HAPPY 2017

I wish you all a year full of good things, peace, love, understanding and caring about others and our world - we always say this, but we have to believe it.

You can download this Card for printing /HERE/

Label for IMBUE - American Vermouth

A couple of months ago I started a comissioned work for IMBUE Cellars based in Oregon (USA).
They wanted two labels for the dry and the sweet Vermouth bottles. This was a very special project and I enjoyed it a lot as they wanted absolutly the whole label, front and back, illustration and text, hand drawing & hand writting... as a hand-crafted product that they offer.
So here is my work, made full of love too!  ;)

Do you recognize the plants in the drawings? there is Chamomile, Juniper, Vanilla, Wormwood, Oranges, Grapes leaves...fully fresh and aromatic! I am looking forward to taste it too, now that Summer is coming!!

And here some previous sketches while developing the design:

Never trust a dog like this one!

(like kind of gremlin)
I love dogs, but I hate this kind of evil dogs! He bit me without making any kind of warning noise or sign before!
So... I assure you, Barking dogs seldom bite - and so the other way round. And so for people aswell! I have learnt this from life.

Merry Christmas & Happy 2015

lets always go further and well accompanied :)

Instant of my Easter Trip.

Berlin - Usedom (Baltic sea) cycling.
Me made around 70km per day.

adding some color digitally.

And now, guess, who is me in the picture??  indeed!
yeah!!! I was kind of.. not the first at all! Not that bad neither, but really few times I left my bottom position! :) I just wanted to control my sheep's flock.
So, there were we: Joachim, Phillip, Sylvia, Sandra and Cati, at the queue, surviving :P

drawing over the sketch with china ink.

first pencil sketch

Landscape was really beautiful! And is a nice experience to feel the changing between places at a real speed of cycling.. but we were ridding quite quickly and nearly the whole day so I couldn't stop drawing as much as I would have liked.

Though I bring you a couple of LIFE SKETCHES that I did at arriving to some spot  in our way. Visit my OTHER BLOG HERE.

Three intensive ridding days, two days in Usedom, Baltic Sea, where we attend the "Easter Fire" at the beach and this crazy bunch of people even swam in the frozen water!

PS- You may notice that the men of our trip were more responsible than the girls, who didn't wear helmets!

Easter Rabbits & Easter Eggs Cards

Happy Easter to you all!! ( a bit too early)
Do you want a personalized Easter Greeting Card made by me?
or would you like one of these ones, or a bunch of them?
Just write me to: email@catilustre.com. I will be glad to hear from you! :)

And if you want to see all the available Illustrations, Paintings and Prints of me, please visit my Etsy Shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CATILUSTRE

Night Whispers #2

This is the version I have colored with pencils, color pencils and markers.
The first one you might still remember,  was colored digitally, with photoshop,
which one you like the most?

Children Book Cover

for "Schmuck & Schmack", a children book project written by Claudius Gehr.
These are two version for the cover.

Open Air Gallery in Oberbaumbrücke

This Sunday the 2th Juni, Kreuzberg, Berlin.

I will be there the whole day, with lots of drawings and watercolours from Berlin, Asturias, botanical motifs and other subjects. I am still working a lot choosing them and fitting them in frames or, and passepartous.. But it is worthing! So come by if you are in Berlin!

more here!

Event in Fbook here.

Night whispers

 or Whispers in the Darnkess

at night, is all dark.
o en español " de noche todos los gatos son pardos"
a saber.

Experiments

I am loving Photoshop,
and I am loosing the respect for life sketches ;)
That's what is appearing.

 

Originally they are these.

Teacher

She was replacing the ordinary teacher. She had few experience... and that's what it happened.

"there's no more fuel"

-he said.
So they got closer.

People sketches

pets doodles II

Mücken vom See

If they are cats or dogs, 

I do not know!

(maybe sort of mice)

Divertimento I

para estados de aburrimiento

Zwischen Räume

Me encargué de hacer la portada del libro sobre el proyecto de Nakulex que hacemos con algunos colegios de Neukölln.

Bottled again

when one gourmande Fly,   in the sweet evening coca-cola finds, ... begin for him the fun

And this one too gourmande did't realise that she was drinking far too much!

Cultivated mice

speechless - alienated - hypnotized

& BOTTLED

The alienation from our senses. Why do we always have to be listening "bottled-music" when we can hear voices, cars, birds, or just nothing ? - nothing doesn't exist :)
I am not criticizying, I'm just wondering...we do what we want when we want,

und das wars :D