Here is one of the best surprises I’ve got for my birthday from a friend.
I love the books of Tove Jansson and these strange heroes.
The cake was not only perfectly made, but also very, very delicious piece of kitchen art. :-)
My brother gave me this big pencil.
It’s a joke with the name of this website, which sounds like the word “pencil” in Bulgarian. :-)
I guess he is just trying to tell me, that is time for me to give drawing more space in my life.
Not, it’s not about me.
I am rebelling all the time for this and that, but today I just wanted to present you one guy, who stumbled me in my daily work for .net – Grzegorz Kozakiewicz, or just – pencilrebel.
He is very crazy. And awfully inventive. Skillful.
And for his imagination one could say nothing more than what his site is revealing – see by yourself. :-)
Tha man has also a blog, very naturally. You can see there how he made this whole amazing site.
I am very fond of this particular and rare kind of people – for which there are no imagination limits in the work they love to do.
(The inspiration for this guy came once while spotting some Sony commercial posters with rabbits.)
This flower is here only to add color to the post, and here you can also see a bunch of rabbits just waiting for the “Start!” signal! :-)
Another one from the same series, made in February. Still not really finished, but I like it even now, without colors…
There were different opinions what kind of animal it should be, but it came to be a fox. His tail should be a head of a cobra, but I’ve change it a bit, because Michel was not very fond of it, didn’t like the symbol. :-)
When he was a kid, he used to sing in the choir,
but nowadays he is dreaming for opera. Plays old gramophone records and sings with them.
He has read “The book for the opera” and knows all the Giuseppe Verdi’s librettos by heart. But he is too shy and prefers to sing only at home. When he feels bold, he opens the window. :-)
The neighbors are not angry, because he actually sings very gently.
I guess there are subjects and things that just gets me obsessed from time to time and something is making me going on in the same direction.
About fifteen or sixteen years ago, when I became friends with the clay for the first time, who knows why, but I started to make fairy dwarfs and small wizards. Most of them I gave to a friends almost immediately, but still have half a score at home, which i considered not good enough for a present.
In the last few years I have less and less free time and the needed serenity to do such things, but having this site made me realize that cats have ensconced themselves in it permanently and comfortable and for now they don’t even think about leaving.
On paper or from clay, it seems to imply that they know well what am I in need for – exactly not-being-in-a-hurry, more home life, even a bit of laziness.
Here are two specimens, that I love much.
First this charming one. Because he is always thinking for food, I gave him a magnet – to be close to the refrigerator. :-)
We can learn many things from the cats. I admire their natural strength and elegance and the amazing ability to relax. Anywhere. Anytime.
And here it is the little pensive wanderer, who misses adventures and new lands:
He read a lot about the places that want to visit. But home is taking him back and it is getting harder to break the habit and go on the road.
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He is also a big retro-fan and is born with the sense of good style. Always wanted to be a ship cat. He has heard that in the ship holds is full with rats, who knows the taste of rum and salt sea water. But he is not afraid, only curious to meet them.
Terribly curious.
Maybe many people feel the same, but my fingers just cannot stay without doing something.
Whatever thing I spot, I always start to think that it could be turned into something else, usually some kind of toy (although sometimes it happens to be also something useful).
:-)
In the Sea garden in Bourgas there are some trees (we have them in Sofia as well), but unfortunately I never can remember their name. They have leaves a bit like the maple, thorny little ball-shaped fruits (which are not good to eat) and beautiful light rind.
The pieces of rind are tempting, they look to me like ready to use slices of veneer. I have used them before to make freakish greetings (it works also with pine-tree rind)q but now during the short vacation I did this funny little house:
It has owners, although are a bit carelessly. It will be obviously windy there during the winter, but they just don’t care.
They love each other and are happy together. They have He-dog and She-cat.
They decided to live in Bourgas, by the sea. There they feel happier and free.
And if sometimes they feel a little bored, they listen to the music of the wind, who is playing with these sea shells:
… it seems that the shells are telling stories about all the amazing things and great secrets, hidden in the Big water…
:-)
Hmm, this one is more “looking like a cat” than being a cat indeed.
He is very positive, always smiling to the world.
He is never in a bad mood, likes the sun and enjoys the rain, too.
Respects typography, but from few days is trying to read all these Love Stories. Especially likes the one with the cake and the sugar.:-)
He is looking for Love and new friends, so he is wearing this heart everywhere – as a friendly sign and to be sure that this time he won’t be misunderstood.
This guy was also my first try with white clay from the sort that dries without baking. But I still prefer to work with the old natural brown clay. :-)
After the mass Firefox download lately /fighting for a world record/, I decide that it is in fact a good moment to show you this:
I’ve made it about year and a half ago, but It was finished this January (and you can see it today, which is… yes, yes, I know the date, please, don’t remind me…)
There’s a magnet on the back, only… I didn’t weight very well the clay logo itself and now you can put it somewhere only if you use another magnet, bigger one. Next time – better try. :-)
However, I am not so good as to invent it and design it like his author did, but still I believe it is not so bad. :-)
Here’s what happened with this guy after dyeing. I’m not quite sure If I like it more now or before, but however, it’s too late to hesitate.
Indeed, it’s likeable now, in its own way somehow. It was year and a half lingering, till finally I decided to finish it. Not bad, actually?
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