Goldfish In My Tears
This is the first ACEO I ever painted, and I let the colors guide me.
Looking inward, I found a lake, and it appeared to be a lake of tears. Yet within those waters, I noticed shimmering touches of orange that I had first mistaken for gold. Looking closer, I realized they were little fish.
Perhaps it's not about finding beauty in everything. Sometimes, what carries us through the darkest moments is something much smaller: an unexpected laugh, a fleeting absurdity, or a spark of joy that appears when we least expect it. In the end, those moments may be worth more than all the gold we could ever find.
ACEO Original ART N1
- Mixed Media: Watercolor, Ink, Colored Pencil on 300gsm Watercolor Paper- Handpainted
Created the 05/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.
Resilience
This Artwork was inspired by a little lantern I own that brings light into my life in more than one way. Here is its story:
When I started my blacksmithing training, I was offered to stay in the apartment above the forge. But when I arrived, there was no electricity there. I could plug in an extension cord from the workshop, but there were no lamps I could plug into it. So on the very first day, a colleague took me to a second-hand shop, and I bought a chandelier with candles and this little lantern. I don't know how old it is, but when I plugged it in for the first time, it smelled like burned wax and dust. Somehow, this little roasted lantern became a symbol of resilience to me. I still have it, it reminds me every day how comfortable I live now and also of the adventures I lived and all the struggles that I was able to overcome.
ACEO Original ART N2
- Mixed Media: Watercolor, Ink, Colored Pencil on 300gsm watercolor Paper- Handpainted
Created the 06/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.
Miraculous
This Artwork was inspired by my Strawberry plants that are surprising me every spring. Here is its story:
I've been thinking a lot about magic recently, I guess because strangely, even though I am an extremely curious person, I just love that there are things I can't fully understand out there. What is that thing that we call magic?
I think, if we understand "magic" as something appearing where there was nothing before, then fruits are magic, I guess.
My little strawberries are giving me the tastiest fruits. I always wished to create a beautiful garden, but it was not meant to be where I live. Yet the strawberries in their planters are growing like crazy.
I can’t help it: when a fruit appears on these little plants, it looks like an unbelievable magic trick to me. Again and again. Every single time.
a few green leaves, A flower, and then suddenly there is a strawberry.
Hopefully this can still amaze me. In a world that sometimes seems dull, gray, and unwelcoming, the incredible vitality of plants, creating life and giving fruit, feels like a gift.
ACEO Original ART N3
- Mixed Media: Watercolor, Ink, Colored Pencil on 300gsm watercolor Paper- Handpainted
Created the 07/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.
Cloud Boy
This Artwork was inspired by my neighbor's son. Here is its story:
I secretly call him Cloud Boy. He carries this vague and fragile aura of disappearance.
He was my neighbor's son, sometimes i saw him mount his skinny looking bicycle, almost as skinny as him in his wide clothes. Every time I crossed paths with him, he seemed to be trying to disappear, looking sideways, his hand on his neck, trying to hide his face. If he could pretend he didn't see me, he would.
In the beginning, I was almost offended. I found him rude.
But then one day, I saw him walking his mother's dog. The dog was old, very old. She walked so slowly and had to stop frequently to rest. But Cloud Boy never hurried her. His mother never walked the dog, but he always did. Sometimes I wondered if he'd pass by only to walk his mum's dog.
Patiently, kindly.
Letting her rest after every three steps. Letting her sniff for as long as it took. Taking an hour to walk to the next corner and back.
Seeing his kindness towards this old dog softened my heart.
Instead of finding him rude, I started to wish that I could say something, anything, to him. His bent silhouette always seemed so frail. Sometimes I wondered if he would manage to evaporate one day.
I hope not... all old dogs need a Cloud Boy.
ACEO Original ART N4
- Mixed Media: Watercolor, Gouache, Colored Pencil on 300gsm watercolor Paper- Handpainted
Created the 08/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.
Focus
This Artwork was inspired by the thirst for beauty I experience in daily life. Here is its story:
Some days I feel like the world suddenly goes gray. It's like the joy is absorbed too fast by my heart, like water disappearing into dry sand. And I crave more, and I can't feel enough joy.
And then I focus.
I never have to search for long to find something that amazes me again. A million songs written about it, a million poems recited about it, a million paintings made... and still, when the dawn comes, when the dusk comes, those are the moments when there is enough beauty to quench my thirst every time.
ACEO Original ART N5
- Mixed Media: Watercolor, Gouache, Colored Pencil on 300gsm Watercolor Paper- Handpainted
Created the 09/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.
Overwhelmed
This Artwork was inspired by the ideas and imagination that are changing my world every day. Here is its story:
When it feels like a thousand hands are reaching for me at the same time, the only thing I can do to find my center is turn my gaze inward.
When things start piling up, it's easy to become even more overwhelmed. And when you're overwhelmed, you're more likely to make mistakes. Then those mistakes create more problems, and before you know it, you're caught in a spiral that leads straight to exhaustion.
To keep myself from falling into that spiral, I remind myself that there is a safe space inside me. My creativity. My imagination.
In the stories I choose to tell myself, there is always beauty, always a reason to keep going. Those stories have pulled me back from the darkness more times than I can count.
And that's exactly what this painting is about.
ACEO Original ART N6
- Mixed Media: Watercolor, Charcoal, Colored Pencil and Dry Pastel on 300gsm Watercolor Paper- Handpainted Unique Artwork
Created the 10/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.
Bloomed
This Artwork was inspired by the lines and colors of nature. Here is its story:
Inspiration is a strange thing. Every artist draws creativity from different places, and I have always been captivated by the beauty of nature and the simplicity that reveals it. Whenever I need to reconnect with a sense of wonder, I find it among plants.
Watercolor has a remarkable ability to capture the delicate nature of petals, even when the painting remains abstract. In this work, lines and shapes suggest the beauty of a bloom rather than define it, allowing it to emerge naturally and without restraint.
ACEO Original ART N7
- Mixed Media: Watercolor and Colored Pencil on 300gsm Watercolor Paper- Handpainted Unique Artwork
Created the 11/06/2026 - Signed and dated in the back.