Yarn Bombing

Feminine graffiti, some great little knits and inspiring ideas. I think Kat is gonna love this! I found this image on google and it linked to Maria Lyngs blog which is full of lots of nice stuff. Seems like yarn bombing is a bit of a craze.

Shopping in Southampton

A couple of months ago I went to Southampton to do a bit of shopping, but mainly to visit IKEA to pick up some furniture.

IKEA had loads of cool fabrics. I loved the chunky wood pattern.

And we popped into Papaerchase. Anyone who loves stationery loves Paperchase. They always have such cool designs.
They had some lovely Christmas cards for sale (Excuse the quality/blurry-ness)

Thinking I need to get started on mine! Not to mention Christmas shopping too D:

Tv Advert Audi Hummingbird

This is the Audi advert Kat showed me the other week and I saw it on telly for the first time the other day. It is so beautifully done and I love the concept behind it. This is the kind of thing I like to do, one kind of object representing another to create a visual metaphoric symbolic contrast thingy ha ha does that even make sense? I love the fox gloves above and the field of yellow pedestrian crossing lights. Nature and traffic do not go together well which is the beauty of this ad. Triggered a memory of my major project for my degree where I was trying to make a portrait of mother nature by making the figure out of bits of things in nature, a tree trunk for her leg, fish scales on her arm vine hair etc, I debated adding more contrast by making her mechanical in sections, but I got lost in the nature side of it but its an idea I always wanted to explore further. Must find those sketches and post them here to remind me ;)

The Animated Bean

I used to draw this fellow all the time.

He was a way of portraying how I felt in the simplest way.

This animation sums up how I feel about what I do and has done for years. I can't remember exactly when I created it, but it was certainly during my time at university.

..why a bean? We are 'Human Beans' of course.

Ladybirds

I finally did something in my sketchbook! I love the colours, it was supposed to be a collage but ended up just colouring and painting! Have started a couple of new sketch books too, these are going to be messy ones, well I am gong to try really hard to be messy! One is a lovely book that my lovely sis made me out of scrap papers and bits and bobs and the other is another book that my sister bought me yonks ago that tries to encourage you to be messy, aww aint my sister lovely! 

Sharpies!

I have never ventured into the land of the sharpie.

I'm not sure If I should be excited or scared.

I have just spent a penny short of £20.

...they look so pretty.

...Now. What to draw?

Doodling

I've been adding some more to my scrap book journal recently. Just trying to get to grips with watercolours and drawing straight to pen and trying not to worry about the outcome.

I quite liked the cake doodle and thought it would be a cool card design so I tried to redraw it for my Mums' birthday.

Not as good as the original and annoyingly the pen bled on the card a bit but it was fun to paint it with watercolours.

Plus, Mum liked it :)