book worth reading!

Emotions, Life, Nature, Photography, Poems, Poetry

April Poetry Month – Overwhelming Beauty

April 11, 2016April 11, 2016 Carolina Russo

Overwhelming Beauty

The sunset light was approaching
the soft curved hills.
Evening was entering like a fierce painting
in the sky.

How amazing colors
in a new dimension that only
nature and someone above
has the power to create.

I felt that overwhelming presence
a strange feeling surrounded me,
all over like holding me
in a tight and breathtaking embrace

excitement and power for
something that I see unbelievable unreal
but truly real.

I am glad I was there
grabbing the drops of this
overwhelming beauty.

-CR

#AprilPoetryMonth2016

Poetry and Photography
©Copyright Carolina Russo – yesterdayafter.com

Art, Indie, Life, Milestones, Music, Reblog, Uncategorized

From Zero to 15’000 – Some Thoughts on Building Community…

February 28, 2016February 28, 2016 Carolina Russo

A wonderful post about Community from James Radcliffe, talking from the heart and soul just like his beautiful music! I wanted to share this because I can relate with it and because it is very motivational and inspiring!

Have a great Sunday!
-CR

Events, Life, Messages to readers

2016 Update – Laptop Fail…

January 16, 2016January 17, 2016 Carolina Russo

Hello everyone,

sorry I haven’t been posting as usual! There is a reason why and I will tell you all about it!

I just want to give you an update of what’s going on during my early 2016. In my last “Post of the 2015” I wrote that I got sick with the Flu, that wasn’t a nice ending of the year, but I got over the Flu very well taking care of me with rest, warm, lots of tea and a great natural recipe made out of “Turmeric and Raw Honey” this magic natural antibiotic did wander for me. I should make a post about it sometimes! 🙂 I also like to thank all of you that left me beautiful and lovely comments to get well soon! Thank you!

Anyway the reason why I am not posting as usual and during the past days I did some reblogs, is because my nearly two years old HP Pavilion Laptop decided to go to sleep and never woke up!!!
Can you imagine how frustrating this can be? All my digital work and data are on it!!!! 😦

I had to use my Kindle Fire to check my Blog, emails etc… and with a Kindle isn’t easy to type long posts, but I am grateful that I have been able at least to read and reply to your nice comments, my apologies if I missed someone.

I am pretty good with computers and I did try any advice and suggestions I found online to wake up my laptop. Actually it did woke up 3 times, but after last time seems there is no way for everything I did try. This type of fail seems to happen very often with laptops of all kinds of brands in fact this is the second laptop I own that fail, my first one was from another brand and it lasted five years and same thing happened.

I have to say that I am disappointed this time because I don’t think that a nice laptop from a great brand like HP has to have such a short life less than 2 years! I still hope that there is a way to fix it.

Right now I had no options than get a new computer, which is great of course, this time is not longer a laptop but a great desktop! It wasn’t planned at all for me to buy a new one but I need it for my work and my livelihood. I am sure something great will come out of all this wish me well! 😉

For the end of the next week I will have my new set up and I can go back to my work and new posts!
Also for who wander about my weekly “Fridays Meet and Greet Event” and the “Feature Event on Saturdays” will go back on soon stay tuned because I will choose new Blogs to Feature, stay connected!!! ❤

One last thing Thank You so much to all the recent “Follow” that I received I am full of appreciation!
I did Follow back everyone I could and I will check back your Blogs! Stay connected.

Have a wonderful 2016 together we can keep walking doing great things…
Wish you a wonderful day or night!

-CR

Art, Illustration, My Paintings, Nature, Sketch Book, Uncategorized, Watercolors

Watercolors from Nature…

January 10, 2016January 10, 2016 Carolina Russo

Today I like to reblog this post I wrote time ago and I hope that you enjoy it! And to all the Artists that love to paint I hope that you are inspired to try out this because it was a nice fun for me with a lovely outcome!

