Published on
July 30, 2010 in
Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch.
Tags: badge, badges, button badge, Girl, hair, portrait, pretty, print, printer, printing, Sketch, woman.
I had no idea what to call my sketch today, so it is now known as ‘She is Adored’. I’m not entirely sure why, but it seemed right nonetheless.
My button badge press arrived yesterday, and I am stoked! I have already made up a few (which were quickly snapped up by my sisters), and the machine worked perfectly. It is a good, sturdily constructed unit with replaceable dies, so later on down the track I can simply purchase the additional die sets to be able to make a wider range of sizes. Tis convenient, don’t you think?
I have a feeling I’m going to be digging through any images that might work well in a round format some time very soon.
This morning, however, I am doing a little more product browsing. I’m looking to get a colour inkjet that produces superior quality prints with maximum colour-fastness and longevity. In addition to the button press, I have some other fun items I’ve ordered which will require printed materials. As such, I’d like anything I make to really stand up really well to the test of time.
Phew… wish me luck.
Published on
July 27, 2010 in
Plain Paper, Portraits and Sketch.
Tags: clean, Girl, knowing, portrait, secret, sorting, studio, tidy, woman.
This is my sketch for today. Since I am going to be spending most of the day cleaning, I thought that I had best get it out of the way nice and early! I’m not quite sure what this lovely lass is trying to say, but from her expression I am assuming it is something along the lines of, “I know something you don’t know.” It is as if she has a wonderfully decadent, juicy secret she is keeping just for the pleasure of calling it her own.
So anyhow, my project of today is to get my studio clean, in addition to the rest of the house.It wasn’t as if the studio was in a particularly huge mess before, by the way. I just like to do a big sort every now and again to get things neat, tidy and findable.
Supplies upon supplies have already been sorted and stored, tucked into individual boxes for different types of things. Sewing supplies in one, yarn and knitting in another… a drawer here for paints, and another for brushes, palette knives, and other assorted things with which to apply paint. So really, the major parts are done! Now it is just all those last finicky touches to put the finishing polish on the room, and I can finally relax.
Published on
June 3, 2010 in
Plain Paper, Portraits, Ratties and Update.
Tags: clown, eyes, flickr, Girl, markings, masked, portrait, rat, rats, rattie, Sketch.
Ahhhh, more of the same… can you tell that I am enjoying this? They’re beautiful, delicate, distinguished and ever so intriguing, don’t you think?
So anyhow… I’ve finally gotten around to sorting out my things on Flickr so that all of my blog drawings (if not all of the blog photos, for certain reasons) are up. I’ve sorted them out, and there’s even a special category for the creative commons licensed photos so that you can just click on that to get them all at once, rather than having to find them one at a time scattered across the different sets.
All thrown in together, it all seems rather random: sketches here, cooking there, some pictures of dandelions and other such things. Hopefully the collections and sets will help it seem a touch more structured!
So yes… check out my Flickr page and explore the sets to see what you can see!
So it has been an incredibly busy few weeks… it really has. There’s been a couple of emergency room visits (don’t worry, everyone is fine now), and a whole lot of other work for this and that. To top it off, today is my hubby’s and my wedding anniversary – three whole years of wedded bliss!
I thought I had best try and stop this post drought… I hadn’t posted in a little while, and despite the almost hectic nature of things at the moment, I thought that I really should start getting back into my blogging again. I have been sketching, though I must admit that it is drips and drabs rather than epic masterpieces.
Annnnyhow… I’m back, and I will be making an effort to post again regularly from this day onwards. At least until it gets too busy for me to look at a computer, let alone sit down and type.
So that is all for today – please tune in tomorrow for another episode of *dun Dun DUNNNN!!!* Kat’s Blog of Doooooooom. I think I might actually rename the site that for a few days… hmm. Photoshop, here I come.
It actually feels as if I haven’t done a plain ole sketch on paper in quite a while… though that honestly isn’t true. I think it just feels that way because the last few posts I’ve done to the blog here have been done with images of body-art with sharpies rather than… well… plain ole sketches on paper.
Well, here is a quick sketch done today, and I can’t say that I wasn’t somewhat inspired by a earlier incarnation of Sven from Questionable Content. What can I say? He was absolutely adorable with the longer hair and the rounder nose, not that he looks any worse now… just different. I’ve been trolling through the archives from the very first of this webcomic, and if you’re not yet come across it, now is just about the right time to go take a peek. My apologies to Jeph (creator of QC) if my ‘sorta inspired by Sven’ is too similar in some respects! Just let me know if you’d like me to take it down (if you ever see this) and I would be happy to oblige.
So anyhow, that’s about it for today. Another day forward in another thrilling week, which will most likely be peppered with calls back and forth between builders and real-estate agents and the thrilling (yet somewhat disturbing) sound of me yelling at nothing in particular because yelling at something causes more trouble than it should. More tomorrow!
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