bird drawings

I did my Saturday shift at the newspaper today. It was incredibly slow - so I did a couple of bird drawings, and was happy to come across another Sydney blogger, katiecrackernuts who (I'm not entirely sure) but may work in the same building as me. Click to enlarge. xxxx

Bunny

Here's a bunny I got half way through at lunch today. After looking at Yuko Murata's work below, I kind of like it kept simple. Have a nice weekend. xxxx

half hearted love heart

Here's the Valentine's Day love heart. It actually looks much better with only half the lines. I'm gonna muck around later with text but that might make it too busy. We'll see... xxxx

Getting ready for Valentines Day

Everyone's getting ready for Valentines Day, so I guess I should too. Here's an image I did ages ago, and I'm in the middle of doing a similar one in the shape of a love heart. As all the lines are drawn individually it will take a while to finish - bit I'm halfway through. It's relaxing to make - like doing needle work or sewing. I'll post it when it's finished. xxxx

Owl Drawing

I just worked all weekend. Working as a newspaper graphic-artist can be a bit like working as a fireman. Sometimes you have to sit around waiting for the action to happen. Yesterday was really busy and I didn't have time to look sideways. Today, however, things were completely dead. I only had to do one, tiny job, so spent half the day doing this owl (above) in Illustrator, and the other half of the day looking around on Etsy. I found these really cute kids and babies recycled t-shirts. xxxx

Twiggy

I did a drawing of Twiggy this afternoon to make into another badge, and I put her beside two other existing badges I've made. They don't resemble anyone I know or know of - they're just random drawings. xxxx

Zebra drawing

I did a drawing of a zebra at work today and then added some squiggles around it when I got home. Zebra's are definitely not just black and white. I was looking closely at the photo and there's beautiful browns and greys on a zebra's coat too. I categorised it under television doodling, even though I did it at work cause it reminds me of the type of drawing I'd do in front of the television. xxxx

Happy Halloween & happy cats

I feel a bit guilty cause I forgot it was Halloween, but I did do a couple of cat drawings when I was on the phone to a friend - including a black cat, which is kind of Halloween specific. Anyway - hope everyone gets lots of lovely treats! xxxx

Another squiggle drawing

Here's another drawing for the scrapbook that goes in the growing series of these squiggles! xxxx

Another squiggle sky drawing

Here's another drawing I was doing last night. Completely different to the one below - but similar to the squiggle drawing I did about two weeks ago. Not sure if I like this one as much - but as I said, I'm in experimentation mode at the moment. xxxx

Television Doodles Sunday Night

I know I said I wouldn't post again till Tuesday, but here's the drawing I started today at work inbetween jobs and finished in front of the television tonight.

Television Doodles Saturday Night

Smiles and Frowns

A quick pattern I made today. xxxx

Op Shopping, a Cacharel bag & Carrie Bradshaw

The other day I got another cute item at a garage sale - a Cacharel bag and wallet for the cheap price of $30 (that's 17.83 EUR or 23.95 USD). They're hot pink, as you can see above, which is not normally my thing, but I've decided to embrace it in a Carrie Bradshaw kind of way. I drew this terrible picci of her to wrap my head around the concept. Speaking of which, I can't wait for the Sex and the City movie. xxxx

Folk art animal illustration competition

I just did this drawing for a competition run by Monster Children magazine and judged by Beci Orpin, of whom I'm a huge fan. Anyway, the breif was: 'send your best folk art animal illustration to the magazine'. So I pulled out a recent drawing I did of a Swedish Dala horse, and made a Dala mountain goat as well. The background is an artwork I did for a show last year.

More stuff to get made in Thailand

Here's a couple of patterns I made earlier that I want to get made up into yardage in Thailand as well. I'd like to do mix and match pants and t-shirt sets for kids. I'm not sure if the the design is appropriate for screen printing. I'm hoping to find a digital fabric printer there. Anyway - once again I thought it would be good to post them now before they're made, and re-post them later when they're actually fabric. It may be a while though. I'm imagining there'll be lots of samples sent back and fourth before we get it right. Also if it has to be screen printed I may have to reverse the red and yellow colours. Anyway, we'll see............xxxx

Milla Jovovich

Ever since I saw The Fifth Element I've thought Milla Jovovich was really cool, so when a friend sent me a link to Jovovich-Hawk, the fashion label she has with partner Carmen Hawk, I got really excited and decided to have a mini Milla festival and got Resident Evil out on DVD. Apart from the martial arts sequences I hated the movie, so I drew her instead, collaged and surfed the net. Below are some images of the beautiful clothes I found on their website.

More Television Doodles

Thanks again to the lack of great television I did this messy, digital version of marbling. Firstly I did a bunch of lines in Illustrator, then brought them over to Photoshop where I changed the colour and stretched them with the Liquify tool. There's some beautiful paper marbling at marbledpaper.blogspot.com, and info about marbling at marbling.org.

Baby Shower Invite

Happy Mothers Day

Tomorrow is my first Mother's Day, which is quite a milestone. For the sake of memories I decided to post the invite I did for my baby shower (next post), when I was full of anticipation and had no idea of how life with a new baby would be. I must admit I was terrified. I thought I'd be struggling with sleep deprivation and post-natal depression.

Now it's almost six months later and I couldn't have hoped for a better summer. I managed to skip the baby blues which I've really gotta thank Johnny for. He takes Lukas for 3 hours each morning so I get to sleep in - and was lucky enough to have a happy, cheerful, easy baby.
Thanks Lukas!!

I've made some bright, 3D flowers, and you can tell from the colours and squiggles that this whole motherhood thing has been really fun so far. I couldn't decide which picci to use so I posted both.

Happy Mother's Day to my mum and all the other great mum's out there.
xxxx