Goodbye blogger!

Three little cameras have moved to asjaboros.com.

Apartment renovations, Spring cleaning and many sleepless nights

Dear blog,
Sorry I've been neglecting you in lately, I've been very busy. Not only I have been helping my Mom with her apartment renovations that have been going on all week (changing windows, tearing down a wall and all kinds of similar "fun" work)but I also had some Spring cleaning to do in my own place. Things like putting in new air-condition system, dealing with flood in my bathroom and trying to fix super-slow internet connection. I've been also working late nights on some commissions and missing sleep.
BUT, dear blog, I also have some good news!I've already started working on a new project (in between renovations, cleaning, working and daydreaming of a new Canon DSLR and fancy lenses)that makes me happy and excited. For now, I'll keep it a secret but I promise, you like it :-)
Yours truly,
Asja

P.S.:
I hope you like these few doodles from my "archives":

Happy Easter!

And special thank you to Mónica and Janine for giving me another Sunshine Award!I put it on my right sidebar! Thank you ladies!

Blogaversary print giveaway winner

Exactly 2 years ago I started three little cameras and been having fun with it ever since!
Thank you for visiting , following and kindly commenting!

On the other hand, Random.org has spoken and the prints winner is comment #2, ArtSparker. Please e-mail me on forest.underground@yahoo.com with your address so I can mail them to you!

Art of setting goals

In lately it's been very hard for me to find motivation to draw (at least when it comes to my personal art). I don't lack in ideas but it's becoming very hard for me to put energy into sketching. As soon as I pick up a pen I start thinking what's the point, why sketch when I can listen to the radio/read blogs/ stare at the blank wall/drink tea/frolic on a flowery meadow along with pink Easter bunnies/etc (okay, I don't actually frolic on a meadow with pink bunnies but you get the point).

So I decided I need to set a goal, to start a new personal art project that would be challenging enough to keep me motivated. Having a decent challenge makes me very eager to produce.

My first though was: I'll start an art journal! But that immediately made me remember dozens and dozens of journals (both art and written ones) that I started during my life and quit after three days or so. I could literally fill an entire room with dismissed notebooks and aspiring art journals. So, no, I know myself too well to start a journal just to quit the next week.

My second idea was to start a graphic novel! That would certainly be challenging enough especially since I'm quite inexperienced in storytelling. But I asked myself do I seriously want to commit my time and lots of energy intro writing and illustrating a graphic novel? No, not really, such ambitious project would most probably take all of my free time and leave me very frustrated yet too stubborn to abandon it until it's finished.

Then I thought I should perhaps create an e-zine or a new blog or re-launch my website or open an online art gallery or go back to school or move to Japan or become an astronaut or a circus acrobat maybe...my imagination has gone wild after that :)

Anyway, my new goal for the next few days will be to find a new goal that will satisfy me, challenge me and motivate me to draw again :) Wish me luck :)

Blogaversary print giveaway

On 30th March three little cameras are celebrating their second birthday aka their second blogaversary :) so I'm having a little print giveaway. If you'd like to get these two 8x11 inch prints just leave any comment under this post until Tuesday (March 30th) and I'll randomly choose a comment to win the prints!
Good luck!

6 things about me

A couple of days ago Maja whose blog Kreativni nered (which in Croatian means creative mess) is a real treasure chest of creativity and inspiration and source of many useful tutorials that she kindly shares with us, asked me to join in the game "6 things about me". The point of the game is, obviously to share six things about yourself, add some pictures and tag six other bloggers to do the same.
So, here are six things about yours truly ...


1. Once I made an animation on a role of toilet paper, honestly I have no idea what was I thinking :)
But I uploaded it so you can see it in all its trashy, lo-fi glory. (Yeah, that's the sound of flushing water in the end.)



2.I really love fruit, all kinds of it except maybe fresh pineapple because it makes my tongue itch, haha. My favorite fruits are probably cherries and apricots.


3.I'm also very fond of chocolate :)


4.When I was a kid I didn't like my name, Asja and I was certain that when I grow up I'll change it. But now I'm pretty used to it, and like it, so no name change for me.


5.When I was younger I believed that only "true" works of art are those that have some serious, profound message, that are thought provoking or educational , but as I got older I lost all interest in defining what art should be. I just want to create things that make me happy, that spread joy and positive energy and that hopefully make others happy too.


6.I've been fake redhead for several years now. But before that I experimented with many different hair colors/styles. I'm a natural brunette and I dyed my hair black, blonde, red and one time even purple and sometimes all colors at the same time. I wanted to show you the evolution of my hair in pictures but was too lazy to dig up old photos so I illustrated it instead:


Do you feel like doing this game? Please let me know and I'll gladly tag you!