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Hello Moleskine world meet Cali Rezo, our feature artist for the month of May.

Cali is up to some amazing work and we are honored that she is apart of the myMoleskine community. Last month she was one of the most frequent uploaders to myMoleskine and then won our fan poll on Facebook to become our newest Author-a-Month. Upload your work now to be in the running for next month’s spotlight.

Feature:

Tell us a bit about yourself?

Hello! My name is Cali Rezo. I’m a free-lance artists and I live in Paris, France. I like to draw, paint, sing, take pictures, make things, wire sculptures, puppets, decorate my house, read and listen to music.

When did you first use a Moleskine notebook and what is your favorite style?

I have made collages and drawings for many years and I have used a lot of different sorts of notebooks, including Moleskine’s.
I don’t remember exactly my first Moleskine notebook… But my favorite was the one I used last year:

In my notebooks I draw, glue things, sew, and cut… I try to not restrain my creativity with a single style. It’s more like improvisations according to my mood, events in my life or… the weather.

Tell us about your favorite work that you uploaded to myMoleskine? What is the story behind it?

I like this one:

The left page is a print of one of my latest digital painting with acrylic on the print. On the right page, I mixed a chinese paper found on my street, a map of my home-town and a picture that I took on my grand-parents garden before the big storm in 1999 when trees were still there… I also added a sentence from a book by Eric Chevillard, great writer whom I like very much. He says here, “I’m nostalgic for the time when I was impatient about my future” (sorry for the bad translation!).

Those two pages are telling a story about growing up and leaving things behind me.

Any last parting words for the audience?

Thanks a lot for your time and I hope people will like my future notebooks (:

Thanks for your time and sharing with us Cali!

We have created a bookmark and sleeve in her honor which you can download here:

http://www.moleskine.com/mymoleskine/msk_templates.php

You can also view more of her great work on her website:

http://www.calirezo.com

The chocolate praline bonbon turns one hundred. To help us mark this occasion, master confectioner Ernst Knam created a recipe for us we would like to share with you.

Read more at the link below:
Moleskine Praline

Congratulations to the Author-a-Month winner for May – Cali Rezo!

http://bit.ly/calirezo

We want our feature of Cali to include fan questions, what would you like to ask our new winner?

Post your questions in the comments section below and we will include a few.

There are many choices when selecting tools or methods for enhancing productivity but is a journal one of your tools?

According to a new article featured on Forbes.com, you might want to consider keeping a journal for a number of reasons:

http://onforb.es/JatmCE

Have you used a journal in these ways? What results did you see?

We would like to bring back a feature on this blog showing a snapshot or a brief feature of our readers.

If you would like to be featured on this blog please send us an e-mail at moleskinerie@moleskine.com .

We know we have amazing readers and we want to share with the community the interesting ways you are all using notebooks.

Please write us if interested and tell us a bit about yourself, include some images of your work if possible.

Let us know things such as which style of notebooks you enjoy to use, how you use them, places you take them etc.

We can’t promise to feature everyone but we will start to feature as many fans as we can in the upcoming months and beyond.

Our newest video presents the latest additions to our Writing Collection.

Do you prefer the click or the cap?

Clicks pens and pencils

Is a picture really worth a thousand words?

We wanted to share with you an interesting article on doodling. More companies are using doodling to express complex ideas and get everyone on the same page.

Have you tried visual note taking in the work place or do you ever create doodles in your personal time? What benefits does it bring to you?

(Click the image to read the article)

The latest Author-a-Month is now revealed, Nerderella is the winner! To learn more about the person behind the work, we reached out to her:

Could you please tell us something about yourself?

My name is Yasmin and I work under the name Nerderella, I live in the Netherlands in a house with a garden, my boyfriend and all our toys and gadgets. I’m an illustrator / concept artists by day and a crafster by night. I read a lot of comics, play way too many video games and love cooking and taking pictures.

What inspires you the most during your creation process?

A lot actually; friends, family, conversations I overhear, comics, games even weird stuff I find in second hand stores. I went to Pictoplasma recently and that really inspired me too.

And of course some of my favorite artists: Dave Cooper, Junko Mizuno, Mark Ryden, Jhonen Vasquez, Junji Ito and Robin Keijzer. And for some reaon, reeealy bad movies, I love their corniness. (I advise the Room and Troll 2!).

Which are your sketching tools?

My sketching tool of choice is a Pentel 0.7mm refillable pencil. when I don’t need any sketching done I use Pentel sign pens and fine liners or my recent favourite; the Pentel colour brush. It might not give the perfect even lines I usually use but I really like how it makes my drawings look. It makes them more alive.

Thank you for sharing with us Nerderella!

As we have done with all past winners a custom sleeve and bookmark of the winning artist’s work have been created.

You can find the sleeve or bookmark by logging into myMoleskine and going to our MSK section. Once you are there simply select the workshops section.

Enjoy: http://bit.ly/9v48lIt