Our wedding in 37 days!

Siberian Tiger

ACEO 2.5"x3.5"

Copyright Natalia Grudzinska 2011

I've been very, very busy.. I've only managed to draw one ACEO since my last post, Siberian Tiger, and I'm now working on new commission and our wedding gifts for parents.

I loved working on Siberian Tiger ACEO, I think I've achieved a whole new level of details in this one (lol), lets hope it stays that way.

xx

Finally back..

Swan

ACEO 3.5"x2.5"

Pelican

ACEO 2.5"x3.5"

Hawk

ACEO 2.5"x3.5"

Owl

ACEO 3.5"x2.5"

I have perfectly good reasons for not writing in so long.. for real! I have moved home, changed job and made a lot of arrangements for our wedding (70 days left!!). Due to being busy in my private life I had to turn down some commissions, but I'm now back to work, and after replying to couple of hundreds of messages and emails (neglected those too..) I can now post my recent ACEO cards, four in a series of 'Birds' in graphite pencil. These are now for sale, prints will follow :)

Finished portrait

Brothers

16x12"

Copyright Natalia Grudzinska 2011

Portrait has been finished and posted to Norway some time ago, but as usual I find it difficult to update my blog on time! Lene is happy with it, which is always great to know, as I always worry if my works are to customers expectations. I really loved working on it, as it was my first full body portrait. I struggled with drawing faces, because they were obviously smaller then what I'm used to, hopefully Lene's mother in law will see similarities and love it too, as it is a gift for her :)

I'm now working on ACEO cards and soon will post some scans!

Brothers WIP..

WIP

Copyright Natalia Grudzinska 2011

Brothers WIP

WIP

Copyright Natalia Grudzinska 2011

I've been working on this portrait for the past couple of days, it needs to be finished by the end of this week. It is 16x12" full body portrait (scans published so far are of about half of the portrait), I always find this kind of portraits a challenge as faces are only so small and I can only include so many details, they make me focus on the most important features as opposed to what I'm used to- trying to depict everything.

Brothers WIP

WIP

Copyright Natalia Grudzinska 2011

New commission - WIP

WIP

Copyright Natalia Grudzinska 2010

A few thoughts near the end of the year..

So the Christmas time is over... Weeks of excitement, frantic shopping and gift wrapping, putting Christmas Tree up ( and a whole lot of other decorations) and 2 days of cooking 'only' to sit by the table on that special day and show each other how much we appreciate our company - at Christmas and in life. This is how I spent my Christmas with my fiance, last before becoming a married couple ;)

Another year is coming to an end, but this time I'm truly excited about what the New Year is going to bring to us. I horribly miss my beloved family who live in my home country, but at the same time I'm very grateful that I'm able to start my own new family. So here we are- welcoming New Year with moving the flat :) I guess saying 'new year is a new start' is quite true for us this year. With new list of resolutions I'm looking hopeful into the future, whatever I failed to do last year, I get another chance to do this year..