SilvanaDesign

My new business card!

2012-01-23T15:24:00.000-08:00

I decided to make a new design for my personal business card. I used 90 LB white paper for the printer and made a logo stamp out of eraser rubber. The great thing about this project is that they all look different, according to the pigment stamp pad I used for the logo. It took me a couple of minutes to cut the round edges, but I'm very happy about my handmade card.

Playing in Illustrator

2012-01-04T20:52:00.000-08:00

An attempt to vectorize a pencil sketch! I used the pen tool and a lot of gradient shapes. Still need to ad texture, coming soon...

I won a contest!

2011-12-30T13:03:00.000-08:00

My Snow Feathers design is the winner of the Art Council of Surrey Christmas Card Competition 2011.
I'm glad I participated!

Vector Illustration

2011-08-15T13:19:00.001-07:00

The ideas behind these illustrations came to me while taking the bus to work: 25 minutes of real inspiration!

My newest design project for CNIS

2011-06-22T13:07:00.000-07:00

The girl with the umbrella

2011-02-07T13:08:00.000-08:00

I finished a couple of weeks ago these illustrations for one of my stories called "The girl with the umbrella".

Acrylic and pencil on canvas

My sketchbook

2011-01-10T22:42:00.001-08:00

Unlucky illustrations!

2010-09-06T21:08:00.000-07:00

New posters

2010-07-28T20:53:00.001-07:00

Spending my spare time designing!

Join us under the yellow umbrella!

2010-04-22T12:45:00.000-07:00

I've just finished recently painting an umbrella for CDFBC organization for a noble cause, raising many for children with developmental disabilities. It was such a pleasure and so much fun to paint this object, like my canvas was a flower ready to open. Bees, birds and butterfly fly away and spread the news!

The most beautiful animal

2010-04-06T18:34:00.000-07:00

Check out my etsy shop and don't hesitate to ask me questions: www.etsy.com/shop/silvanamaria

Sea explorer

2010-03-03T15:37:00.001-08:00

Wouldn't be cool to explore the sea while driving an ice cream submarine?

Design for Africa

2010-01-19T15:13:00.000-08:00

These are my first graphic-design works I did during my volunteer work for the Canadian Network for International Surgery (http://www.cnis.ca/). People willing to help Africa are donating money so Canadian volunteer surgeons can practice and teach African students about surgery skills. It's an amazing organization!
I have had the unique opportunity to help design gift cards, posters and flyers for their events. I've attached some...

Character Illustration

2009-11-21T13:29:00.000-08:00

The simple road from a sketch to a cartoon character!

Horoscope Exhibition

2009-10-02T22:36:00.000-07:00

I’ve always thought that no matter how independent or unique we feel we are, we always try to identify ourselves by comparison or by integrating to a group. We have specific ideas, specific needs, specific ways of dealing with life but we all like when we find others with the same or appropriate manners. In a way that’s what I feel about Horoscope… Another course for identifying people by their behaviour or feelings that will include general public divided to particular groups. At the end this is how humans communicate, by sharing with others. Below you can find a Horoscope Exhibition that tries to reflect this idea that people like to identify others and to be identified by others. If the images are funny to you it's because I'm sharing my sense of humor as being an Aries. Smile!

White Snow and childhood memories

2009-09-25T15:37:00.000-07:00

Every time I go back to my childhood memories I often remember how I used to hear the record with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs story. I can still remember the characters voices and the exactly words. Even the record image cover is visible in my mind. And after so many years I’ve tried to recompose those memories by illustrating the characters image. But the thing is that I couldn’t stop my sense of humour and everything end up funny and gloomy. Just take a look!

The Story of a Bookmark

2009-09-09T15:06:00.000-07:00

In this posting you will find fragments on one of my new stories called The Story of a Bookmark. It’s about a little ghost that is searching for love and finds it by reading a special book. I designed the illustrations transforming photos in Photoshop. I hope you will enjoy it!

The Story of a Bookmark

(...)

In the castle of transparent haze, there lived Naluf, a phantom of the same size as the Chinaware phantoms. He came to being from a child’s sadness and it hadn’t arms. Six buds of white clay were his ornament. In his orbits there were two glow worms sprinkled in an ABC book.
And this phantom was leading a very boring life. During his first hours of haunting he succeeded in reading the clock, and after running inside the castle, he could sing oriental sounds. It was an ingenious phantom.

(...)
LOVE?

“What’s this?” Naluf asked himself. “Is it the name of a golden comb or of a not haunted castle?”
All his folds were glimmering of bewilderment and curiosity and the glow worms from his eyes were were now alive.
And so a few days of centuries passed by, till Naluf asked all the Chinaware Phantoms, the Bizarre Phantoms, even the Phantoms-in-the Floor about this word, but he couldn’t receive an answer.
Imbued with restlessness and determination, the phantom set out to discover the enigma. As he went out the castle, the three Plasticine Phantoms followed him, distrustful of his adventure.

At the worldly night time, he came to a strange garden. High leaves drew climbing shadows and behind them, little red roses sprang like a sneeze. The grass smelled of water and the flowers had a sweet smell of honey. The thick weeds embraced him in a mellow smelling trap. Naluf remained indifferent to the flattering beauty in front of him and continued to smooth down his steam on the silk of the petals. There was nothing to be found but a romantic dullness.

