Mural "What"

Last summer we did a little experiment with one of our murals. When I say experiment, I mean that it isn't matching our style exactly and we've tried to put a different color gradation. We had fun, that's what I can say for a fact. Beside that, we had a company of two wonderful people, photographers, Laura Chiaroni and Filippo Bardazzi who did a little photo journal about Belgrade. Beside all those creative people and places they photographed, they did a few photo of us, showing our studio and work. You can check the project here. 

My place at BeforeAfter

Hello boys and girls! A few weeks ago I had a pleasure to be part of Belgrade lifestyle/art site Before After. My friend Marija Strajnic, who is a photographer for the site called me and asked if she can take a few photos of our apartment. She also did a couple of photos of my friend and partner Tijana, so we are together on this as part of our studio Kriska. Beside that, you can sneak peak into our apartment. Everything is still pretty basic, since we've recently move here, but I enjoy so much decorating it slowly. Unfortunately, site is on Serbian only, but at least you can see photos, which are very nice. Here is the link to my post and here's a link to Tijana's apartment. All photos are done by Marija Strajnic. 

New Mural

A couple days ago, my friend Stefan Ciric aka DROP and I created new mural in Belgrade. Mural is located in Inex Film, a squat in Belgrade. I can't remember the last time I did a mural that wasn't commissioned and it was so fun. Also, its always nice to combine styles and collaborate with other artist. Lizard - Mermaid Renaissance ;)

A little about my band

Hello there! I just want to announce first mini tour with my band Replicunts and French band Lunch. We will be touring Serbia and Romania, and I guess it will be fun. I play almost 11 years with my band Incomplete and now for three years with Replicunts, and this will actually be the first time I play couple of days in a row. Good thing about this, is that playing in a band is a hobby for me, so there's no pressure that you have when you're doing your daily job, although I love my daily job ;)
This is the poster I did for our tour. It's not quite my style, but I do love to draw monsters. There's really cute panda logo, too and it's for Panda Records owned by guys from Lunch. I will write more about this, definitely, and you can expect many photos from the tour, so stay tuned. Bye bye

T - shirt design

This is the design I did for Serbian band Young Husbands.

Ghost People of Savamala

Tijana i ja smo danas opet posetili Savamalu kako bi uradile jos jednog duha. Ukoliko vas zanima prica oko njih, pogledajte malo vise o duhovima na nasem blogu Studio Krishka. Prosle nedelje smo radile na muralu u srednjoj skoli i tamo nas je sacekao kameni, neravan zid, tako da je ovaj ravan zid bio pravo olaksanje. Novi duh slavi leto i pozitivnu energiju. Doduse, malo nas podseca i na zbunjenu  mladu ;) Sasvim slucajno je tako ispalo. 
Sto se tice duhova, uglavnom ljudi pozitivno reaguju na njih, ali danas smo imale i jedan cudan komentar. Naime, gospodja koja je prolazila pored murala, pitala je sta zapravo predstavlja "ta bela figura" i da li ima neke veze sa nekom sektom. SEKTOM?! Objasnile smo joj da nema nikakve veze sa sektom niti bilo kojom negativnom pricom i da mi jednostavno zelimo da prenesemo divan stari duh Savamale kroz dobrocudne, stilizovane duhove. Mislim da smo je ubedili. 
U nekom od narednih postova cu vam pokazati i taj pomenuti mural iz skole, samo dok sortiramo slike.
Nadam se da uzivate u letu uprkos ovim kisama. Pozdrav do sledeceg posta ☼ ☂
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Today Tijana and I made another mural, another Ghost People figure in Savamala, Belgrade. If you want to know more about the whole project, please visit our blog Studio Krishka. Last week we were painting another mural in one high-school and we had to deal with really bumpy wall so it was quite relaxing painting this flat wall. Our new ghost celebrate the summer and positive energy. 

I hope you enjoy your summer days, too.

Lately on Instagram

On the last photo you can see stairs Tijana and I (Studio Krishka) did a few weeks ago. It represents pattern from Serbian traditional Pirot's carpet. If you're in Belgrade, you can see it near Zeleni Venac, just beside the Manakova Kuca museum. It's also part of City Acupuncture project. You can follow us on Instagram. 

