Monday, November 26, 2007

sofie


sofie.


rotkäppchen.

both for the upcoming exhibition at thinkspace,
snow angels.



elly tagged me,
& i asked heiko for five facts about me
because he knows lots of facts, here is what he says:

"you have brown hair.
you have brown eyes.
you have an orange pattern in your brown eyes.
you like cheeseburgers.
you like bears. you want to get a tattoo of a bear."



so, i tag whoever is reading this! if you want to write 5 'facts' about yourself, feel free to in the comments, or in your blog.

also, a few weeks ago, these peeps were nice enough to feature my artwork in their lovely blogs:

The Roadside Scholar (here)
Samantha Hahn (here)

& one for Cups and Cuddles (hurrah!)
(here)

Saturday, November 24, 2007

cold in the shadows, warm in the sunshine.

Today i woke up and the sun was shining! No cloud to be seen. I went for a walk to the bakery to enjoy the good weather.

walking to bäckerei

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sunshine

It's my first winter here and it has been quite depressing, especially when considering that my home, Queensland, has 300 sunny days per year.

Today is great!
Tonight, we are going to see Ana Ventura's exhibition at Bourgeois Pig! It should be wonderful.
Tomorrow, if the weather is still good, we might go for a picnic.

P.S. What do you do to cheer up when the weather is grey?

Sunday, November 18, 2007

for the man i love...



panda diorama

panda diorama 2



Several months ago, i began a diorama for Heiko's birthday, and so now, here it is finally finished! I looked at a japanese garden book that had garden layouts and used these to try and make a nicely proportioned garden.

The panda is modeled off photos we took at Berlin zoo of Baobao. The pretzel is made from aluminium foil from a kinder surprise wrapper.

materials: glue, cotton, paint, clay, window frame, aluminium foil


11/12: i've submitted this to the illustrationfriday.com 'littlethings' topic. i think it fits :)

Saturday, November 17, 2007

happy birthday darling!

happy bersday to yoo! (german accent)

my beloved husband, best friend, artist, & illustrator, heiko, is 25 today!

heiko at his drawing desk



one of my favourite drawings of his..

Friday, November 16, 2007

first snow

schnee

It snowed overnight, and again this morning. While i was sitting in class i could see lots of big snowflakes floating around, it was very pretty, or 'sehr schön'.

:)

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

christmas card preview & free christmas tags download.



click here to download & print.
& if you still need more tags, there
is always the set i made for last
christmas, here.

:)




& here is this year's christmas card!
Now available to buy:

Christmas Card

by Lilly Piri



Folded A6 (148x105mm / 6x4in) card in full colour.


Glossy cover, blank inside.




front





back



To US + World: US$1.50 each (+ US$3.00 shipping for up to 4 cards.)

Within Europe: €1.00 each (+ €1.00 for up to 4 cards.)



CLICK HERE to buy!


Monday, November 12, 2007

Sankt-Martins-Umzug / Saint Martin's day parade

saint martin's day parade
Saint Martin on his horse.
Sankt Martin auf dem Pferd.

sankt martinsumzug
Many children with lanterns.
Viele Kinder mit Laternen.

my favourite lantern
My favourite lantern..
Meine Lieblingslaterne.

goose lantern



Today the children here paraded down the street with homemade(or bought) lanterns for the Saint Martin's day parade. St. Martin was a Roman soldier who cut his coat in half in winter and gave half to save a freezing beggar. More about Saint Martin, here

Also, here is my first youtube video! (it's of the parade. )


Saturday, November 10, 2007

o happy day!

very special happy birthday wishes to my best friend in Oz,

elly yap.



she launched her website a few weeks ago with her beautiful
art and design on it. below are some of my favourite pictures
of hers:






take a peek at elly's blog, and website.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

grethel


another drawing for the cups & cuddles exhibition.

most of the drawings i sent are black & white and all are quite
small. unfortunately i did not have as much time as i
would have liked to make colour drawings for the show.
however, it was a pleasure to draw with pens, as always!

Sunday, November 04, 2007

flora



i couldn't scan this at all. so this is just a photo.

it's going to be at the end of year show at monster children gallery in sydney.
www.monsterchildren.com

Saturday, November 03, 2007

cups and cuddles exhibition


the lovely eveline is putting together an exhibition named 'cups and cuddles', which i am
very glad to be a part of. i sent down 14 small drawings for it, so if you are in the
area, please check it out!


(i forgot this ones title!!)





'britney'