I took this opportunity to finally finish the Cthulhu book!
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Aliens
This is Sydney the periscope alien, invented by one of my best friends in school, and here made out of cotton reels, paper, wool, buttons and a bead!
Dreams
This is a dream I had back in 2006, and always had a vague plan to paint. I’ve not had any interesting dreams recently, so this was clearly the time! Here’s what I wrote at the time (and why I still have any memory of the dream): “All of my more entertaining dreams seem to involve my friend Lee Chaos. Presumably because he’s the Herald of Fun. This one is the sort that’s actually semi-plausible. I was in my secondary school, doing some work (apparently as some sort of staff member) whilst drinking a can of cider. Well, it was Friday. Some bitchy schoolgirls looked in the open window, and some patronising conversation ensued, possibly about what I was doing there and why I was drinking. This was interrupted by a bang from outside, and the schoolgirls wandered off looking excited. I look out of the window, and there’s Lee, marching up the school field in a rain of fireworks. It seems he had been hired by the school for this very purpose – what a great idea! (Well, the schoolkids loved him, anyway.)”
Silhouette
It being the lunar new year of the rabbit around this time, I wanted to include a nod to it by putting bunny masks on my action figures, which I then photographed in front of my extremely cool Tetris light (you can stack the tetrominoes in different ways!) Super pleased with how this one came out. I think it would have been better if I’d had one big plastic sheet to put underneath, but you can’t have everything.
Fish
Not a million miles away from a previous theme, ‘underwater’, but this time I decided to try to show bioluminescence. I couldn’t decide which colour of light I liked best, so I’ve included three.
The elements
Brief explanation: Fifth element = aether = spirit = mischief = the goose from Untitled Goose Game. Trailer for those who don’t know about Untitled Goose Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LL2AtHo1gk
I did not actually sculpt this myself, I just found the plain varnished wood ornament in a charity shop and sanded/painted it.
Kiss
People have been very complimentary about this one! For double theming, the background is coloured entirely out of lipstick. Yes, I own all those colours of lipstick. 😉
In which we exhibit
Things have been going quite well on the art front. One of my friends in the arts lab has managed to swing being allowed to have an exhibition of our work in a local pub, so we spent a fun afternoon throwing our pictures up on the walls (I’m told that is the technical term for it). Details are here.
In order to allow room for everyone who wanted to exhibit, I’ve only got a few pictures up, but I’m hoping that some people might like them and want to see more, so if this is you, hello! I’ve added a new page for the art stuff and will hopefully get everything up there over the next couple of days. If you are interested in anything you see here, please get in touch.
In which I make art as well as sew
Hello, yes, I am very bad at updating. It has been more than a year since my last update. :-S Many people have found lockdown to be a splendid opportunity to step back, take a breath and get some stuff done round the house. Not me though! Since online retail continued to be a thing, and there was no support for self-employed people unless they could demonstrate business was negatively affected, it has all been pretty much business as usual. I actually haven’t had a lot of motivation for sewing things, but I did join an arts lab and have been churning out a weekly Art. This is why my Flickr gallery is recently full of painting, photography and papercraft rather than sewing! I haven’t given much thought to whether I want to sell any of it (though I did already have one pre-lockdown picture on Etsy), but please feel free to get in touch if you see anything of interest. I think I will also start posting some of my pictures here, as it doesn’t require finding time to think of what to write! That’s not to say I have given up sewing, though – I’ve got a couple of bits lined up and it’s nice to get back into the swing of it. Onwards!
Obligatory Covid-19 update
I have been holding off on this in the face of vague and confusing information. Right now, the government guidance states “Online retail is still open and encouraged and postal and delivery service will run as normal”. I strongly suspect this is aimed at large retailers that have their own delivery arrangements rather than sole traders who take their parcels to the post office, but no clarification has been forthcoming. As such, and given that it’s likely to be a while before the self-employed can get any support, I’m not expecting to shut down unless the local post offices close or clearer advice is issued. I am of course taking precautions and will reduce post office visits as much as possible.
Is now a good time to mention my side-line in jigsaws and board games…? 😉
In other news, while I’ve managed to post on my website a couple of times this year, I haven’t quite found the energy to address my social media. This update should hopefully feed through, so hello Facebook and Twitter if so, yes I am Still Alive!
Attic Mirror 