This is what all of Greece needs i think.
So Christmas has been suprisingly busy this year, work wise. But i’ve also had alot of fun projects. Like making Christmas cards with the kids i teach English to…
…or papier-mache Santa’s…
…who we then paint and glitter the hell out of! Even on his bum!
And i also managed to whip up a poster and flyer for my good friends at Dress Affair who had their Christmas party that was as usual a massive success!
Christmas has come and gone… a few days before, Athens Voice called me to Illustrate their “Xmas & the City” article. If you want to see it and read the article go to AthensVoice, and check out what there is to do and see in Athens over the holidays. Despite what we’re going through right now we can still have fun! Merry Christmas!
Here are a few stills from a TV teaser for MEGA TV’s new show “Pisw sto Spiti”. I was contacted by Design Park to illustrate the advertisement, which i call a 2D/3D marionette, photo-collage mix. I pieced together photos to create the scenes & backround. The characters are made up of the actors real head shots from different angles, & their bodies are actually my friends and family who very patiently dressed up as told, and stood around in weird positions while i photographed them, and then chopped their head off! Haha!
I had so much help from everyone during the month i had to finish this project and i am really happy with the result. Cant wait until my next animation project.
If you want to see the actual advertisement then you can see it here. (P.S. Only my Dad got to keep his head. Thats him at 0:18, wearing a fake moustache!)
The pre-school i teach at gives a summer show every year. The boss asked if Edward (the other English teacher) and i could put on an English play with the 4 year olds. We chose the kid’s favourite story…”The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. We had 25 children be the 15 fruit & 10 junk food from the book. I made their masks, which they painted themselves, and Ed made the hungry caterpillar marionette-puppet thing, that ate the kids to the tune of some funny music. The kids thought it was great fun, and kept running away from Ed. Poor guy had to run like the wind!
At the end, when the caterpillar eats all the food and gets fat, he sleeps in his cocoon and emerges a beautiful butterfly. Little Mariza was the 26th kid, so we gave her wings to flutter, and all the children ran around in a circle with her. Much fun and a big success! Thank goodness its over.
Summer is here at last, and all the kids i give private English lessons to have slowly taken off to the islands for their holidays. I’ve got 1 week left before i leave too, and 4 more days to hand in my first animation for a big TV station to use as a teaser for a new TV show! It’s all very hectic. So i’m taking a break and am posting all my little kid’s masterpieces that we did together in July. From clay octopuses, to pop up butterflies…you name it. I hope they are actually learning a bit of English instead of just how to make amazing stuff?!?!
The reason i’m not posting much lately is because i am SUPER busy planning my wedding. A friend joked that “the reason they make it so difficult to get married is so you NEVER EVER want to do it again” which is sounding less like a joke and more like the ultimate truth. So much to do, so little time…
As part of the Artist Marketplace, i was asked to submit my scribbled and sketched Moleskine to be displayed along with those of several other Athenian artists in the shop window display of Mah Jong. Now i just found out my little black book and all the rest, will be moving to a new display in the window of the new Elefteroudakis book store on Panepistimiou street, opening tomorrow! I must go visit it there too!
