SKETCHING ANOTHER SNAKE

 Hello friends!

Welcome to the blog... another Saturday and this time I want to tell you and show you about my new sketch for a painting I'm working on, re taking up the image of the snake since it is the representative animal of this year.

At the beginning of the year I was designing some sketches to paint and after I finished the wolf I found one of the designs. So here are the first strokes, I used graphite and I also charcoal from willow trees, then moved to markers to make the washes, then I will do this pieces with oils.

I have been very involved with everything that is floral, especially in my paintings as they most of the time have flowers, but this year more flowers for everything, for all my designs and my paintings. So here what I thought was a vase in the shape of a snake and from this vase the flowers come out. I have been working with peonies which are some of my favorite flowers.

After finishing the wolf I thought it would take me a little longer to get back to painting. Because almost always when I finish a painting I rest for a few days and then I wait for inspiration to sit down and paint. But this time the whole process was very fast. No, I haven't rested. Which excites me because it means I'm in a lot of spirit.

This week went by super fast, I didn't even had time to read. So today there won't be any recommendations for reading, but I do have one recommendation for watching, especially if you like long fantasy and creative series with many cheesy stories....yes!

TO WATCH: ONCE UPON A TIME. I plead guilty to this one, everything started very well, the story developed super well, I thought it was a super creative series.

I started this series around 2017-18 and the characters and stories spun together super well my favorite character is the one played by Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltkin who I loved 🥰  from beginning to end and yes, I started in 2017 and I just finished it in 2025 I left it for several years because it was so long that the seasons came to an end but then they would continue again new stories. 

So when they came to an end I got tired of it and I said, well what else is there going to be? but well, one of those times when I had nothing to do and I would watch the series again and it hooked me again So this time I got to the end and everything thanks to Rumplestiltkin because this character is beautiful I loved him, he made me cry,  I mean from the first time until the end he made me cry yes I am so HSP.

The series is primarily set in the fictional seaside town called Storybrooke, in which the residents are actually fairy tale characters that were transported to the real world town and robbed of their memories by the Evil Queen, who used a powerful dark curse obtained from Rumplestiltskin. The residents of Storybrooke, where Regina is older, have lived an unchanging existence for 28 years, unaware of their own agelessness and their past lives. The series are about these characters facing difficulties while they recover the memories from their fantasy and magical time, all of them are characters from books like Snow White, Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Frozen, Brave, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast, Oz, and much more, but the cool thing is they are all part of the story of Once Upon a Time, so the way they all are connected it's very creative. 

Since the end of last year I have felt a little bit off,  like a hermit with her own thoughts in the dark holding the small sparks of light left, watching this series again made me realize how much I have closed myself having on hold that crazy Valeria that I miss, but some day hopefully soon....so far in 3 words what I can say and always have said: ART SAVE US!