Archive for March, 2006

• corner #02

  Date: 2006.03.18 | Category: home | Response: 3

  Otherwise known as … the living room wall, viewed from the sofa. Blu-tacked up, during those first 2 intense months of having a newborn to care for, when I worried about how much visual stimulation little A was getting, but didn’t have the energy to move far from the sofa. If you’d like to reproduce this look, simply buy a set or so of origami paper and arrange (as Vogue Living would say). ;D

• Illustration Friday: Tattoo

  Date: 2006.03.15 | Category: drawing | Response: 4

  Well.

  I’m finding it harder and harder to explain these images for Illustration Friday.

  However, some possible explanations are:
  + I have mixed feeling about tattoos – I can appreciate them on other people, but would never want one myself;
  + I thought a love-heart was the obvious tattoo motif, but wanted to do something different … started thinking about some Pet Shop Boys lyrics “Violence. Religion. Justice. Death” (remembered wrong – see Paninaro) and decided they’d make good tattoos. Pseudo roses instead of hearts;
  + I’ve been wanting to try out black ink painting for a while;
  + I’ve been learning Hiragana (Japanese syllables);
  + I like the contrast of the flowing ink strokes and square-ish red texta;
  + breast-feeding makes you think about bosoms in non-sexual ways;
  + I’m female, so that was the natural body to draw.

  Mood: Thanks so much for the comments on my previous Illustration Friday! ;D

• Yay, I finished something, an amigurumi!!!

  Date: 2006.03.13 | Category: Amigurumi | Response: 3

  And I’m rather proud of her ;D. She was inspired by these photos of a vintage amigurumi on needle book / Claire Milne’s blog. Inspired, because my little amigurumi girl is rather different. Same green, same flat face and little stubby arms. But she has peachy / red hair, skinny legs and looks overall a modern Miss. Not quite as demure as she looks, I reckon!

  

  Details: She sits 5.5cm or 2.25 inches high. Green chenille, peach mohair from Lincraft, other wools from Kmart, wooden bead from empire beads, painted with nail polish.

  

  I think she might be the prototype for a few other little amigurumi people / animals.

  

  Mood: Spent all Saturday struggling with the green chenille. No way could I crochet with it! I tried different sized hooks, no luck. Went through all the wools in my stash (which is very small, only 5 balls really), no luck. Different sized hooks for each ball, no luck. Then on Sunday … suddenly, no problems!

  Dunno why, but my best guess is – all that changing my mind was good practice, got my eye in so I could see where the loops where in the funny chenille. Or I was over tired, and stopped fighting with the crochet, just went with the flow ;D

• street art #02

  Date: 2006.03.10 | Category: random | Response: 0

  (To the tune for the verses of Waltzing Matilda):
  Once a silly council planted some native trees,
  Hoping that one day they’ll give us shade,
  And we sang as we watched trees grow into the clear blue sky,
  Won’t it be a nice and green sub-urb?

  

  Along came the RTA to pu-t up a stre-et sign
  Why not in the centre of the bottle-brush tree?
  And we sang as we watched trees grow into the clear blue sky,
  Won’t it be a nice and green sub-urb?

  

  Up rode the Power Co, “the trees might touch the power lines”
  We must lop the trees down, one two three!
  And we sang as we watched the trees grow all dis-to-r-ted,
  Won’t it be a nice and green sub-urb?

  

  Seriously, does this happen elsewhere???

  Ah well … I guess the red “No Stopping” sign looks good amongst the bottle-brush ;D

• Illustration Friday: Insect

  Date: 2006.03.08 | Category: drawing | Response: 5

  It just had to be cicadas this week, an insect I know well and like. Not sure why they are in a patchwork quilt, but the idea of paper patchwork quilts has been in my mind lately. Below are some details – a cicada inspired by Aboriginal art, the most realistic one, a cute one and one where I was playing with darkened outlines.

  
  

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