Kat Johnston

Tag: fly

  • Sketch: Interesting Bedfellows.

    Kat Johnston Art: Interesting bedfellows, don’t you think? Everyone is different though – what is tragic to one is simply beautiful to another.

    Taking another turn today – we’re back to the ‘Masked’ series for a moment. Yes, I’ve decided that they’re a series. I don’t know where they’re heading, but I am absolutely loving drawing them, therefore they are a series. I mean… two pictures is a pair, three becomes at lease a set, and this is number four… so it definitely counts as a series, I think!

    As you can probably tell by the last one as well, I am starting to work in a couple of my little obsessions… I wonder which little obsession will come next?

  • Fly me to the Moon…

    Fly me to the moon, Let me play among the stars, Let me see what spring is like, On a-Jupiter and Mars…

    My sketch for the afternoon – look, all the recent ones have been in my little sketchbook! I’m doing good. Well, I think so anyway.

    This one brings to mind that little song… you know… Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars… Why was it drawn? Not to illustrate that song at all… just because I have little cities that crop up when I want something random to sketch sometimes – no rhyme or reason to them, other than the fact that they are fun… interesting… a play more of pattern and shape than of anything possibly possible. Scale is no issue, obviously, since the little men that are hanging out in my city today must be massive if they were to conform to any sort of standard within… I don’t know… it works anyway, doesn’t it?

    Alrighty, that is all for today – I never seem to be able to throw up much on here on the weekends. I blame my wonderful husband for it, since he is currently calling me over for snuggles. On a day like this, snuggles seem more appealing than trying to think up something witty or poignant to write for here.

  • Invading space monkeys from the planet Mars.

    Kat Johnston Sketch – When all else fails, find one note-pad of pink paper, one blue biro, apply flies liberally.

    Its a Sunday afternoon and despite the fact that I was spending a nice amount of time sitting down and watching Numbers with the husband, I have cut into that to make some time to do today’s post before it gets too late. How’s that for dedication for you? I’m not even letting it go on a Sunday.

    Sorry for the random post title, but I didn’t think that ‘More freakin’ flies on a piece of pink paper’ was going to capture anyone’s attention. Next time, I might even draw some invading space monkeys from the planet Mars… I think that would be fun.

    Anyhow… this is really a nothing post today… flies were drawn because I needed to put something up, and they are easy to sketch out while watching Numbers… and suitably more significant for the fact that Numbers often talks about the non-existence of randomness, while I am ‘randomly’ putting flies down on a piece of paper. I know it isn’t random – I think of where to put each, because of how it will link up here, or generate space around there, or how putting one in this location gives more room for me to put one over there later… but it is still drawn with a desire to appear ‘random’, even though it really isn’t.

    I wonder if someone with an incredibly mathematical mind could sit down and actually plot out where I would place things dependent upon the first few lines I draw when it comes to positioning flies… I think it would be interesting to see.

    Ok… that’s enough of my randomness today… I’m off to watch another episode of Numbers! Tomorrow: Something with a touch more substance… I hope.

  • What’s the Buzz? (please make the puns stop…)

    Kat Johnston Sketch - ok, we've got to stop with the flies, don't we? The girl is wearing fly goggles for Pete's sake! I'm not sure if the psyche's look kindly on such behavior...

    Sorry for the pun. Its a compulsion. I don’t want for such things to happen, but its entirely beyond my control. I know its lame, but I can’t help it that despite the fact that they are about the most sigh-worthy jokes in history, I am still amused by them.

    Not much really to say about this picture, save for the fact that I like her. I know, I know, ‘It is getting beyond a joke – stop it with the flies already!’ I hear you cry. If it is any consolation, it didn’t start out that way – I was going to draw a girl like any other… well… not quite any other, but you get the picture.

    I find that when I sketch, if something is telling you one thing, even when what you originally wanted was something different, its time to run with it and see where it leads you. Sketches like these take minutes, not days. They’re not meant to rival the Sistine Chapel, they’re just quick little snippets of thought that run skittering across my brain saying ‘draw me, draw me!’ Some just happen to scream out a little louder than others at times. Its better just to listen, really, and go with the flow.

    They even start jostling some days, getting more than a little pushy. I guess it can get to being pretty stiff competition up there when I have a million other things on my mind. Especially when an ingenious plan including a ferret, a beach-ball and two pounds of English cheddar cheese is your competition for upper-brain activity.

    Ah well… what can I say? Its pointless to resist it. ‘Batty girl with fly goggles’ wins the brain-lottery this evening. Her prize? International exposure on the internets, a ‘buzz-ity-buzz’ caption and an ingenious plan of her very own involving a ferret, a beach ball and two pounds of delicious English cheddar… who said psychosis can’t be fun?

  • Do I look like a frog to you?

    Kat Johnston - Flies... Good for frogs, not to be given as gifts to your significant other.

    After posting that last little picture, I had a rethink… I know that my husband reads this blog (or he’d better, if he knows what’s good for him), and I just wanted to get something out of the way quick. I am not a frog, nor do I require a gift of flies, no matter how much I have been drawing them over the past few days. I’ll take other gifties please. Like frogs. Made of chocolate!