‘Drifting’ for IF

 

Derinya Art Show

Derinya Art Show is coming up again. I have two pictures complete and the other two well on their way. This is the only one I can get this stupid system to display. Ahhh computers can drive me nuts sometime.

 

‘Cracked’ for IF

 

New skills

Last night I said goodbye to my lovely sister who went back to England after a short visit. She taught me to crochet whilst she was here and claims to be a rubbish teacher but something must have got through. This is what I made this morning when I should have been catching up with college work but just felt too sad.

This is an assignment piece. It’s a self portrait using an alternative part of the body to reveal something of myself.  It was intentionally painted onto  a copy of my well used cake recipe book, and the childs drawing was a happy accident – nothing is safe in this house. Like most females of my age and especially post babies, I obsess about the size of my stomach but thoroughly enjoy the occasional chocolate brownie or six.

 

Mum’s shoes

 

‘Fleeting’ for IF

 

‘Talisman’ for IF

It’s Easter so I’ve got rabbits on my mind. This was based on a silly scribble I did for the subject ’superstition’ ages ago. On the subject of rabbits though Emily Gravett is the absolute illustrating queen of rabbits. Her books are hilarious and fabulously quirky and interactive. Her book ‘Wolves‘ was just wonderful and I’m really looking forward to checking out ‘The Rabbit Problem‘.

Happy Easter!

 

Work in progress…

We’ve been given another drawing assignment involving playing with words. ‘The Girl who Grew Very Tall’ appealed to me ,  so here are some initial thoughts. Another movie poster comes to mind aswell, but that’s aready been done.  The Easter holidays are in full swing so I have loads of inspration in the form of three mad little girls running around and saying daft stuff.

 

Bad Back

 

50’s movie posters

I just love 50’s movie posters!

We had an assignment recently that was very open-ended and started with putting random phrases together. I got all inspired when I found a book on movie posters and thoroughly enjoyed trawling through heaps of them. I was struck by the theme of the over-the-top evil,  sexy women in 50’s posters and decided to do my own take on that.

It could do with more work ad the writing is terrible but I had alot of fun doing it.

 

Little Landscapes

gumtrees

weathered wood

weathered wood 2

Rather uninspired titles I’m afraid. These are for an exhibition named ‘Little Landscapes’. All the pictures are on 9×4 boards. These were an attempt at exploring the effect of looking for the negative spaces. I got really carried away with it.

 

Silly

 

Favourite Illustrator #8 Russell Ayto

Continuing with the ‘breezy’ theme set by Illustration Friday this week. It immediatly made me think of this fabulous illustrator. This is the first page of the book ‘The Witch’s Children’. My children love it because it’s hilarious and I adore the illustrations. They seem simple but are very effective and very very funny. Just what all children’s illustrators are aiming for I suppose.

 

Breezy for IF

 

Scribbles

Trying to keep up the practice of drawing every day.

 

Happy Blogaversary to me!

I can’t believe I let the date of my blogaversary pass unmentioned. Somewhere between doing countless school runs, trips to the gym, cricket, scouts and music classes it slipped my mind. So what should I do to to mark this auspicious occasion…… apart from challenge myself to spell words like auspicious correctly? It’s so good I had to write it twice.

Anyway,  I can’t think of anything special to do so instead there’s……more of the same! Some of the scribbles i’ve done this week and a mention of a fabulous quirky artist. I stumbled upon this wonderful website that made me laugh outloud sometime in November 2008. I immediatly emailed my sister the link because I was to struck. I didn’t know at the time that she’d already posted my Christmas present. She’d been in a book shop with my other sister and they’d agreed that I’d love this book and should be sent it for Christmas. Sisters are just fabulous aren’t they? Well, mine are better than anyones. Don’t waste any more time! Click here right now for  Little People. A Tiny Street Art Project by  Slinkachu I think my favourites are ‘They’re not pets Susan’ and ‘Crappy Christmas’. There are also a bunch of wonderful links to other artists on this site.

This week  I did this little scribbly sketch of my middle daughter sulking over her supper and fiddle about with it with photoshop. There’s other stuff in progress aswell.

 

How long does it take to cook a kangeroo?

It’s been ages since I wrote and things haven’t been very productive on the drawing front. It’s the first week back at college though, so things are warming up again.

Last night we took some overseas visitors to our favourite spot to watch kangeroos. My eldest daughter, the one who wants to be a vet and live in Africa,  took a bag with her in case she found a couple of bones. After seeing heaps of beautiful kangeroos and their cute little joeys hopping about we stumbled upon a complete skeleton. Well, it was like we’d hit the jackpot and it was all I could do to stop her from bringing the whole thing home. We compromised with the skull,  some vertibrae and lower leg bone.  So now I have the grim task of boiling these things, but how long for? The only good thing in this for me is that bones are great to draw…….and I have one very happy eight year old.

 

‘Pale’ for IF

‘Pale’

The sick bucket…being English, I struggle to call it a ‘pale’. I can’t imagine this will be very original but I’ve enjoyed doing it. I have been playing with my new toy, a wacom drawing tablet. Still alot of practice needed and I fear my poor children may become even more negleted. But the sun is shining and we’re off on our hols for a few days, so they will have my undevided attention for a while.

 

‘Resolve’ for Illustration Friday

Laugh more.

Happy 2009!! Ooooh I had fun doing this. It’s scrappy and unfinished but there are bits about it that I love and it’s good to remind myself that when you relax and mess about a bit you can learn things you weren’t expecting.  After days of moping and asking to have friends over to play or watch telly, I can here my eldest child having hysterical fun with her younger sisters.  We are having a wonderful Summer. The weather is great. We went to the beach yesterday and it was such a pleasure to watch the kids trying to catch tiny fish and digging holes in the sand banks.  All in all lots of reasons to laugh.

 

‘Clandestine’ for Illustration Friday

I was so stuck with this until I stopped thinking about it altogether and took a trip to the city with the girls.  I love people watching.  This old lady was in a coffee shop. She looked like she could have been a regular but there was something about her large ball of wool and large hair that made her look suspicious.