Autumn girl - illustration

Nova ilustracija, ali nekako jesenja. I tuzna. Takvo mi je i raspolozenje. Plus, ubi me alergija na polen.
Ali da ne dosadjujem, veceras je otvaranje Rish Store-a, divne rucno pravljene cipele iza kojih stoji moja drugarica Natasa Ristic i njena porodica. Detalje o dogadjaju pogledajte ovde. Svratite, ima zaista divnih modela, ne sumnjam da cete se zaljubiti u par. 

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This new illustration is quite autumn-ish. But I guess I feel that way these days. Plus, my pollen allergy is quite bad. 
Tonight is the Rish Store opening, shoe boutique run by my friend Natasa Ristic and her family. I will show you the photos later on the blog, you will definitely like their hand made shoes. 

Wednesday afternoon and more

Nasi drugari Ivana i Kim su nam prosli vikend doneli jos korejske hrane a danas sam spremala Poja knedle punjene raznoranim sadrzajem, od kupusa koji je glavni sastojak, do soja sosa, jos nekih zacina i sastojaka, ne secam se tacno, ali u svakom slucaju ukusno. 
Prosli petak se, kao sto sam pomenula, odrzala izlozba "Medvedi u cast prolecu" i opet smo imali prilike da vidimo sjajne radove od umetnika iz celog sveta. Pored slika/ilustracija na zidu, na izlozbi su u jednom delu bile smestena lutke medveda, stare, drage igracke sa kojima smo odrastali, pune licnih prica. Jako lep dogadjaj u svakom slucaju, a za vise slika i informacija o umetnicima, posetite sajt Medveda i njhovu Facebook stranicu. Bilo je jako tesko fotkati, jer je guzva ucinila svoje, stoga i nemam bas puno slika, a na jednoj od ovih se nalazi moja drugarica Emilija pored mog rada. Ozbiljna Ema ;)

Pored igrice, na kojoj jos uvek vredno radi ceo tim, ja se zabvaljam sa novom serijom ilustracija. U pitanju su digtialne ilustracije i neke od njih se biti izlozene sledece nedelje, ali pisacu vec o tome. Posle toga, mislim da se bacam malo na papir. Nedostaje mi jako.

Na poslednjoj slici je Nikola, moj muz u nasem stanu, nasem kutku za rad. Jos uvek nismo preneli sve stvari u stan, tako da minimalizam preovladava, ali polako sredjujemo svaki cosak. Svi nas pitaju, kako da jos niste okacili slike, zar ti Barbara, slikar. Okej, imamo jednu sliku za sada i stvarno, najgora sam. Ali prosto zelimo da isplaniramo gde cemo, sta cemo a i hocu da okacim nove slike, pa dok se nakanim da to uradim, nece nista faliti zidovima. Neka malo budu samo beli :)

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Last weekend, our friends Ivana and Kim brought us some more Korean food. Today I've prepared steamed Pooja dumplings, mostly stuffed with cabbage and soy sauce. Very nice meal. 
Last Friday I've exhibited my work in the Parobrod's gallery "Bears - in honor of spring", like I said in the last post. It was really nice event with excellent works from artists all around the world. It was really hard to photograph, since it was very crowded so I don't have many photos, but you can see it here and here you can see artists' info. It's my friend Emilija in this photo next to my work. 
Beside video game I'm currently working with my team, I'm also preparing new series of illustrations. Some of them will be exhibited next week, but I will write about it next time. 

My husband Nikola is on a last photo in our creative corner. We still didn't bring all our stuff here, so everything is minimalistic, but we are slowly decorating every corner of our flat. Everybody asks us "Why don't you have paintings on a wall, you are a painter, what's with that?" Yeah, it's true, we only have one drawing I did last year and that's it. But the thing is, I want to hang the new ones, so it takes time and also, I want to plan the order of the paintings carefully. 

Buzzing

Lepo vreme a ja ne stizem da uzivam u njemu, osim sto me zraci golicaju kroz prozor kancelarije. Tim Two desperados, sa kojima radim, je izbacio novi teaser za predstojecu igricu. Mozete je videti ovde. To znaci da je igrica pri kraju i jedva cekam da je napokon odigram. Cudan je taj osecaj kad radis na njoj, a ne mozes jos da znas kako to sve u celini izgleda, pa te iscekivanje ubija. 

