nightshade
Jul. 1st, 2009 | 03:52 pm
this little hedhehog allowed me to photograph him using a flash and all, but then curled up and started hissing. diva!
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
lately
Jun. 24th, 2009 | 07:12 pm
i was sick aaaaaall last week. was awful, i was on p's couch coughing my lungs out for days on end and the poor thing had to take care of me. on the bright side, we finished twilight princess! i'm better now though and i'm biking all over town again. egil and i made a strawberry and whipped cream cake which we ate in the grass outside the studio together with elias and sandra. i feel a little lost now that graylight is so nearly done (editor still looking over it, and needs to be put together for print, but still). should i put together a portfolio and try for jobs now? crazy.
link | comment { 4 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
sportswear, i has it.
Jun. 5th, 2009 | 05:20 pm
here's me and here's speech bubbles! i really like sebastien tellier's "sexual sportswear". put it on repeat while working, like it. also .. big official hurrah for this! go team luis and naomi!
link | comment { 1 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
helena marcos
Jun. 5th, 2009 | 03:59 pm
sorry, stockholms universitet, and sorry, creative adder/subtractor but i stole this and i'm not giving it back. i was a little drunk.
i would've done it stone cold sober, too.
link | comment { 3 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
play the fool
Jun. 2nd, 2009 | 04:40 pm
i'm entirely obsessed with stars and space right now. i want to draw them all the time.
i've realised that i need to get a little lazier and stop feeling bad whenever i'm not working. this isn't how it should be, feeling like there's a noose being drawn ever tighter around your neck. i realise this over and over; let's see when i can implement.
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
keys to the firmament
Jun. 1st, 2009 | 05:02 pm
drew this during a meeting and i'm quite fond of it. spent a small part of the afternoon outside, finally getting sun on my snow white self... i thought maybe this summer i'll try for a tan even though i technically don't tan. i get greyish, but never burn. we rolled around and did some cartwheels too.
i listen to more and more 70's turkish pop/folk by the way, it's great for drawing.
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
mini frog prince
May. 31st, 2009 | 07:35 pm
(i found this little baby today, too). i have several best friends, i think, but somehow neither of them manages to live in the same city as me. i really, really miss having someone to talk to.
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
sommar. torka.
May. 31st, 2009 | 04:00 pm
i missed
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
minnaloushe's 50's/60's bash last night because working all day gave me an amazingly throbbing headache (which i half succesfully and entirely moronically cured with half a painkiller and a little bit of whiskey). i wasn't fit to put together an outfit and pull of pincurls and lipstick. or a beehive. i gladly would have. alone at the studio again today and not surprised. it's gorgeous out, and i'm in here working on the computer. at least the door is open. and i found a barometer; tall and mighty it will grace my wall.link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
ornaments
May. 28th, 2009 | 05:53 pm
my favourite blouse in the entire world. so afraid of it breaking, it's very old and sheer. it's technically not even mine. + random studio shots. i've been editing speech bubbles all day, they'll be much prettier but it's gonna take a while. i'm basically done with graylight, it's insane... a couple more days of work before i send it out to my publisher for final tweaks, edits, opinions... by the way, sony seems to have bought one of my paintings. it's going to be in a movie called "roommates". starring some chick from gossip girl (never watched it. i like the hills and the city, the real stuff. ha ha.)
speaking of roommates, mine has a solo show opening tonight! i'm very excited and off right now actually ... i'll grab dinner on the way. (bananas and strawberries?)
link | comment { 4 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
caught on camera
May. 27th, 2009 | 07:09 pm
lucky.
link | comment { 5 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
bough
May. 25th, 2009 | 08:38 pm
i've had some lazy days and cherished them fiercely. they are now over. i even dressed lazily (see above).
photo by lisis.
link | comment { 3 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
last colours
May. 18th, 2009 | 08:28 pm
fourth cup of evening-tea at the studio. we did inventory at aa which means we're there at 7 in the morning. i don't mind it, i love getting up early, getting out early and doing work here after work. really feeling how long a day can be.
girls confuse me, they always did and i wonder if that's why i draw them with so much more passion than men despite my preferences. i think all girls that draw girls have different reasons ... fashion and beauty, sex, envy, desire to please, being a copycat, classical ideas about female form. all of those are my reasons too (for better or worse) but i can honestly say, even when i think back far and hard; reason number one was always that mystery. and, of course, i sincerely believe witches exist in some form or other. i feel this more than ever at 5.50 am.
link | comment { 4 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
windy moors
May. 17th, 2009 | 09:56 pm
colouring last three pages. after i'm done with this and the text/bubbles on the last two chapters it'll be time for sweet countryside exile. i found shoes (my size, gratis!) and my long lost favourite leopart print scarf (had it since i was 5?). i will probably keep on looking drugged out until graylight is finished. i live pretty clean other than art-type obsessions, you know. but they show, too.
