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Ask Magazine

Here's an illustration I did for Ask Magazine, an art and science magazine for kids from Cricket Publishing Group. Interesting magazine, with lots of cool articles and illustrations. I had to draw a diagram showing the layers of construction that a green roof requires for an article about green roofs and living walls ( I love these names). Hopefully in a not so distant future we will have much more buildings carrying those oasis that can provide lots of benefits to people and urban wildlife alike. We will live in city jungles!

Color and Brush

Chita Collection

Inspired by a kind of traditional fabric of Brazil called chita or chitão. Chita is a part of our cultural identity, and I love the bold mix of colors and flowers.

Verde

So, this is the last collection of the year. In a few days I will be leaving for my home country Brazil, for a couple of months, and I guess I got inspired by the summer, nature, and sun that I will find there. I can't wait to run away from the Canadian winter! Verde means green in Portuguese. Hope you like it!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Garden Collection

More applications for my Garden Collection. Open for licensing.

The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design

Last week I began module 2 of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, an e-course featuring Rachael Taylor, an amazing British surface pattern designer. Module 1 was great and module 2 has been even better! It's the first time I take an e-course and so far it has been amazing, I've been sketching a lot, making patterns and collections and sharing thoughts and experiences with a lot of great people from all over the globe. I feel more creative and happy about my work. I'm sharing with you some of the designs I've done so far. I still have a long way to go, and I can't wait to keep going!

Bug City

I did this Bug city for the October issue of Chickadee Magazine. There's a lot of details, so it took me some time to do it, but I love the result!

New line for Adzif

Here's my new line of skins for phones, tablets and laptops. You can find them here.

All images by Adzif

Chirp Fun magazine

That's a new illustration I made for Chirp Fun Magazine. It has a bunch of activities kids can do outdoors during summertime.

Primavera!

Printemps! Spring! Finally!

Activity with the kids

This month I had the opportunity to create and apply an art activity with a group of children from 4 to 5 years old. That's what I did:

So, they had to complete the drawing, color, cut and then assemble the flower. As I expected they did a great job! Children have an unexpected and imaginative way of looking at things that adults can't anticipate. This activity will be a part of a bigger project I'm working on. I found out that it makes me really happy to be a part of the creative process and to work side by side with children as an illustrator and as an educator. It's one of those moments in your life when something clicks inside your head and life starts to make more sense, if you know what I mean...but anyway here's what they did:

 I love how they assembled the parts differently, mixing leaves and petals and using unexpected colors. I will post some more of this activities I'm working on.