In Which Maggie Has Taken A Lot Of Pictures!
I am inches away from not doing this post because I have so many pictures to post and that is a lot of work! But I'm sure at least one of you would ask for them, and then I'd end up doing the whole thing anyway but feeling guilty for it.
Allow me to preface this post (well, most of it) by saying that today was wonderful and terrible all in the same moment. You see, today it rained! But it also sleeted for a bit, and was horribly windy. Riding back to the apartment after work took three minutes longer than usual because the wind was up in my grill the whole way. When I realized I'd left my phone at work I turned around - and got there in two minutes. It was the oddest sensation, to be moving so quickly and to not feel even the slightest breeze in my hair. I must have been going just the right speed! It was heavenly! Then I turned around and had to bike ten minutes into driving rain again.
ANYWAY. Here are some pictures I took at work today:
Here is my face! Those pink things around my neck are called astrojacks, and they're very awesome and lots of fun. I bought some that glow in the dark.
This is the view from behind the counter at work, out into the rain! That is my wicked and spiky bike, the Chopper. This was taken an hour before the wind not only turned the bike around but rode it ten feet down the street before it fell over.
This is Pixel! She's my kitty, and is about 6 months old. She's tortoise shell (like calico but darker), and the woman at the humane society said that people said she was Evil and The Devil's cat because of her coloring :( She licked my nose, so I took her home, and we have become fast friends. I have not yet seen any evil or met the devil, but she may just be waiting until she knows me better. Regardless, her coloring has given her some pretty stellar eyebrows! She also has one perfect white patch just above her heart, and on the tip of her tail. The rest of her is mottled (pixelated?) black and orange.
And here are some terrible pictures I took with my phone of my tiny daily sketchbook/journal/thing and what I have done of the Magpie series. The sketchjournalbook is really great because I can doodle in it all the time, but it's little more than that - unplanned doodles. As such, they are scratchy and small and unfinished and adorable in most ways. Just warning you, don't get your hopes up - there's nothing beautiful there.
This is the first page of my sketchjournalthing. It's a barn and horned owl standing around looking awkward, when they are suddenly joined by a platypus! That is all.
Remember when I told you about the scrabble-like game? Here is a little doodle I did. It was originally going to be a poster design for the store, advertising our sale, but it got a little carried away.
This was a true statement when I drew it, but I do not know that it is the case any longer!
THE CHOPPER IS ETERNAL
I found a girl with the most charming face and drew it!
this is the first entirely pencil drawing I have done in four sketchbooks. She was supposed to look all "What, are you talking to me? I'm sorry, I can't see anyone there behind that popped collar" but instead she came out all "Oh shit that was not a good noise behind me". Que sera, sera.
This page (unreadable to you though it may be) tells the story of how Nick and I were flying kites after work one day and a TINY child with TINY LITTLE LEGS offered to help me fly my kite. He carried his spiderman cup with him always, because he was worried the seagulls would come and take it, because it was so cool. For a four year old, he was remarkably capable. I let him hold the line once while I relaunched the kite, and it pulled the poor kid all the way down the hill (he was taking flying leaps instead of steps, but then he fell down and just sort of trailed after the kite). Nick immediately got his (brand new) kite stuck in a tree. We attempted to turn a bike rack on its side to turn it magically into a ladder, but it was still not high enough to reach the kite (which was out in the limbs). After about forty minutes of tugging and pleading, the kite came out of the tree with an audible pop, and the day was saved!
After work one day, I biked down the boardwalk and sat on a bench and was totally consumed by the size of the lake and the incredible beauty of the day. When I came to, I had this and one other drawing to show for it. Thank you, lake! You make pretty things sometimes.
the other night, I was reminiscing about how pleased I was with the rain storm, and drew it thus on this page. I'm actually immensely proud of this. It's little more than some lines thrown very squiggly about, but it reminds me of the perfect mood of that storm, and I am happy with that.
I ran out of room for the E, so it just reads "TIMBR". Drawn on the same night as the storm, above.
I felt cute that day and I had some left over colored pencils from my robot shrinky-dinks kit (!!!) so I colored it in, too!
Here is a doodle I drew of Arabian Flatbread, one of Lex's flatmates and a very good goth baker, I hear!
Two for Joy!
