BOBBY

so this little guy has been lounging around in my bedroom for weeks and weeks now.
waiting to be drawn in properly, waiting to be stretched onto a board, waiting to be painted, waiting for his face to be changed again and again.



and the moral of this story is,
no one can find you if you hide out on the roof.

also, ive been spending hours making patterned paintings. they are for sale now over at www.pepperminte.etsy.com. i think i get obsessed very easily. hooray for masking fluid!!!

cashmere club

please say hello to my new friends, cashmere club. (across the ocean friends, pen pal partytime.)
cashmere club is made up of maren hoopfer, john mark, and a bunch of extremely talented young americans. the club is a home (imagine it to be a treehouse covered in ivy and propping up branches filled with bluebird nests.) to photos, writing, music, drawings and goodgoodgood things.
well, i am pretty much in love with the photography of maren and john. its not often that i come across such romantic and truthful work. its a land of reverie and magic and thoughtful charm and tree trunks and potted flowers. i am very very very fond of them.
see, i think of lots of good sentences in my head before i go to sleep, but when i sit down at the computer all is lost. i cannot describe it properly, but when i see their photos my heart swells and i can only believe that that is a good thing. (one of the very best things.) so i hope that you feel the same when your eyes get to view the photos that they take.

:)

p.s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polioandearlgrey/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnhanson/

magnificent magazine

LATELY!
lots and lots of baking of cakes because we finally got a toaster oven.
bad tv and good tv.
50's fair tomorrow!
beluga by beirut. (sleeping in a grey ocean.)


i forgot to mention that my best friend nicky minus and i are both featured in the 3rd issue of magnificent magazine! its free to read and also has some glorious work by deanne cheuk.





best wishes.,

WE ARE SCARED colouring book

look! a halloweeeenie colouring in book! pumpkins and black cats and bats and rats and frogs eyes too.
'we are...' is a little colouring book started up by yael frankel. each month etsy artists are asked to contribute black and white drawings on a particular theme. this months theme is halloween and (although that isnt celebrated here in australia) ive contributed a little drawing!
'we are' is printed on 250 gr paper and folds up into a little postcard sized book.
you can pick up a copy here at yael frankels etsy shop.

www.kristincofer.com

i recently completed some illustrations for kristin cofer, a san francisco based photographer.
kristin is a really wonderful girl and quite talented too! so i urge you to go and check out her portfolio.
she also has a great blog, hiss and hearse, with artist interviews, top ten lists and creative design.
just yesterday, she published my top ten list of fictional characters whose style i admire!

hyacinth

hyacinth discovered she could make magic with her hands!

primrose

dahlia

experiments with masking fluid have been working rather nicely.
(used it to make the flowers.)
ive been busy, busy busier, than a bumblebee lately.

new prints!

there are a range of new prints up at www.pepperminte.etsy.com


p.s. secret news! t shirts are coming soon!

my mother keeps a spectacular garden

phillip

im starting to draw boys again.
he knows his legs are too too long and he has trouble fitting into small rooms.

i made the polka dots with a hole punch and glued them on. at the moment i really like being crafty and using layers of paper and glitter instead of just paint. i bought some masking fluid, and ive been experimenting with that. so in a few days im going to unveil some paintings with really nice patterns. its just the new thing that ive been looking for, so i can turn the corner and move onto something a bit more fresh.

Lilac

HELIOTROPE. LAVENDER. MAUVE. PERIWINKLE.

' i just couldnt decide what to wear!'

golden age

silly smiling kitten! balancing very gently on the shoulders of the golden birthday girl.
im painting alot more with gouache lately. im not watering it down. and the colours change once dry so they keep tricking me. this dress was supposed to be gradients of beige and champagne.
i want a ginger kitten! i want a golden life.

MUTE PEN

Mute swans have sharp vision and hearing.
&
the name for a female swan is pen.

the end of july

brown and champagne glitter make up the background.
although glitter never ever seems to scan very well. all of its magical qualities are lost!
this week i feel better about everything.
sometimes it just takes a little kick. a little lunch of caviar.
a little of knowing that you aren't alone in thinking the things that you do.

saint benedictine

she died upon her own sword
and here she shall lie
until forever is no more

please sing along:
I WANNA BE CREMATED.
(to the tune of 'i wanna be sedated' , by the ramones.)

of course she drank the poision.

a. experimenting with ways of applying paint.
b. he has such a dumb face.
c. because i rubbed it out one trillion times.
d. and the paper started to deteriorate.
e. so i had to make do.

orange juice

collective slumber.
so lets all try and wake ourselves up.
handshake + promise.
i started painting again.
champagne coloured glitter all over my desk.

beach house. what a beautiful band.
'heart of chambers' has been lulling around in my head for weeks.
humming it all the time.