Lykke

I discovered Lykke on Pinterest recently and I wanted to share her amazing portrait paintings here. I am jealous of artists who can paint portraits since I am not very good at this. :) p.s. I love Pinterest! You can find out so many amazing things there. 

Lykke Steenbach Josephsen

African Queen

Over the last decade Lykke has established herself as one of the most talented portrait painters on the Danish art scene.

 Her portraits are striking, instinctive and driven by a deep understanding of the persons that she portrays, resulting in extraordinary, strong stories told in a beautiful visual language.
 In her play with the personality, the portrait persons often get animal characteristics.

 (http://www.saatchionline.com/lykke)

Blossom

Instinct

Let it go

The Seeker

Wisdom

The Room

Again long time, no new post on my blog. But working and living in this city makes me tired all the time. No time for art. I made this drawing with stabilo pens based on a photo of a cozy room. It’s an interpretation of the photograph. I think Deniz found it on the web and sent it to me. I finished the drawing in two weeks in February by working on it max. half an hour per day, lazy me :)) I don’t remember the exact date. I didn’t draw the little painting inside the photo, I just printed, cut it and stuck it on my drawing :D I really enjoyed making swirls and various patterns. I think I should do stuff like this more often..

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Last evening I went to an amazing Jazz concert! To be honest, I was expecting a great concert, but the band's performance was well above my expectations. I had a great time; their music is different, cool and fun :D Chicago-based brass ensemble consisting of eight sons of the jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran. Their musical style ranges from hip-hop to jazz to funk and rock, including calypso and gypsy music. HBE are eight brothers from the South Side of Chicago. They come from an extraordinary musical family. 

Audrey and Balloons

OMG! It has been exactly 4 months since I have posted on my blog for the last time. That's a shame! It's been a very long time spent away from art. :( 

Anyway here below is another drawing from my sketch book. I drew this from a photograph of Audrey Hepburn earlier this year. It doesn't really look like her but I think it is still a nice piece of drawing, what do you think ? :)

Surprise exhibition

Last week when I was in Istanbul, my mom and I went to MKM (Mustafa Kemal Merkezi) for grocery shopping since there is also a big supermarket. By chance, there was an exhibition of Rahşan Düren's latest art works at that time in MKM. When I saw that, I immediately wanted to take a look at her paintings. I liked a few of her paintings and I took some pictures secretly :) The exhibition was called "kaos - düzen" (chaos and order). Later I found out that, she is both an artist and a psychiatrist! :) 

Well, congrats to Psychiatrist Dr. Rahşan Düren! 

Woman on Canvas

I made this painting in 2006. I was inspired by the Turkish painter Gülay Yüksel. I like her paintings about women and her way of using the colors. So here is another painting of oil on canvas:)

Piazza della Signoria

Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It is one of my favorite places in Italy. I really loved all the sculptures there. I wanted to share some pictures that my friend Nesli and I took. The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of the city. This massive, Romanesque, crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the square with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy. The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions. 

I feel sLOVEnia ❤

I can't believe its been already 5 years since I had been in Slovenia. In 2008, I have lived in Ljubljana (capital of Slovenia) for 5 months thanks to Erasmus Exchange Program. Those 5 months was truly amazing. I drew this painting below last November from a postcard of Ljubljana. I used both watercolor and colored pens. Ljubljana is a very beautiful city and I have really awesome memories about this city. I have met wonderful people, travelled a lot, and obviously partied a lot. And I studied a little bit :)) Ljubljana is like a city from the fairy tales with it's lovely Ljubljanica river running through the middle of the town, the Triple bridge, the Dragon bridge, and the Ljubljana castle on top of the Castle hill. The city itself is made of many old buildings with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architectural elements which I really like! 

The symbol of the city is the Ljubljana Dragon. It is depicted on the top of the tower of the Ljubljana Castle in the Ljubljana coat-of-arms and on the Ljubljanica-crossing Dragon Bridge. It symbolises power, courage, and greatness. There is a legend about this Dragon bridge. The legend is that Jason was the founder of Ljubljana, and he and his Argonauts killed a dragon. This is one of the four dragon statues on the bridge. According to local legends, when a virgin crosses the bridge, the dragons will wag their tails. Some local people have nicknamed this structure "mother-in-law" because of its fiery nature.

Na Zdravje!! :) 

Portrait

This pencil drawing is a portrait of a celebrity. But you can not guess who she is.. because it's not a very good drawing of mine, I have to admit.. :)) 

12.09.2015 - Today I am revealing the name of the celebrity:
Natalie Portman :) 
I love her..

Dalí Theatre-Museum

The Dalí Theatre and Museum, is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain. I had the chance to visit this museum few years ago. This museum is one of a kind, it is very strange. :)) So here, I wanted to share the pictures I took at the museum. The Dalí Theatre-Museum, the largest surrealistic object in the world, occupies the building of the former Municipal Theatre, a 19th century construction which was destroyed at the end of the Spanish Civil War. On its ruins, Dalí decided to create his museum.

The Grave of Dali

Galarina, 1944-45

The Basket of Bread, 1945

My mom and the ... :)