Invitation To Inspiration

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

ILLUSTRATION INSPIRATION

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.

Richard MacDonald

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He`s got to pull all his talent and feeling into them!

Norman Rockwell

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

Today, Invitation To Inspiration celebrates an extraordinary artistic discipline- fashion illustration...

It has been around for nearly 500 years, when it became substituted by photographs in the late 1930s.

Luckily, there are still artists whose work, dedication and talent keep the fashion illustration alive.

One of the best among them is Michalis Christodoulou.

His sketches always remind us of how beautiful, playful and pure fashion essentially is.

We invite you to enjoy Christodoulou`s work as much as we do.

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

Love, M & M

Sunday, July 8, 2012

PARASOL GIRLS

Photos via Pinterest

Verses from Anne Sexton`s poem "The Kite"

Friday, July 6, 2012

Invitation To Inspiration duo is always inspired by nature...We can never stop being amazed by it. Nature is something that inspires all artists, architects, writers, photographers on daily bases...the foundation of every art...

On today's ECO FRIENDLY inspiration list- ECO SMART POOLS

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Green pools come equipped with an ozone and smart filtration system to keep the water fresh and clean. The variable speed pumps use significantly less electricity. And you don't necessarily have to install the pool in the middle of your yard to keep it warm thanks to the use of solar panels. Best of all, these green pools are designed to match with the topography of your backyard, with stone and wood accents that'll give the pool a more natural look.

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These look very relaxing and Invitation To Inspiration duo would love to try one out...

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...amazing natural pools that offer a chemical-free way to stay cool...

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Love, Martina & Matea

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

MEMORY HUNTERS

photo by Invitation To Inspiration

The Summer I Was Sixteen

The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which
we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.
We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.

Shaking water off our limbs, we lifted
up from ladder rungs across the fern-cool
lip of rim. Afternoon. Oiled and sated,
we sunbathed, rose and paraded the concrete,

danced to the low beat of "Duke of Earl".
Past cherry colas, hot-dogs, Dreamsicles,
we came to the counter where bees staggered
into root beer cups and drowned. We gobbled

cotton candy torches, sweet as furtive kisses,
shared on benches beneath summer shadows.
Cherry. Elm. Sycamore. We spread our chenille
blankets across grass, pressed radios to our ears,

mouthing the old words, then loosened
thin bikini straps and rubbed baby oil with iodine
across sunburned shoulders, tossing a glance
through the chain link at an improbable world.
Geraldine Connolly

photo by Invitation To Inspiration

The vivid imagery of Connolly`s verses brings out the flashbacks from the depths of our memory...
We`re sixteen again...
Back then, the summer was such a dreamy place...
The heat didn`t bother us...
We loved the itchy sensation of salt on our skin and in our hair...
Can we bring back the innocent and simpler us?