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Body Art: Another dragon.

Published on June 2, 2009 in Body Art and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
Kat Johnston: A dragon for her back, not yet a tattoo, but perhaps destined to be.

So I mentioned yesterday that I’d been drawing on people smart (or stupid?) enough to make their bodies available to me. This was one of those sketches from the week-end just gone. Ok, so it isn’t the most brilliant thing in the world, but gigantic nikkos with blunted edges (as in it didn’t come to a nice chisel point at allll) are sometimes just a bastard to work with. I am so glad that I went out and bought some awesome sharpie markers – my wonderful friends are going to be letting me draw on them again, apparently, despite whatever trouble they might have had washing off the last bout. Yay me!

You know, it’s really rather hard to put this one into a category. Sketch, yes, I suppose it would come under that, but it is neither digital nor on canvas, on plain paper or lined… I think it’s just going to be a bit uncategorized. One little category of sketch, and no other to define it… I wonder if it feels sad.

So that is all for today – I’m getting back to work on other bits and pieces now. You know, playing with markers, drawing with markers, dreaming up wonderful things to do… with markers. Yay markers!

Morganine: she has 27 cats, a dozen rats, and a cute little fish named Rover.

Published on February 1, 2009 in Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - this is my lady Morganine. She has 27 cats, a dozen rats, and a cute little fish named Rover.

I’m really enjoying these pens – it is fun to work in a style that compliments them. It is a little different from the way I would use one of my regular bic pens. Certainly is fun though!

This little character today I’ve named Morganine. She’s a quirky lass – she has 27 cats, a dozen rats and a cute little fish named Rover. She’s not understood by most, but that’s ok. Sometimes the most brilliant minds have been considered a little eccentric. Although she could be considered a crazy cat lady with 27 felines calling her place home, she has all her wits about her and perhaps a few besides. She’s a cunning young bat and no mistake!

Ok, a little something about Sanu. As I’ve released to my group, my store is currently being forced to move to a new location. Don’t worry! I will keep the mainstore up where it is as long as I can and I will do my best to make the transition to wherever I set up next seamless. I’m incredibly disappointed that things have turned out the way they have – I’ve been in my new mainstore there for only a couple of weeks. However, I can’t help but to see this as an opportunity too – as unfortunate as events have played out, I can see it as a boon. I’ll be back and better than ever in no time! Keep an eye out here for updates on progress.

Testing the red… slightly disappointed.

Published on January 30, 2009 in Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch - I'm testing out the red pen today.

I must admit, when it comes to red pens, I adore a nice, deep, rich, blood-red shade. This shade? Welllll… not quite what I love. It is nice and all, don’t get me wrong, but not the perfect colour of red I crave.

I find it rather funny just how much the colour of a pen can influence just how I draw with it. The colour, the flow, the amount of variation I can get between one pen and the next… I do the majority of my sketching in pens. I enjoy them so much. If you screw up, you screw up – you either start over or try to salvage it, and either way it will eventually turn out ok, or at the very least, you have one more picture to toss onto the ‘maybe not’ pile.

From the bold, even distribution of colour in a picture like this, to the subtle shading and tone variation of pens with a less ‘wet’ ink, I am constantly delighted by the amount of ways that this simple stationary item so often passed over can transform a simple sheet of paper into something stunning, or evocative, or playful, or sweet… I’m sure I’m not the only one that starts clapping their hand delightedly on the way to a big stationary shop, am I?

Two today.

Published on December 6, 2008 in Plain Paper, Portraits, Sketch and Sketch-Book. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
Gotta love random sketching...

So, yesterday was the first day in a rather long time that I have missed making any post at all for this blog… If it helps, however, I had a rather good reason which I won’t disclose here. Want to know what is more annoying though? I even had the image (the first one in this post) waiting on the scanner and ready to go. I just never got around to actually scanning it.

As a result, I thought I would at least put up that picture that I had waiting there for yesterday, along with the one I scribbled into my little sketch-book for today. Tis only fair after all, yes?

A strand of hair teased by the beak of a little blue bird...

Annnnd, that was the second picture, drawn today. Phew! Hopefully tomorrow things can get back into their regular groove again.

Now, just for your amusement, a little log of a conversation I am having right this minute, with a certain name changed to protect the (apparently) innocent. We were talking about the movie ‘Australia’ which is now in cinemas (or so I have been told).

Kat’s Plucky Companion says:
All the droving scenes kinda made me miss being on the farm, being around big animals (we ran cattle, just like in the movie)

Kat says:
Awww
If you want, I can buy a packet of those little farm cows, the little plastic ones, from toy world… and then we can set it up on the green felt that we generally have on the coffee table… and we can get little plastic horsies, and herd them around, going ‘Yayyy! Cows!’

Kat’s Plucky Companion says:
*laughs riotously* I can just imagine the looks we would get for that!

Kat says:
Welllll… I don’t know… James is used to such things from me… he might raise an eyebrow when I got out the paints and started painting them pretty colours, then put them into positions as if they were making sweet, passionate cow-love to each other…
But then… probably not.