Christmas advent 2015

Here's my complete advent. Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed designing it :)

Merry Christmas!

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Last day of the advent, here's a fox with a flowery tail. Hope you have everything ready for tomorrow.

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A couple of herons for today's advent. 

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A polar bear for today's advent, and lots of flowers to be on the safe side :)

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A couple of love birds for today's advent :)

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Cats have been missing from my advent, until today! Here's one relaxing under an arch of flowers

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A rabbit for today's advent :)

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Today's advent is a reindeer with a little bird :)

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Today I discovered that my Christmas advent was featured in a dutch blog together with a bunch of super talented artists - check it out HERE

For today's advent Santa is relaxing on the moon before delivering all the presents :) 

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We had nice weather for a couple of days but it seems to be getting cold again. I'll have to start wearing my blanket to work (luckily my office is in my house).  

A red bird for today's advent - I should try to make this decoration with felt.

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I've been loving drawing birds for my advent :) here's one with a little house 

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An angel playing the harp for today's advent.

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I'm a birthday girl today! - I got a few lovely presents just like this squirrel :)

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Christmas baubles for today's advent :)

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Today's advent with a little heart - I'm having so much fun drawing birds and flowers for my advent!

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Aren't owls cute? I know they were a big trend last year but they look so cute that I think they should be always trendy :) 

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December 8th :)

MATS B

I'm sure many of you have heard of the Make Art That Sells (MATS) e-course taught by Lilla Rogers. After seeing so many beautiful designs by alumni of the course, I decided to enrol this past October for part B - I was travelling for the first week, I didn't know the course was going to be so intense from the beginning!

The first week's market was paper and the theme was Christmas biscuits. I drew hundreds of biscuits until I could almost taste and smell them from the pictures. I almost convinced myself that if I could draw the biscuits, maybe I could also bake them and decorated them.... I haven't tried yet, but it looks difficult :(

                                             

The second week's market was baby apparel and the theme was lucky charms. This is a market I'm super interested in, I'd love to see my designs on all kinds of baby products - specially pyjamas!  - If you want me to design something for this market please email me!!! :) - I love cats and Japan so I designed a print and a pattern with the famous maneki neko.  

The third week's market was scrapbook and the theme was cruise ships. I didn't know much about this market before but I loved creating all the icons and thinking about all the possibilities for products - washi tape, stickers, patterned paper, stamps, etc. 

The forth week was editorial design and we were to design a map of where we live - town, city, country, etc - This was a very challenging brief for me; this was my first time designing a map like this and deciding on my favourite places in HK was difficult too. 

The last week's theme was party paper and the theme was Ukrainian and Bavarian folk art. I enjoyed this assignment so much and I loved researching and discovering so many beautiful designs from around the world. At the end I was inspired by Russian and Ukrainian folk art...  my favourite part was drawing lots of flowers. 

All in all it was a great experience, it's a shame that Lilla won't be doing more live reviews during the MATS courses - I was thinking about taking MATS part A next year but it seems like I missed my chance :(

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Today is "el día de las velitas" (which translates to day of the candles), one of my favourite festivals from my home country: Colombia. At night people light up colourful candles in front of their houses and chitchat with the neighbours, maybe sharing Christmas biscuits and a little bit of apple wine. When I was little people used to have fireworks as well but many children had accidents, so nowadays people go to big fireworks displays organised by the local authorities. They have a big event in a small town called Villa de Leyva with lots of fireworks which I hope to go to one day.

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A little fawn for today's advent :)

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A little fairy for today's advent :)

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Well, the sun is gone :( it's getting colder - I'm not sure if I like it, although it feels more Christmassy. Day 4 of my Christmas advent.  

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December always goes so fast! I can't believe it's already the 3rd and I haven't put up the Christmas decorations - I'll be doing it over the weekend, I need to replace some pieces that one of our cats destroyed not long ago :(

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A horse jumping for day 2 :)

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It's December and the countdown to Christmas starts! Here's day 1 :) 

Christmas jumper

Christmas is just around the corner! I'm so excited. Are you going to be wearing a Christmas jumper? This little squirrel is for Animal sweater Sunday challenge (on twitter) :)

Colour collective - Silver

I've finally got a little time to work on a personal piece. 

H is for...

Is for happy hippo having fun in the swimming pool :)

G is for...

Is for guinea pig, a glamorous guinea pig :) I wonder how guinea pigs are like pets, are they nice? Do they have personality? Do they make noises? 

F is for...

Is for baby ferret napping.

E is for...

Is for Emperor Tamarin, which I thought was a penguin when I read its name.... Luckily we have google this days, so I googled it and found out it's a monkey with a cool moustache and the cutest face.  

D is for...

Dodo skating :)

C is for ...

... cute coati :)

B is for...

Another letter for animal alphabets. B is for baby bat :)

A is for ....

Another fun twitter challenge I'm taking part in. The challenge is called animal alphabets and this is the first animal: an aardvark - I didn't know this animal existed, I had to google it! and sadly I can't pronounce its name :(

Raccoon in swing

I think I have a special place in my heart for swings :) I love drawing animals having fun on them. Here's a little raccoon for pinch punch post. 

Panda hug

Have you heard about #AnimalSweaterSunday? Well, people draw animals wearing sweaters on Sundays. I've been meaning to participate for ages but I always remember on Mondays :( hehehe so here's my first submission. I'll try to remember it for next Sunday :)

Mermaid

Here's my piece for #colour_collective. This week's colour is RoseTyrien

Ice cream

Hello there, sorry for the lack of posts, I'm trying to rethink what I should blog about... in the meantime, here's a banner I designed for my lovely agent's website >>>here<<< - there're a few other banners from other artists as well rotating randomly there :) I hope you like ice-cream as much as I do!

Great news

I've been working on my first picture book and on some other nice projects. I'm so excited! 

Pinch Punch Post - Elephant

It's the first day of the month, so that means it's pinch punch post time! I've been very busy with lots of projects but I couldn't resist joining the fun, so here's my contribution. Hope you like this guy! 

Pinch punch post - Lion

Here's my little lion for Pinch Punch Post - he's having so much fun!

Colour collective - Tangerine

Here's my colour collective piece for this week. I wanted to do a something a little more challenging - with a few more characters than usual - and I also wanted to have some storytelling, which I find difficult but I know it's all about practice :) 

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