Featuring the artwork, musings and sketches of Brisbane-based artist Kat Johnston, who is also known as Sanura Sakai or Sanu in Second Life.
Just a very quick post today because I still have some script formatting to do before I can hand it over to the applicable people. I promise I will throw up something more substantial later. In the meantime, here is a quick hedgehog. Ohh, hedgehogs are so cuuuuuute! *goes off dancing the ‘hedgehogs are cute’ dance*
Well… you never know. Its one theory, in any case. The picture above is Wendy, albeit not exactly of the Disney variety. She is, perhaps, a younger version… about six or seven years old… Peter has not lost his shadow yet, there is no ticking clock to signal the advance of one hungry and vengeful crocodile and little Tinkerbell has not yet tried to murder the competition.
Perhaps Wendy is sitting there on the seat by the window as Mr and Mrs Darling soothe the still crying Michael in his bassinet, cooing over him with concern as John glares from his bed just beside them, with all the jealous anger of a four year old who is not the one getting the attention. Wendy, however, doesn’t really mind. She’s allowed to have the curtains drawn open way past her bed-time.
She’s wrapped around in a warm down comforter, her eyes wide and bright as the cries of her brother are drowned out by the wonder of seeing a London street bathed in the milky glow of the moon reflected off brand new snow not yet disturbed by the carriages and horses that will undoubtedly trundle by before she wakes in the morn. By that time, the pristine snow will already have been churned into a muddy slush.
Wendy would look towards the sky filled with tiny pinpricks of beautiful white light, dotted against a velvet sea of deep, dark blue and dream… seeing just one of those stars seemingly tumble out of the sky before righting itself and flickering out of sight. A little white moth, who’s roamed too far from the glow of the august street-lanterns? A speck of snow, trying to escape from a wayward cloud not present in a cloudless sky? Or perhaps… just perhaps… her first little hint of what is to come, as miss Wendy spies her rival and perhaps future lady love for the first time, before little Tink goes darting out of sight.
Another random sketch and one I do not yet think is complete. She’s telling me she wants more and I’m telling her ‘later’ because I need to throw something up onto the site now! So I will throw up a ‘completed’ one later, if a completed one later happens to exist. It started off with the face, and then the curves down below… then things sort of started growing from there. Where it will go… I actually have an inkling or two, but I’m going to keep them to myself and leave it as a surprise when you see more of her.
A little interesting link today, because I know how much I love finding these little gems of the internet: One Mile Scroll, which I discovered through my twitter feed thanks to @caroline, another twitter user. It turns one whole mile into a scrollable webpage, complete with the option to contribute height markers along the way to make the scroll more interesting. A novel way to deliver little factoids alongside transforming “virtual space into an actual, physical distance”.
I must admit, I wasn’t expecting Twitter to be of much ‘use’ to me when I started playing around with it, but I have actually been finding it incredibly fun to get involved with it. Yay Twitter! Oh, if you happen to want to join me on twitter, the username is KatJohnston (original I know), or you can just click here to see my Twitter profile. An incentive for joining me there? I send out an update on Twitter automatically each time I post a new entry on here – so you can be the first to know when something goes up!
Edit: just adding in another interesting little link because I am sure that some others would enjoy it as much as I do. Before I die I want to… is a project that takes snapshots of people with polaroid cameras (who have stopped producing their materials and is thus ‘dying’ in its own right) with their hand-written statement of what they want to do before they die on their photograph. The site then states that it wants to go back and actually find out if people have done what they have set out to do after a good period of time has elapsed. I love the concept behind this, and the execution is also just great. Well worth a look. Uhh, and if anyone happens to have a polaroid camera and some film in Brisbane and doesn’t mind taking a shot of me, I’d love to have my picture up there too! Can anyone hook me up?
This is just a quick little sketch thrown up because I can’t -not- put up a sketch of my own today… even if it is rather late in the evening for another post. Rather halloween inspired, I suppose!
You know… I’ve never tried pumpkin pie. Perhaps it is because I do generally have a bit of an aversion to pumpkins – they are certainly not my favourite food in the world. I rather enjoy a good home-made pumpkin soup, but pumpkin itself, not so much. Especially since it doesn’t like me. That’s right, pumpkin does not like me. One attacked me when I was innocently going about my business, so I’ll just assume that they all aren’t all that partial to me.
I was just casually walking up the back steps of my little home one fine day, when one lunged at me and tried to eat my foot. It got away with nearly breaking a toe, but luckily nothing too serious. I can’t say I don’t blame them for not liking me though… I wouldn’t particularly like being blended up and served with a nice crusty bread-roll either.
A note for anyone visiting when I’m out of the house: please leave gifts of pumpkins where I can see them without having to look down. Even better? Bake them into a pie for me so that I can give it a go.
This picture… is not mine *gasp*. Today, I’m doing a guest spot to feature one of my incredibly brilliant and overly talented sisters! I would like to think that I inspired her to get into drawing… but the likelihood is that she just got into it herself. No harm in me taking credit for how great she is though, is there? Good. That’s settled.
My sisters have come to stay with me over their holidays so that they can get away from home for a bit and overdose on gummy bears, candy-bracelets and anything sugary they can salvage from the kitchen or, if necessary, the local supermarket. I suppose I should really be that ‘good big sister’ and feed them nice, healthy things (like lettuce… mmmm, lettuce), but if the girls want sugar they want sugar. What can I say? I’d be a horrible parent. This is why I don’t breed.
Anyhow, back to the arty type stuff. I pounced on the girl today and accosted her for a picture to throw up on the site. She pointed me towards her DeviantArt page. She hadn’t even told me she had one! Silly bunny… Anyhow, that aside, this picture is named ‘LMAO’ and here is her own little write-up of this picture:
Likes: Haruto (my other imaginary friend), Japanese food, art and music.
Dislikes: Everything other that what’s in the ‘like’ section.
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Jake is not easily amused.
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OK, this is Jake – one of two of my imaginary friends.
Talented little mite, isn’t she?
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