Another Painting

design and sketching process....i hate canvas!!!

So I've been painting again today. I COULD add more to it but I won't so I will call it finished (because if I add more I will only ruin it!!!)
Still thinking of a title.

Acrylic on pre gesso-d canvas. Almost done!
DONE! "untitled aka redhed" for now!

It is a self portrait (except the girl doesn't look like me, I suppose it is how I wished I looked, or showing my inner beauty) I tried to be nice to myself in this painting, when normally i beat myself up- and it really made me grow and love this painting i was so excited painting it i kept jumping and screaming the closer i was to finishing it. At the end of it i was very sad it was over and it didn't fully meet my expectations (there was a few mistakes) but i took days of planning and worked non stop for 2 days to make it and i'm proud of my mini journey into the realms of both my inner self, and painting- which i enjoy but rarely do!

There is a HEAP of symbolism:

Yellow background- is the cheery sunshine i sooo desire, melting into a green at the bottom to show my tie with nature.
Blue butterfly with torn wing ( based on the Ulysses Butterfly x Caper Gull butterfly)- The butterfly for me represents my religion and transformation, and the torn wing represents the struggles I have had with my spirituality that I feel can never be recovered. It also represents a delicateness to me. The blue represents calm, peace and ocean and the sky- nature. These are 2 species I haven't seen around here before but it is a testimant to my homeland Australia. I do love insects :)
The bird- This is my pet, I love him, he weazeled his way into my heart, and my art! Also i talk a lot and i love humour (his species is like a clown x a cat rolled up into a little parrot ;) )
The axolotl (on 'my' head)- This represents my uniqueness, and my ugly side, also my childlike-ness and naivity (axolotls don't come out of larval form)
The purple tiger lily- Showing my creativity (purple), chastity and virtue.
The white lily- representing my pureity.

The fennec fox- Representing my Intelligence- and it's just damn cute!!!
Tawny Frog Mouth- Showing that i hide from people a lot.
Red hair- Passion - I have a passion sometimes i gets lost in the busyness of life-but it IS there!
No pupil- The eye means judgement and authority. I feel i lack authority and i don't want to judge (even though i do at a subconscious level and if i don't care i judge)- and I don't want this traits anyway. I couldn't have her eyeless could i now? Also this is really a good excuse to not draw the pupils as i often make them terribly asymmetrical leading them to be large in an effort to correct them and my subjects looks on their way to a drug induced coma....lol

Painting to kill time

I decided to paint today, after seeing my sister paint- what can I say? Sometimes I am a sheep.
And this is what I ended up with:

"Twisted Girl" Acrylic on Canvas, June 2008

This was a fluke shot, you may see some inspiration from my fabourite artists listed in the links.
I really like surrealism, even grotesque things, that just make you think "What the hell?" and I tried to get that feeling in this piece, there is some symbolism, but I'll let you work that out. It isn't really a self portrait as such...just an unplanned painting that unfolded as it did.
I don't LOVE it per say, but meh it kept me occupied!

I also can't stop playing "Bret you got it going on" by the Flight of the Conchords!!!!

I love Deer

Deer are so cute don't you think?

Bambi was a White-Tailed deer

And this is the smallest deer a Pudu!!!

HOW ADORABLE

So are:
Sloths, capybara (pictured below) and the Kiwi.
But why stop there? I have some twisted pickings, so i may need to further explain the rest!
Hoatzin- a bird that resembles the prehistoric archaeopteryx with claws on its wings in early life.
Kea- a smart NZ parrot that prefers not to fly much but can really well.
Kakapo- endangered fat, curious, friendly ground parrot
Inaccessible island rail- smallest flightless bird!
Rhea-looks like an emu-but isnt
Black heron- smart thing uses its wings to shade the water to see the fish and provide shelter so they actually go toward the bird, yum, take away!
Egyption vulture- they look cool
White throated bee eater- this guy bashes the bees against the tree to it releases its stings so it can have a painless meal!
Penduline tit- Makes AMAZING nests!
Marabou stork- weird ugly guy...
Turacos- they just look amazing
Do do- they are SO COOL! But extinct :( .
Trogons- STUNNING birds!
Mouse birds- all their 4 toes point forward!!! How funky?! They're pretty too!
Conures- Like cats of the bird world! Here is one that is very dedicated to its trick-cracking up its owners !
Norwegian Lundehund Dog- it has at LEAST 6 toes on EACH foot!!!! WEIRD AS! FREAK!
Miki- a relatively new breed of dog, sort of like a mongrel from a couple of popular toy breeds.
Axolotls- They are the only salamanders that are neotenic (stays in larval form and even produces in larval form....it is a tadpole!)-It is a step backwards in evolution!
Sturgeon- a weird as ancient fish that still exhists today. it was reported to kill some people and break bones coz it randomly jumps out of the water and its skeleton is on the outside so it hurts if it hits you!

Can you tell I have a thing for wiki?

If you are curious of the above creatures i will do my best to put (most likely) wiki links to them all, but for now, just use my other trusted friend GOOGLE- we go way back :)

photos in this entry all curtosy of Wikipeadia

Hair Hats

Me as a child.

I'll make this really short, but basically all my life I've grown my hair past my butt and then cut it above my sholders. Anyways, I ended up damaging it pretty bad with too much hair dye and now I have to grow it all out, and it is taking forever.

Long story short, my hair is to my waist but it looks bad now. It will take a few years before it is back to it's former self, I'm aiming to just above my butt or to my knees :)
So I stumbled on this site:
Hair Hats
Isn't it awesome! I'm totally going to try make one!
....if i can get off my procrastination chair?

I was Hospitalised

My mother was in a car accident 2 days ago and recked the back of her car. -this is the start of the bad luck comes in 3s.

Well I went to my cousins wedding, and that was ok- I find them boring as I come from a huge european family and I've been to AT LEAST 15 already in 10 years.
Anyways- I am not a hopeless romantic or a believer in love, so it was not that amuzing. But the food was good so naturally I pigged out on cuisine!

Then as I hit my head on the pillow at midnight (which is early for a wedding) I felt a tightening of my oesophagus, so I told my mother and she freaked me out from worrying and I started shaking so I went to the hospital. I then felt very nauseous. It turned out that perhaps it was all in my head, I made them give me phenergen and then I went home, and couldn't sleep till 4 am because I was trying not to vomit ( vomitting is my fear) well now I am feeling much better, and I think I probably worked myself up to it but i didn't want to sleep and suffocate and die so i'd better be safe then sorry!
So now I guess at the least it was an adventure.
Note to self- buy a cooler nightgown, I wore one with turtles on it and I felt embarrased!

The evil mouse in question

THEN I handled one of my mice and he decided to attack me and bit me 3 times...you see I was in bird mode- you let them bite and then they give up....mice are not like that, I soon snapped out of it, but my blood was everywhere. My fingers swole up and I got antibiotics, so this is FUN- not.....*grumble*. I do not know what was up his bumb, he has never ever showed an ounce of aggression towards me, EVER!

Go on, guess which one is swollen! I dare ya!