Home is...

Since some weeks she is trying to hold all those memories, to keep them very close, to feel them every moment of the day. She is craving to everything that is far away at this moment. She wanted that she brought with her a little piece of Andes to keep and to care. It would be her treasure with all the memories in it. Not just cold granite.

'Home is where the mountain is' she whispered and she felt home.

Making a map

 It's all about my fascination for maps and drawing maps.

Read more HERE

Very excited to be one of the participants in this course of Skillshare.

ÑUSTAS - Peruvian sunprint #5

She appeared all of a sudden while walking and chatting with her friend in the streets of Urubamba.

ONCOY COYLLOR - Peruvian sunprint #2

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ONCOY COYLLOR 

Enfermedad de las estrellas - Disease of the stars

CARPAYTA - Peruvian sunprint #1

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CARPAYTA
Ayudar a regar - Helping to give water

Every day from now on I present you a sunprint I made last summer in Perú.

There was already a little exhibition for them but never published my girls on the net for a bigger public.
 So here they are! A 'cholita' a day keeps the nostalgia away.

Welcome to M²!

For you!

Enjoy the table full of tasty things, the little lights in the tree...enjoy of every cliche :) and most of all think of someone who has to spend this christmas alone...you are not alone today!
Wishing all of you a very nice christmas with this little peruvian boy.
Happy he doesn't grow and stay as cute as on the day I bought him. :)

They draw and travel

My contribution for the contest of the sister site of They Draw and Cook ------>They Draw and travel. Since ages I wanted to draw the homeland of my husband with all those treasures...and still I didn't putted them all on it...but it's the beginning may'be of more maps ;)
You can leave a comment for my drawing on their website and take a look to all the other illustrated maps!

Vacation@HOME

If you were wondering where I was hanging out or what I was drawing in the meanwhile? Here is the answer. My Peruvian parents-in-law arrived to Belgium last week and I was very busy showing them this little piece of Europe. Every day is a new adventure and also for me it's a kind of experience seeiing my country through their eyes. We are heaving a briljant time together but I can't get myself to my drawingtable these days. After this first week Belgium, time to discover more of Europe! VAMOS!

Some minutes

Every evening the sun enters the living room...straight upon our blue wall she lays herself down on the Peruvian embroidered carpet and brings me some incredible intimate light-show :)

Love those minutes!

Pre-Inca Workshop

For a kind of a 'World day' on a school in the 'far-west' of Flanders I gave a workshop inspired on the pre-inca woven textiles. The kids (12-13 years) worked with stencils of adhesive plastic on cotton with acrylics and sponges. They learned about another culture that is still so unknown for them at that age...and I could share once more my infinitely passion for my second home.
An inspiring morning we had!!!

Dank aan Ank en Marianne voor de uitnodiging!!! Super!

Featured in San Francisco

After the arriving of my bookmark in San Francisco Tania dedicated a post to my blog. She wrote about our lovely story, how we met each other and how we shared our passion for Peru.
So lucky to know that far away on the other side of the globe my bookmark found a lovely home to spend his life in Tania's books.
If you don't know yet the jewels of Tania Cavenecia Torres, go ahead and discover Peruvian treasures made by herself! I'm so proud about her work and I hope you will found something for yourself too in her shop!
GRACIAS amiguita!

***Visit Tania's BLOG & SHOP! ***

Exchanging friendship

While I was preparing my package with the bookmark, Tania's jewels arrived in my arms, or better onto my ears :)
I loved them on first sight! Not only because they are handmade by Tania but even more for the new friendship we share since some weeks and that's based more exactly on our shared passion for Perú. She is half Peruvian, I imagine every day that I am Peruvian but lucky I am to be married with a Peruvian and to have also my family there, who I miss so much. Tania and I can share a lot...and the most beautiful are the things we create. So we arranged an exchange of our art. And I can tell you, that feels so inspiring! My package is flying over the globe and things like that make me feel living for real...

For more Peruvian related jewelry, VISIT the Etsy-shop of Tania

*Gracias amiga*

Mark your book!

My own BOOKMARK
The first product for my upcoming shop is born!
This one is based on the drawing I did for They Draw & Cook and serves especially in all kinds of delicious cooking bibles. It's so fun to think of the package, the presentation, printing, cutting and all the details.
The first one is flying to Tania Cavenecia Torres in California, USA.
She is an artist and jewelry designer that is influenced by her Peruvian heritage and she loved this drawing.

Thanks to her my products are growing...I'm working on it and hope to open very soon my Etsy-shop.

Details about the Bookmark Andean Rice :
Printed on Montvalle Aquarelle by Canson 310g/m² (textured paper)
18,3 cm x 6,9 cm, with rounded corners on one side and a dark red ribbon on the other side
For any comments, questions or wishes write me on kat@kathydewit.be