humans of new york

Humans of New York je pro mě zjevením. Silné příběhy, krásné fotky... komorní reality show.

bienále pro diakonii

Od příštího týdne začne v Brně probíhat sympatická dobročinná akce Bienále pro diakonii. Koná se již po čtvrté a letošní výtěžek poputuje na domov pro seniory a postižené v jihomoravské Nosislavi, jehož stavba se chystá. Bude možné akci podpořit koupí uměleckých děl nebo jiných věcí. Před dvěma lety jsem se poprvé zúčastnila a věnovala obraz (svoje první modré lišky), který se prodal, z čehož jsem měla radost. Taky jsem si tam koupila prima medvěda. Letos to zkouším už se dvěma obrazy. Je mi líto, že je to dost z ruky a nedostanu se na žádnou z akcí.

září a říjen

V září jsme si udělali krásný výlet do Prahy. Chodili jsme pěšky (i přes železniční most), byli jsme v restauraci, v čajovně, v kavárně, v kině... taky v botanické zahradě. Romantika jak sviň!

Ulice, kde jsme se zamilovali... v roce 2001.
V říjnu jsme byli v cukrárně na brutálním dortíku, a viděli dalšího skvělého ufonka v obchůdku Kateřiny Soukupové blízko Vyšehradu. A taky jsme byli na výstavě Micla, kterou Petr uváděl. Jeho obrazy mě fakt baví.

a bat in the bedroom

Look what we found in the bedroom... Last night, we heard strange noises, something flying around and something fell on Petr´s head (in the middle of the night! Eeks!). We couldn´t find anything at night, but during the day we heard some strange noises again, and with a little help from our brave neighbour, found this bat holding onto a duvet. We can´t imagine how it got inside our space... I just hope there aren´t more hiding somewhere!

creature

New one for the keys :).

lovely

There was a wedding at our church on Saturday, it was very nice. Andulka wore the tunic dress I made for Maruška, she looks so cute in it.

a day in the city

There were (and still are) floods in many parts of our country, also the capital. I went to Prague on the first day after the long rain. I didn´t bring my camera, because I thought it´s going to rain again, but I took many photos with my cell phone. I´m looking for some inspiration for my paintings. I see some gray houses in my future... again :).

I met my friend Anna, we went to a great restaurant and saw a fancy shop window :).

listening to lanugo

all the time :). Such a great music!

working on

I´m busy painting - I decided to show only unfinished paintings here. Unless someone comes to our house to look at them, all of the new ones will be a surprise at the exhibition.
Today I tried to do some sewing while Andulína was around, but it was almost impossible. She manages to play on her own only for a very short time, and then keeps just standing by my leg, yelling at me to pick her up :). Also I used to cut my fabric on the floor (there´s nowhere else to do it, actually), and that´s not possible with her, of course. Anyway, there are some very easy projects I´d like to finish soon - some clothes for Marie, so I´ll try to do that as soon as possible.

roes

Look what I got today! An early christmas present, perhaps :). I love roes. Everytime we´re on a walk I hope to see some. They are such cute animals, elegant, beautiful. Once we visited our friends (they live near a forest), and while standing on their garden, I noticed a little male roe lying in the corner of their garden. It was dying and weak. There was even a dog, and we all were standing and chatting quite long in the garden, but nobody saw it.

I fell in love with another house...

...and I love it so much I can hardly stand it! :) Oh my, this building is so so so beautiful. I started to like it a long time ago, and made a painting of it already, but then I found out I didn´t take a good photo of the house - a huge part was missing on the photo. It´s almost impossilble to take a photo of this house, as it stands right next to the road (quite busy road), and there´s no place to park the car. But today, thanks to the internet and Google maps, I found great photos of the house. And I want to paint this house for the second time. Well, in fact, I would like to actually buy the whole house, but it´s practically a pallace, so I don´t think this is possible :). (Not that I have enought money for a small house, haha.) I just think it´s so gorgeous.

I love you, want you, need you, baby!

exhibition at home (almost)

Twice a year my husband (who studied history of art before he studied theology) prepares exhibiton at our church. Some people are not very happy with this, as they think that protestants should have plain church interiors, no art and such. But some people like art and paintings, so he continues with these exhibitions... I was very glad that some people from our congregation wanted to see my paintings there. My husband wasn´t very keen on making a speech for me before the exhibition, but he did anyway :). The opening was great, some of our friends came and my husband´s speech was nice. I couldn´t finish the hotel painting, but I decided to hang it unfinished. I´m ill now, but when I gain some strengh again, I´ll take it home and continue painting it. And the best thing! People actually wanted to buy my paintings. Six paintings are going to go to a new home when the exhibition ends, hopefully (I hope noone changes their mind! :). That means I´ll be left with almost no paintings for future exhibitions... I have to buy new canvases and paint many new paintings :).

feeling inspired

So, I´ve came across this really cool blog about children clothes and toys filled with beautiful photos. And I thought, wait, I have a cute child too, why not try to take some photos of this cute child of mine, to create similar blog posts? Well, this is what I ended up with:
Even if you have a good camera, taking photos of your child in new pants isn´t as easy as it seems :).

collage

I made this with my girl today. I just started to cut out characters from newspapers, and than I thought about making a collage. So I did, and I love it. If you look closer you´ll see interesting uninteded and unexpected details like the two wreaths in low right corner, or how the person with spear is extending his hand to the kneeling man...