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Hello Friday, I can’t believe you’re already here! I really wanted to post my photo diary like I have for past few weeks every Friday but I’ve been ill with sinus infection all week long. I’m still on antibiotics that are giving me annoying side effect so all of my activities were reduced to a minimum. Arlen had to do a bunch of work for me, like cutting a pile of cardboard, packing and shipping all of the prints ordered in sale. (And if I may say so he did a great job at it.)

So, instead of sharing my photo diary this week I’m sharing an art piece made by Arlen called Turtle-Duck In Focus.

He used ZIG multiliners , gelly rolls on 5.5x8inch on original lino cut texture made by me. You might remember seeing those textures here.

I know I’m very biased but I love all of his work and here are some of my all-time Alkaline Samurai favorites:

Alkaline Insight

On this piece Arlen used Zig art and graphic brush tip, and zig Millennium multiliner. 0.05mm on 8.5 by 11 inch bristol paper. All of the multiliner work was done free hand under microscope.

In fact, he does a lot of his detailed work under the microscope, he’s just awesome like that.

Full Bloom

A drawing done by Prisma brush tips and gelly rolls inspired by sakura.

Arlen also frequently fills up pages of Moleskines with his detailed ink art, here are some of my personal faves from his Moleskines:

MOLEcular Intelligence Page 1 new mini moleskine!

In the wind , Mini moleskine page 11

Encroachment, mini moleskine Page 12

Here is a photo of his latest Moleskine drawing: The Turtle Ducks Living House , on a hilltop, overlooking the beach… ( page 2)

More of his, non-Moleskine related art:

Although somewhat atypical to his usual style, this piece , Fluid, is one of my super favorites by him.

Consider, a card I have framed above my desk.

Forest Spirit, another card by him I own

Arlen also designs unique characters, he used to draw a lot of gummies, now he’s making up stories with turtleducks:

He also designed some instrument characters, like this naughty piano:

(Oh, and he makes music himself, you can hear some of his beats here.)

If you like, you can check out more of Arlen’s artwork on his flickr.

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I wish you all wonderful weekend!

Artist Arlen Dean (Alkaline Samurai) is having a card give away on his flickr. The card has a print of one of our latest collaborations, called Tru Duckery (I did the background texture and he painted a couple of turtleducks). So, if you’re on flickr, you can check out his giveaway here. And be fast because the first one who sends him a message, gets a card

Last Summer, while taking a walk with Mr Dean near where I live I noticed an area of woods going through some sort of woodland maintenance (uh, I’m sure there’s better expression for that, but I can’t really think of one now). Lots of old trees were trimmed, new paths were made, there were big piles of old, cut down branches everywhere. Air was filled with heavy dust and whole scenery looked a bit sad and unloved but I felt I need to shoot there.

“This could be a good location for a photo shoot“, I said. “I’d love to shoot some selfies here. But I need something, a prop maybe, something to be in contrast with this dirty, dusty environment.” So I decided I need a simple, feminine, white dress, maybe a bit old-fashioned or romantic. Since that’s not something I’d wear in “real” life and generally don’t own anything white I started searching for it. It turned out it’s not easy finding such a simple piece of clothing but after almost two weeks I found my perfect white dress at a flea market.

The photo shoot was about to happen! I asked Mr Dean to help me and we took a collaborative series of photos. Some of them I edited shortly after and posted on my flickr yet I wasn’t satisfied. I felt there were a part of a some visual story and that still haven’t been finished. So, this weekend sitting in my cozy, warm living room watching a blizzard outside I said “It would be great to wear my white dress again, in the snow.” I shared my idea with Mr Dean and he suggested that we shoot at the very same location as last Summer. It was a deal!

When we took another series of photos, this time in snowy environment I felt a story of a white dress is now complete. Here is the entire photo story including both photos from this week and re-edited photos from last Summer:

woods in the summer small
summer white dress
white dress summer 01 small
tree of life small
in circles
circle

snow mask
snow mask small

sitting in snow

in snow
snow

Drawn by Alkaline Samurai ( he used black multiliner on A4 paper ) and digitally colored by me.

new signature bw

under the sea
This is another one of the paintings I did in collaboration with Arlen this Winter so I thought it would be a good time to finally post a picture of it. It’s acrylics and ink on wood panel. You can see the first one here.

alkaLINES and Noodles Mountain

Another collaboration with Alkaline Samurai, he drew the colorful lines and I made the Noodles Mountain.

underwater

Acrylics and ink painting done on a wooden panel.
This is the first of six paintings in the series, done in collaboration with Arlen Dean (Alkaline Samurai on flickr.)

Drawing with Arlen, just for fun. We’re actually working on another more “serious” collaboration together, a painting on 6 wooden panels, more about that soon. It’s always fun when he comes to visit!

sretni vrt

“Lucky garden”, 70×50 cm, mixed media
This is a second collaboration with Arlen Dean (Alkaline Samurai on flickr), it was very fun making it. It was Arlen’s idea to get a big poster paper and first add some abstract colorful paper cut outs and then draw around them.

I’m not on my vacation anymore, so I’m looking forward to catching up with your blogs as soon as I can. Have a wonderful week everyone!

gummyfication
This piece is a collaboration with amazingly talented Arlen Dean , also known as Alkaline Samurai on flickr. Please check out his work if you haven’t already.

Alkaline Samurai in focus

Alkaline card give away (card gone :))

A story of a white dress

Duck rocket

Under the sea

AlkaLINES and Noodles Mountain

Underwater world

Just for fun

Sretni vrt

Gummyfication, a collaboration with Arlen Dean

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