I’ve never drawn my scar before.
It feels quite intimate.
I had to draw it from a photo because I don’t have a large mirror in my flat.
I did it quickly, hasted even.
And now, I celebrate.
The writing says:
Scars
They show our power to heal and overcome adversities.
Don’t hide them or feel ashamed.
Celebrate.
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I bought some new watercolour paints and have played with them these past few days.
I came up with a few handy tips that have helped me to better understand and work…
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Yesterday I went to the [Efteling][1], a Dutch amusement-park that I’ve visited often as a child. It started out with the fairy-tale forest and grew larger, with rollercoasters and fun rides. We did…
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These photos of my latest drawings don’t look too great. I took them with my phone; they look a bit dark and skewed. They’ll have to do though, for now, until I have…
Having the kitchen redone eats up a lot of energy, because it requires me to sort through all my stuff and get rid of what I don’t need (or want) anymore.
I say require on purpose. Putting everything back without sorting will only eat up my energy more in the long run. Having stuff in the way that I don’t want, don’t need or can’t use gets annoying. So I slowly go through it all and put the things I want and / or need in the cabinets. It works pretty well.
Today I made two drawings of hot air balloons. I used to live somewhere where they let them up several times per year. Sometimes I’d go to the field and watch it. Nowadays I live near the airport and have lots of planes flying over.
Today I rummaged through my rucksack looking for a bottle of vitamins I thought I bought and didn’t find it — I still don’t know if I actually bought it. When I dug into one of its pockets I felt an unfamiliar cold shape and took it out.
Surprise! My leatherman micra, lost for years. I bought it at the start at my eurotrip, thinking it would come in handy. It has a pair of scissors that did proof useful for opening food packages and such. After returning home, I misplaced it for a little while and then found it shortly after I moved.
And then I misplaced it again.
Its empty cardboard box lay on my nightstand, for years, as a reminder of it. At times I googled the type, thinking of purchasing another one, but never did.
And today, I found it.
I think I’ll put it on my keyring.
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I made ice-lollies. I quit sugar last sunday (meaning, refined sugar, not the kind found naturally in fruit, veg, honey and such). The heat wave decided to test me or something.
I used…
I drew my hair clip today. I think it qualifies as the worst drawing I made this year.
Understandable, since I drew it with my non-dominant hand.
And the writing looks awful ;)
I bought a little solar panel recently. It lies in my windowsill, with open window, sucking up the sun’s rays.
At night it recharges my phone, which works very well. It came with lots of different plugs to charge different phones and even my Nintendo DS. I like that I can use the sun to charge things. It also has a separate attachment so it can charge batteries. I haven’t tried that out yet.
I made this drawing while my hand hurt badly and cramped up a lot. Not the smartest thing I ever did.
I went out to the mall (yes, we have one!) for some groceries and somewhat needed purchases and failed horrible in the last category. They did not have what I wanted.
Crossing the large parking-lot to the stores I realised I forgot to bring my hat (or cap). My scalp burns easily — which hurts — so on sunny days like today I wear protection. I hopped into the nearest clothing store and found exactly one hat. A simply grey-ish bucket hat. I now have a full quartet of bucket hats.
It posed nicely for my drawing.
I didn’t know what to draw, so I drew my right shoe. A very comfortable kid’s shoe which leaves tiger-footprints in the sand.
I have small feet.
Today I had a good day and I decided to hoover — yes, ‘hoover’, I actually have a Hoover — the sofa. This always takes a bit of work with all the pillows to move around. I figured that as long as I had to move them, I might as well wash the pillow-cases. It took me all day, but I aired out the pillows on the balcony, washed the pillow-cases, hoovered the entire sofa and the floor under and around, mopped the floor and put everything back together. I took lots of breaks and drank a lot and ate in between too, but I managed it.
At the end of the day, I decided to make myself a nice cocktail, and for extra kicks I added some blue food-colouring to it. Sometimes you just need a little extra colour!
I then decided to draw it; it turned out wonky, as all my cocktail drawings do, but still. Bad drawing beats no drawing.
I’ve followed Michael Nobbs’ for quite some time and really enjoy his work. The one thing that attracts me in his work, is that like me, he also deals with illness. Sometimes I’ll stumble on a blog of someone who does great work and they’ll have a job, go to college and do that great work all at once. It makes me tired just thinking about that.
Michael, however, frequently blogs (and draws!) about how he copes with his illness and others things life tosses at him. He makes his own books and sells them. The last issue of The Beany came out as an ebook today. Despite his illness he takes on (little) projects and makes stuff happen. He seems to have found a way to make it work despite being ill, something I still aspire to.
I have not yet figure it all out, and I have not yet made it all work. Thanks to Michael however, I know I’ll get there, eventually.
Some other inspiring artists:
* scott c
* Irisz Agocs
* Eric Orchard
* E*phi
* jess (borkedplanet)
* Kurt Halsey
* Mattias Ink
* marc johns
All worth checking out.
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I’ve tried out some new foods recently, some for eating and some for drawing. The kohlrabi roasts in the oven as I type this and the aubergine — I just can’t…
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Today didn’t go too great, and at some point I decided to make a little drawing…
