Thursday, December 28, 2017

The worst enemy of blogging

When I check mu stats I notice the trafiic on my blog is lower than 10,7 or even 5 years ago and it tends to get lower and lower and even if my blogs and websites are optimised for search engines and they appear in many searches, on the first page, the number of visits from search engines is gowing down and now more people come from my facebook page than from google search. People are no longer googling and surfing the internet like before and they stay on facebook instead.
10 years ago blogs have represented the voice of the poeple, free to express their opinions. There were governments and people who have the political or economic power who have tried to silence them and fortunately they didn't succeed but there is something on the internet that is slowly killing blogging: Facebook.
Facebook is the worst enemy of blogs and idenpendent sites, killing the rest of the internet, making visible only promoted (with money) content, that's how they have grown, not because the site was better than myspace, hi5 or yahoo 360. On facebook to get an audience you must pay to facebook, lf you don't you are just wasting your time posting. In the happiest case 20% of friends view your post and posts from pages are hidden by facebook and can be seen only by the people who go to the page if they are not promoted. Facebook is changing the internet but not in a good way, making it a place where money means power and people who don't have enough money to promote their stuff will be like those who speak alone in a park, nobody will hear them, nobody will read what they write. This is bad especially for nonprofit blogs, for people who just write, without the intention to sell something, for poets, for people who write about the problems of the modern society, science etc.
I miss the times when there was no facebook or twitter and when I was building a website  in HTML and CSS that website had so many visitors from around the world. I miss the internet of the 90's or early 2000's.
I advice you not to waste your posts on facebook and start reading and writing blogs.
This is one of my oldest websites. Yahoo Geocitoes is gone but the website has been archived

Sappho and her lover and communication, two new paintings


I've made these paintings about love today. You can watch me making them in the videos below. 



Wednesday, December 27, 2017

A dream and a drawing about me and her

How I wish I was with her now. I had many dreams about her and this drawing is about one of them, me and her walking on the mountains, holding hands,  being so close to each other. She was holding my hand so tight making me feel protected and loved and I was following her. In my dream I was fascinated by her tall stature, her blue eyes, her attitude, the was she was walking, the way she was wearing her leather hat and jacket and her trousers.  I wish she was real. I wish she was here with me. I wish it was not just a dream.

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

A cityscape I've painted in only 10 minutes

Ițve made this acrylics on canvas painting yesterday and it took me only 10 minutes.

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Frozen cave - Winter painting

Christmass means nothing to me so I prefered to make a winter painting of a frozen cave instead of a christmass kitch. You can watch me making this painting in only 10 minutes in the videos below.


Sunday, December 17, 2017

Mother and baby polar bear

It's snowing outside and the winter has made me think about the north pole and feel like painting something polar so I've made this oil on canvas painting

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Blue eye and violet flowers, ball point pen drawing

The Viola sororia flowers have inspired Sappho to write poems and me to make drawings and paintings. This is my newest creation with and about these flowers

Monday, December 11, 2017

A painting about the real mening of Christmass

This is my painting about the essence of Christmass, a celebration of the rebirth of sun from the ignition of fire (in Romania we have a winter holiday called "ignat", a word similar to the english ignition, which proves there was link between the dacian and the celtic culture ), the pagan holiday of the winter solstice, the beginning of a new cycle of life.
In the video below you can watch me making this painting.

Thursday, November 30, 2017

The 3rd eye

The 3rd eye, acrylics on canvas painting

Sleeping muse with blue flower

A poem by Mihai Eminescu and the sculpture Slerping muse by Condtantin Brancusi have inspired me to paint this

Sunday, November 26, 2017

The legend of Actaeon

My painting of Artemis and Actaeon turned into a stag by her
The goddess Artemis was an eternal virgin and being watched and wanted by a man was what she hated the most so she turned the hunter Actaeon, who was watching her while she was naked, into a stag.


Space painting

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Euphoria - soulmates in the universe

I had some paintings about two soulmates floating in the universe, swiming into infinity. Almost all of these paintings have been sold. The song Euphoria by Loreen has inspired me to make one of the paintings. That painting has been sold too but a young woman has asked me to make a new one and this sunday I've made the painting above
The old painting, sold in 2014
These are the lyrics of the song that inspired me.
Why, why can't this moment last forevermore?
Tonight, tonight eternity's an open door
No, don't ever stop doing the things you do
Don't go, in every breath I take I'm breathing you
Euphoria
Forever, 'till the end of time
From now on, only you and I
We're going up, up, up, up, up, up, up
Euphoria An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going up, up, up, up, up, up, up
We are here, we're all alone in our own Universe,
We are free, where everything's allowed and love comes first,
Forever and ever together, we sail into infinity,
We're higher and higher and higher, we're reaching for divinity.
Euphoria
Forever, 'till the end of time
From now on, only you and I
We're going up, up, up, up, up, up, up
Euphoria An everlasting piece of art

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Light, new fluorescent painting


I've made a new painting inspired by the song Light by Benassi Bros


I am sitting in the sun
I can feel the power
Of a new dawn in my mind
Everything is bright
Love is all and love is ‘round
Like a precious flower
I’m a spirit floating down
In the universe
Light
Shining in your eyes
Everyday
Wash away the pain
Light
Coming from my mind
We are one
Life has just begun
People walking through my world
I can see are brothers
They are faces they are worlds
Of a simple birth
Put your guns down on the ground
Don’t you hurt each other
Let your spirit heal the sun
In the universe
Light is just a misconcept
Light is just a color
Light it is you
Because light is just a concept
Light is but a color
Light is you


Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Light

Light, ball point pen drawing
The song Light by Benassi Bros has inspired me to make this. I like the lyrics.

