Hansel & Gretel-piece for 200yr of brothers Grimm exhibition

Finally finished my whole piece for the upcoming exhibition I told you about in my previous post :)

I'll do my best and do another one for the same exhibition if I manage to complete other projects with short deadline :) So without further ado here it is! :)

Your thought on it are always very welcome....

Have a great day everyone! :)

xox Ant

Antoana Oreški ©2012

Sneak peak-My version of Gretel by Grimm :)

Hello, hello! :)
I have decided to share with you all what I have been working on lately. Meet my version of Gretel by the Grimm brothers! She's brave & clever...and even though she was scared of the witch who's was about to eat her little brother Hansel she had to be brave to overcome her fear and throw that evil old lady into the fire oven! Hansel & Gretel was one of my favourite tales by the Grimms therefore I have decided to do illustration/s of this fairytale for the upcoming exhibition tributing 200yr of the Grimm brothers. The exhibition will be travelling from Šibenik (2012) to Interliber (2012) to Frankfurt (2012) and finally to Bologna (2013). You can participate as well even tho you're a foreign illustrator and see their submission guidelines HERE.
I'm working on the whole piece at the moment so when I'm done with it I will show it to you guys.

Wishing you all a great weekend in the meantime!

xoxo
Ant

Antoana Oreški ©2012

Poster for 10.Hand Made Fest in Pula, Cro

Hiya guys!

I have been neglecting my blog for far too long...but that only means I'm busy, busy :)
Well finished one thing and straight on to the other...but I'm happy when I'm having loads of work and having great fun along. So there is a competition going on here on designing a poster and later all that follows (banners, flyers...etc) for our biggest Hand Made Festival which is growing bigger and bigger every year and is now nationally well reckognized as one of the most imaginative & creative one. I have decided to participate this year and the call was for all types of artists to participate and create something unique for this year. Well this is my entry!It's an octopus who herself is handmade but she's also a great help while she's being made-multifunctional :))
In my opinion creations should fulfill not the decorative part alone but the functional one as well...and there are so many creative ideas and creations out there I thought I should make a virtual one too :)) What better that an octopus who is multitasking with her super 8 tentacles! Lol

I have to run with my other errands but I really hope you enjoy my poster ilustration :)

Cheers!

Antoana Oreški ©2012

New Stribor's Forest illustration :)

Here's another illustration I finished for Stribor's Forest. Been very busy these last few days and even now I have to run with my other tasks. So forgive me for being brief this time and I do hope you'll enjoy my latest ilustration as the 1st two I did for Stribor's Forest. Just click on the illustration to see it in full screen :)

xoxo Ant

Antoana Oreški ©2012

BBC-Travel :)

Today was by far one of those days that are very uplifting and motivating. From an early day I got some really excitingly cool news about my TDAT Map being featured on BBC-Travel blog! To say the least I was soo happy to see it there, not only 'cos of my illustration but my hometown is being promoted as well-cool :) Specifically I loved where it said-starting point Labin :) To be honest when Salli & Nate of TDAT & TDAC shared the news about their co. with BBC-Travel it automatically flew over my head cos I never even had the slightest thought It'll be my map they'll decide to feature (amongst others as well of course), so I forgot all about it and today-wooohoooo! Lol! Oh, I just wanna enjoy moments like these along my illustrating carrear. A completely surprising moments of sheer joy and somewhat a reward for hours 'n hours spent working on my illustrations and pouring my soul and heart into all of my creations, hoping they will be noticed and bring joy and warmth to all who discover it :) Thank you to all who always have words of encouragement and welcome the silly me and my art! :)) To amazing Nate & Salli for having great support and love towards all us artists and to my hometown LC Portal for the shout out and a lovely encouraging article about me & my TDAT Map of Labin/Rabac!

xoxox Ant

Antoana Oreški ©2012

Happy Easter :)

I know it's a little belated but Happy Easter to all the bloggers, especially to all my blog followers!
And though Easter has passed, here's the link to my latest AGI Ecard, an Easter one of course :)
I wish I had time to do all this before but better late than never, right?! Lol!
So, I hope you had lovely time over these holidays and you're well rested and ready for the new Spring adventures! 'Till next time- when I hope I'll have some more exciting news to share with you all :)

xoxo Ant

Antoana Oreški ©2012

New AGI Ecard

I haven't been posting anything new for ages! I was very busy...1st with making the illustrations for enigmatic magazine I do on monthly basis and then I got another project from AGI to create another Ecard, that is illustrations for another E-card...I don't do animation even tho I'd love to learn :) Then I got down with some sort of flu and am still fighting it...and now I'm trying to get organized and send my work for the 4th Croatian Biennale of Illustrations in Zagreb, submissions due 18th March.
Since I'm not feeling that well...I'll be short for now and let you see a preview of what I've been working on for AGI. Hmmmmm...I wonder what's behind those doors? :))

Antoana Oreški ©2012