Well,sadly yes,tomorrow I don't know if I can the possibility of publish my last work of this years because the day after tomorrow me and my family travel to America to visit my sister and celebrate the Christmas with her and we come back to home the 21th of January. If I can't upload my works,I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year and thank you all for your comments and fave on my works and my post,the power of the creativity be always with you even in the new year coming!See you soon!

Hello everyone!

Today in this post I explain you how I made the christmasballs show to you in these days,I translate what I write on the yellow pages from italian...I have publish this even on my facebook and Istagram profiles!!! Of course you can try to build your christmasball follow my steps! Good reading and have fun!

Create a Christmasball by yourself

STEP 1: Newspapers

STEP 2: Crumple the newspaper until you get a ball

STEP 3 : Wrap the ball in aluminum foil (twice) and then round it by flattening the sides until it becomes round.

STEP 4: Choose the glues to use (vinyl or quick-setting)

STEP 5: Do you have nut shells? You can clean them and then crush them, then spread the glue on the ball and glue the pieces one at a time like you do with a puzzle or the pieces of a mosaic.

STEP 6: This is what the ball should look like after drying.

STEP 7: Do you have caps on glass bottles of orange juice, beer, coke, water or etc? You can use them to decorate the ball, spread the Pattex quick-setting glue with your fingers and put the caps on. You decide whether to make them in all colors or a single color

Furthermore,once the glue has dried you can also paint ita to contrast with the colors of the caps or leave them normal like under here!

STEP 8: Make holes for the hook to hang the ball, before applying the glue remember to drill a hole in the top of the ball with the help of a nail or a pointed knife (if there are children, do it yourself for them and pay attention)

STEP 9: Choose the material with which to make the hook, you can choose between string or wire (if you have wire pliers). After creating it, insert it into the holes of the ball and seal with vinyl glue.

STEP 10: Paint the ball with walnut shells. Once the ball with the walnut pieces has dried, paint it with tempera or acrylic colours, choose whether to make it natural or paint Christmas landscapes or Christmas-themed animals on it (for example reindeer, penguin).

That's all! May the force of creativity always be with you! Happy Christmas and Happy New Year!

Yes,I am proud of to announce that my work "Femininity in bloom" has had some success and interest due to how it was created as well as being explained in words. Below is the link that takes you directly to the YouTube channel where I am also filmed explaining why I decided to create this work and why I chose the title.

https://youtu.be/sPut56-P_nY?si=qz4-Ff2w4PtUJjT-&sfnsn=scwspwa

P.s the video is entirely in italian language!

Yep,another art appointment on the way...my name is among the participants ☺️

Well yes, I'm also on YouTube....but don't get me wrong, I don't make excellent videos...I have very old videos of exhibitions and vernissages where I painted live. So after a small "restyling" of my profile I began to follow and make friends with some Youtubers like Paper Pizza (to whom I dedicated the drawing) and others. I mostly limit myself to commenting on the videos that I watch and find beautiful, I listen to both old and new music coming out and finally I publish my works... a kind of third platform in short.

If any of you are interested in coming to "visit" me there too, just type the profile name of the photo

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

COMPOSITIONS- THE STORY SO FAR

When exactly did I begin these artistic visual creations that I call "compositions"? It all began exactly in 2017 after the disastrous earthquake that hit Ischia on 21 August 2017 and my family and I were forced to move from home temporarily due to the damage suffered.

The first composition I made was the album which I then called "Birds" using pieces leaves and seeds of the plants.

"Bird on fly" composition realized with leaves and seeds.

Little by ittle as time goes by and with practice I slowly improved in making the shapes of the figures I created and continuing I moved on to using every type of material I found around me such as pennies for the album "Have a coin", paper clips, pins and chains for the album " Chains and pins" and so on up to the current creations that I publish. Many ask me why I don't keep the creations I make but on the contrary destroy them after taking a photo of the work, in the foreground unfortunately I don't have enough space to store them further to avoid leaving them to neglect and decay, in the background because there is a sort of "spirituality" in creating and undoing a bit like the Tibetan mandalas which remind us that everything has a beginning and end as said by the Buddha "Everything passes nothing remains".

"Portrait of a old woman "on sketchbook with various pencils.

As you may have noticed I have posted more than one work about portraits, especially about people. Well, unfortunately that of portraits, especially if they are not animals (which I am more suited to) is one of the gaps on which I still have to seriously work a lot on. My difficulties are reproducing the size and shape of the head and nose, as well as retouching some details such as the ears and lips. If you notice, a little while ago I posted "Face of an elderly woman" which came out better than "Portrait of Ruth"... why?

"Portrait of Ruth Pozzi" drawing on paper with crayons.

My former art teacher advised me to take inspiration from some portraits of famous artists such as Van Gogh or Monet by carefully observing the lines and shapes and to try to reproduce them freehand on drawing diaries or sheets of paper and with the diaries I find myself I am more comfortable while on paper I find it difficult because I have to take into account the available space and the size of the subject to be represented. However, the road is still very long but I trust that by putting in the effort I will be able to achieve my objectives... but of course I will obviously also have to take into account the opinions expressed by those who observe my drawings and works both positively and negatively because a true artist must take both the good and the bad of what he does in his profession without replying or contesting, in fact every day when I post my works I am fully conscious and aware of the judgments that will be due to me regarding what I do and for this reason the desire and passion to try my hand in art it never fails.

The photocopying hobby - part 2

And here we are again at the second part about the photocopying hobby. As previously mentioned, all this started just to cover or make a wall less depressing.

Since my locker at work was the only one in good condition (and not shabby unlike the others of my colleagues) I started by hanging photocopies of my drawings starting first with Van Gogh's sunflowers (my favorite and inspiring artist) then some flowers drawn by me, dogs etc.

Little by little the first results began to show themselves: the stress began to reduce a little and increase productivity, my colleagues were amazed and said that they were beautiful and finally we began to "manufacture" on request some of the photocopies that I had placed. By doing this we started a new cycle of reuse, in fact the paper cut around the image after being coloured, I use it to draw on in order to save money from buying more paper (a bit like used sheets that I color black and then paint on it).

Up,the photo of my locker on my work Place... beautiful isn' t ? ;)

The photocopies hobby - part 1

Well, yes, in addition to drawing, composing etc., another hobby that I started by chance was making photocopies of my drawings. At first it was just to cover a hole in the wall or to make my locker at work less monotonous. So I started photocopying all my drawings and works... the only drawback was that the old model photocopier printed them in black and white and therefore I had to color them... a bit like children's drawings.However, slowly, from annoying it became pleasant and creative because coloring them, as well as passing the time, helps to relieve the stress of the day... and over time they even came to be requested by some of my friends and work colleagues! The photocopy can be easily recognized from the original drawing, in fact if you look at the photo above you will immediately understand the difference (right: original, left: photocopy). And so, now, in addition to the countless hobbies I have, this has also been added because I discovered through a medical journal that photocopying some favorite images and applying them in some places, especially work ones, helps the subject to combat mental stress. Wait for the part 2 !