After passing a mountain of time, the Chinaware phantom fell into water. The wet molecules held his buds went through his body. He felt a pure and chilly pleasure, till a monster with swimming wings cut his way. The monster had a slippery and rotten skin with green, flattened moustache on his huge ugliness. Because his glow worms sparkled like two lanterns, the sleep walker fish started to hunt after him. As scared as he was, Naluf swam to the edge of the river where he swallowed a molecule and changed into a tear. As quick as a snail, he trickled down on a blade of grass and evaporated himself in the guise of a phantom.

The destiny of his journey made his way to the cloud’s cathedral. He climbed on a bacterium mane and stopped at the celestial gate. There were pairs of smoked ravens wrangling, hiding among clouds and changing their nests. Neither the word Love, nor the letters made sense for them. They were only messengers of flight, rising ideals and bringing down storms over the iniquity. Even the clouds had only one interest, the beauty of the sky.

(...)

And Naluf started reading. And read and read without interruption. After each page, a glow worm moved down and turned the page. He couldn’t stop reading, he just couldn’t go away from the book. The lyrics were talking about something eternal, magnificent, delicate, were talking about fulfillment and peace, kindness and compassion, about the noble feelings that could exist among people. Naluf was just reading about LOVE. And he was nailed down with delight, joy and satisfaction. The buds on his body were slowly melting and the glow worms were hardly flickering. He continued reading joyfully, he happily held and kissed the sentences one by one or embraced the pages. He couldn’t take his eyes off the book, he could not get away from the book…

The story continues even nowadays. In a well-known corner, a book leans on a shelf. If you open it, you cannot close it back. Each letter links with another in the form of words which always have a meaning. You read them attentively and fill yourself with knowledge and wisdom. And if you are by nature a very curious person, you can still find in the middle of the pages, a chinaware leaf, with a crust of glow worms on it and with the same verses repeating themselves. You read the book, you pay attention, than you go charmed with the happy story of a phantom-like bookmark…

Comics 1

2009-08-27T22:23:00.001-07:00

Confessions of a Shopaholic

2009-08-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

JOB SEARCH

2009-08-20T22:53:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Canada

2009-06-06T11:58:00.001-07:00

When you come to Canada you should always stop to the beach. The sun has a strange light and the water no smell. But the whole landscape is beautiful!

Mail-Art Exhibition

2009-05-22T03:32:00.000-07:00

Hello friends,

I present you an online mail-art exhibition, called ,,How to say goodbye".

The artists who participated are Dana Matei http://www.danamatei-idei.blogspot.com/ and Maria Surducan http://www.mariasurducan.blogspot.com/ . They've send artistic postcards with funny stamps or colored characters, making their own envelopes. I thank them for their seriousness and friendship. Here are the exhibits:

On the blue wall you can see Dana Matei's works with crazy animals.

On the red wall Maria Surducan sent some beautiful postcards, very emotional.

These are my works who will be received in short time.

Rocky

2009-05-17T09:08:00.001-07:00

Kind, gentle, faithful, he turns his sight over you. The eyes glitter after a simple touch. And how could you resist? He only needs 10 second of attention, just to know you care. And when he approaches, you can’t refuse him. His old age has eaten the nose and astounded his hear. He has a heavy walking and leaning ears. But in that moment, you enjoy probably your last conversations. Greetings, my dear friend!

Memories in a clock

2009-05-13T03:49:00.000-07:00

This work was made using an old romanian clock and pieces of paper. Inside, there is a little house, with trees and flowers. When I look at it, it reminds me of that saying: Home, sweet home!

Feelings illustrated

2009-05-11T05:11:00.000-07:00

How can you illustrate loneliness, identity or happyness? I've drawn three images that want to capture these emotions...Do you feel lonely like a single apple in a rusty plate? Do you question yourself who are you? Or do you enjoy life like a blue chair levitation? I've felt all this in my consciousness and I'm not sure that I can illustrate it better...

Why do I love spring?

2009-05-06T04:15:00.000-07:00

Because it's fresh and smells like blossoms and love...this is the time for happyness and peace...

Mail-Art Call

2009-04-21T05:53:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,

I would like to start this blog by proposing you a mail-art project called:

HOW TO SAY GOODBYE?

So, I'm asking you to send your work at my adress: Rusan Silvana, Str.Zorilor nr.7 Bl.E1, Sc.I, Ap.18 Beclean 425100 Jud. B-N, Romania. In exchange, I will return my personal mailart work , as soon I'll receive any submissions.

About the subject: HOW TO SAY GOODBYE? Whell...think about your last moments or last words with your good friend who has to go faraway...what kind of artistic elements can reflect your sadness, joy or relief...

If you don't have a clue about what is mail art, feel free to visit this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art

I aspect colorful envelopes, funny postcards, crazy stamps, be very creative and happy! Every submission will be post on this blog for an online exhibition. Please send your art until 15 may 2009. Don't forget to write your adress...:)))

The reason for this project? I don't know how to say goodbye from you, from this place, from all our sweet memories...

Easter Design

2009-04-16T04:20:00.000-07:00

I've designed for the Easter Feast different eg holders using paper, cardboard, clips and wire accesories. The egs were colored with natural plants and flowers.

Easter postcards

2009-04-13T05:01:00.000-07:00