lamplight uniforms

Indulging in a little world-building.

In other news, I kind of like the look of the new Blogger interface. However, I strongly dislike the way it utterly fails to do anything functional at all. Sticking with the old one for now, thanks.

door strip

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From the altered book.

more tea, vicar?

Ugh, I waited too long and now it's the 4th instead of the third.

Also, why can I not draw a kyuusu.

I swear it's not going to be a whole month of tea, but for the moment I'm going with it. It's quite therapeutic.

BREAKING NEWS

...er, at least to me.

Benedict Cumberbatch has a beautiful new girlfriend called Anna James.

She's a designer with some really lovely work.

So, um. Maybe this means I can go get a life now.

It's National Novel Writing Month...

...and there is NO WAY I'm going to have time to write 1,667 words a day, every day this month. But so many people have been getting into the spirit that it seems more like NaChYoPoMo--National Choose Your Poison Month. So I will try and post a drawing or a page of drawings a day, without trying to polish them or think about the process too much.

I've already missed one day, so I'm posting two pages.

Day 1:

Day 2:

For A: Kikay at a Capiz Window

Long-lost marker sketch for the Kikay Project. Kikay is wearing Rick Owens boots, the rest is mine.

altered book

Rabid bibliophiles, this post contains abuse of actual printed books (well, book). You might want to look away.

Some work I've done for my altered book. It is called The Bennets of Tresillian and is the most boring book on the Lord's earth, and I carefully chose it for its commonness (is that a word? lack of scarcity maybe) and high quality of binding as well as being too boring to read.

I find myself reading it anyway, whenever I work on it. Incurable reader, that's me.

Mostly gouache and pens and magazine clippings. Also, in no order: pastel crayons, watercolour pencils, gesso, markers, ink, leaky biros, acrylic paint, screen transfers, and tea.

This window was a rubber stamp.

More altered books and artist's journals here, here and here. Also some tips on how to get into it yourself.

Enjoy!

my heart is like an island...

...where does the ocean go?

Bon voyage; see you soon.

(Image from Corbis)

the monastic life

Some research for a story idea...

Sources:

Romanesque Architecture

Montecassino Abbey

The Alhambra in Granada, Spain

Turkish Hamam (warning: Comic Sans)

Today I did yoga, primed paper with tea, and danced around a lot to the Beatles. Not very nun-like behaviour, some would say, but I disagree!

Sensation

So my friend gave me Pelikan watercolours for my birthday and they were brilliant. I should do a post of all my birthday swag soon...

I thought I needed to do more women of colour in my paintings. My mom agreed--she says she wants to see 'a rainbow of women'! Isn't that a nice name for a project?

Here's the first attempt:

Sensation

Pelikan watercolours with Blue Heron waterbrush in Fabriano notebook.