Sndbox incubator project: happy to be on board!

 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