Inace, posto radim part time, imam vremena i da kuvam za nas dvoje, sto je super, jer mi je bas nedostajalo. Paa...mozda ne i toliko, jer je Nikola bio kuvar proteklih nedelja, i posle deset godina veze, ja sam shvatila da odlicno kuva. Ranije sam ja uvek bila ta koja je spremala klopu, ili smo narucivali hranu, nisam mu dala da dodje do izrazaja, I guess ;) Ali evo sad zdruzio s kuhinjom i super mu ide. 

Danas sam spremala musaku, ali jako zacinjenu. Dobili smo neke zacine iz Koreje od nasih prijatelja, pa sam isprobavala i mislim da cu odsad uvek tako spremati musaku. U pitanju su, izmedju ostalog, dva zacina, jedan zapravo mesavina zacina, nemam pojma sta sve ide, na korejskom je napisano i daje tu pikantnu notu. Drugi je tucana ljuta papirka, ali ima malo drugaciji smek od ove nase. Ljutina je taman da ne pustate paru kroz nos. 

Pored toga, radujem se predstojecoj izlozbi "Medvedi u cast prolecu", gde sam i prosle godine ucestvovala a ova je cetvrta po redu. Pa ako ste iz Beograda, ili cete biti ovde u petak, svratite. Izlozba je vrlo zanimljiva, slatka i mozda jedna od mojih omiljenih proteklih godina. 

The game developers I work with, have published another teaser for upcoming video game. You can see it here. I really can not wait to finally play it. 

Since I'm working part time, I finally have time to cook for my husband and me. He was our chef last few weeks, and I was really surprise how good he is in preparing dishes. But now is my turn. Today I made spicy musaka. We got two new spices from Korea from our friends and I love them so much. One is the mix of spices actually, I'm not sure what kind it is, it's all written in Korean, and the other one is some kind of cayenne pepper. I actually cook everything with those two spices these days. 

Also, this Friday I will exhibit my illustration on group exhibition "Bears - in honor of spring". It's annual exhibition and I think it's one of my favorite events of the year. I will show you some pictures from it. 

Saturday

Ghost panda // Studio Krishka // Me and Tijana Tripkovic

Vrlo radna nedelja iza mene, pre svega na poslu. Video igra na kojoj radim zajedno sa Two Desperados timom je pri kraju i uskoro se ocekuje njen izlazak. Mozete pogledati tizer ovde, a mozete pratiti desavanja u vezi sa igricom i na sajtu. Jako sam srecna sto imam prilike da radim na ovako lepom i zanimljivom projektu, a posebno je sjajno sto imam prilike da vidim kako se proces odvija od pocetka do kraja. Ne kazem za sebe da sam neki gejmer, ali svakako volim video igrice i cesto sebi priustim zadovoljstvo da odigram po koju. Ovo je poseban osecaj, jer se nalazite sa "druge strane" igrice, saradjujete sa svim tim kreativnim ljudima, pratite proces, crtate, analizirate i slicno. S druge strane vidite koliko tu ima posla, planiranja, prepravljanja, smeha i zabavljanja, pa to sve cini da dobijete jako lep paket srece. Sto vise radim na istoj, sve vise zelim da napravim svoju igricu, i ko zna, mozda uskoro to i ostvarim. 
Posebno zanimljivo za mene licno, u celoj ovoj prici, jeste to sto dosta ucim i pocinjem da koristim digitalno crtanje i na neki novi nacin koji mi posle koristi i na resavanju svojih ilustracija. 
Uskoro cete moci i da vidite i zaigrate igru iz kuhinje Two desperados-a.
Rad je lep, ali moram da priznam da sam jedva cekala vikend da se ispruzim, odgledam neki film, prosetam sa muzem i slicno. A mislim da cu malo i da kuvam. Malo vise :)
Lep vikend zelim.

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I had really busy week at work. The video Game I'm working on with a team of Two Desperados game development studio is almost done and you will be able to buy it and have fun playing it. You can check out the first teaser here and you can also follow the news on the game's site. I'm really happy that I can work on this beautiful and interesting project, specially because I have insight on the process of game development. This is a special feeling, because you have opportunity to see how everything works on the other side of it. On the other hand, I can see now how much work you need to do before everything is done. And let me tell you something, a lot! It's also nice working with other creative, interesting and fun people. More I work, more I want to make my own video game. And who knows, maybe someday I will. 
Also, there's another ways of drawing digital illustration that I'm learning and it's definitely good because I can also apply that on my illustrations.

