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07/06/2024

A komandos gastrolės keliasi į Anykščius, festivalį vaikams Festivalis vaikams Nuotykiai tęsiasi 2024 ✨ Birželio 15d.

Šeimoms skirtas literatūros, menų ir vasaros pramogų festivalis

20/03/2024

Last week kick-off of our beautiful book project „Our legends intertwined" ("Nos légendes, gestes croisés")

Saison de la Lituanie en France 🇫🇷

18/02/2024

Jau kelios dienos ir ilgai laukta - Vilniaus Knygų mugė! 📚
Šiemet man ji kaip reikiant gausi veiksmo tad truputį apie tą veiksmą detaliau!

• Vasario 22d., ketvirtadienį, 16val., “Jaunimo taške” susitinkam knygos pristatysime paaugliams “12 kosmosų”! ✨ Kolkas dar pačios nematyta, bet labai daug naujų vėjų atnešusi į mano iliustracijos patirtis vyresnio amžiaus auditorijai - šviežia, šviežia atkeliaus tiesiai į mugę!

• Vasario 23d. , penktadienį 17val., “Jaunimo taške” susitinkam dėl nepakartojamos “A komandos!” 🐕 Dėmesio centre - , Grėtė Kutovienė bei jos augintinis šuo Eltonas. Susitikim sužinoti daugiau apie knygą ir superinę seriją bei pramokti kalbėjimo su šunimis BEI (didelis bei!) - gauti pieštinius portretus iš manęs! Pokalbio metu būtent tokius darysiu kaip dovaną, kiekvienam atėjusiam vaikui!!! ✏️

• Vasario 24d., 12:00-14:15, šeštadienį, “Kūrėjų erdvėje be formulių”, Kūrėjų kioske lauksiu visų norinčių sudalyvauti ženkliukų gaminimo maratone! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ Vis matydavau, kad įprastos valandėlės kūrimams neužtekdavo, tad šiemet lauksiu ir būsiu net porą valandų kūrėjų kioske su ženkliukų aparatu ir spalvotom popieriaus atraižom! ✌🏻 Susitinkam sukurti ženkliukų!

Kolkas tiek! O daug daugiau manau patirsim vietoje, - iki greito! 💌

16/02/2024

Today, on 16th of February, my country
Lithuania celebrates its independence 🤍

To be independent is to be able to speak your mind. To be independent is to create however you feel to. To be independent is to get to experience another spring upcoming and breathe your own counrty’s fresh air..

There’s a lot of things to be thanked to those who made this happen - the day is today to do so - we have our freedom for that! 🇱🇹

10/02/2024

Story time! 🙌🏻

Last year around Christmas time I did multiple postcard workshops creating such postcard houses. I did make one to myself - this astronaut’s house. There were some children watching me draw it and suflering what to add more and it came up to be pretty cool! ✨ An attic full of books, the astronaut chilling and waiting for it’s other mission, a room-portal to the cosmos…

But the very mysterious and odd coincidence was his house number - noticed it was number 5. And quickly linked it in my mind - wait I just released the number 5 issue of .cafe Sąsiuvinis (the activity book) and talked about cosmos, telescopes and boxes that can be houses! It all was like a little miracle. 💫

Amazing how the year makes random things link around and here’s the postcard having its spot in my feed at last!

19/01/2024

Another upcoming book for adulting teens - a book field I rarely get into but now tried and loved it.

You’ll hear about it soon on February!

18/01/2024

Can’t wait to share and show more of this book project we’re patiently and slowly creating with .vile and 🎬
Sharing just a peek of it because it’s still - pretty much a secret but I really enjoy making it and it’s coming along very nicely.

Stay turned for 🎥 and 📽️ and 👻

15/01/2024

These bugs fly high and far! 🐞

Recently I’ve got the news that I have been shortlisted among the 346 finalists of the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2024 (there were 3520 submissions from
the artists frim 81 countries around the globe and I get to be one of the lucky ones :,-) ).

It’s really an honor to be one of the selected artists and also - one of six Lithuanian artists that has been selected for this year’s finalists.

The competition is still on to be in the live exhibition at 2024 but even now I feel I’ve reached something I couldn’t picture in my mind - it means the world to me! 🌞

So this year my trip to Bologna is extra special now - waiting - thank you to the bugs that flew me all the way here! 🦋

Swipe through which illustrations made me make the list!

#2024

04/01/2024

Autoportrait for the start of 2024 🍊

31/12/2023

The earth spun it’s circle around the sun again and it’s time for another and ! 🌍

This year’s collages both go hand in hand so well - the first one is my own picture picks which was really REALLY hard to put together (the whole year in just nine photos is almost impossible!) but I think - speaks for it all well. It was an extremely creative year - three book launches (!), many more awaits me! Many more projects were illustrated - various educational stuff for museums, travels and meetings with illustrators and publishers around the world and truly - got to know many lovely people. A big step for my own - getting myself a personal art studio and getting to speak and show it on magazine. Another beautiful month with loads of new characters and my love for gouache getting even stronger! Many workshops and many kids met and recent creative work with .cafe really showed how many people I dearly hold in my heart 🧡 Loved the summer of this year - I got to sketch so much outside, travel and plan out my future projects - it was a good year, both hard and absolutely euphoric at times, but great.

My best nine as I see is about this all too - I’m once again thankful for you being here and following and letting me grow 💌 I feel that people around me really see and get what I love to do and what I speak about and that is just something I didn’t think I could possibly get in life.

Thanks to you and to creative 2023!

And now - let’s all step into 2024!
Happy new year! ✨🎉