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That painting has been hanging over my bed pretty much my whole life. It's a copy of Ammi Phillips' Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog that's not very accurate--she's missing the dog, for one--but to me much more dear than the original. I believe it was painted by a friend of my grandma's who didn't want it anymore.

I took the artistic license of leaving out the numerous spider colonies.

Fanart or work? Is that a rhetorical question?
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I really need to work on my animation.

( Stil rough around the edges, but I'm declaring it done. )

( More here! )

Fun stuff! We have an exploring the arctic type of scenario as well as a tentacle rape monster type of scenario.
1. For those that haven't done this kind of printing before, it's one of the easier ones because you don't need plates or presses. You just ink a flat surface, put paper, stencils, etc. on top and apply pressure to make the ink stick to the paper. For instance, you can draw on the back of the paper and the ink will print wherever you apply pressure with the pencil. You get very textural sort of one-off pieces out of this process: ergo, monoprinting.

2. Virginia, what is going on with you? Why don't you be more like Maryland, huh?

3. I made awesome goulash today :D

These are some entries for a recent competition--alas, I was not selected, but these were kind of fun to experiment with. Very different from my usual spiel. Not a total waste of time maybe?

I'm in full hermit mode at the moment trying to finish my animation. I'll resurface once that's done, ok? Been giving some thought to what I should work on next and I have a couple of ideas, including a comic. Now, I am a total comic virgin which is kind of shocking considering I'm studying illustration, so I kind of feel like I should just get it over with (that's what she said). I'm always a little bit nervous about coming up with stories and creative writing type of things because it just really doesn't come naturally to me, but I'm tentatively thinking that a lesbian princess adventures type of thing might be good fun!
I won't get ahead of myself though, I have many more days of being stuck in my room listening to epic length audiobooks to look forward to first.

Turns out that for logistical reasons, screen printing is out. On the upside, that means we can have a lot more colors!

These will be part of a lovely A2 sized print that's part of a collaboration with my lovely flatmates. It will feature other gentlemen such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Kurt Cobain in drag, Christian Bale and Hard Gay!
The fundraiser for the CSM Illustration Work in Progress Show will be on thursday on "the street" (that weird barricaded road that leads out of the station) in Kings Cross. Check out the facebook page, there will be a lot of awesome stuff on sale!

It is my year guys! I admit I always felt smug about having the most totally badass chinese zodiac sign. My amazing flatmate Inkee made me this sign to put on my door; the idea is that if you hang it upside down it means that whatever is in the picture will come into your life into the new year. I guess I'm getting a muscly guy with golden nipples, yay! At any rate, you should stop whatever it is you're doing and go look at her amazing website! Her work just blows me away every time.

In other news, I got around to seeing The Artist this week. It was charming for sure and I really liked the dream sequence where they played with the sound and the theme of not being able to talk that only becomes clear at the end. I gotta say though, and maybe it's just me, but was it not trying way too hard to be Singin' in the Rain? A movie that it could never hope to live up to? Idk, idk.

What a lovely guy! His sexy feature is of course his voice.
I was actually lucky enough to be at a concert where he was doing a signing afterwards and get his autograph. The opera was kind of mind-blowing, and afterwards he was very nice about me mangling my french at him ;D

Yeah, I had to!
I spent way too long laboring over this, so I decided to just post it and declare it done. The pose gave me a lot of trouble; also, I suck at drawing smiling people.

It's been kind of a busy week; feel like I have a lot on my plate but things are progressing at a snail's pace. I should probs stock up on junk food.

My flat mates and I are working on a fundraiser calendar of studly men, each of us illustrating three months. Screenprinting is the plan. Since I have mounties on the brain, here is Callum Rennie as Ray Kowalski! I always go for the slightly funny-looking ones.

My very first screenprint! It came at a great price, however: my adored 80's-trousers are now decidedly blue-ish. In fact, that day I managed to ruin essentially every article of clothing I was wearing. I am sort of messy when it comes to making things, no doubt about it, but this was a personal best.
I got some lovely christmas presents, including three (THREE!) new colors of Visconti ink. That stuff is like the Ferrari of inks. I am very impatient to try them! I also got a lovely James Jean book (he's amazing) and a dvd of the opera Il Sant'Alessio which is really gorgeously staged, as well as being an all-male cast which is sort of interesting. First dude Virgin Mary I've ever seen.
Furthermore, there was an A Very Supernatural Christmas rewatch that was very heartwarming indeed. I forgot how young those guys looked then.

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My dad is arriving in London tomorrow oh boy oh boy! I am actually ridiculously excited.

*(The increased frequency of husky occurrences is purely coincidental. The sweater is referenced from some lovely knit postcards I bought in Shetland. That sure was an amazing trip.)

Oh show <3

Got most of my Christmas shopping done yesterday AND went to see Richard the second, courtesy of Donmar Discovery (thank you Donmar Warehouse!). I appreciated that it was a period production, because they did a fabulous job with the atmosphere and music. The whole room smelled of incense and the set had a lovely distressed look with a lot of gold flecks. I went in with no prior knowledge of the play, so it was a little tricky to keep track of all the characters, but I managed well enough. Richard himself was played brilliantly; you completely write him off in the beginning as sort of shallow and stupid, but later when things begin to go wrong he really gets to stretch his acting muscles!

It seems I spoke too soon. I forgot to include a picture of the final outcome, the illustrated book.

Yep, I embossed and debossed that cover. Like a boss.

( Look inside )
A while back I started watching Due South because I'd been hearing a lot of good stuff about it. I skimmed through the early seasons and just finished season four--that has got to be the most perfect ending to a series ever. Not to mention I am totally defenseless against Ray K's glasses. I think I'm in love <3

That's all folks! Hope you've enjoyed it. Now back to some non-dissertation stuff.

(This one was probably my favorite out of the lot.)

Went to Christmas concert -- check
Sent out Christmas cards -- check
Baked delicious cookies -- check check
Worked on animation -- errrrrr I'll get back to you on that.

Current Music: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (John Gardner)

London, why so cold?

(Alan Grey always gets locked out of doors and has to wait for someone to come and invite him back in. Can you tell I have a satanic theory about this?)

Man, I decided to take a day off and just relax a little bit--worst decision ever. Now I'm sitting here at my laptop hoping my work for tomorrow will magically go finish itself. Had an interesting briefing today though about CD covers for contemporary composers (some of the composers came along and they were very sweet), I definitely want to go for this! I am just having an abstract vs. concrete imagery debate inside my head. Abstract lends itself awesomely to this kind of music, but a lot of times people can identify better with a concrete image. Will probably submit both options and see what happens.

(The hero of this movie is not actually the protagonist, it's the elderly servant. He's the one who defeats the evil guys. I thought I'd start with him for that reason.)

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