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
imprint
May. 13th, 2009 | 09:36 pm
good day at the studio but i only managed to get here after frolicking with cats and bf and chocolate for several hours. sometimes listening to your body is good.
ps. i made my own turo rudi (proud!)
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
dawn
May. 12th, 2009 | 09:57 pm
more than any meal in the world i love a really slow, early breakfast with many cups of tea. a friend said she always gets up super early just so she can have time for this, and i was sorely jealous because that's how i always wanted things to be. i'm going to try, tomorrow - me, gurdjieff, early morning news, russian earl grey(x3, at least), fresh made twarog and marmalade.
link | comment { 1 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
four eyes
May. 9th, 2009 | 04:45 pm
i have new glasses, so looking nerdier - check. i'm aware i look stoned but that's because i kind of am. it's been a little much lately and i'm sick of myself because that's all i seem to be able to talk about. need. to. get. over it. need to step into to that vortex machine of douglas adam's invention where you see yourself in relation to space-time or what ever it was. maybe then i'll realise it's not such an effing big deal, she said and got right back to the ego babble: i got a cooling plate for my laptop and it seems to help so perhaps i'll be able to colour these last pages without swearing constantly and walking back and forth in a huff. i've got reduced shifts from aa too, which is great because i get to keep making a little extra money+seeing the people i work with, but still not cry from stress as much.
i haven't bought any new things since i said i wouldn't! except for one shirt, but i said i would buy it before this regime started, i just couldn't at that point. it's working really well. who needs their stuff to be newly manufactured anyway? except underwear and hygiene stuff/make up/food of course.
my publisher offered a couple of hundred usd to get me out to san diego comic con in july. i'm seriously tempted, but traveling from stockholm would be around 1000 usd, and i can't afford it even with the help. especially not since i'm going to france in august. (that's right, it'll be three weeks by the ocean with red wine and white bread which i need because i feel oddly svelte*).
listening to selda while i work. i don't understand turkish to i can let my imagination go into romantic overdrive with this music. it's so much harder to get stuff done when you're alone at the studio. it's odd, it's like the other's ghosts are keeping me company, their art staring at me from the walls.
* to be me, mind you.
link | comment { 7 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
starlight starstruck
May. 7th, 2009 | 07:08 pm
we went to a dance show and right behind me in the audience was michail baryshnikov! i was mighty starstruck. he was very discrete though, i think a lot of people didn't notice.
and, well, my camera didn't die in the earl grey (which mas milky and british which i would've guessed made things worse). it dried up and is now functioning. i have stuff to show off and pictures to take.
husband: reading nietzsche. me: watching the hills. any old thursday night.
link | comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
small fry
May. 5th, 2009 | 05:40 pm
this was my wall at our show // playing. photo by martina.
today was wonderful: stretching / oatmeal, apricot jam / tomatoes, tofu / coffee / friends / new clothes & bijoux & lingerie / cocoa butter / colouring.
+ good news (not just for me!) + the air smells really good. we had a really wonderful walk yesterday, too.
still stressed out about my laptop and colouring my last pages, etc, but i think i may have found a solution for that, too. life can't be all work, anyway, gotta play a little. just a little.
link | comment { 2 } | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
the giant's drink
Apr. 29th, 2009 | 06:52 pm
i saw a fat drunk with a t-shirt that said "szabad vagyok". broke my heart a little.
my laptop is constantly overheated and this is very worrisome. there's no other issues with it. what to do? also my camera might be busted. death by tea after seven years together. a worthy death, i must say, to drown in earl grey.
now for the good news: the show was amazing! more people came than i could ever have imagined. i was exalted.
link | comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
black soup or ... black soup.
Apr. 24th, 2009 | 02:41 pm
first version of graylight cover! // i've washed my hair ... but no brush has touched for ten days. interesting effect. even more interesting when you touch it. and yes i took that photo over my shoulder. laaameeee.
our art show at the studio is on sunday and i was supposed to have 1) prints from graylight (never before seen footage!) 2)copies of house of clay for sale and 3) some paintings. however, the copies of the book my mother said she had .. she'd sold. and didn't remember. so none of that. then, the printer messed up my prints ... so.. none of that, i thought. my dear husband went to get other prints today though while i i worked on this drawing so perhaps it'll be ok. and there will be two or three paintings, too.
anyway, looking forward to it! it's the biggest event i've ever put together so it's a little scary. we're looking at it as a test run; if it's successfull we'll keep doing parties and shows. cross your fingers!