Violet hair

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

Fran LebowitzI have to say that I totally disagree with this statement.
I think Violet is a fabulous colour for hair!
Along with lilac and lavender, pink and baby blue,
and rainbow!

I miss having pink hair :(

I DO believe in fairies!

Londonnn baby!
One of my favourite places to be
so busy and inspiring

A few weeks ago me and my good friend Bruno went to see Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
Peter Pan is my all time favourite book/film!
So I was extremely excited.

Me and Bruno drew each other on the tube.
A random man randomly judged our pictures.
This is my picture of Bruno:Peter Pan was AMAZING!
If you havn't seen it you must!!
It's going to hit the O2 soon I think.

Anyway. Tinkerbell was wearing a PINK TUTU and had FAIRYLIGHTS in her hair!She was played by Itxaso Moreno and was absolutely perfect for it! She was very fiesty and rude and funny but also quite cute.
How Tinkerbell is meant to be.
It's a shame you can't really see the lights in her hair in the picture.
They were so cool.

This is a Starbucks in London......where we had coffee suprisingly enough.

On the subject of plays and films I saw Dorian Gray last night.
Has anyone else seen it?
What did you think of it?

I found it quite scary but it was one of those films I found my self thinking about all next day.
Really dark, and I didn't like it WHILE I was watching it but looking back on it I think it was a good film.
Interesting, disturbing, gothic.

Skeleton Cake and Ice Cream

At the moment, one of our uni projects is to make promotional postcards that go alongside quotes. This is one of mine:The living are just the dead on holiday- Maurice Maeterlinck

On the subject of ice cream and sweet yummy food I discovered some AMAZING cakey things today on le net. Firstly if I get married I want a cake like this one:
And secondly I discovered the work of this guy Scott Hove. It's a ROOM of fake cake! Incredible!

Underwater swimming

We did a lot of swimming in Dubai
it's hard to actually do any excersise in the pool though
because the water is SO warm!
Like a bath.
You end up just flopping about in it.
I drew these on some blue plastic bags with a permanent pen
I like the way the scanner made the writing on the back of the 'page' shine through.

There's no time left for outdoor swimming in England now!
Too cold!
I don't mind though, I like autumn and winter.
I like wearing tights and boots and scarfs
I like fireworks night and Halloween and CHRISTMAS!
Christmas is my absolute favourite time of year!
But let's not wish the time away!

Taste the rainbow

There were skittles in this gumball machine in Dubai,
that I drew and painted on a shopping voucher I picked up at the airport.

I like rainbows

They are nice.

I don't much like green and yellow and orange skittles though
I only eat the red and purple ones.
What's your favourite flavour?

Johnny Rockets!

I never usually draw on anything but plain snowy white paper

so this week in Dubai I decided to experiment.
I didn't allow myself to bring a sketchbook anywhere.
I had to draw on what I could find in the place I was in
This was in Johnny Rockets as you may have guessed^
I really liked Johnny Rockets :)
I got to have dr pepper with cherry flavouring in it.
My sister had coke with chocolate flavouring
And there was this cool juke box thing:I drew it on a napkin and the ink kept sinking in.

Just Like Raindrops

This was for my friend Spickolina
On her Birthday
She's not really that unhappy
like the candyfloss girl in the picture
With her batwing umrella
But she still doesn't like the rain.

Feeling like a fish

Ive done a lot of swimming lately
I like feeling like a fish
and I like smashing my hand into the water
and watching the bubbles spin back up to the surface.

Chickens

I quite like chickens. They are interesting to paint.

Town

The other Sunday I was bored and it was sunny so I went to town and drew this^ Took a ridiculously long time.

Conservatory

Hampton Court Palace

The other day we went to Hampton Court Palace to see my sisters Godmother. I was amazed by the gardens. They were so neat and square. The trees were like like plasticine shapes.I had a go at drawing the Palace:This is my sisters Godmother. We had a picnic. It was verrrr nice :)

Waiting

This is the extremely unflattering picture I drew of my mum in the waiting room. She hates it. I think I have aged her about ten years!HOWEVER I did realise that public places like coffee shops and hospital waiting rooms are THE best places to find interesting people to draw. You get all sorts in there. The only problem is that you gotta sketch them really quickly because they're usually moving around.

I want to go to the fair!

There's this common near where I live where the fair comes to every few weeks or so in the summer. You can hear the music playing from my house. I like going to it because there's such an atmosphere there with all the flashing lights and screaming and the smell of candyfloss.

Favourite ride ever is always the carousel even though it's not the most exciting. I just like the look of it. The best carousel I ever went on was at the Queen's Jubilee party in London where there was an adult one. It was huge and the horses on it were massive and it went really fast. It was free as well I spent most of the day on there!

Dorrie the little witch

These were some of my absolutely favourite books when I was little. Slightly creepy but very adorable. Dorrie is a little witch who's hat is on crooked and who's socks never match. She lives with her mother the big witch and her cat Gink. Dorrie and Gink get into all sorts of mischief. The illustrations are usually done in one or two colours which I think adds to their charm.One of the books i specifically remember is 'Dorrie's play' but I can't seem to find it ANYWHERE! It never ever comes up on ebay or anywhere else really which is a shame. I wonder why.

Dress Me!

This time last year for a project we had to draw everything we owned! I decided to make a cut out paper doll of myself (kind of- i had pink hair at the time and wore a lot of stripy tights and stockings) and make miniature versions of all my clothes out of paper and material. Then I put velcro on the back of the clothes so that they would stick onto the doll like one of those dress up dolls you can buy. (i love those!)This isn't really what my bedroom looks like by the way^ I wish it did. (minus the spiders) And I wish my legs were really that skinny! haha. I miss having pink hair!I don't actually own that pouffy pink dress either but everything else yes. Things I really should wear more are my black pvc coat (i alwasy forget i have it!), my tutus and my shoes with see through heels. All stuff that just sits in my wardrobe gathering dust at the moment :s