I still draw, I swear.

A little sneak peek at what I'm working on / have been working on. Lately i just seem to be drawing silly things in my sketchbook or making ugly comics. I started a super-secret tumblr for them, which is probably actually very easy to find if you wanted to look.

I started making myself a nicer website here thinking I could switch it over to my own URL, but it is beyond me how to do this. I suspect I am actually not allowed to.

Life has all been a bit overwhelming lately, all I have the energy for is sleeping (I guess this means i have no energy at all) and reading old science fiction novels. I think i am due for a burst of productivity though, so i am looking forward to that. I have just enlisted a 'life coach' (not actually a life coach, but a very organised and motivating friend) who i have to send reports to every week on how much art i have made. This sounds kind of horrible but it is surprisingly very fun for both of us. It is also so good to keep track of what i actually accomplish.

I am off to the Auckland Art & Craft Fair in two weeks, if you are around and come visit me and tell me you follow my blog i will give you a free postcard. Unless you are lying! But i guess that would be kind of dumb....

I am taking lots of photos of nice things I see, I am by no means a photographer (but i guess i studied it in Art school for a long time) but it is fun and i think i will do a little photo post sometime soon so you can see what my life looks like. I look at the sea a lot, do you like the sea? You will probably like the view from my house, then.

Stickers & Skating

How did I forget to mention stickers??!? Here are some pictures, because. I sent out freebies of these to people, to get some 'action' shots, but no one sent me any photos back! Naughty people... So these are just photos of me holding them. You can use your imagination as to what to stick them on. Not cats, cats do not appreciate having stickers stuck on them. They are up on etsy, and also for sale on Foxes.co.nz




My sickness has mostly gone, which is lucky as I am back to work tomorrow. Last week a friend of mine took me roller skating - she does roller derby and is very good. My coordination and balance is pretty bad, so i fell over a lot, and have lots of little bruises everywhere. It was still lots of fun! I bought myself some second-hand skates, and although I don't think I'll ever get into derby ( I am not competitive enough) I have big plans to skate to work and do fancy tricks.

Coming up soon is the Auckland Art & Craft Fair , on the 11th of June. And I will be there! I know I swore of craft fairs, but I got very cheap flights up to Auckland and it is really just an excuse to visit friends. I have a full table and will be laden with new Tshirts and brooches and giclee prints. So if you can make it, come say hello! Maybe i will do some sort of blog-readers special...

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Opening at Pixel Ink Tonight

Group Show (featuring Ani Fourie, Autumn McGrail, Rebecca Robinson, Carmen Rogers, Charlotte Ellayne Welch, Devon Smith, Florence Thornburn, Jinx in the Sky, KIRAN-X, Lucy Yu, Melissa McDougall, Rachel Walker, Trevor Kohing and Rosalind Clark)

Pixel Ink Gallery, 219 Cuba Street, Wellington 6011

Exhibition runs from 29 April – 29 May 2011

Opening preview: Friday 29 April 5:30 – 7.30pm

I had planned to go to the opening, but I've picked up some awful sickness. I am confined to bed watching movies and not moving. It's pretty great, actually, except when i do move (and my back hurts) and the odd spew.

Tomorrow a friend of mine is helping me sort out my website, she is super smart so maybe she will help me pretty up this blog, too.

I have lots of sketchbook photos waiting to be uploaded, but they will have to wait until I am a little better.

Also, T-shirts and stickers are now on my etsy store.

T-Shirts!

So.. some things arrived in the mail.




Excuse my goodball expression, i was very excited. So far I have Unisex Small, Medium and Large, and girls Small. I'm getting more girls sizes in May.

These aren't on etsy yet, and i only have 12, you can pre-order them direct from me now by emailing deer_face(at)hotmail.com

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Tshirt Designs

Okay, so i managed to finish two of these today. Which do yu prefer? Which colour is better? Is there anything that should be changed? Should i have drawn a cat instead?

Please let me know what you think! i can only afford to print one at this stage. Might submit the other to threadless...

Auctions

Foxes is running a little auction to raise money for Christchurch. I donated this original painting, but there are lots of other great items to bid on.



Visit here to bid and have a look at all the other goodies.

Earthquake

Gift certificates now in store.

I had a big blog post planned out, but the Christchurch earthquake has kind of pushed everything else out of my head. Every one i know personally is safe, but it is still horrible and sad. The amazing cathedral has partially collapsed, among other terrible things.

I'm going to donate 25% of all sales for the rest of the month to fixing the city.