The Cursed Tattoo

(All images are copyright to me)

This was something I did for a competition over the summer. I've never done anything like a comic strip before, didn't really have a clue what I was doing, don't even read the things. Anyway I gave it a shot and this is the result!

Some people understand it when they read it and others can't work out what's going on! Let me know if you get it! As I say, I've never attempted anything like this before.

I think I'd quite like to have a tattoo that moved round my body, would be like a little friend haha, as long as it was nice to me and didn't scratch! What do you reckon? Moving tattoo, yay? nay?

Five Tiered Pink Cake

I think it's very important to draw things from life, especially cake! (Then you can eat it afterwards!) I wanted to draw a cake house, so me and my housemate went to Tescos and bought a few of those 79p sponge cakes and some butter and icing sugar and silver balls and food colouring and liqourice allsorts and swiss roll and mini swiss rolls and created this:Five tiered pink cake! Fit for a cake lady to live in. I'm gonna paint a picture of it and then everyone can EAT it!

Cloud Nine

Cloud nine gets all the publicity but cloud eight is actually cheaper, less crowded and has a better view- George Carlin

Hello pink rabbit! Hello tutu closet! Hello glitter shakers! Hello Unification!

I've been back at uni for three days and already we have been given a MOUNTAIN of work. Literally. Dissertation, projects, proposals, presentation, lectures, competitions to enter... eek!

woosh, breeeathe...

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.