If the words Vomit, Flu, Deadline, and Lethargy had been some of those omitted from the Junior OUP Dictionary, I'd have done quite well these past four days of Every Day in May… I don't seem to remember them on the list though, so I get back in the saddle with Lobster instead.
I used to have a rubber lobster bath toy that I think I ate the antenna, or at least some of the legs of.
I couldn't say lobster then ( I was v small) so he became a snobber instead. So here are some dancing Snobbers. (Lino-print / acrylic / some scribble & Photoshop)
May 2nd, and it's a newt in a jar!
Eugh – been a little while since doing some painting, and feels a bit stiff; these catkins (although I'm happy with the colours) look a bit like gherkins to me! Still, it was fun using the masking fluid and having to think backwards a bit (masking is quite like skil-screen printing in that respect), even if I was too impatient in waiting for it to properly dry – ooops!
…and some friendly lions.
From my sketchbook / Jan 2008
Woke up too early again this morning so did a bit of painting before breakfast…
The pear’s a bit floaty and the flowers look like they’re in a cup of blue tea but it was fun to do them… 
You know that feeling that your day is already full and you couldn’t possible squeeze in another minute to do anything? and yet somehow there *is* time to do everything… Other days you have ages to get one tiny thing done – and don’t… time is a mysterious thing….
So anyway… I was up at quarter to seven doing some drawings for Singapore Airlines magazine – and because they are 8 hours or something ahead, it meant the deadline was deadlier than I had supposed – phew! all done now though… back to the real work I’m doing for UKTV…
Just a bit of time to post up about some craft though; the ornament swap I’ve signed up for (just think – 8 surprise packages from around the world will be sent, and arriving – exciting mail again!). And also the book the lil birds are in – look, one even made it to the cover – yay! Got the proofs back for my section so it’s looking like it’ll be out soon..
Lastly – tonight the Actionettes will be over at The Bethnal Green Working Men’s club dancing at Legal Tender…we’ll be on about 10ish so come shake a leg and say hello!
I have (paper) notes from my trip away, but stuff has to be written out / scanned in so for now here are just a couple of links, thanks to bits of crumpled paper found in the bottom of my rucksack whilst emptying it!
We went to Cinders Gallery that had an exhibition of posters by bon goût – made me super happy looking at them and then a bit cross I wasn’t doing more drawing myself.. one of the books reminded me of work done by Nate Williams so here is a link to his site just because it’s good to look at..
… got some cool ideas about doing a new Banjo show…
oh and I bought a copy of The Drama cos it featured an interview with the amazing talented Geneviève Castrée about her, and her new book – Pamplemoussi.
Also saw in ReadyMade mag a link to fallenfruit.org and it reminded me of how we made the jam this summer - blackberries from Wormwood Scrubs and apples fallen on the grass in K’s back garden.
Also on the plane home watched the film Crash (Paul Haggis) a brilliant film about people living in LA and their racial (in)tolerence… made me cry…
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