My next watercolor paintings

These are the sketches for my next watercolor paintings.
I usually write some notes for the colors next to the sketch.

Sometimes I write in Farsi and sometimes in English.

Here it says: "Grayish brown, pink, yellow - orange feet"
But I may change my mind! ;)This weekend is the long weekend for Easter.
Happy Easter and have a great weekend! :)

Happy Persian New Year!

Today is the first day of spring and Persian New Year.

This is my 7 Sîn! You may probably remember my last year's.

You can read about this Iranian tradition here in Wikipedia.

I bought these flowers from the supermarket today.
I hadn't seen such flowers before. They look so exotic.

Do you know their name? I promised you to take some good photos of Fire Festival in Toronto.
But it was very dark and I didn't have a tripod so these are the best
photos that I could take...
Blurry...but shows the fireworks. It was very crowded and I couldn't go
and take photos of the dancers and the performance.
More fireworks!
I wish you a very lovely spring and Persian New Year!

Illustration Friday - Brave

Better late than never!
I had the idea of this illustration in mind from a long time ago ...
I did it with colored pencils and PhotoShop.

Here is the print on 8.5x11" paper.
You can find it in my shop.

Etsy's Homepage!

I just saw my Aquarius girl on the homepage of Etsy!

So exciting!

Happy birthday to my Aquarious friends!
:)

Illustration Friday - Propagate

This week for Illustration Friday I did a pen illustration and colored it digitally

in PhotoShop. It's so much fun playing around in PhotoShop, a software

with endless possibilities.

Print of this illustration came out as I expected...I'm in love with it!

It will be added to the shop tomorrow.

Here is the original illustration in pen on 8.5"x11"paper.

One lazy afternoon

A new painting from my cactus series.
Watercolor and pen on 8.5"x11" paper.

Idea of this illustration came to my mind last year.
I made a quick sketch on the closest piece of paper which was
a t-shirt tag and kept it in my "ideas folder" so I don't forget it!
Here you can see the work in progress.

Print of this illustration will be available in JooJoo shop tomorrow.

illustration Friday - Muddy

Everyone can make mistakes...Don't you think so?
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This is an illustration I did for this week's Illustration Friday.

Watercolor and colored pencils on 5"x7" paper Have a great week!

Hope - Watercolor version

I finished the watercolor version of my little birdie.
The print of this illustration is now available in JooJoo shop.
It's printed on 8.5"x11" paper and the colors just pop!

Here you can see more details.

The inspiration for the colors of my little birdie was
this lovely Flickr photo.

IF - Focused

"Although I'm a small bird but I have big hopes...

I'm always focused on my dreams..."

This is the sketch of a watercolor illustration I'm working

on. I've colored this one with colored pencils.

Moon over the frozen city

Today was a very cold day, -14°C but feels like -23°C

usually I walk to post office and it takes only 10 minutes.

Although I was wearing many layers like an onion

but I still found it so hard to get there...

But I love Toronto, it's a beautiful city with lots of sunny days! :)

Two birdies

The last few days I was working on these two little birdies.
I haven't titled this painting yet, maybe "Innocent Love"...
Do you have any suggestions?

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.Water color on 8.5"x11" paper

Fruit labels

I am collecting fruit labels and stick them to the

back of my writing board.
It's funny, sometimes I want to try new fruits just for their labels!
When I finished filling up the whole writing board
I'll show it to you again :)

Shipping tubes arrived!

Just wanted to stop by to say that my shipping tubes arrived and now

my peacock print is available in the shop!

Here is a detailed view of the peacock's wing feathers.

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I have a big surprise for you!!!

I've been designing some cake toppers in the last few months

and they are almost ready! I'll show them to you this week!

Winner!

I ♥ Rondom.Org

You give your first and last numbers to it and

it chooses one random number. So the winner is my dear friend Montse!

Congrats! Please send me your address!

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Thanks a lot dear friends for stopping by and taking part in my giveaway

I read all of your precious comments and I enjoyed each and

every one of them! I ♥ you all!

The peacock

I finally finished my peacock! It will be available in my shop as soon as I

recieve my shipping tubes! It will be printed on 13" x 19" paper.
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The original painting. Watercolor on 12" x 18" paper

It's very detailed from close.

2010 calendar giveaway

I always wanted to thank you dear friends for stopping by my blog
& leaving such lovely comments! So here is a little thank you giveaway
to show my appreciation for your support and encouragement in 2009!

Please leave a comment with your name, country and also your favorite
illustration of this calendar (just one out of 12)
♥
I'll pick one winner next Friday 1:00pm EST

Peacock in progress

Just wanted to share the progress of my watercolor peacock with you!

Have a great Friday and weekend!

Lately...

Sketch of my peacock that I'm planning to color with

watercolors very soon.

A big bird that I saw from my window.

I don't know if it's an eagle or a hawk.

But it's so beautiful, and is flying so high.

My first papercuts

I did these paper papercuts yesterday for my brother's birthday.

I was inspired by lovely work of Elsita and I wanted to try it

myself. Now I have a lot of respect for people who do papercutting!

Moonrise

A beautiful moonrise from my window.

Moon was much bigger in person but it looks smaller in the photo.

I will get back soon with some fun stuff!

Thank you for your lovely comments on my snail! :)