Almost mid way through the first week of the new semester. I have a good idea of what I want to achieve with my two main projects and have started on the sketches - now just to do it ( Read more... )

Hopefully this cold goes as quickly as it came. Yesterday morning it started with a sort of tightness at the back of the throat - by 9pm my nose was clogged and throat sore, coughed like a consumptive carthorse for half an hour (was curled on a sofa dozing at a friends house as they watched TV ( Read more... )

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About a month ago someone asked me if they could use one of my clockwork bird images for a tattoo - I replied that I didn't mind, not really expecting anything to come of it. They send me a photo of the freshly inked device on their arm the other day!
( click to see the image (so as to not spam your journals ^_^ )

Mme Rosumunde Peregrine's workshop of distinguished subtleties introduces a new line of fine clockwork creations:
For the night post we present the brass nocturnal courier bat with patent leather wings and inset glass eyes - for those private notes best sent under cover of darkness.


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I had thought it was slugs and put out the obligatory beer trap (which then filled up with water as the intermittant showers around the place got thirsty and headed for it). I went out to empty the thing and found two large american cockroach munching on what was otherwise a gorgeous big ripe strawberry ( Read more... )

Yus that day of the year again- I'm now 21 with seven years experience and I got my assignments all in [does a little tarantula dance ( Read more... )

Hullo hullo ( Read more... )

or Incense : there have been enough flames the last two days ( Read more... )

Taking a brain break....
Have been working on a gouache 90.5cmx20cm painting of ocean to mangrove to saltplain for a mural competition. At the moment its at that "This is hideous. I should try rinsing it all off and starting again"/"I know that there'll be a point when it looks alright but right now.... [cringe]"
Its due Monday >_So I'm having a ( Read more... )