Carolina Russo Art

NATURE it is so precious!

Today I will share how I painted those beautiful flowers using some of the most vibrant and pigmented colors found in “Nature”. I always like to experiment new ways to use colors. This time I wasn’t thinking to paint anything, I had no plan and no preparation it was late evening, but…when creativity strike you can’t miss the moment!
Few days ago I got some amazing “Dragon fruit” or also known as “Pitaya” it is a delicious and refreshing Tropical fruit that grows on several Cactus species and has great Health Benefits

This fruit has beautiful colors on the outside skin, and rich magenta pigments inside or white.

The juice is a strong dye and it is perfect for painting, I used my 140 lb watercolor paper sketch book
and Aqua flo water filled brushes.

I then decided that I needed a touch of yellow…

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Emotions, Friendship, Life, Messages to readers, Uncategorized

2015 and YesterdAyafter…

December 30, 2015January 24, 2016 Carolina Russo

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — 2015 Reflection…

Hello Everyone,

I want to say a few words and give some thanks before the end of 2015, one last post for this great year that in few hours is walking away! I wont be too long, since sadly I am sick with the Flu ;-(( really not a nice goodbye 2015!!!
I don’t even know how I got the Flu! Well that’s life and also if I am sick I will shine my light and be positive!
I became active posting on my Blog at the end of March 2015 and I am speechless for how much joy and happiness it brings to me every day and to see that in less than 9 months I received so much encouragement, inspiration and beautiful words, lots of compliments for my Art and ways I express my Creativity here!

Lots of Award Nominations thanks, this inspired me to create “The Starlight Blogger Award” I created and launched this Award in May to highlight and Promote Inspiring Bloggers, I know it went a long way around the world from all the links I received! I am very proud of it!

Also I loved My over 40 weeks event every Friday a Meet and Greet and every Saturday I Feature an Inspiring Blogger this weekly event had a great success and give us the opportunity to get to know beautiful Blogs.

Thank you to all my loyal and great amazing Followers you guys are magic! Many of you turned to be great friends! Some of you I had the privilege to meet in person isn’t this all truly amazing???
Some things happened that I never expected or could have dreamt of. I also had the opportunity to came across great Artists otherwise impossible if wasn’t for my Blog.

I want to thank every single person that stopped by YesterdayAfter also if it was only for one minute! I am so humbled and amazed that you took your time to look at my work leaving beautiful comments, they are all into my heart where I will cherish and treasure them forever!

Thank you to everyone that Custom Ordered and own my Jewelry I hope that will bring you happiness every moment you are wearing it!

After only 9 months My Blog has close to “20.000” of Views, I cannot believe it has been visited by 108 Countries all over the world from so many people! Thank you very much, but like I always said it is not about the numbers…it is beautiful to know that my Blog travelled so much sharing my Art and bringing joy and light into the hearts of people! I can’t wait to see what will happen in the 2016 for all of us. I am not going to list any name you guys are so many and the ones that are really close to me you know who you are! I don’t want to miss anyone my love is always with you all! Please Send me some light so that I will get well soon…

Thank you so much for walking with me day by day during my journeys.

I wish you all a wonderful and Happy New Year!!!

-CR

©Copyright Carolina Russo

May Peace and happiness be yours throughout the New Year!

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Art, Digital Art, Emotions, Life, Nature, Short Stories

50 Words Story – Deep Water

December 26, 2015September 6, 2018 Carolina Russo

Deep Water

Surrounded by the blue deepest water. The reflections of floating emotions, loaded the mind and body in a fearless state. Tranquillity and silence flying through the broken branches of a life experience, were glowing under the warm sunlight. Suddenly warm rain drops of happiness joined the deep water becoming one.

First Published on Literary Press Spillwords.com on 06/03/2016
Published on VisualVerse.org on 08/06/2016

Thank You!

Antique, Art, Digital Art, Events, Featured, Holidays, Life, Uncategorized

And FEATURED is….