What can I say, work is nice, but weekend in a bed with your love one and movies is also great! Days are lovely, so I will definitely use it for walks, photographing and maybe some strawberry ice-cream. 

Sunday mood board

Kako brzo prodje vikend. Necu da se igram. Mada olaksavajuca okolnost je ta sto mi je jako zabavno na poslu i brzo mi prodje vreme, jedino to budjenje ujutru, moj vecni neprijatelj. Naime, pre dve i po nedelje sam pocela da radim u studiju Two Desperados, koji se bavi pravljenjem video igrica. Moja pozicija je 2D artist, sto bi znacilo da obradjujem 3D render, dajem atmosferu sceni, docrtavam i slicno. Jos uvek sam na probnom radu, ali se nadam da cu ostati tamo, jer je zaista sjajan i zabavan posao sa gomilom kreativaca i kul ljudi. 
Pored toga, zeljno iscekujem toplije vreme, novog crtanja po zidovima, planiranje projekata u bastama finih kafica, ma jednostavno vracanje prolecnog elana :)
Lepu i uspesnu nedelju zelim ._.

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I hate that weekend pasts so quickly, but who doesn't, yeah. But despite that, it's not that bad because I have a job that I'm really happy about, so all those early mornings and tiredness are no big deal. Two weeks ago I've started working and design studio Two Desperados. They make video games and my position is 2D artist. Basically, I get 3D render and I need to give it an atmosphere, lights, colors, objects and stuff. It's really fun work to do and there's a bunch of great, creative people that makes it all better. This is a trial period for me, but I really hope that I will stay there for some time. 
Beside that, I really can not wait more for some nicer weather, doing murals, planning projects at some nice outdoor cafes, bringing back my spring/summer élan.
I wish you all a nice week ._.

Wedding photos - Nikola and me

Ah, vencanje :) Kad se samo setim tog dana kako je proleteo, moj muz i ja nasmejani, sludjeni, nasi dragi ljudi, plesanje, novi momenti i ostalo. Ja nisam bila tip za svadbe, uvek sam zamisljala da cemo otici negde, neki Pariz, nesto slicno i tako ozvaniciti nasu vezu, ali ipak smo se odlucili za okupljanje, pre svega i zbog nasih roditelja i prijatelja koji su zarko zeleli da se okupe i sa nama proslave taj dan, a na kraju krajeva i mi smo zeleli to isto da uradimo sa njima. 
Planiranje svadbe je stresan, ali i lep zadatak, bez obzira koliko velika tj. mala svadba bila. Ja sam na sebe preuzela veci deo stvari, ali to je vise da bi bilo po mom. Da, ta sam :) Najveci problem za resavanje je, bar meni bio, naci pravi restoran. Posle bezbroj pregledanih prostora, naisla sam na Smokvicu u Airport City-ju i odmah sam znala da je to to. Nismo ni razgledali ostale restorane, vec smo odmah tamo zakazali i to je bilo to i ispostavilo se kao sjajno resenje. Drugi problem je svakako raspored sedenja. Jao, tu smo imali premestanja, izmestanja, prepravljanja 20 puta, ali smo na kraju nasli pravu semu sedenja. 

Vencanica. Ono sto sam odmah znala je da zelim da sijem haljinu po svojoj meri i u pocetku je mama bila zaduzena za taj zadatak jer odlicno sije. Vodile smo se negde nekim Chanel-ovim modelima iz 2009. ali najveci problem je bio pronaci pravi materijal. Prosto nismo mogle da nadjemo neki maaalo drugaciji materijal od onoga sto svakodnevno vidjamo. Ne znam, ili ja nisam dovoljno trazila. U svakom slucaju, posle dugog traganja, mama je nasla Pedju Nerica, naseg dizajnera koji pravi divne haljine, te je izbor pao na njega. Ja ja sam jako bila zadovoljna kako je sve to ispalo. Mama je napravila ukras za kosu i ogrtac koji je iskombinovala od belog vunenog dzempera i sala i to je ispalo stvarno preslatko i originalno. 

Posle toga dolaze sladje stvari, kao sto je biranje cveca, dekoracije, menija i slicno. Tijana, moja druga Krishka je pravila ove ukrase od papira koji se vide na poslednjoj slici kao i ukrase za plafon. Smokvica je jako interesantna sa svojim modern/industrial izgledom, te su ti papiri savrseno legli unutar restorana. 

