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Woof? Ahh, woof!

Published on December 17, 2008 in dandelions, Plain Paper, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
Kat Johnston sketch - woof... umm... yeah, woof!

So about a week ago, I tried roasted dandelion tea. I have rather a fondness for teas of most kinds, though I do tend to swerve away from the black teas. I prefer herbal, or green, though I am not adverse to an iced black fruit tea… does that even technically count as tea?

Anyhow, I like dandelions… and I like tea. The two don’t mix. I don’t know if it was the roasting that was the issue, but I have never, ever tasted a worse tasting tea. I’ve tried a fair amount of tea.

I’m not entirely sure whether to be disappointed, or glad. On the one hand, if dandelions don’t taste all that nice, I’m not sure that all that many people will be swooping onto my lawn to poach my dandelions, roast them and turn them into tea. On the other hand… well… I almost wish that it tasted as wonderful as they look and smell. I guess it just goes to show that some things are far more enjoyable alive and gorgeous than dead, shredded and shoved into a teensie tiny bag to be boiled in water.

Now that I think about it, a lot of things are better off that way!

Another Little Sketchbook Post.

Published on September 11, 2008 in Cartoon, Plain Paper, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Kat Johnston Sketch - things get odd when all you have is a sketchbook page telling you to draw, but nothing to draw in mind...

Another page in that little tiny sketchbook I posted a picture of the other day. This little sketchbook is going to be dedicated to automatic drawing, I think, as I can’t seem to look at those pages with something concrete in mind as to what I want to draw. Instead… just starting with something, anything and seeing where it takes me. I have no doubt that there are going to be some pretty interestingly bad drawings in this book, but I can deal with that… because it does tend to get some good pictures occasionally too!

I don’t often draw with a ‘just draw, see how it turns out, if it looks bad, it doesn’t matter’ type mentality when it comes to ‘proper’ sketchbooks (as in the ones that I want to be able to look at as an artistic product in their own right, not just as a place to draw)… as in the type of sketchbook that you would be happy showing to someone else. They are generally reserved to margins of notebooks, used envelopes, random spiral-bound sketchbooks and on the back of very important documents (which then get misplaced, because it both serves an important function and as a sketch… you never know what pile it is going to end up in, when looking for it as one or the other. Happens particularly often with assignment details).

Anyhow… hope you enjoy this quirky little sketch. I do! I think the little octopuppuss is just about as confused as we are as to why we’re looking in on it right now.

On a side-note, I had a friend pretend to kill me today, so I chased after her with arms outstretched and told her that I’d password protect this post so that she couldn’t see the new picture. I simply stated that zombies seem to exhibit poor motor skills… after all, they can’t even bend their knees right. You’ve never heard about a zombie that’s made it as an artist, have you. If you have, I want to know about it, by the way.

Dead people who just happen to have art still selling don’t count… they don’t produce it after they’re dead, the enterprising people that still own the creative product afterwards just cash in.