Welcome in the Year of the Rooster!

We are now in the Year of the Fire Rooster!
Start date: 28 January 2017
End date: 15 February 2018
Watercolour, gold and silver on Fabriano Paper "per artisti". 29 x 29 cm / 11,4 x 11,4 in.

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May you be healthy and clear!

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And welcome, Rooster's year...

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Thanks for all and Happy End!

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Goodbye dear Monkey friend..

Zebra Zen Saying OM # 738

All Roads Lead to Tehran page # 22

Page # 22 completed!
carnet-de-voyage-1975
In this project, memory comes and goes...
and I wonder: what memory is?
I wanted to colour the peacock with its beautiful colours
but decided to put just some Gold and Burnt Sienna
because as it is
it better gives the impression
of something vanished...
vanished, yes, but that could come back.
Colours can always be added later, indeed!

736-The Soul

This is my interpretation of the theme "The Soul", a cartoon made for the 21st European Cartoon Contest by the ECC (European Cartoon Center) Kruishoutem, Belgium. I received the invitation to take part in October 2016, and this theme kept me thinking since then. For this I am certainly grateful to the Organizers!

Italian Frog on a Brazilian Beach Watches the Flight of the Befana Witch :-) # 735

The Befana Witch (also known as Christmas Witch) is a gift-deliverer old woman in Italian folklore. She sweeps problems away with her flying broom.

Gold, silver and Indian ink on Fabriano CP "per artisti" paper. 11 x 11 cm / 4,3/8 x 4,3/8 in.

Happy New Year 2017!FWB # 734

May the Frogs Be with You!
Ink and water-soluble colour pencils on Fabriano CP "per artisti" paper. 20 x 20 cm / 8 x 8 in.

Merry Christmas! 733-Christmas 2016

Merry Christmas! Buon Natale!
We have a computer problem...so it will be a quiet Christmas :-)
Graphite, ink, gold, silver and watercolours on canvas board; 10 x 15 cm / 4 x 6 in.

Alleluia! 732-Diptych for the Solstice, December 2016

It's Winter Solstice! It's Summer Solstice!! Alleluia!!! Graphite, watercolour, marker, gold and silver on canvas board; 10 x 10 cm / 4 x 4 inches each.

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Human Rights Day 2016 (731 3/3)

Human Rights Day
Amnesty International
The Candle Shop
Reporters without Borders

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Theseus' Sails

Reading Plutarch.
Watercolour and gold on canvas, 7,5x7,5 cm / 3x3 inches

Tempest with Turkey 730-Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving 2016! May the Frogs Be with You :-)

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729-World Philosophy Day 2016

World Philosophy Day 2016
A Night of Philosophy
About Philosophy-Day

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Running Rivers (47:15)

Postcard from UZ3-Praying Princess

Postcard from UZ 2-Safe Frogs

Postcard from UZ 1-Enlaced Zebras

728 Halloween Haiku (2016)

Rana mannara / She's a Werewolf frog
ulula alla luna / how how howling at the moon
scricchiolan l'ossa / sound of creaking bones

727 You and I (Rana romantica recita Rumi) (Romantic Frog recites Rumi)

Romantic Frog recites a mystic poem to the Moon, offering him a thornless rosebud.

The Frog on the Stone - pencil study

Study for a Still life with figs, grapes, recorders and zebras

726 Le Siranette (The Little Frogmaids)

Character Study / Studio dei personaggi

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Open Air Museum Ballemberg

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A bit of sea in Switzerland, at last!

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Global Warming brings some good...

Study for another Story-3

Study for another Story-2

Frogs and Gingerbread / Le rane e il (marza) pane

Study for another Story-1

Graphite Technograph Caran d'Ache 2B and Horadam Schmincke Watercolours on Fabriano paper 1331/R 23x31 cm 300 gr/mq (9"x12" 140 lbs).

International Day of Peace 725-colour

International Day of Democracy 724-colour

International Literacy Day 723-colour

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Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly of the United Nations has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.

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Struve 1964 / NGC 1502

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