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mermaid dream

Dinara Mirtalipova March 15, 2014

these patterns are inspired by my daughter's dreams ))) she's all about mermaids right now ))

In "patterns"

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The banner for my new illustrated pop-up book “Cinderella” was featured at Bologna Children’s Book Fair (@bolognachildrensbookfair ) that took part a couple of weeks ago. The book is released this August and is published by @templarpublishing
*available for pre-orders on Amazon
#BolognaChildrensBookFair
#templarpublishing #cinderella #mirdinara #dinaramirtalipova

In preparation for the Orange Branch Public Library exhibit I pieced together some bits of separate paintings. This is Spread 1 of “Beauty and the Beast”. Since it’s a pop-up book every element had to be drawn separately in order to have the flexibility of moving things around. #beautyandthebeast #mirdinarabooks

Some of the original illustrations from my recent books “Imagine a Forest”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Princess and the Pea” and “Stories from the Bible” are on display at Orange Branch Public Library in Ohio during the month of April. If you live in the area feel free to stop by))
#cuyahogapubliclibrary

Shout out to April showers! If you liked this mermaid shower curtain - good news
@hyggeandwest is offering 20%off shower curtains with code ‘APRILSHOWERS’
Happy showering)))))
#hyggeandwest #hwmirdinara #mermaid

Happy Easter! 🐇

And for those who collect painted eggs, these two are all signed, dated, lacquered and up for grabs through my Etsy (mirdinara.etsy.com) tomorrow at 1:00pmEST. I’ll do a follow up post about 10min before they become available. #mirdinaraeggs

If you are decorating Easter eggs this weekend and need some guidance on how to draw birds, grab my book “Imagine a Forest” at your local library (or amazon) and on page 112 you can find a step by step process. Please tag with #imagineaforest or #mirdinaraeggs and we all can see your creations 😊

As some of you know, each year I paint Easter Eggs to honor my grandma Lilia, in our family she kept the tradition of decorating eggs for Easter. I decided to continue this tradition, but instead of dyeing eggs, I paint them. I use acrylics paints on porcelain eggs.
This year I decided to play with the gold/black/red pallet. Originally I’ve been planning to do three eggs, but with other projects and family events I feel I can manage only two this year.
As soon as these two are coated with lacquer, I will let everyone know about the day/time they become available.
#mirdinaraeggs #eastereggs

Easter eggs painting season 🥚
#mirdinaraeggs

My dose of very much anticipated inspiration has been delivered to my doorstep today, love happy mail day 😊 🎼#gotanproject

Mama’s mermaid wallpaper + daughter’s flower painting.
Ever since Sabrina was a baby we couldn’t help but notice how much the girl loved water! I remember she was about 2 years old and had no fear around the pool, and has always loved swimming. At some point she was totally convinced she was secretly a mermaid. 😊So I had this idea of designing a mermaid wallpaper for her room for a long time. I’m so happy I paired up with @hyggeandwest and now finally this dream of mine came true))))
It took us nearly a month to install this wallpaper in Sabrina’s room, it’s actually not that hard, but having no experience definitely slows things down ))) My husband and I looked up different techniques, some people apply glue directly onto wall and then apply the wallpaper, however we followed video tutorial by @hyggeandwest and applied glue onto the wallpaper first.
This wallpaper is available at @hyggeandwest and it comes in 4 color combinations.
#hwmirdinara #hyggeandwest

Please count my voice in support for today’s March for Our Lives. #enoughisenough #mirdinara #dinaramirtalipova

My mom brought me my early drawings and paintings from grade 1 - 4 (this is roughly 1987- 1990). It’s like a time capsule with sealed emotions )) also, notice how my art teacher figured it’s ok to correct the ballerina’s foot using a pen right over my painting 😬😆. #childhood

Yes it’s still pretty cold outside, but knowing that today is officially the first day of spring, warms up my heart a little bit ☀️

I’m experimenting with markers and pencils 😬😁

Both paintings are practically finished, well perhaps just a few tiny touch ups here and there, but it’s basically done.