Kitty's Drawings

Hi All!

Feeling a bit better lately. Got over being sick in about 4 days – blergh – reminds me how much I hate being sick!

So I’m picking things up again. Only a few sketches here and there and some more work on the preview I showed you all before.
They’re pretty crap but meh….Just some warm ups.


I like this one the best….

Other news….We had a HUGE storm here on Saturday. I saw it coming on the weather radar but wasn’t expecting hail. Stones the size of golf balls!! I was scared our skylight was going to break in. The sound was incredible and the cats where running around freaking out like it was Armageddon. The hail built up in our courtyard as we are on the bottom of a small hill and the drains were way too full to contain all the downpour. I was ready with towels in case the water came high enough to reach the door. They didn’t – but only just…we were only about 1cm off! It looked like snow outside. The roof leaked a bit too but no major damage. All my sad little tomatoes which had only just started growing properly are now completely obliterated! Boo! The lemon tree survived though thank goodness.
So that was our storm – the city was in chaos with train stations shut down and many buildings closed because of leaking or even caved in roofs. Fire engines were screaming around everywhere. I hope no one was seriously hurt!

Well – back to playing around. Hope you’ve had a good weekend!

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!

Just before I left for Tassie, the letter for the LIA Graduate Award nomination arrived in my letterbox. Yipee! Except that the time for the interviews was only two weeks away – on the 17th of THIS MONTH!

Cue mini freak-out.
Eep.

But really, its okay. I have been mentally preparing myself for this for a while now.
So – I got back to Melbourne with plenty of thoughts in my mind about what to put in my portfolio. I started compiling some images today in Illustrator. And then, on the advice of my friend, I rushed out and bought one of these this afternoon:

Check out the pretty colours these binders come in:

They come from Bookbinders Design, on Elizabeth Street in the CBD. Such beautiful things in the shop I can tell you! All the pretty colours and quality notebooks, binders, and other stationary – it’s a paper fiend’s heaven
I bought a bright red A3 folder and some plastic inserts to put my art in.
Hopefully the quality of such a binder will help me stand out from the others in the interview.

Oh – and more about the comp….Well I have to pass the Victorian state finalists, which is what this interview is about. If I win, I get to go to Sydney where they announce the winner of the $15,000. I really really hope I get to go to Sydney. The opportunity to set up my own business without incurring any debt is just too awesome! Eeeeeeeee!!!

Anyways…I will let you all know how the interview goes. I am not nervous at this stage actually – I don’t know if I will be at all. I am pretty confident about my technical skills at work and my plans for the future. But then, I have a tendency to be a little *awkward* in a face to face situation with people I don’t know very well. Oh dear. Well – See how it goes!

I’ll also put up my work on the Gallery section of this site when I’m done.
Ta ta for now