Archive for the 'Inspiration' Category

Wed 19 Nov 2008

Another trip down Memory Lane…

This is a great little title sequence to a 70’s show I used to love, most memorable perhaps for the funky music, but also wacky ideas…I really, really wanted a Magic Torch like this…

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Wed 12 Nov 2008

An Interview with Helen Dardik

I am one lucky Wee Hen!
I approached Helen recently, hoping she might respond to a few burning questions I had about her wonderful illustrations, and how she works, and I was honored with a response to all my questions…

WH: I know you mentioned in your interview for Lilla Rogers that you work mostly in Illustrator…do [...]

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Tue 11 Nov 2008

The Agoraphobic Heart

Another old poem I’ve rediscovered…this one is from 1995.  You can probably fathom what sort of state my love life was in at that time

Trying to rack things over in my brain
Remember every word you’ve said,
Little clues, tiny hints
That lead in a scattered trail
To the home of your heart.
If other desperate creatures
Gobble [...]

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Tue 11 Nov 2008

Happier Birthday?

Just playing around and adding a few more bits in there to pretty it up…

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Tue 11 Nov 2008

happy birthday

…to you? Not to me!
This is a concept card I’m playing with. I keep stubbornly coming back to vector art, and the convenience of it (okay, I’m lazy!). And I do love working in vectors, but I think I really need to throw my mouse away and get a tablet…I am very inspired when [...]

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Mon 10 Nov 2008

Monster…and Moth

I had so much fun at Halloween, doing arts and crafts with my 3 year old daughter, and I got all carried away and made some fun prints…played around and nothing serious
I’ve been going through some of my old writing, since having fun writing my little bear in the woods tale, and found [...]

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Mon 10 Nov 2008

12:34

Do you ever glance at digital clocks or watches and keep catching them at a strange time?  I have been constantly seeing 12:34 on clocks over the past few months.  I’m tempted to have a google and see if this is a strange phenomenon with some superstitious meaning behind it, but maybe that is like [...]

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Sun 9 Nov 2008

Thirteen

Here is a story I posted as my comment in a competion on Eloise Hidden’s lovely blog…  One of the rules was to include a 13 letter word…I took it a bit further, and decided to use 13 13 letter words, just to challenge myself.  Oh, and I was meant to wear a pumpkin hat, [...]

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Sat 1 Nov 2008

Trick or Treat

I am doing creative things, but have been very naughty about blogging them or capturing them…
So instead, I’ll share my 3 year olds drawing of her first ever Halloween experience. We went trick or treating in a lovely town on the east side of Oahu, called Kailua, with friends.  The house they are about [...]

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Sun 26 Oct 2008

Moon jellyfish

We went to the Waikiki Aquarium and saw some beautiful moon jellyfish. It was like walking into a dream….
There were also the most amazing seadragons, I just wanted to swim with them.
Of course, the kids loved the shark!

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