I'll be 33 tomorrow!

Time really flies! I can't believe that I'll be 33 tomorrow!
I celebrated my birthday in my parents place this evening :)

Right to left: My dad, my mom, my brother, me, Suma (my husband)

Dear Azadeh I hope to have you here with us very soon! xo I miss you dear sister!! ♥

Cherry Blossoms . March

Cherry blossoms for March and beginning of spring!

I original illustration has a lovely blue background, but to be consistent
I used white background for the calendar card. This is the print of my
watercolor illustration. Now it's available in my print shop.
Watercolor on 8.5"x10" paper

Tufted Titmouse . February

These cute birdies are called "Titmouse", they are North American
birds. You can read more about them here and you can see a very

cute, chubby titmouse here!

Next card will be March :)
Have a great Monday my friends!

Polka dot birdie

I've started working on 2011 Giclee calendar.

Each month has a card (Like last year) with a bird on it.
This polka dot birdie is for January.

Watercolor and pencil on 5"x7" paper.

Shop update

I've added a few new designs to JooJoo Land shop.
I created a new category "What's New" to make it easier for everyone to

find the new items :)

Some of these pieces are not listed yet, but if the weather permits I'll

take more photos of them and list them during the week.

Have a lovely Monday dear friends!

Love

Here it is! I finished it last night and scanned it this morning!
Q: Which birdie do you think is a boy and which one is a girl?

Watercolor on 8.5"x11" paper
This is how it looks framed!
I'm so happy with how it looks in Ikea Ribba frame :) Sweet!
Have a lovely Friday and weekend dear friends ♥

My love for Typography

I ♥ typography and calligraphy, although I used to hate them in

school when I was a kid!
We used to practice Nastaligh (Persian style calligraphy)
and I have to say it was very difficult for me! But recently I was playing
with letters and illustrations and came up with this design.

It's not done yet, but I'll show the complete painting soon!

It's hard to see the birdies now! They are almost hidden :)

Sketchbook

More pages of my sketchbook!

Crabapple

Thanks a lot dear friends for your wonderful comments for the
previous post! I actually cut one of the fruits as you said and it looks
exactly like an apple! So I guess these trees are crabapple trees.

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I did a few painting on stones that I had found by the beach.

The colored parts are acrylic colors and I used a Pigma Micron 005 pen

to draw the black fine lines! It's much easier that a brush, especially

when the surface of the stones is not very smooth.

Little park

There is a small park behind our building with little hills and small trees.
I usually go there to find branches on the ground
for my clay projects.

The trees have deep red fruits, like miniature pomegranates.
Do you know what the name of this tree is?

House Sparrow

I really didn't know male and female sparrows have different colors

until I took pictures of them while there were singing on our
balcony.

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I painted them with watercolors in my new tiny Moleskine
watercolor notebook.

When I took a close look at their photos I realized that they are

very different! You can read more about them here in Wikipedia.

These are the photos that I took from them. They both have something
in their beaks and still were singing! :)) I guess their nest is very close
and they're taking food to their chicks.

If you're looking for a very good watercolor notebook you'll love this one.
I bought this one from Ebay but they sell them in most craft stores.
You can also find them in Moleskine website.

Collection of small objects

A little collection of colorful polymer clay leaves and branches.
I've used some of the leaves for decorating my birdies log.

I was thinking of framing the birdies in a small shadow box.

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Those marbles in the background are my childhood belongings!

My dad bought them as souvenir from Switzerland for three of us
(my sister, brother and I), they were in nine colors and each of us

had a set of nine. I guess I loved them more than my brother

and sister, that's why 21 of them ended up here with me :))

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PS. Dear Azadeh and Ali: you can claim your marbles anytime!

I was just taking good care of them for you :P

Jewelry time!

Some of the new pieces that I've added to JooJoo Land shop.
The bottom right ones are my favorites, I kept a pair for myself!

Hope you enjoy! ♥

Sketchbook

More pages of my sketchbook.

