Kitty's Drawings

Happy Aussie Day guys! Hope you’re all suitably relaxing and possibly downing a beer or three. Absolute stunner of a day here in Melbs too. Yeah!

Not doing much here ourselves. Just listening to tunes and chillin out. I made double choc pancakes for breakfast. Yummo. Might go for a ride later also.

Onto some art stuff…..
I finally got the labels printed for my parent’s palinka (the Hungarian name for grappa)….45% alcohol made out of the fermented grape skins left after the pressing. You can make it out of pretty much any fruit though – some people use pears or plums too. Whatever you have an excess of!
There’s two bottle sizes…375ml and 100ml…the label is a bit squeezy on the smallest one…so Mum, if you want the label a bit smaller I can send some over because I still have plenty of paper.
It turned out pretty good I think. Looks great against our exposed brick wall and stainless steel bench (I still LOVE my house so much). That’s some great reflection there that you just can’t fake in Photoshop! Hehehe.

Other stuff….I went to my first Melbourne Gra-fight Club meet with the local ConceptArt peeps on Sunday. We bum around in town for a few hours sketching people we see. Lots of lessons to be learnt and cool people to hang with. Here are the results. Pretty blah but they get better as I started getting the hang of the process.
(click the pics to go to my Flickr account if you want to see larger)

The only one I really like is the profile of the guy with the glasses and the grandpa hat.

And finally something a bit prettier….A cute corset by Maya Hansen – soooo many pretty corsets. Want!! Oh and excuse the deformed head. I suck.

Seeyas!

All done! Bar a few minor details. I will have to get the accurate alcohol percentage and standard drinks amount off Dad. We’re going to have two bottle sizes so that will affect the standard drinks.

Now I just have to find some sticker paper to print them on and also get hold of a stamp for the wax seal.
Oh and do the back label. Nothing fancy with that – I will just use the paper texture and the Garamond font for that.

Now what is Torko Palinka (I can’t be bothered to do the little swash things here – does anyone know the shortcuts?)? Well, it’s the Hungarian name for what most Aussies would know as Grappa. Distilled from the skins of the grapes left after pressing. Pretty toxic stuff! Great for curing stomach upsets and all kinds of things…well for me I am sure it would make my stomach feel much worse after a shot of this stuff! But it worked for Mum when we were in Europe in ‘07…..There, all the relos and friends will greet you with a glass of wine or a shot of Palinka…Or both! Hehehe. And it’s rude to refuse. Oh dear!

Anyways – it’s hard to get this in Aus. I am not sure on the details but I think my parents and maybe one other company in Tasmania (or even Aus) are the only ones who actually have a license to sell it. Everything else is imported I do believe. So if you’re keen to try some Aussie Palinka/Grappa then just ask my Mum and she’ll be able to hook you up! Link over there —>
Just wait til we bottle them. Hehe.