About Me

Hello, my name is Orsolya (Or-shaw-yuh), but everyone calls me Orsi (Or-she). 

I am a Hungarian woman, working as a journalist, film critic and editor. I have two kids: Lia (14) and Fulop (3,5).

I started to paint little colourful creatures on small stones, pebbles three years ago. I liked them very much, so did the children around me. Not to lose the stones immediately, it was obvious to put a magnet on their back, and I thought a fridge or a metal cabinet a perfect place for them. You see them every time you open the fridge and they can help holding important notes as 'Don't forget to buy some cookies!'

I continued experiencing and I realized: my animals like to play and wish to have backgrounds that fit. So I created interactive paintings. My first creative book has came out during this Spring.

This is how it starts:

"This book has been made for you. The moment you open it you can enter the world of the imaginary Pandala Islands and get acquainted with the magical stone beings. You can also paint them on pebbles, make salt dough fish ornaments, make felt tic-tac-toe game board for your pandalas, make milk carton pencil holder, color grinning whales, chatty parrots and carnival owls. You can collect and recycle materials in your environment – organic like stone or wood, or artificial as a milk carton. I would like to encourage you to see and find your own fantasy animal! If you wish you can copy the beings of this book, but it’s even better to create your own, unique animal. Enjoy exploring and have fun!"

This blog is my in personal playground. I hope you'll enjoy it! And by the way, Mesekavics means Pebble Tale in Hungarian.

Best,
Orsi

P.s.:This is the cover. It's in Hungarian, but I plan to publish the English version soon!
P.s.2.: Hungary is a small Central-Eastern European country next to Austria.

Pandala Islands catalogue in dutch

Dear dutch friends, enjoy!

Pandala Islands catalogue in french!

Ceci n'est pas un hibou!

About Pandala Islands

Smiling Whale

Welcome to the Pandala Islands' world! Here you can pet your own smiling whale swimming in the tropical sea or create a jungle full of colorful and funny beings as pandala bears. How?

These interactive paintings are not just for the eyes but for the hands, too. Have you ever touched a painting? It's time to do so! Hand-painted stone magnets and magical backgrounds are waiting for you!

I started to paint these little colorful creatures on small stones, pebbles a few years ago. I liked them very much, so did the children around me. Not to lose the stones immediately, it was obvious to put a magnet on their back, and I thought a fridge or a metal cabinet a perfect place for them. You see them every time you open the fridge and they can help holding important notes as 'Don't forget to buy some cookies!'

The next step was to create an environment, background for the creatures, because they've asked for it. So rainforests and tropical seas has been painted - and the imaginary Pandala Islands has become reality.

Green Frog

And as you can move the beings due to your moods or the weather, I realized that's how one can play with these paintings. You can create your own stories, and playing along with kids, it can help to solve their problems as well, just listen carefully!

So that is the story of my interactive paintings, which I labeled as children play-artifact, but I think adults may like it as much and find real fun in it! I love to paint and I think it's an endless game, a meditation and the source of flow. I hope you will enjoy it, too!

Would you like to know more about it? Please visit my Facebook page (it's Hungarian), my Pinterest page and my Etsy page.

The Seven Samurai Fish