Sometimes I wish...…that illustrations just magically appear on paper, that we could materialize them with the mere will of our thoughts. Wouldn’t that be great and time saving also? Well, on rare occasions I wish that could happen, but most of the time I enjoy process of drawing and creating and don’t want to speed it up!

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Since I missed taking photos on a daily basis I started another 365 project on flickr last Saturday. One of the reasons for taking up this project was to get a better use of my 50 mm lens. I also decided to focus on self-portraits this time (I’ve already finished one 365 project this Spring) .
Here are the pictures from my first week:

another one
001/365: another one

gaze
002/365: gaze

into the woods
003/365: into the woods

offering
004/365: an offering

little world
005/365: little world

by a tree
006/365: by a tree

mobile home
007/365: mobile home

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asjasshop promo

I’m feeling very happy today, because I opened an art shop, right here on my website!  I had SO MUCH fun photographing  art and putting my little store together! It seemed to be the best way for me to kick off this new week and feel full of energy and enthusiasm :)

Right now  I’m offering some of my older original drawings. Feel free to take a looksy and if you see anything you like you can mail me on asja@asjaboros.com and we can arrange something!

art shop muffin

bird arrangement

art shop framed

Oh, and I wish you a wonderful, super awesome week!

wish you amazing week

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framed drawing
Framed 30×40 cm drawing.

rose
Rose reflecting on a rainy day.

wip august roses
Flowery drawing in progress.

august rose
A rose for you.

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cute or creepy?

Hi everyone! I’ve been neglecting my blog in lately mostly because I was offline a lot living life in real world :) But I felt like saying hello and posting something. This is a photo I wouldn’t usually post on my illustration blog but I’m interested in your opinions. I noticed these little animals in a window of a store in Zagreb that sells genuine fur coats and I was also told these little furry critters are made of genuine animal fur. So what do you think, is this cute, crazy, bizzare, creepy, wrong? Is it art?
Personally I think these critters are totally crazy and bizzare :-)

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I was very busy for the past couple of days so I didn’t have the time to finish illustrations I started and planned on posting today.

Here are few photos from my daily life instead, after all this is meant to be a photo as well as illustration  blog :-)

my workcorner
My tiny “work corner” at home.

daily use
On the left, a shelf with pens and pencils I use on almost daily basis. On the right, lobster guarding his collection of pens :-)

silly doodles
Some silly doodles, done just for fun.

snack
An afternoon snack.

afternoon snack
More fruit I ate today. What can I say, I like fruit :-)

tea
Tea time! I like tea as well :-)

I hope you’re having a nice week!

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let's be friends!

Octopus says: Let’s be friends! Who wouldn’t want to be friends with an octopus wearing such hip bowler hat?
This is one of my latest drawings, it about 8×6 inches in size (like other two) and the tentacles of the octopus are colored with shiny, glittery pens , so they sparkle under bright light.

pink woods

Girl loves to hang out in the pink woods. You can’t really see it on a photo, but tress are bright silver and they sparkle as well!

cheers
This guy really likes to party and likes his champagne. His cat, however, is not too happy about it. Probably because the guy doesn’t like to share his drink. Cheers!

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1000 tiny houses

It’s said if you fold a thousand origami cranes you will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury.
It’s also said that making a thousand origami lucky stars will grant you a wish.
But I was wondering if drawing a thousand tiny houses would grant you anything (except being labeled as an obsessive-compulsive doodler hehe)? Just kidding of course :)
I like doodling little houses so I thought why not line up a thousand of them?
The truth is I simply love sketching a simple geometric shape of a little house. Here are a couple of my older drawings framed:
2framed drawings

And I also love pretty much anything with an illustration of tiny houses, like this gigantic tea cup (filled with lemongrass/ginger tea right now):
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I’m very fond of these house shaped salt and pepper shakers, too (although I use them as decoration only):
3houses

Is there any particular motif/pattern/shape you especially like?

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in bloom

pink blossom

pink blossom

blossom

blossoming branches

blossom

in bloom

springtime

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