This sketch book encourages me to connect with my senses
and be more creative.

I also enjoy doing some collage, sticking pieces of recycled paper,
stamps, tapes,...it's a lot of fun!

*Click on the image to see it bigger*
- HB Pencil on paper -

An old sketch

Today I was browsing through my old files and found this

sketch that I had done in 1999...time flies! :)

Model: Kristy Hume

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I hope you have a creative week dear freinds!

Tropical bird

Hi friends! Finally I'm back after being so quiet.

This was the painting that I had in mind for the topic "Paisley".

I've done this illustration with watercolors and pen on paper.

This is the work in progress.
I wish you a lovely week ♥

New banner

I made a new banner for JooJooLand shop.

I love its soft colors, although I miss the cute old banner.

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I wanted to participate in this week's "Illustration Friday" but
I was very busy and couldn't finish the painting.
The topic is "Paisley" and since this shape has a Persian origin
I wanted to do something special for it. But they say
"Better late than never"...

so see you soon with paisley illustration :)

Summer sale

I have added a few new items to the shop.
There is also a summer sale in JooJooLand shop.
You'll get free shipping by buying 4 items or more.
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A gift for my loyal blog readers:
Get additional $2 off by entering the code: Blog2off
in the "Message to the seller" section during checkout.
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- Sale ends July 23, 2010 -

Little sparrow

This little birdie is a friend of mine that sings outside my window.

I'm so grateful that these guys come and visit us, even though we are

living in a high floor apartment.

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I hope you have a lovely Monday!

Illustration Friday - Ripple

A little doodle that I did on a paper doilie and
colored it in PhotoShop.
I did that birdie on the left page in doctor's office today while I was
waiting to go in. It took an hour for them to send me in!
Thank God that I had a pen and a notebook :D

Frogs of JooJoo Land

Here are the frogs! The lily pads that they're sitting on are made of porcelain! Perfect for my little ones!
Frogs are one of my favorite animals, I especially love the way the sing
all together at night!

Purple jewelry

I've added a few new items to the shop today. Most of them are

purple and lilac!
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I like the idea of categorizing jewelry by color!

How about you?

Another week passed by...I wish you a lovely weekend friends!

Kitties and pink birdie

New kids on the block!
These guys are new members of JooJoo Land!
Now I'm working on some frogs! I'll blog about them very soon! ♥

Nesting shells

My sister and I found these shells in Kish Island (An island in Persian Gulf)
when I was 7 years old. Only a few native people were living in there and it
was so deserted. We had gone there for my dad's business trip.

Now the island has become a resort and full of tourists, but I haven't visited
it since then.

Illustration Friday - Slither

Watercolor and 005 archival pen on 5x7" paper.

Shadow box

I got myself a shadow box from Mr. Tom vintage shop to
organize my miniature figurines. It's kind of empty now
so I'm planning to make lots of new clay lovelies for JooJoo Land!
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I wish you all a lovely Monday and a great start for the week!

Sketchbook

I got myself a lovely sketchbook, it's perfect a doodling, making collage and
creativity. You can see it bigger by clicking on the image.

Happy Friday and weekend!

IF - Early

Rooster the early bird wakes up early when everyone else is sleeping.
He gets really bored and guess what! ... He wakes everyone up!

I did this painting with watercolor and pen on paper.
The paper that I use is Fabriano (Hot pressed and extra white)
It's a perfect paper if you want to make Giclée prints, because it's
very smooth and scanner-friendly :)
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You can find the print of this painting in my shop.

Love is all we need

I finally finished painting this!

It wasn't easy to scan it, because it's much bigger than my
scanner's screen. So I scanned it in 3 steps and then merged
all the three pieces together in Photoshop.

It has a lot of details that can't be seen in the photos, but here you
can see more details.



I've printed the painting on 13x19" and 8.5x11" papers and both
are available in my shop now.

I hope you're having a great weekend! Here Monday is a public
holiday (Victoria Day). So we are enjoying a long weekend :)
See you soon dear friends!