This morning I was feeling especially inspired and this self portrait was the outcome! This makes me want to draw all day.
Because I haven’t posted anything in a looong while (sorry bout that) I’ve decided to do a bit of an office room tour so you can see where I’ve been hiding all these months. As some of you may know, … Continue reading
This is pretty self explanatory. But still pretty great. Maybe I’ll do some more refined ones like this, I need to do more drawing!
Hi all! Here is my final ad for FictionKNITstas 2013 appearing on the back cover of Coteau Books’ Spring 2013 catalog. Fancy, eh?
FictionKNITstas is the newest installment of Fictionistas which is a yearly book tour held all around Canada. I’ll let you read all about it here!
IT’S ALIVE!
If you’d like to see what kind of books I work with click on my b-e-a-utiful ad! (A little plugging never hurt anyone)
I had a lot of fun making this, the whole time I was listening to this and this and some of this. I’m afraid im THE biggest baby when it comes to watching scary movies/reading ghost stories/googling ghosts caught on camera at the vulnerable hours of the afternoon in broad daylight so after I was done with this I was pretty much ready to cover every reflective surface in my building to keep the evil ghost children away.
Lately my work breaks are consisting of reading Rookie Mag, listening to music I had on repeat in high school, and eating copious amounts of strawberry yogurt out of a full size container with a spoon.
At least all of this extra calcium should keep my years as a carpel-tunnelled-curved-back-old lady-with-eye-strain down (wait, how is this different from now?).
I was working while listening to Amy Winehouse’s album “Back to Black” (which I highly recommend) and liked the font on the CD so I drew it on a spare piece of paper. I found that I liked the “E” specifically so I redrew it. Then I turned it sideways and noticed it looked like only what my mind could come up with, Santa…apparently.
It looks like he’s judging Amy, awkward.
Happy Monday everyone 
Woah look at me go, two posts in a row?! Madness.
This monster I drew this morning is basically the personification of my feelings towards the guy who has this need every. single. morning. to “make sure” his car doors are locked. He parks outside of my office window and when he presses the “door lock” button on his little remote starter and it beeps I can hear it and it never fails to scare the crap out of me. Heart monitor alerts aren’t that loud. Like, buddy, you’re parking your car at 8am. There is no one watching you and seeing how super cool you are with your fancy remote starter. JUST LOCK IT THE NORMAL WAY THEN TRY THE DOOR. I promise if the door doesn’t open for you it won’t for anyone else. Pinky swear bro.
Today for lunch I brought pancakes to work, I had them the other morning for breakfast and I thought they might make my Tuesday lunch faaaaabulous. (Yes, that’s my MAC mouse, I get to use a MAC guys, this is heaven. I don’t know how this job can get much better) (And yes, this illustration correctly depicts the vast number of pancakes I ate all by myself [4] it’s all in the details, baby)
And then I drew them…after I ate them of course.
Enjoy!
Over the weekend I went to a thrift store in my city and bought a little bag of old photo frames and other little things someone had hanging on their wall for $1.99. I saw this frame and decided to paint it and update the photo inside of it, to do this yourself you will need:
1) Lay down newspaper on your workspace to keep it clean
2) Take off the back of the picture frame, take out the picture and the glass that covers it
3) Use your acrylic paint to cover the frame in what ever colour you choose (I had to do three thin coats to cover mine completely)
4) While the paint is drying, find the image you want to put in your frame. It could be an actual photograph, a magazine clipping, a piece of fabric, flowers, or anything else you might want to hang on your wall. Place the glass cover over the image you want to frame. Use a pencil to lightly outline the glass, then use your scissors to cut it out.
5) When the paint on your frame is dry, you might want to use a topcoat to either give a satin (shiny) or a matte (dull) effect to your frame. You don’t have to by any means, I used the only one I could find in my house, it was supposed to be a matte topcoat but still came out shiny (go figure). If you do use a topcoat make sure the coloured paint you used is totally dry. If it’s still a bit wet, your colour will move around and the original colour of the frame will show (learned that from experience).
6) When everything is dry, put your image behind the glass cover and place it in the frame. Put it down on the table and put the back of the frame back on. Ta-da! You’re done!
*By the way, yes, that is Ryan Gosling in my finished frame.
If you try this out for yourself please let me know how it goes! Or if I’ve missed any of the instructions tell me and I can fix that right away. If you’ve enjoyed this DIY and want more I can definitely do more for you!
