It's almost one year that I'm a part of the cozy Steemit community, just few days and I'll celebrate my first steemit-anniversary! During this time I blogged every day about my art and my life, I read many interesting (and useful) contents, I met fantastic people, learning something new day by day and improving my English too!
I started to follow the @sndbox project since it started and I've always thought it's a great added value of Steemit and a great opportunity for the community of artists and creative people here to grow up theirselves and their projects, to improve their skills, to collaborate each others and to exchange experiences. My hubby @paolobeneforti joined the project some months ago, so I can follow it more closer, but I have to say that when I met and heard Kirk @voronoi and Michael @hansikhouse at the SteemFest in Lisbon I was literally fall in love with the project!
This is my first post with the tag #sndbox , so I thought was useful to wrote a brief "introduce myself" about me, my art and my projects to help people to know me a little bit more ^_^
At first, I have to thanks my hubby @paolobeneforti to invite me to join the project and the @sndbox members to accept me in the group!
I'm an artist and a creative woman from Italy and I started to study art when I met my hubby, just few years ago. Paolo, my hubby, is an artist and a teacher of art, so I have my own "Maestro". Yes, I'm a lucky woman ;)
I love especially to work with oil colors on canvas and on paper too, but the pieces that my customers appreciate more than others are my tiny sculptures that are freaky houses with eyes and legs. I call them "Monolocali Biculi" (that in Italian meanings"One-room apartment with two eyes") and you can see some of them in the following pics:
As you can see, I love to use different materials for my freaky houses, from recycled paper bags to make the mushrooms on the head of the last one or metal little thinks like screws ^_^
In time I also studied one of my own character: the rounded-head man (I call this character "Omino lunare", that in italian means "little man of the moon", because his head is similar to the Moon ^_^). I usually paint him (or her) using oil painting on paper, but sure, I also sketch him everywhere and everytime ^_^
In the following pics you can see some of my rounded-head characters:
In the last times I'm improving my skills on illustrations because I'm partecipating at a project about women artist of the past with other 20 italian illustrators.After the first steps, we found a publishing house very interested to publish a book with our stories and so everyone of us have to create a 8- pages comic about one woman artist of the past. I'm working on a episode of the life of the painter Anjelika Kauffmann and the I just received the approval of my story board by the pubishing house. I'm really excited about this project because it's my "first time" in a comic/graphic novel and I love so much experiment myself in new adventures ^_^
At the same time, I also working (even if slowly ^_^) on a project all mine: an illustration book about the fatherhood. I've always had an awesome relationship with my father who is a great character in my life since I was a little one and here in Italy there are many book about matherhood but just few about fatherhood, so I thought it's a good idea collect stories about it and create an illustration book.
See ya soon
Silvia
Wonderful to have you aboard the incubator @silviabeneforti :) looking forward to a lot of creative collaboration + experimenting!
Thanks so much for all work that you're doing in this fantastic project!!! I'm very very happy to be a part of it ^_^
I really like your artworks!! I am new on steemit and this is one of the first posts that i saw !! You inspire me a lot thank you :)
welcome on steemit, @thaleeeia.kvl ! I read on your introduction post that you're an artist from Greek, great! Hugs from Italy ^_^
They look great! I love them.
During the Steemfest I was also happy surprise to know that Michael speck italian too, it was fantastic! :D Hugs from Italy to you and your family, @boxcardblue ^_^
Michael Speck? I feel like that name is familiar, but I can’t think of who he is.
Thanks for the hugs. Keep up the great art!
Oh! those 2 eyed houses are so cute! <3
many thanks ^_^
Congratulations :D A group of talented and energetic Steemians!
Looking forward to more creative works and new achievements, both of you and Mr. Paolobeneforti :D
Welcome to @sndbox Silvia! So great to have you here as well. Big fan of "Omino lunare" and look forward to seeing the evolution of your illustration book. I hope you will share some of those drawings with us (and let us know how we can purchase it... I work with children and I am sure it would be a wonderful book to have in the classroom)
Thanks so much for your nice words, @osm0sis ! Sure, I'll share every steps of these projects, every drawings and ideas, I think to see the "behind the scenes" is always a nice way to know how an artist (or other professionist, sure ^_^) works .
Excellent! "Behind the scenes" are always super interesting, especially for the "non-artsy" people, as it helps us understand your creative process - and maybe inspire.
I look forward to it.
Sylvia (yes we have almost the same name 😉)
Wow those are lovely, you're so talented. You are a great addition to the sndbox.
:-) @roused
thanks soooo much!!! I'm so happy to be in this project!! ^_^
nice..love your art style.For me it's not easy to generate this.
Thanks ^^ For me, the "secret" is to excercise myself every day and to be curious in different tecniques and materials ^^
Want to say welcome but lol have been following you so long so glad you were invited to sandbox have been watching them they do very well and nice work.
Thanks so much, dear Ursula! I don't know why, but I've always had difficult writing a sort of bio of myself, more than wrote everything else :P
I love your little sculptures and paintings. You are huge inspiration to artists trying to gain some recegnition here on steemit. Keep the great work in inspiring new generations of artists.
Many thanks for your nice words ^_^
Grandissima... bello poter far parte di sndbox! Complimenti!
Saluti!
tu saresti un'ottima new entry nel progetto, un manichino creativo così non si incontra tutti i giorni ;)
Mi avevano candidato, ma poi non sono stato scelto... va bene così.
Thank you so much!
You are my favorite account.👍
If I'm your favorite account, why you don't upvote this post? mmmm... maybe this is just a spam comment like your previous?
Thank you for this informative post about Sndbox incubator, Really helpful and well written, Thanks for sharing @silviabeneforti
Hey @silviabeneforti
Thanks for update and nice sharing. Its very informative blog to steemian.
Keep it up.
Awww I love the art silvia : )
Thanks so much ^_^
Thank you Silvia!, did you like my last art post "indiffrence" what you think ? great to get your interpretion! : )
Love your art style !! you are really talented !!