Three for a Girl, sans background (which will likely be a dark hallway of some sort, maybe with a window out on the rain)
Five for Silver, sans background (which will be a flaking brick wall with two stylized, graffiti'd magpies on either side of her)
Allow me to preface this post (well, most of it) by saying that today was wonderful and terrible all in the same moment. You see, today it rained! But it also sleeted for a bit, and was horribly windy. Riding back to the apartment after work took three minutes longer than usual because the wind was up in my grill the whole way. When I realized I'd left my phone at work I turned around - and got there in two minutes. It was the oddest sensation, to be moving so quickly and to not feel even the slightest breeze in my hair. I must have been going just the right speed! It was heavenly! Then I turned around and had to bike ten minutes into driving rain again.
ANYWAY. Here are some pictures I took at work today:
Here is my face! Those pink things around my neck are called astrojacks, and they're very awesome and lots of fun. I bought some that glow in the dark.
This is the view from behind the counter at work, out into the rain! That is my wicked and spiky bike, the Chopper. This was taken an hour before the wind not only turned the bike around but rode it ten feet down the street before it fell over.
This is Pixel! She's my kitty, and is about 6 months old. She's tortoise shell (like calico but darker), and the woman at the humane society said that people said she was Evil and The Devil's cat because of her coloring :( She licked my nose, so I took her home, and we have become fast friends. I have not yet seen any evil or met the devil, but she may just be waiting until she knows me better. Regardless, her coloring has given her some pretty stellar eyebrows! She also has one perfect white patch just above her heart, and on the tip of her tail. The rest of her is mottled (pixelated?) black and orange.
And here are some terrible pictures I took with my phone of my tiny daily sketchbook/journal/thing and what I have done of the Magpie series. The sketchjournalbook is really great because I can doodle in it all the time, but it's little more than that - unplanned doodles. As such, they are scratchy and small and unfinished and adorable in most ways. Just warning you, don't get your hopes up - there's nothing beautiful there.
This is the first page of my sketchjournalthing. It's a barn and horned owl standing around looking awkward, when they are suddenly joined by a platypus! That is all.
Remember when I told you about the scrabble-like game? Here is a little doodle I did. It was originally going to be a poster design for the store, advertising our sale, but it got a little carried away.
This was a true statement when I drew it, but I do not know that it is the case any longer!
THE CHOPPER IS ETERNAL
I found a girl with the most charming face and drew it!
this is the first entirely pencil drawing I have done in four sketchbooks. She was supposed to look all "What, are you talking to me? I'm sorry, I can't see anyone there behind that popped collar" but instead she came out all "Oh shit that was not a good noise behind me". Que sera, sera.
This page (unreadable to you though it may be) tells the story of how Nick and I were flying kites after work one day and a TINY child with TINY LITTLE LEGS offered to help me fly my kite. He carried his spiderman cup with him always, because he was worried the seagulls would come and take it, because it was so cool. For a four year old, he was remarkably capable. I let him hold the line once while I relaunched the kite, and it pulled the poor kid all the way down the hill (he was taking flying leaps instead of steps, but then he fell down and just sort of trailed after the kite). Nick immediately got his (brand new) kite stuck in a tree. We attempted to turn a bike rack on its side to turn it magically into a ladder, but it was still not high enough to reach the kite (which was out in the limbs). After about forty minutes of tugging and pleading, the kite came out of the tree with an audible pop, and the day was saved!
After work one day, I biked down the boardwalk and sat on a bench and was totally consumed by the size of the lake and the incredible beauty of the day. When I came to, I had this and one other drawing to show for it. Thank you, lake! You make pretty things sometimes.
the other night, I was reminiscing about how pleased I was with the rain storm, and drew it thus on this page. I'm actually immensely proud of this. It's little more than some lines thrown very squiggly about, but it reminds me of the perfect mood of that storm, and I am happy with that.
I ran out of room for the E, so it just reads "TIMBR". Drawn on the same night as the storm, above.
I felt cute that day and I had some left over colored pencils from my robot shrinky-dinks kit (!!!) so I colored it in, too!
Here is a doodle I drew of Arabian Flatbread, one of Lex's flatmates and a very good goth baker, I hear!
Two for Joy!
Three for a Girl, sans background (which will likely be a dark hallway of some sort, maybe with a window out on the rain)
Five for Silver, sans background (which will be a flaking brick wall with two stylized, graffiti'd magpies on either side of her)