Kat Johnston

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  • Sketch: See? Sketching -is- good for you!

    Kat Johnston: Random sketching -is- good for you. I told you so. You didn’t believe me, but its true!

    Aha! Many seem to look at me dubiously when I proclaim that I am better focused in classes due to my sketching, seeing it instead as a certain sign of my unattentiveness. However, as I have surely mentioned before (though I won’t dig out the post now, seeing as it is after midnight), I think that sketching actually helps me focus better. Its a zen-like thing – you sketch, letting your mind wander a little in one place, while the rest of it works at absorbing whatever it is you are meant to be absorbing on that particular day.

    My hubby called shennanigans. He thought that it was just a lot of hokey, and that I was pulling his leg. Well, this morning he sent me a link to this little article which proclaims the same. Yay! Now I apparently have science to back up my wonderful theories. I’m glad someone got around to trying to prove it. I wonder if I inspired them?

    So, in honor of this particular article, I dredged up one of the pages of one of my writing books, which I’ve dragged along to a lecture or two. This is a class… though I am entirely unable to recall which one. It was a while ago, after all. It features my gorgeous hung bunny, which I think hasn’t been properly introduced here in its original form until now. Yes, there’s the bunny in the moon (featuring the same bunny), but this was the way he was originally imagined, though not the first sketch of him, I assure you. My hung bunny rocks.

    Alrighty ya’ll, I think I’d best get to bed before I stay up all night! Throw some congrats my way… I got an interview! Yayyyy!

  • Cheery on page one: come page two, it’s dead.

    Kat Johnston Sketch – Lookie lookie! A bunny! Oh noes… it’s dead.

    You know, I’m an evening person. So it is quite often that I don’t notice the time… until it is almost too late. Today is one of those days, and I guess I’m just fortunate that I glanced at the clock and noticed the time in time for me to post a picture on today’s date!

    I can’t believe that there is so little time until Christmas – this year really has flown by so incredibly quickly. I can’t believe it’s nearly 2009!

    Soooo anyhow… just a short post today. I got some more painting done, and when the piece is completed, I will put it up for you to see. I’ve been taking a few incremental photos, so if they turn out ok, I might do a step-by-step… though needless to say, it leaves out a lot of steps. So far, I’ve taken it with the main background sorted out, and then again with the base layer of colour for the subject… can’t really take pictures in between the two because… well.. sometimes you just have to work fast, and even making time to pick up a camera is too much attention drawn away at the wrong time.

    Have a great day, y’all… I need to get to bed!

  • This flower isn’t all that happy…

    Kat Johnston Sketch – hmm… I don’t think this flower is feeling all that chipper.

    I rather love doing the little crosses for eyes on things. My favourite would have to be the bunny, yet it works on such a variety of items… from flowers to toaster ovens. Thus, my oh-so-brilliant sketch for today, while simple, is still awesome in my books. Yay for crosses for eyes (which funnily enough, doesn’t mean that it is cross eyed at all… just dead, or at the very least, passed out).

    On a little personal note, not feeling 100% today, so not going to write anything too long and rambling for the post. Just what was written above. Have a great day!

  • Bunny in the Moon.

    \'Bunny in the Moon\' by Kat Johnston

    My little dead bunny in the moon. A rough pencil sketch, then traced in black ink pen, coloured then in photoshop because I had nothing incredibly much better to do. Yay for my dead bunny!

    I will state that after the fact, I thought that it would be a good idea to give the bunny a rice-cake to hold… but I decided not to alter the picture. Different people see different things in the moon – in Japan, rather than seeing ‘the man in the moon’, the traditional image is that of a rabbit making rice-cakes.