Made this little sketch to celebrate the birthday of Joni Mitchell. My idol. My hero. My inspiration. I've pinched - I mean, been inspired by - her lyrics more than any other artist, to use in my work, as blog post titles, as life coaching. Happy Birthday Joni (her birthday was actually yesterday, but I did draw this late last night so it was kind of in time, although as my family and friends will tell you my birthday cards, presents and wishes are always, without fail, late).
A young Joni in, my new drug of choice, the Pentel brush pen.
#Inktober Day 2
In my quest to blog more (this always goes 'tits up' as we say in the UK) I've got on board with the whole
Inktober thing. A day late, but I'm on board now.
#Inktober Day 3
Now, I'm truly rubbish at doing these things. Almost as soon as I commit I start resenting having to do a drawing a day for a month (or however long the thing is that you've signed up to) and then it just becomes a massive chore. But it has been a while since I've committed to any such thing, and I draw everyday anyway, so I'm giving it a bash. How hard can it be?
#Inktober Day 4
Another reason that participating in Inktober makes sense is that I am going to be taking a couple of
Tracy Fennell's ink workshops during October. I really feel that need to push my work in a new direction. To take it somewhere exciting and I've always been a massive ink fan. So, no doubt, after the classes I'll be itching to experiment with all the new techniques.
#Inktober Day 5
So that's the story so far. I'll post the rest as I go along. I will, I will, I will *trying to convince myself*.
Some of my Inktober sketches are for sale, in my Etsy shop,
HERE.
Pen & ink, watercolour illustration.
My Blog and a story to go with the above pic
HERE.
Drawn for hoots and giggles, a brown owl drawn with a brush pen and a bit of verse – from poet Jane Euphemia Browne's The Great Brown Owl – and texture added digitally.
It's been a writing week and so I haven't had art to post. But this morning I played around with a brush pen. I haven't used one much before (kind of obvious, huh?) but really like the feel of it. Plus it gets me away from my natural inclination to cross-hatch everything. Good to try something new every now and then.
The leaves are starting to turn around here. Beautiful, really. It's overcast and damp today, however, and I can't help thinking the air smells kind of like... dog poop. Must be the humidity.
Fans of An Abundance of Katherines may have a great deal of interest in The Internet Anagram Server. I'd never really seen this before, and I'm going to take a guess that maybe 73% of you already have. The title of this posting is my full name anagramed. My nickname yields, "RIBBED STY" (still not very flattering) and this blog easily becomes "A OBEDIENCE FIRM THONG UP RUT US" which manages to sound nasty without making any sense.
For those of you who have been following my blog, I have started a new and occasional feature here called a "Google Ping." I am going to post a children's author's name over and over again to see how long it takes them to either:
a) Google themself and find me
or
b) find out through the grapevine that they have been pinged.
We'll see who is the fastest of all the authors to answer the Google Ping.
John Green, author of An Abundance of Katherines is the next up.
Here we go:
John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green.
And the clock has begun at 3:52pm EST on 5/2/2007.
By the way, I have been emailed off-blog about what a "ping" is. The best I can explain is that it is a submarine term that relates to sonar and sounds bouncing back. If someone has a resource that explains this, feel free to post it in comments or send to me so I can post it.
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i would want to see this type of monkey in a zoo
Hahaha, WOW! this gues looks like he is ready to go, lol!
Hahaha -- that's me in the morning after the coffee kicks in! :-)
Someone I know?
Love it!:o)