lightweight

this is the top secret illustration from before. it hung for a long time on the school wall. now it proudly hangs at home. it wasn't actually top secret, i just didn't want to show it until it was finished. one of my friends says she wants to be the pink sheep, because that one looks the happiest.

digital painting is great, but i still love good old manual painting. brushes, acrylics and all.

doble

as i was blogging about our beloved trip, my video entries sunk deeper and deeper in the bottom, thus not getting a lot of visibility. i'm giving them one more chance. don't worry, i won't write double entries for everything.

hasta luego

i'm excited. as i decided before, i need to say goodbye to my bag once more, at least in this blog. so here is the two colored version. and it does fit in the little pocket on the right:)

hope you are doing well!

ruins

voila! my last entry on our trip. i'm not sure if i should create a separate blog for travel. are these entries damaging the design/animation focus of this blog? i don't know. keeping two separate blogs seems too much for me, though.

another nice lake called gökgöl. we saw black or common terns (edit: checked, and they are black terns, because the bills were black, not red) and observe their hunting and singing behaviors. we even saw orange-colored cattle egrets there.

usak was a little... fundamental for us.

if you happen to go to tavsanli, don't forget to stop by aizonai. it is a fantastic little historic site. such a surprise...

our last stop was delmece plateau (near tesvikiye village). it was foggy and cold and looked like a dutch landscape painting.

does birdwatching count as voyeurism?

our next target was olimpos. we took secondary roads again, passing through wonderful lakes and mountains.
we did see ferocious predators (i'm not sure if they were eagles) on the mountain road. we were lucky enough to see them with binoculars, but not fast and silent enough to take pictures.

a stork chorus was practising a canonical song:)

the lake avlan was bursting with bird species. even the burning heat couldn't stop us from enjoying this fairy tale spot.

this was by far the best moment of the whole trip (it was not the best artistic moment though, as you see). seeing a night heron just in front of our eyes. he just came flying, landed on that stick, and stood there for 15 minutes, leaving us time to enjoy his beauty.

here we are, in olimpos. can you guess which plant this is?

margharita

looking back, i miss our beloved trip so much. but i do enjoy working these days. so here we are, in datca again.

we went to marmaris as well for a night out. we weren't quite crazy about the impossibly touristic city. the bar we entered had some fireworks going on, though.

one mysterious dancer!

of course we had to build a sumo bunny of sand... she couldn't survive more than a couple of hours, though. when we came back after lunch, we found her kicked to death by some bully. grr.

settling in the peninsula

our next destination was datca (i have some problems with google maps by the way. can you see the locators?). my oh my! we wanted to drink the sea water. what an amazingly clean piece of nature! and how lovely people! and believe me, what we are eating in the city is shit compared to the food in datca.

this is old datca. all of the houses were made of stone. they used to be the villagers' homes, but were converted to trendy eco-tourism shops and ateliers.

i think it was a little windy at times.

what? of all the pictures you've taken, are you uploading this bug? yes, i am. this guy's movements and overall looks really struck me. he once tried to sleep in my shoe.