Kat Johnston

Tag: Art

  • Requested: Its not a mess… Its art.

    Kat Johnston. Don't you just wish you could do this to a room? So much fun!

    Tara gave me the word ‘clean’… here is my response. Its not a mess. Its art. Or is it? Well, I guess that is up for interpretation! *laughs* Let me just say that if I did this one in my studio, I think I’d get rather a rap on the knuckles for it… but wouldn’t it be nice? Just to be able to go completely nuts once in a while and toss paint around wherever you wish? Ahhh, thus are the limitations of renting…

    So I’m going to leave open this idea of people leaving requests alongside comments… I’ve even created a new little page outlining this oh-so-difficult process. So come on, give me a word, or a set of words… a passage from a book, a quote, a link to a photo or a cartoon… anything. I’ll throw together a picture in response, and put it up for your viewing pleasure, along with whatever other piece of sketching goodness I do throughout the day in another post. Any comments, leave a request along with it… and perhaps I’ll do it! Isn’t the internet great?

  • Wilderness.

    The sketch is a bit earlier today, as I promised… and yet again, another portraity type thing… I must admit, that the majority of my sketches do tend to be faces… This one could use a touch more work, as could the last one I threw up… to give it a touch more depth to the hair. Anyhow, I’m naming this little miss ‘Wilderness’, though I’m not entirely sure why… perhaps just the hair, which seems as if it really would be rather untameable. Eh, I don’t know… *laughs*

    This sketch and the one previous are in a new sketch-book… one a page… perhaps I will fill it up with girls drawn like this, they appeal to me *grin*. This picture I dedicate to Ash, who asked me to draw a picture for her… I was drawing this at the time, so here you go!

  • Felicity.

    I may actually take this one further than I currently have, as there are some things I wouldn’t mind adjusting a little further… and there is certainly scope to experiment with more colouration, in those delicious muted tones that I do so love and adore… but for now, I thought I’d throw it up in its current state and work more on it later. She was a great break from writing my project proposal today, I’ll tell you that. Originally done in blue ball-point pen (what a surprise there… seems I can’t get away from it…) on paper, then minimally digitally recoloured.

    This is Felicity and I am not sure whether I should be telling you what I think of her, or if I should just leave that one up to you… I think she might be better off, perhaps, with that air of mystery rather than having me reveal all of her secrets.

    Thank you to Katy for this one, for giving me the inspiration to draw her.

  • I Can Has Teddy Now?

    So there really were no promised cookies in the last blog posting… and for that, I apologize. What can I say? I’m outta cookies!

    Today’s picture: little Angela, who has a case of bad grammer and a longing for her teddy. Perhaps she is under the false misconception that bad grammer is cute, but she sure as hell isn’t going to get that teddy out of me until she corrects it!

  • Ellie.

    Every hero needs his love interest: this is Dean’s. Yes, we’re back on the media studies story again, just because she fits into the love-interest position so nicely.

    This is Ellie: she’s a sporty type, just loving endurance style sports like cross-country. Outwardly energetic and extroverted, she’s the type of girl that people tend to go to when they want something done, particularly since she excells at getting people organized and things sorted. She probably got such skills from having to often care for a handful of younger siblings. Dad died a while back and Mum is too busy trying to support the household to even consider dating. Ellie often wonders if she is happy. Because Mum is a single parent, she often works late, so Ellie’s had to pick up the slack, and make sure that things around the house get done. She doesn’t generally mind, but what with caring for them, trying to maintain her grades and all the other things that go along with being a teen, it gets hard at times.

    She has to believe in the power of positive thinking because it is just the only way to keep moving forward… she tends to focus on the fact that what she does helps others, and is better for the overall big picture rather than worry about herself. Sadly, this does lead to some people taking advantage of her ‘good nature’ because she rarely says no. She’s a people-pleaser, even when everything inside her is screaming for her to think of herself for once. With people often relying on her though, she never does. The problem with this though, is that people just come to expect it – she’s always got a smile on her face and will hardly ever admit that there is anything wrong… so people, even those close who should see through it, rarely do. They don’t tend to realize that each task piled onto her shoulders has her more and more anxious about how she’s going to fit it all in and make everyone happy at once. She refuses to admit that it just isn’t possible though: positive thinking can be a killer at times.

    Running is her outlet – her one true passion that makes everything else go away. All there is to focus on in keeping on going, the marvellous feeling of moving forward and breaking through your own limits of what you didn’t think you could achieve, pressing further and further each time, challenging what you thought you could do and realizing that you can push yourself even more. It truly is the one thing that makes her happy – there is no-one making demands on her but her, she is her own coach and her own critic; the only one to please is herself. That, and she can pretend she’s running away..

    Sorry for the poor writing, all written in a rush to try and describe her… I am certain that it can be more eloquently worded, but I might come back and do that later, if I have the time.