Autumn in the suburbs

Daisy Blue

tippy toes

This photo is from my time in the beautiful San Francisco last year. Such fond memories.

My good friend Erica Fustero customised a Blythe to look like me! What do you think?

Pandamonium/Oh Dear

Today I drew a picture of a panda girl. I have been a bit obsessed with animal-girls lately, and she was one of the many ideas I had floating in my head. In a way, she is a companion piece to this drawing I made two years ago - but this time around I used ink & charcoal in addition to pencils.

Making drawings with fake watercolours. I'm not sure why this girl is crying (??) pink.

Leanne Shapton writes a book about a romance, but she doesn't write a novel. What she does is compile an auction catalogue of all the items and mementos shared by the two lovers. We catch glimpses into private moments (a box of Trivia Pursuit cards kept in the bathroom), we are voyeurs to personal moments of doubt (relationship pros and cons list), and we read between the lines of Christmas & birthday gifts (vintage clothes, first edition books, flowers).

This book is not everyone's cup of tea - but it has moved and touched me in ways that any great love story does.

The sky was beautiful today. It reminded me of cotton candy.

Late night painting

Zhang Xiaogang, Big Family Girl, 2006

I was just thinking the other day about fisheye glasses. Instead of prescription lenses you have fisheye lenses so you get to experience the world from an entirely different and awesome perspective. Of course these glasses wouldn't be practical for everyday use (and especially dangerous for tasks like driving), but they would be fun for events like parties. Short bursts of fisheye fun!