Kat Johnston

Tag: Big Eyes

  • Sketch: Just adorable!

    Kat Johnston Sketch: Isn’t she just adorable? Well I think so! Like a little princess, or something.Kat Johnston Sketch: Isn’t she just adorable? Well I think so! Like a little princess, or something.

    Eep! I actually meant to post up this picture last night, but then my hubby put on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean III’ and by the time that was done (overly long, in my opinion), I was just ready to fall into bed and close my eyes. I had it all scanned into the computer and everything, though, I swear!

    Mmmm, it is Sunday today, and the day has started off well. I woke up with a cat nestled in against the crook of my arm, and with my stirring movement, she too awoke. She crawled up onto my chest, the purring already starting before one finger was laid upon her. It seems that cats enjoy a sense of anticipation too.

    I cupped her chin in my hand, my thumb lightly stroking along her elegant jawline, while my other hand smoothed down the silken fur of her back. My Lolita (for that is her name) must have some touch of oriental in her, for her jaw and whole body is so smooth yet angular – though she is most definitely predominantly blue tortoise-shell. The look suits her well. While she is fully grown, she still looks so much the kitten, especially in the low light, when her pupils are very dilated. She is our little bear.

    I tugged her further up my body, while she, pretending that she will ‘allow’ me the pleasure of petting her (rather than revealing that she was actually revelling in it) opened her mouth in a gigantic, tooth-filled yawn. I guess she just wanted to let me know who was in charge. Ahhh, but my Lolita… she does not fool me in the slightest. She is a cat who loves snuggles, and her purring is like the rumble of an idling truck, or perhaps a jet taking off. She does not fool me at all!

    Snuggling her is just the perfect way to start the day.

  • Sketch: It’s been a while…

    Kat Johnston – my little girl looks to a star above…

    9 days in fact. My apologies – it’s been one heck of a couple of weeks. Builders in and out of the house, real-estate agents not wanting to give straight answers, not getting a job I would have liked to have gotten, I have to get surgery because my knee is not behaving… all in all, it’s been a just a teensie bit rotten. But that’s ok. Because I have a sketch for you!

    You know how I’ve mentioned my ‘little girl’ before? This is her. She’s a reoccurring character that I draw over and over, here and there. And she’s cute!

    Ok, so onto something a little different. I went to a concert last night – the Pink Funhouse Tour concert. When Pink actually got to the stage, it was an absolutely fantastic show. She was brilliant. What was, however, disappointing about the night, was waiting for the actual concert to start. The tickets say ‘7:30’, so I expect an opening act, and then Pink to be on the stage by say… ohh… 8:00, or perhaps 8:30, tops. But noooo… it was already 9:15 by the time it got to the actual concert.

    That, my friends, was a little disappointing – if we weren’t set on watching the main act, I would have walked out the door by 9. After all, you pay to see Pink, not Faker and a DJ for almost 2 hours. Not that Faker was bad or anything, and the DJ was actually fairly brilliant, but when you’re waiting for the main act, you don’t want to sit there and listen to something else for so long – it didn’t seem to pump up the crowd for the main act, it just seemed to draw out the time until it actually happened. Hopefully it was just a ‘first night in Brisbane’ type mishap backstage that made the wait so incredibly, incredibly long.

    But the wait aside, the actual concert part of the night itself was fantastic. Pink really knows how to move around a stage and sing while being tossed this way and that in incredible feats of acrobatics, and the stage-show itself was just brilliant. Pink, not surprisingly, sung incredibly well, and even proved she wasn’t lip-syncing a couple of times by forgetting the words. Phew! Yay for the Pink concert!

    I’m so not apologizing for enjoying awesome pop music by the way. So there!

  • Sketch/Announcement: Inspired by Jenny, but definately not Jenny.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: Inspired (somewhat) by my Jenny pictures. Look through the categories if you don’t get what I mean!

    A quick and early sketch today! I have to go in for my ultrasound later, and have various other annoying things to get done until then, so I thought I’d get this out of the way early if I could.

    The picture today is somewhat inspired by Jenny. If you have no idea who or what Jenny is, check out the category links – there’s one called Jenny there. I love the original Jenny to bits, and to be honest, I’m not entirely sure if I could ever properly turn her into a ‘regular’ person. It just doesn’t really work like that.

    On another note, I’d like to point out something incredible and fantastic! I’ve now been writing on this blog for over a year. I didn’t actually think about it until last night, but when I did… oh my! I had to race back to the computer to click on the archives for May 2008 to see when the exact date actually was. I actually have an odd sense of accomplishment over all this. There’s 270 posts (or will be, when this one is included), which means that I post approximately two days outta three, or there-abouts… that’s not too bad if you ask me!

    For something started on little more than a whim, then continued on under the banner of ‘study’, I think the site has gone incredibly well so far. Yes, there are still some things I need to do – finish updating the gallery, finally get around to sorting out the banner for good (the composition as it is currently isn’t perfectly ideal, but with a bit of work, could be much much better), and perhaps a few other things… but it is good. It has certainly been fulfilling its primary purpose: keeping me motivated to do what I know I love… sketching. If people see it, so much more the bonus.

    So, celebrations all around, don’t you think? Milestone accomplished.

  • Sketch: I need sleep… and wontons.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: I need sleep… I do.

    Just another quick post today. I need sleep – I really, really do. But first, I think I am going to make wontons. I like wontons. They are tasty, and delicious, and in a warm broth they happen to be one of the most delightfully comforting foods.

    For lack of better post content today, I’m going to tell you what is going to be in them. I’ve got some premium beef mince, and to that I’ll be adding garlic, ginger, finely chopped chives, finely chopped shallots, a little splash of soy, and perhaps a little flour if it is needed. I’ll then be dolloping that onto wonton wrappers and sealing them up all perfectly.

    Some I will have for lunch, and then the rest I will serve up for dinner in a nice warm beef broth, I think, with some wombok and perhaps some noodles… we’ll see how the mood strikes, shall we? In the meantime though… that nap is looking mighty good.

  • Sketch / Digital: My Ballerina with a touch of colour.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: A touch of colour on one of my previous sketches… because I can’t scan anything in today!

    So right now the printer/scanner/copier isn’t yet set up in our ‘new’ computer room, while the rumpus dries out. I honestly think that the flooding downstairs has somewhat killed both my husband’s and my desire to have things down in that room now – at least within reach of possible flooding… again. That, and it smells like mildew. Eww!

    So instead of a ‘new’ sketch today, you’re getting one of my older ones with a touch of colour! This was started a little while back, and since I have it handy, it can go up for today’s sketchy offering. I’d go a little further on it, but surprise surprise… the wacom hasn’t made it upstairs again either! Ah well. Things should get back to normal soon, I guess.

    Happy weekend, guys! Aren’t you glad it has arrived?