Kat Johnston

Tag: face

  • Sketch / Photo: Flooding in Brisbane prevents my posting yesterday.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: Yes… this is what I planned to post yesterday. That didn’t freakin happen though…

    Yesterday I planned on posting an image, this sketch I had created moments before scanning it in. However, no sooner than I had uploaded it to Flickr and was preparing to write my post today, that the incredible occurred. My rumpus room flooded.

    It has been steadily raining here over the past few days, and of course, we had to get flooded. The room went from dry to having a third of it covered in water in about two minutes flat. Now here’s the thing – this didn’t have to happen. There was no reason for this to happen – it was preventable! Our lounge had been flooded before, and there was ample opportunities for the owners of this place to fix the problem – in fact, I think they even filed an insurance claim over it. Did they fix the seal that allowed our rented property to flood though? No. They decided in their infinite wisdom that it ‘wouldn’t happen again’. It was very obviously a problem with dodgy construction, but they decided that rather than caring about the well-being of their tenants, they’d just let it slide and get the carpets cleaned.

    I’ve been absolutely fuming over this, mainly because it was only by sheer luck that I was downstairs at the time this occurred to whisk all of our electronics equipment up from their places before they were drowned. It doesn’t do anything to help that the owners violated the residential tenancies act and had builders over to our place twice without any notice whatsoever either, twice in two weeks. Once this week, at 7:30 in the morning!

    I’m telling you, if we didn’t need a place to live right now, I would be shooting daggers at people and glaring very very angrily. There might just be the use of flame-throwers too. I am not currently a happy camper.

    Anyhow, hardly anything we can do about it now… so here’s a photo! Welcome to our new indoor swimming pool, courtesy of fools who would rather get annoyed tenants and carpet cleaned after the fact rather than fix the problem in the first place.

    Kat Johnston: Flooding in Brisbane… why’d it have to be us?

  • Sketch: Further developed still…

    Kat Johnston Sketch: Hey, this totally makes up for some of my previous misdeeds… just so you know.

    So I’m doing little incremental scans of this picture as I work it up… we’ll just have to see how it looks fully when it is completely done. No pre-sketching is done with an image such as this – no pencil outlines or guides… it makes it seem almost daunting – one line wrong and whoops! Picture ruined. Well… perhaps. I hardly ever pre-sketch for a drawing such as this. Perhaps one day I should do that, yet I do find something fine, something exquisite about starting at one point, ending at another, and not over-working the part in-between.

    That’s not to say that I don’t have an idea beforehand of what I want to do (in some cases) or think that my method is any better or worse than anyone elses… but I’ve always been more of a fan of the ‘evolving’ work over the rigidly structured type. But there ya go!

    Okie dokey… that’s it until you see this picture the next time… unless you don’t see it another time. After all, if it turns out to be horrid when I make that one silly slip-up, then this may just be the last one of it that you see!

  • Sketch: A little further along… our little face grows.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: a little further along…. lets see where this leads us…

    Ahhhh, a rare and bountiful day where you are provided with two pictures, instead of the customary one. In this case though, it is simply a continuation of the last – I’ve added in a few more details, extending it, seeing where it will lead me. She’s a beguiling girl; I have yet to work out exactly where she is leading me, or what the destination is set to be. Wherever it is, however, it is sure to remain quite interesting.

    That is all really… I don’t know what else to add. Someone reply to me? Pretty please? I’m so getting sick of the mountains of spam drifting through the ‘you have this many comments…’ list, with not one being an actual comment worthy of publishing. And I have low standards! All I require is that it isn’t bloody advertising.

    Alrighty then… that’s all for now, methinks. I am going to go back to watching Mushi-shi and musing away, while I wait for the time to click closer to when my love arrives home and I can tumble into bed with him, wresting away all the snuggles he has resisted giving me throughout his working day. Snuggles are hard to steal when you are futher apart than you should be, and I must admit that typing ‘*hugs!*’ in msn really just doesn’t cut it beside the real thing.

  • Sketch: Her heart sits upon her collar.

    Kat Johnston SKetch: She held her heart at her collar.

    This picture was drawn last night, alongside a couple of others – each of them displaying a head devoid of the body which may support it. This in itself is not unusual for me: I quite often draw only a face without what lies below it. It is on a slightly rarer occasion where there might be a particular reason why this is so, other than my own sense of laziness.

    One thing that I haven’t drawn a lot of recently is dismembered bodies… quiet with the ‘should you be seeing a psyche?’ thing please! It wasn’t until a few weeks back that the first started to creep back into something I was doing – in this case an armless woman that I really must get around to finishing painting. The lack of arms is carefully masked in such a way as on first look, nothing seems out of sorts… its on the second take in which it hits. These head drawings are far more direct.

    There are two others, which I may post later on, should the mood strike… heads which lack the cleanness of the severing of this one. Its rather amusing to me, actually – each of the last two (of which this is one) bear the sort of ‘craft’ or ‘scrapbooked’ sort of embellishment somewhere on them… in this case, a little hand-sewn heart, the other with a very decorative scolloped edge to the cut.

    Rather a perverse thing to be sketching while chatting away aimlessly and watching others play Risk, huh?

  • Sketch: 800 spam messages, and counting.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: just another little face… I like drawing faces.

    I feel special. My spam filter has now caught a massive 800 spam comments. That means that at the very least, the spammers like my site!

    Anyhow, here is a little sketch for today… just something simple I threw together after I had dinner. Sorry again for the short post – I’m feeling rather exhausted!