I am sitting in the sun
I can feel the power
Of a new dawn in my mind
Everything is bright
Love is all and love is ‘round
Like a precious flower
I’m a spirit floating down
In the universe
Light
Shining in your eyes
Everyday
Wash away the pain
Light
Coming from my mind
We are one
Life has just begun
People walking through my world
I can see are brothers
They are faces they are worlds
Of a simple birth
Put your guns down on the ground
Don’t you hurt each other
Let your spirit heal the sun
In the universe
Light is just a misconcept
Light is just a color
Light it is you
Because light is just a concept
Light is but a color
Light is you

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Painting gram positive bacillus bacteria

Using cristal gentian violet I painted these gram positive bacilli. You can watch me painting in the video below

Painting chromosomes

Chromosomes, oil on canvas painting
I am known for the paintings I make but I am a biologist, that's my job. I graduated by the years 2010, I have a masters degree in environmental biotechnology and now I work in a research institute.
Now, combining art and science, I've  mad this painting of a chromosome. You can watch me painting  in the video below.

Friday, October 20, 2017

My ball point pen drawing of a chromosome

I am a biologist so I've made a new biology drawing, a ball point pen drawing of a chromosome

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Missing the feeling of a kiss

The feeling of a kiss
It's what I miss
So I've made this
A pen drawing of a kiss

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

The birth of Venus from the primordial water

This ball point pen drawing is about the relationship between the feminine and the element water, the source of life

Friday, October 6, 2017

Prayer

This painting will be on display at a multicultural handmade and art fair at Big Ben Pub in Bucharest on october  14 and 15

Monday, September 25, 2017

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Eve out of Eden

A dream I've had this morning has inspired me to paint this naked woman passing through a vegetal gate that is separating two worlds, like Eve when she has left the garden of Eden.

Watch me painting

Abstract wings, ball point pen drawing

A dream

I had this dream a few days ago. I suddenly decided to go, to fly far away and then I got there, where I knew there was a city close to sea, where the woman I once loved was living. I was all alone and I had no place to go but I was not afraid. I felt so free. I was walking in a desert looking for the city and the sea. The sky had a pinkish color. It was only me there, so lonely, and her ghost was haunting my mind. I was walking hoping I will find the sea, hoping I will meet her again. I walked until the morning alarm 🔔 started ringing.
This painting is abot the dream I had.

Friday, September 22, 2017

Kore and Persephone, the two faces of the same goddess

This new painting is about duality, Kore (the maiden), the young innocent goddess of spring, the bright side and Persephone, the mature queen of the underworld, the dark side, the two faces of the same goddess, daughter of Demeter.

Kore or Persephone, the two faces of the same goddess, new ball point pen drawing


Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Dedication of Nikandre or my view of an ancient kore

The dedication of Nikandre kore statue has inspired me to make this pencil drawing. The statue was a represantation of the goddess Artemis

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

The poets Corinna Erinna and Sappho coffee painting

The poets Corinna Erinna and Sappho coffee painting

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Sappho was the best known female poet in the ancient Greece but not the only one.
By that time there was a culture of the feminine poetry and art and young women and girls were organized in groups  ruled by poets like Sappho were they were writing poems, they were singing in chorus, they were dancing.
Corinna from Tanagra, Boetia was a poet too. She wrote epic poems about the daughters of Minyas, Oedip and Orion and an invocation to  Therpsichore, the muse of dance and chorus. Like Sappho did, Corinna has ruled a group of young maidens.
Corinna has inspired the poet Ovid too and I'm proud to bear her name. The name Corina has her story behind it.
Erinna was one of Sappho's followers.
She has written Distaff, a poem about her childhood friend Baucis who has died shortly after the wedding. Was marriage something unwanted  for Baucis? Erinna died shortly after she has written the poem. She was just 19.
This is my coffee painting of Corinna, Erinna and Sappho.

Green alien woman painted by a 14 years old girl

A 14 years old girl has painted this alien woman with green skin and reptilian eyes. She liked to paint aliens and spacescapes. It was the summer of 2001.
This 14 years olg girl was me.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

A painting I've made before the september 11 attacks

 I've made this painting on september 11 2001, just before the attack. I was just 15. By that time I felt like drawing and painting skyscrapers all the time and the twin towers were in almost all of my drawings, as you see in the detail below  

Never forget september 11 2001

I've made this after the september 11 2001 terror attacks, using my lipstick. I was only 15

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Wednesday, September 6, 2017