December 20, 2015December 20, 2015 Carolina Russo

Art, Design, Theatre, Literature, History, Food, Laughter … and the ex-pat life

First Night Design

And today FEATURED is…. Sarah Vernon she would be on my sidebar widget for this week!

I always love to Meet and Greet new Artists sharing their work of art and their beautiful words!

It is getting very difficult every week to choose just one of you! But I am doing it from over 40 weeks! ❤
When I made my first Feature post I was thinking to do this only “Once a month”, and since that first time I did this every single weekend! ❤

Note: I just want you to know that I don’t pick random Blogs to Feature here, when I do my pick I am looking at specific things that I admire and are Inspiring and motivational to me and for others!

(Please Sarah grab this Badge and post it somewhere on your Blog! And if you can a Reblog would be awesome! 😉

Here once again sorry for my late post and I thank you all for the participation to this week “Meet and Greet” session!!!

Today I am very pleased and honored to introduce Sarah Vernon we follow each other Blogs from months she is very sweet and a wonderful presence in the blogosphere she is an Artist! England from London Sarah has been an actress for over three decades working on TV series and Theatre in her 20s she was diagnosed with a disabling condition – Limited Cutaneous Systemic Sclerosis (lcSSc) – and the respect now given to digital art have enabled Sarah to travel artistically in a different direction. Her love and Passion for the Theatre leading her on creating beautiful historical images that she sell. Her great Blog contains like she say “my ramblings on art, design, theatre, history, food, cinema and more, subjects I love”. Her Blog posts are always fulfilled with the beautiful images that she digitally manipulate and lots of Theatre-history information. I love Digital Art which is one of my favorite creative medium I work with, this common love connected Sarah and me I have been always fascinated by Sarah elegant work!

‘Girl Wearing a Kokoshnik in Profile’ is a Leon Bakst painting in a private collection, which I downloaded from Wikimedia and blended with a handwritten document, also from Wikimedia, and a texture from Kerstin Frank.
Original & vintage art © First Night Design [www.firstnightdesign.wordpress.com]

I am sure that many of you already know about her Blog,
but if you dont, then please stop by at First Night Design and say hi to Sarah!

I hope tha you enjoyed this FEATURE of the week!

How can you be Featured on YesterdayAfter?
Stay Connected!
Follow my Blog and on my other Social Media Facebook Twitter Pinterest
be active and like my FB Page! ❤

Have a great week and Happy Holidays!

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Etsy, Events, Featured, Friendship, Life

And Futured is…

December 7, 2015 Carolina Russo

From Food Stamps to a Future…

And today FEATURED is….Krista Kemp she would be on my sidebar widget for this week!

My apologies for posting this not on Saturday like usual sorry but this week has been busy ❤ Thank you as always for participating to this weekly Meet and Greet event. I want to thank all of you and all the new Bloggers that left their links here and all the ones that started to Follow my Blog, some very interesting new Bloggers arrived here this weekend.

<< (Please Krista grab this Badge and post it somewhere on your Blog! A reblog of this post would be great! ❤

How can you be Featured on YesterdayAfter?
Stay Connected! Follow my Blog and on my other Social Media Facebook Twitter Pinterest
be active and like my FB Page! ❤

Today I am very happy to introduce you with Krista Kemp she is a wonderful soul with a sunny smile, her great and friendly personality is the light behind her interesting and motivating Blog! Krista is always in motion and like to talk about the ways she changed her life overcoming with courage moments of struggles in her past. She is also a writer, with the passion for crafting things that she make and sell on Etsy. Krista is a super-mom of four and she says on her About page “I am a Jane of all trades, and a master to none…” she is a wonderful friend here on the blogosphere we follow each other from months. Congratulations for being featured here! ❤ 🙂

If you don’t know her Blog and want to have fun and great reading with a dose of very useful information please I suggest you to visit her Blog!

Have a great week preparing for the Holidays!