StinkyGobbelin

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Illustration ~ You're Not In Kansas Anymore

I watched The Wizard of Oz for the first time (I know!) at the weekend and was doodling Dorothy in my sketchbook and then Frank N Furter turned up.
I'm more proud of this than I probably should be, it just makes me laugh so much. Which is important, I think.

Monday, 2 March 2015

Days 53 - 60 // 365 2015

Day 53 - Alphabet pasta!

Day 54 - Pastel painting palette.

Day 55 - Reading by globe light.

Day 56 - I love it when the sky is half and half. It was so sunny but then looked like this in the other direction.

Day 57 - Studio in the morning.

Day 58 - Re-stocking the octopus'.

Day 59 - Typewriter loveliness.

Day 60 - Photographing the zine ready for listing.

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Zine ~ This Zine Has No Name Feb '15

I spent yesterday putting together a new zine which is something I want to do a lot more of. I'm actually planning to make a new zine every month. Not the same every time, I want a good mix of zine types and to just make them often. I've seen a few ways of folding paper to make zines that I want to try and I'll probably do more like this one that's a mish mash of recent drawings and photos but also some with a particular theme. Anything that pushes me to create more. I'd also like to be brave enough one day to commandeer the photocopier in the library and make some sort of A3 double sided foldey thing. But our library is the busiest in the country (I'm pretty sure) and the photocopier is also the printer for all the computers, so we'll see.

If you'd like a copy it's listed here: etsy // folksy

Sketchbook ~ Eyes, Kawaii, Derp

I've been to the doctor now so they aren't so bad but this was a pretty authentic image of me and my eyes. Except it was worse.

I saw this girl waiting for her boyfriend and liked the mix of super kawaii pastels with sensible coat and uggs. The weather was awful that day.

When in doubt draw from the 'derp' tag on instagram (then get sad from all the pretty people thinking a perfectly fine photo isn't good enough and tagging it derp).

Practise, practise, practise.

Saturday, 28 February 2015

Muspole Street

Seeing as the days are getting longer I had the thought, that on days I have a little extra time and energy, I'm going to wander down a road/path I've never been down before. The other day I ended up on Muspole Steet.

I'm hoping this little project will get me to find things in the city I wouldn't otherwise know about but also get me taking more photos out and about so I get less bothered about doing it. I was quite proud of taking a photo of this signage even though I could see people by the window underneath it.

I came to the end of Muspole Street and went back down Duke Street where these last two photos were taken.

I'm sure I'll go down loads of boring roads but this was a pretty good first go.

Friday, 27 February 2015

My Patterns Made By Other People #4

bowieismyhomie // andreaecruz // ale_la_b // _bearhut_

craftydiva14 // deirdresplatterfork // elliesquire81 // forgetmenotsblue

lovingme_acreativejourney // maggiemay1405 // maverickfx // myredwellies

nattycooks // nattycooks // sar324 // the_sazzle_dazzle

Had another rummage for photos of people making my patterns. These are all so great. I have nothing to say except to continually repeat how awesome I think it is that people are making things from patterns I wrote. Please carry on ^_^
(If you make something with one of my patterns please show me, it'd make my day)

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Days 45 - 52 // 365 2015

Day 45 - I've been badly clone tooling a speck out of all my pale photos for a while now so I finally plucked up the courage to clean my sensor and took this photo to check/celebrate that the speck was gone (and that I hadn't fucked up my dslr).

Day 46 - Look at that mouth/nose!! (there's more Bernard here)

Day 47 - Not a lovely photo but Will was kind enough to help me sort my studio out and I had to record the fact that the floor can now be seen. It actually feels like a place to work again.