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As I  enjoyed reading both Deb’s and Beth Retro’s blog post on random facts about themselves I thought it would be fun to write one about myself.

So, here  are random bits about yours truly, in no particular order:

 I simply cannot understand why modern society is so obsessed with  being young (and looking young at any price). I mean youth-hood has it’s perks but from what I’ve learned growing up and growing older and wiser and having more experience is even better. There’s no way I would ever be teenager or re-live my early twenties again! The older I get, the more  I learn about myself the more confident, focused and balanced I am and I really love it.

I love setting goals. The one thing I love more than setting goals is achieving them.

I don’t vote. Never voted in my entire life. I don’t believe in electoral system, I think politicians are simply marionettes of corporate interests. I’m not religious.  I wasn’t brought up that way and I never felt  need to become a part of any religion. I’m aware that both politics and religion are pretty sensitive stuff, so I keep them away from my blog even though I’m pretty opinionated about both topics.

I’m a typical Libra. Or maybe not. Can’t really decide :)

I think that the sexiest thing on a man is his mind. I love intelligent, slightly unconventional, creative men with sense of humor.

There are two major trends in art/design I would love to see go away. First, Super Mario pop-art ( and any ironic  Super Mario designs, t-shirts, jewelry, cupcakes etc…) Second, exploitation of that carry on and keep calm poster. Haven’t that idea been used and abused too many times by now? I would like to design a “carry on and stop exploiting carry on poster ideas already” hehe.

Ever since I was fifteen I wrote  journals in English. I can’t really remember why I started writing in English, probably because I wanted to get better at it. I always enjoyed learning foreign languages mostly because it  never felt like studying but having fun. One of my few regrets in life is not taking lessons in French when I had an opportunity, but, hey , it’s never too late, right?

I always keep a notebook (or several notebooks) near me so I can write down ideas, to-do lists or anything else that comes to mind. I usually fill up to four notebooks a  month with ideas and random thoughts.

I’m pretty obsessed with anything art/creativity related. About 90% of my time and energy is in some way devoted to things art related. And that’s not an exaggeration,  I even dream about drawing and taking pictures.

I prefer cold over warm weather, I really dislike heat and sweating and humidity in Summer. I wish it snowed this Winter.

Fellow bloggers, feel like sharing a bit of randomness about yourself? I’d love to read :)

 

Duck Rocket

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

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As you might noticed in lately I’ve been posting mostly drawings from my sketchbook and slightly neglecting my blog (and flickr) and the reason for that is not me losing inspiration or interest in blogging but being very busy with a super exciting project! Not so long ago I started working on my first book, a collection of my illustrations. The book will be out in Autumn 2011. but I should finish most of it by mid June so I’m spending every free moment of my time sketching, coloring and putting together fun, colorful happy illos! The working title of the book for now is Unconditional joy of living because that’s the feeling I try to express in my illustrations. The book is divided into four chapters, every chapter representing one season of the year in up to twenty drawings.
Working on this project is making me happy and absolutely thrilled and I will share more about it soon!

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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.

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alkaLINES and Noodles Mountain

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

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bear jelly fish

Another underwater beast!

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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.)

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Video of my mini Moleskine notebook filled with drawings.
I had a lot of fun filling my mini Moleskine notebook with drawings and doodles, I did it in breaks between some more “serious” drawing, painting and running errands. All of the drawings are done from imagination without any pre-sketches or strict ideas of what I’m going to draw. I used a lot of metallic colors, mainly silver and gold and enjoyed combining bight blues, greens and pinks. The colorful the better :)

*click on icon in the right lower corner of the video to see full screen version

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drawings

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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!

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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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