Moving pictures

 I'm on the homeward stretch of the pictures I'm drawing for the Antarctic project I'm working on with Mr. Millicent Crow, although I still have to draw another picture of Shackleton's ship tonight, something I've been procrastinating about terribly as I find boats super hard to draw.  I've also spent the last couple of days drawing a frostbitten hand and a mouth showing the effects of scurvy, possibly the grossest things I have ever had to draw!  This morning we had a play with projecting the drawings onto the walls of our lounge and it was so exciting to see my drawings giant and moving!

That clock reminds me that I should stop procrastinating and draw Shackleton's ship.  It wasn't called the Endurance for nothing!

My creative space

When I lived in Wellington, I would always see a guy walking around with a little blue budgie snuggled onto his shoulder. It always looked like it was whispering secrets in his ear.

I drew this kind of old-fashioned version last night - I'm going to cut out this old-fashioned lady, and her budgie...
...collage them onto one of these floral fabrics (some of which I photographed from old mattresses in the inorganic rubbish collection)
...and make her into a greeting card. She's got a few sisters too; I think one of them is going to have a crow on her shoulder, another a macaw and another a sparrow.

To see other people's creative spaces take a look over here.

Happy Thursday!

Birdies

My sister and I made these little birds this afternoon - they're made out of "Cernit" - a cheap kind of fimo. I tried to make some late at night last night, but was too tired and had an episode of bird-making rage which could only be soothed by the dulcet tones of Ira Glass. These are today's birdies:

I made the three on the left, my sister made the two on the right.

Fresh from the oven, 'scuse the not so good flash photo...

They're being turned into brooches as we speak!

Some things I'd like to make

I wish I was better at colouring things in photoshop.