Nikola i ja smo vec 10 godina zajedno i ziveli smo zajedno pre toga, tako da je ovo bilo samo zvanicno obelezavanje nase veze, ali ipak moram da priznam, ma koliko sam bila cesto ironicna po pitanju svadbi, sprdala se i slicno, ne moze a da vas ne uzbudi cela ta ceremonija. Nama je zaista bilo divno i pre svega opusteno, a stvarno su tome najvise doprinele nase prodice i prijatelji koji su nas prakticno "nosili" kroz svadbu smehom i pozitivnom atmosferom. Nama je ceo taj dan prosao kao tren. Toliko da smo posle restorana, nas par otisli do grada na pivo, cisto da sednemo i popricamo malo :) 

Ovde mozete videti par slika i njih je snimio Dusan Milenkovic, modni fotograf i moj jako dobar drugar. Dugo sam uopste razmisljala da li da stavljam slike online, jer na primer na fejsu ih nismo kacili, ali evo, mislim da je moj blog pogodan za par njih. Pisala bih jos puno, ali nadam se da sam vam prenela bar malo svadbene atmosfere. Sad nam predstoji novi zadatak, a to je uredjivanje naseg stana, inc po inc, kako bi napravili nas savrsen dom :)

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Ah, the wedding. When I remember that day I see my husband and me laughing, crazy moments, our dear family and friends, new moments... As long as I can remember, I didn't want to organize a wedding party. I was thinking more about some romantic trip to Paris, or something like that, where we would take an oath, but in the end, we decided to do it, mostly because our family and friends wanted to spend that day with us. And we did no wrong. 
Planing a wedding can be really stressful, but it's also a nice thing to do, no matter how big party you wanna throw. I did most of the things, but it was mostly because I wanted things to be like I imagined it :) Yes, Im a little monster, I know. The biggest problem, at least for me, is to find perfect place for your big day. After a long search, we found cute little restaurant with beautiful terrace, called Smokvica (Little Fig), Belgrade. The other thing that definitely made us crazy is sitting scheme. We rearranged it a hundred times and I guess in the end we did it nicely. 

Wedding dress. Another big thing for a girl. At first, my mom was suppose to make me a dress, because she sew perfectly, but we couldn't find material. I wanted to make it a little bit funky, or something like that so it was a really hard to even start planing a model. I really like that Chanel 2009 collection of dresses, you can not tell which one is more perfect then the other, so I wanted at least a similar model. In the end, we found our fashion designer Pedja Neric, so he made a beautiful dress for me, I really like it. Mom made my hair decoration.

After that, everything was much easier. There's things like flowers, decoration, menu and stuff, which is less stressful then the other things. The window and ceiling decoration were made by Tijana, Krishka, love them. 

Nikola and I are together for ten years and it was a nice way to formalize our relationship (is this the right word, formalize?!). It was a fun and beautiful day and I want to thank all our family and friends for making it a wonderful day to remember. Now we are on a new task, decorate our apartment inch by inch and make that place our perfect love nest.

Studio Krishka Mood Board

Kao sto vec rekoh u prvom postu, moja drugarica Tijana i ja smo pre godinu i po dana osnovale mali nezavisni dizajn studio i za to vreme smo radili na jako zanimljivim projektima i saradjavali sa sjajnim ljudima. Neki od njih su KC Grad, Mikser House, Remake Festival, Platoon Berlin, oslikavali smo zidove, Ghost people i Frizerski salon Trac jedni od njih, puno namestaja, ilustracija, dekoracije za kucu i drugih umetnickih stvarcica. Nova godina je pred nama i nadam se da cemo jos vise raditi, a u planu imamo vec par projekata koji treba da se realizuju, tako da "Stay Tuned".

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Like I've said earlier, a year ago I've found a little independent design studio with my friend Tijana and for all that time we have worked on several interesting projects and we co-operated with some excellent people. Some of those projects were in co-operation with KC Grad, Mixer House, Remake festival, Platoon Berlin... We painted murals, Ghost people and Hairdressing salon "Trac", we made furniture, illustrations, prints, house decoration etc. We've already have a few projects on our minds and can't wait to see them done.