Shorty shorts
Some snippets: Last Friday Amelia J threw a fierce tantrum in a bookshop and then later took two steps across the kitchen floor. Toddler-hood begins for real. We have been watching a DVD of...
January 2004
Beware of illustrators brandishing textures
USA Weekend magazine, which has a distribution of 23.7 million, has warned 300 of it’s distributing newspapers that a racial slur inadvertently appears as part of the background of an illustration in an upcoming...
Five Things I wore in the 80s which were a big mistake – even then
Blogger Idol – Week One – The 80s – I am not a big fan of following blog memes on the whole, but I thought this one might be a fun way of doing...
A few post-weekend notes
Happy 1st birthday (for yesterday) little James! This weekend I grumped along to see Lost in Translation dragging my feet and complaining about the crappy seats. I came out sniffing the delicious summer breeze...
Sketchbooking
When working almost entirely digitally using photoshop, a wacom tablet and a stack of scanned in scribbles, it becomes very, very easy to forget how to draw. Drawing by shifting nodes around and relying...
Brown paper packages tied up with string
Favourite things for today:Rain! Anoushka Matus (thanks Christine!), salty mozzarella, mini-ipods, Amelia’s stripey leggings, this interview with Witold, the Toronto skyline in this time-lapse movie (thanks Caterina), hearing Amelia and her Great Grandma taking...
Clarence?? Is that YOU?
Oh and by the way – I believe in Christmas fairies.
Warrandyte dreaming
Christmas and the various days before and since were fabulous. My brother, his wife, their baby and their dog all arrived and suddenly the house felt very full and very festive. The babies got...