Kat Johnston

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  • Body Art: Hearts and gears and bunnies, oh my!

    Kat Johnston Body Art: This is what happens when I get given a body to work on, and a packet of prettily coloured sharpies.

    Finally! Finally I get to play around properly with prettily coloured sharpies… all over someone’s back. Started with the heart and went out from there. It grew!

    I’m actually really loving playing around with sharpies on people doing these ‘sorta not really permanent marker tattoo’ thingies. It took a little bit to get used to the way the coloured sharpies work and blend, but I think I’m starting to get the gist of it. When given the chance, I think I have a far better idea of how I’m going to draw a phoenix on a certain someone – though they’ll have to give me a bigger area to work with this time! Please?

    In celebration of working with pretty pretty markers, I’ve created a new category for such things, entitled ‘Body Art’. That way they don’t just get thrown straight into the ‘Sketches’ category and that’s it. I figure that my friends will lend me forbearance for a while longer to draw all over them, so there is a fairly decent likelihood that I might post more pictures of them here. Yay for friends who tolerate my eccentricities!

    I think that’s about it for today… enjoy the picture, and I’ll see you tomorrow. Phew!

  • Body Art: Another dragon.

    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!