Scattered Strawberry Summer

                                 George Harrison- Give Me Love (Give me Peace on Earth)

My friends birthday is coming up so I ordered a large canvas print of this photo collage.  I really hope it will look good.

Nancy Siantra- The End

                                                                          Those cheeks!

I thought I'll introduce you to an amazing artist who you're probably not aware of - Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis.  He's my favourite Lithuanian artist. I love the range of colours he used and the world he created in his paintings.


Extract from Wikipedia:
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis), also known as M. K. Čiurlionis (22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1875 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1911) was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. <...> Čiurlionis was a musical prodigy: he could play by ear at age three and could sight-read music freely by age seven.<...> Čiurlionis felt that he was a synesthete; that is, he perceived colors and music simultaneously. Many of his paintings bear the names of musical pieces:sonatas, fugues, and preludes.

   

Some of my favourite paintings:







More paintings can be found here. As I said before, he was also a composer, search for him on youtube, there are plenty of his works on there.

my New Year resolutions:

• to read more books
• to get a better, preferably graduate level, job
• to take more pictures & experiment more
• to use my time more efficiently

I would love to go away somewhere nice for my next birthday & New Year's Eve, if we can afford it. You see, I have planned 2 trips already. This spring I'm planning to go to Germany to visit my mother who has recently moved back to a town near Dusseldorf. Quite a few relatives of mine live there too, so it would be fun to see them as well. I also want to visit Dusseldorf & Koln. I've been there when I was a teenager, I actually spent 2 summers in Dusseldorf, but I didn't see that much.

In summer we're planning to go to Menorca for a week or so. Sun, sand & sea:  I can't wait!

Let's make this year best ever