joie de vivre

acrylic on canvas panel 20x30cm

'the joy of living'

I hope you are all having a good week! :)

carpe diem!

having fun with my brushes

Who's There? | acrylic painting on canvas panel

Pop it!

... if you can!

acrylic painting on canvas panel

hey!

Lady Button | watercolor illustration (scanned image)

Layer Girl tea towel

Beard Postcard Collection

Had been a while I don't post anything but the work and the fun goes on!

have a wonderful weekend!

textiles $ characters

The Toy Top & Le Solitaire printed on cotton through Spoonflower

Layer Girl | sachet pillow - linen

The Girl Who Knitted Love | travel bag on cotton

Le Solitaire | travel bag on linen

I'm on a textile mood! Made new travel/underwear bags and new sachets from the latest girl 'Layer' in gocco.

I'm really happy with the result and also with the whole process.

For a long, I was wishing so badly to order a sample of fabric with my designs from Spoonflower. Finally I made it and now I want a lot of yards and to make men shirts with them.

What do you think? size M, size L ?! :)

-> in the meantime there's a Spring Sale in my etsy shop, until March 22th

My computer has survived to the treatment, it's like having a new one after the cleaning.

Many things came up at the same time, usually the less good things, so, after the PC, Mini Mirtillo made a surgery. An ugly thing appeared in one tit and it had to be removed. So, she lost part of herself in favor of a bigger life expectancy.

She's fine, doing great in her recovery and now I'm like a full time nurse. Giving her all my love and care, doing my best to see her running again, very soon.

Celebration Space | original illustration

Infected Space | original illustration

In the meantime, some new Spaces were added to the colection [http://www.flickr.com/photos/fric_de_mentol/sets/72157619011315871/]

Have a great weekend, mostly with shining sun :)

for the records

oh my! I was preparing a new post, uploading pictures from the last artworks when I realized that the computer is empty. Many errors, bugs, issues and machines that aren't working, as the scanner, are forcing me to do the Power Clean - Format C:

I really hope to see you later, means that my computer is no longer in trouble :)

keep on the lipstick

I'll Take My Lipstick | acrylic painting

Happy Girls Recycled Magnet Lockect Set - collaboration with Polarity

Layer Girl | screenprint

I keep facing dreams, representing expressive girls and patterns.
The latest girl, Layer Girl, is a colection of gocco screenprints on wood, paper, journals. Very soon they will be also available as sachets and travel bags.

You can now find in my etsy shop the amazing locket set - Happy Girls-, collaborating with Polarity

Have a great weekend, with or without lipstick! :)

the traveller

The Traveller | acrylic painting & small paper boat collage

Me travelling, have a good weekend! :)




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the love season

Seeds of Love | gocco screenprint

the work in progress

Tender Seed | wooden pin

Love is like a sailboat on the ocean | wooden pin

Many projects going on, lots of works to share.
2009 finished while I was painting wooden pieces, now they are finished as brooches. The idea was to paint them in a retro style color combination and then screenprint some elements, a sailboat and the seeds of love.
Seeds of love is a limited edition of a 2 colors screenprint, representing graphic elements more or less spiky. As are the relationships.
happy Love season :)

smells like Spring

-> telegraphic post to wish you all a lovely weekend! :)

the poppies

Hello 2010 :) I know I'm late and that I have many new posts and work to share.
But I need to post something special first:

I was nominated to the favourite Handmade Affordable Art Artist at poppytalk. A honour! :)

You can vote Here for your favorite

weeee!

More dropes will come in 2010 :)
Have a lovely happy christmas and a very bright beginning of a new year!

hey!

Hey! The Sofa is shaking! | gocco screenprint

... probably the last of the year.
the earth shake and the sofa shakes with her.

the winners of the Holiday Surprise giveaway

So, here they are the lucky winners :)
I gave a letter to each package and a number to each comment. My dear hubby took the 6 little papers from the bag:

A-4: Nuzia
B-10: SimoneWicca
C-11: eNVe
D-14: Carina
E-7: Valerie
F-9: Ana Pina

Please, send me your addresses to my email and just wait for Mr Postman or Miss Post-woman: fric.de.mentol@gmail.com

:D

gifts for all! the giveaway surprise

So, we are in holiday season already, oh oh oh, and i want you to have a happy season.
I have 6 gifts - surprise - to giveaway, you just have to leave a comment, until next Sunday [06-12-09], telling me hi or something! :)

i'll publish the 6 winners in the next Monday [07-12-09]
good luck!

d!R. .R!b

Beards pin colection

Girls & Trees pin colection

Ugly Face pin colection

The Community

Ugly Face XII

The Poet

We are officially in December, holiday season and almost the end of another year. Time passes too fast when we want to do lots of things and projects.
Today is a national holiday, i want to get lazy in the sofa watching movies and eating cinnamon cookies with green tea but the work is singing and there are lots of paper begging to be cut and illustrated.

Many new products were added to my online shop as the latest Ugly Face, the 12th of the series. Illustrated with watercolors and hand stitched. The same technique I used for The Poet illustration.

The Community is my latest screen print, based in a watercolor sketch, i like it very much, graphic with sobriety.

Colections of pins are also available, featuring some of the gocco screen prints and illustrations, in sets of 4 pin backs.

»» O . . O ««

Le Solitaire sachet (lavender)

Pins featuring my gocco prints

Ugly Face | postcards

It has been a week full of good surprises. My work was featured in some amazing sites as save gocco, decor8, kireei and kickcan & conkers. Many thanks, I'm very pleased!

But there are more good news, my work is on Paper n Stitch this month and I want to celebrate it with you. If you buy 3 gocco prints on paper from my shop, you'll received the 4th as gift :)

Hooray for gocco!

have a great new weekend!
(eheheh, of course is 'new week', where is my mind? :P i'll keep it so i can laugh in the future)

Y o Y

Ouch falling in cactus | gocco screeprint on Moleskine journal

Ouch falling in cactus | gocco screeprint

Ouch falling in cactus make me laugh, i like him too much and I know he likes acupuncture.
It's a limited edition of gocco screenprint on paper and Moleskine journals. They are available at my etsy shop.

[ photo by polarity ] | Happy Girls - recycled magnetic locket set

Cat, from the amazing Polarity and Uncorked etsy shops, made new awesome lockets with my girls! They are really fantastic, bright and full of color! Another collaboration that makes me proud! Many thanks dear Cat.

save gocco

Share Some Candy made an awesome article about gocco and added it 13 designers and artists to share why they love to work with the Japanese printer.
Fric de Mentol is there, happy and proud!
There is also a BIG giveaway from the artist, you just need to leave your comment.

Many thanks to Reuben from Share some Candy and to all the beautiful people who are enjoying my work and giving the words.

Long live to the Gocco :)