Kitty's Drawings

Hello my poor neglected readers!
I’m here to bring you some colour – for the first time in ages.

This is a flyer I’ve drawn up for my parents’ vineyard (St Imre) – Mum is holding monthly Saturday dinners (I think they’re monthly right Mum??) where she cooks a meal and shares some wine and it’s all good times and awesome food. If you’re in Tassie then you need to get down there, Mum’s cooking is fantastic! And I’m not just biased, even the fussy boyfriend always loves her cooking.  I always have a bunch of things to request whenever I visit, favourites from when I was a kid that I just can’t make myself.
Worth a visit just to try proper Hungarian food – there’s not that many places you can get that in this fair country

So yeh – this is the flyer I will be printing off which will be available around parts of Tas. It didn’t take me too long as I can’t be my slackie self with this one. I’m sure the design will change over time but Mum loves it so that makes me happy. Yay!

Here’s a link to the bloggy too.

Well – off to bed now to read my book. Night!

Hi!

All done for this week’s CHOW. I can’t believe I managed to go out Saturday, bum around Sunday, do life drawing today and STILL get this done. Awesome. Oh and I don’t hate it so much either. Omg.

Okay so it’s not fantastic but it’s better than most (all?) my other CHOW entries so I gotta be makin’ some progress. Plus this week’s theme was mega mega awesome.
So onto the drawings…

If you can’t tell – I decided to go with a whacked out junkie as my Dorothy. Tehehehehee. WHY? Cos I can. And you gotta think that whoever came up with the whole OZ thing had to be on something. I know it’s not the original but have you SEEN Return to Oz?? Cray-zee. The first one was bad enough.
Some progress pics (Click it to make it big if you so wish)….

And how was life drawing I hear you ask?? FAB. Loved it!! Much better than what I was expecting. I shall show you my results tomorrow and talk about it in more detail.
Until then – BYE!

Hi Everyone!
Hope you’ve all been having a fantastic easter and not gorging on TOO many eggs! Hahahaa kidding, eat away – I can’t deny anyone the right to eat chocolate.
Things in our household have been typically non-traditional. No easter eggs here. I think I’m over chocolate in chocolate form. Unless it’s Koko Black of course. Everything else is too sweet. I am becoming more partial to things like icecream and cakes oh yeh. Yum!

We went to see Clash of the Titans in 3D – which was good. Well….No worse than I was expecting. Which wasn’t much. It wasn’t groundbreaking cinema….but nice for the Sam Worthington factor teehee. I think Avatar kind of ruined 3D movies for me at this point. Set the bar too high. There wasn’t much added to Clash of the Titans by wearing 3D glasses – Alice was the same. It would be more worth it for movies that are made entirely in 3D like that How to Train Your Dragon which is out now – or which use the same technology which Avatar did. So until everyone is making movies like they did with Avatar, I wouldn’t bother paying extra for the 3D screen.
I do like booking online though – No waiting in line with the plebs at Melbourne Central hahahaa.

Been watching a few other films at home. Most notable was The Wrestler – quite depressing but very very well made. Perfect role for Mickey Rourke. Also another surprising one called Pandorum. No idea where I found it but it’s great. A sci-fi flick set on a spaceship heading to a new planet found to possibly contain life, where things go wrong of course – their hyper-sleep schedule is messed up and they wake to a ship overrun by weird creatures. That want to kill them of course. Great tension and quite a few plot twists and a fantastic ending. I was very pleasantly surprised – as much as I love reading sci-fi, the movies can often suck pretty hard.

Well onto the drawing….This is what has been taking up my time – in the same style as the last one….Kind of don’t like it as much. Meh. But it’s okay I suppose

Okay then well I better start thinking of what to draw next. And get some food. Hungry.
Seeyas!

Omg – posting on Christmas Day. Who’d've thought! Welll……I am waiting on the darling boyfriend to return from work. My lamb roast is in the oven (shit, that reminds me, I have to put the potatoes on!) and the dessert is setting in the fridge – Vanilla panna cotta with raspberry coulis. Mmmm.

So in the meantime I got to browsing Etsy…which lead me via some tangents to other vintage sites…..and spying a pretty pretty dress which was alas, sold. Damn! So I drew it instead. There I was thinking I’d be too lazy to draw over the Xmas break – but sometimes the urge to pick up a pencil is too strong and a drawing just happens.

Now, it’s hardly polished or anything fancy – but colour sketches always turn out nice enough to put on the blog. So here you go – something to look at while you’re trying to digest all that Christmas food and trying not to fall asleep. Heh

Hope you’re all having a good holiday! I am

Yay!
Just in time too. I hope it is what was expected I’m quite happy with it too. Could have polished it a bit more but just didn’t have time.

No time to chat today! Gotta work on that harem girl.

Have a good weekend!

Hi All!

This week I will be getting my hair done. Red. The idea has been floating in the back of my mind for quite some time now…and I’ve made a few attempts to do the colouring myself. But after a few unsuccessful attempts, I’m going to the pros.
What finally cemented the idea was stumbling across this wonderful photo on wedding blog, Snippet and Ink (no….there are no pending marriages around here, I just like the dresses teehehe). What an awesome bride! How cool to have hair like that! It’s the perfect colour. I loved this pose so much that I had to draw it straight away. Of course my rendition is quite different. But you get the idea.

This:

Became this:

I’m really liking ‘eyes shut’ kind of poses right now. I like the serenity and calm in general. Something that can be hard to draw!

SO…Thursday my hair will be red. Hopefully just this colour. Or maybe a shade darker. I can’t wait! I promise you will have photos!
Ciao!

While I have not really been doing a lot of drawing this past week that I am in Tasmania, I have found the time to do a teeny bit of vintage hunting.

This means that I am going to be extra super duper busy on the drawing/design front when I arrive back in Melbourne tomorrow. I have a bazillion things to do. One of those being that I am FINALLY going to get some hosting and move to WordPress. So as of next week there will be a transition period at Kitty’s Drawings and I will be guiding you towards my new site….hopefully without any hiccups along the way. I expect to have it up and running by the end of next week so stay tuned for a new link.

But back to the fashion stuff eh?
I found the below shoes at the Huonville St Vinnies store…amongst a not very impressive collection of second hand shoes. These are Bruno Magli cream pumps – 100% leather and made in Italy. With brand new heels and not a sign of a scuff! For how much you ask?

$6

Yep thats SIX Australian Dollars! Heh! Score!
These will go nicely with the cream tights I bought the other week. Now I just need to find a cream coloured belt. I think I will be going on an accessories hunt when I’m back home as I am severely lacking in a few things. I have a bad habit of buying too many dresses and not enough accessories.

I hope you all don’t mind these fashion related posts. It is truly one of my biggest obsessions…and while I don’t claim to be a fashionista or anywhere in the league of Super Kawaii Mama, I do love dressing up and wearing pretty things. My style is coming along slowly and I’ve made a few big leaps in the past year or so.

With the new blog I will start to categorize posts and introduce a bit more routine for you all. With some of my clothing purchases included too if no one finds them too painfully boring. Hehe

And I haven’t forgotten about the letterpress photos. I will leave that til I get back as image heavy posts are a bit of a struggle on my Mum’s old Mac.