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I often like to look at books and encyclopedia on nature to find inspiration.

For this one, I took the inspiration from the picture of a tree in the Serengeti savanna, where a bird called black-capped social weaver likes to make its nest. Many birds do so on the same tree (hence the name “social”), and the nests look like balls hanging a bit like in a Christmas tree :)

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This month, ONU Femmes France celebrates a fascinating woman. We all know her face, we’ve seen her since childhood, but few of us know her name. I give you: Hedy Lamarr, the woman who inspired Disney’s Snow White.

hedy-lamarr

She was an Austrian actress and movie producer, and was considered the most beautiful woman. But the reason I want to talk about her today is that she was also an inventor. Her most famous legacy is a patent called “Secret Communications System” she filed in 1942 and co-invented with composer George Antheil. It consists in the design of a frequency hopping spread spectrum method (FHSS), which she came up with during World War II in a spirit of enabling communication without being eavesdropped or jammed, by switching the frequency on which a signal was being emitted to another frequency in a sequence known by the transmitter and receiver. FHSS are know being used in wireless networks, such as Bluetooth.

Insects

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I recently took an online class by Laura McKendry, whose style I love and I find so loose and fresh, and for that class I made a couple of drawings about insects. I discovered how much fun they are to paint or draw!

This first one I painted with watercolor the basic shape I wanted to do, and then I drawed with pencils on top.

insects-1 insects-2

In this second one, I tried to paint them walking in different directions and to look more lively :)

Psycho-cat

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Here is a small drawing of my cat, whose favorite posture is to lie on the back.

She’s often in that weird mood in-between cuddly and psycho-cat, lying a trap full of claws when we try to pet it :)

psycho-cat

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Last Tuesday, October 12, was Ada Lovelace Day. Many other artists shared their illustration of Ada Lovelace, as well as a short biography of her. I wanted to share mine as well.

As many said before me, she was a Mathematician and the first person ever to design a computer program when computers didn’t even exist, and at a time where it was often believed that women were only interested in “futile things”.

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Last weekend, I went to the parc and was happy to see the rich colors autumn is giving to the trees. I collected a few leaves and branches and it inspired me to this painting.

autumn-leaves