Some more aquarelles

I got obsessed with aquarels, so here are some more...

Heteroptera II.

The real bugs know how to take care of a real garden!

Don't forget to play!

We invented, or maybe just reinvented for ourselves, this great game which I just called FOUR LINES GAME. After three very cold and quite intensive days in London we sat in that pub next to the canal in Camden and played this: One of the couple draws something in just four lines and the other one guesses what it is. For us it were only things, situations etc. connected with that three days in London. If the guess is wrong, the first player draws four more lines, the second one guesses again and so on and on. Each set of four lines means one point - more points you collect, less successful you are. G. won, by just one point, which almost doesn't count, does it?

It is not just fun and couple-gluing-lovely-time-wasting-best-consumed-with-beer game, but also a way to remind and remember some great, inspiring or pleasant moments, to capture them and get some adrenalin of the competition in your veins. 

If you try, let me know! I've written down the correct answers of our game - the global warming was a hard one, that's where I lost it! 

And, I came back home with some wonderful books which G. bought for me in Tate, bless this trifolino! 

Both are great, check:

         

And another book came with me in my cabin suitcase, the third one in my small collection:

Dorset beaches reflection

That little holiday we had on the coast of England seems so far... But! We have VENTI NOVE GRADI in Brno now - summer is approaching and we are starting to make plans for VACANZE.

Embéčko again

I was so busy with watching the 13th series of Midsomer Murders that I had no time left for drawing (except the times when I was sketching inspector Barnarby). I was also researching online and in my mind for the Trafalgar book I have written some years ago, and it needs to be said that I got quite far – I've found the perfect format for the book. So now just the drawings... Fair enough. This is a sketch of the hero of the book – brave admiral Nelson.

And here is my little animated banner for the Embéčkem kolem světa book: 

Primavera, and again

At least three people told me or wrote to me today: Happy second day of spring! How the unusual position of the first day can make the second one more special...

And this is my spring mess at work.

Ploštice

There are so many fun facts about ploštice - heteroptera! For example, Wikipedia says that in English they are often called "true bugs" or "typical bugs". By the way, this is fun fact No. 4. The three previous ones are:

1. There are 4000 different types of bugs in the heteroptera group. Only 900 of them live in the Czech Republic.

2. Both pondskaters (vodoměrky) and waterscorpions (splešťule) can be found in this group. They live in water. The danger is everywhere.

3. Bugs of heteroptera group are cosmopolitan! That means you can meet them in New York, Brno, or Milan, where they are dressed specially well.

Bring me snakes, spiders, very ugly kittens - I will not run away. But facing ploštice, mainly that ones of the shape below, is extremely scary for me. I suffer from heteropterophobia. And I don't care it might not be a clasified  disease. I will fight it anyway.