studio sweet studio

meg lewis & tuesday bassen teamed their superpowers to create studio sweet studio, & they also very kindly did a feature on my little workspace today. so pleased to be invited to share. if you've not got sss on your blogroll yet then add it now. not only is it a great way to get a peek into other artist's studios, there's interviews, tutorials & other excellent snippets too.

good & bad

things that are rubbish: having the cold.

things that are ace: all those things above. & the fact that my cold is on its way out.

remember, giveaway ends tomorrow!

workspace

i picked up my copy of issue 6 uppercase magazine from the post office today. managed to not rip open the envelope until i got back to work, where i pulled it out then shamelessly flipped to page 45 where my piece i submitted for their open call took up almost a whole page. so pleased.

the call was for illustrations of your workspace. i treated my piece as an in-depth sketch, not getting too precious, trying to include all the random bits on my desk & not tidy up or slip in interesting objects that aren't usually there. at first i wasn't going to fill in the postcards on my wall the way i did. originally i was going to make them less recognisable, so you perhaps couldn't tell who's work it was, but this turned out to be harder than i imagined (especially when the postcard involved large text). anyway, i thought i might use this post to show you who resides at eye-level on my wall. it's a selection of postcards by artists either picked up at shows or sent with packages, plus two photos sent by photographers. i hope people take their being there & appearing in this piece as a compliment. from left to right:

top: anthony zinonos, lucy bridger, anke weckmann, ashley anna brown, jez burrows, gavin mcdougall
bottom: thereza rowe, lizzy stewart, supermundane for anorak, old swiss postcard from a friend, john dilnot, anthony burrill, nigel peake, robert maple, david galletly

workspace

i certainly needed a big clear out of my desk space. i'm looking forward to getting some drawing done now.

never ending street

new resident on the living room wall. by andreas samuelsson, from here via here.

beautiful teapot

sigh, isn't it lovely? my sister bought it for me in london. i love beautiful things, especially beautiful tea-related things.

toys toys

well, since i've posted mostly words recently, i decided to post a selection of my favourite toys, robots, plush, & plastic that i own. after giving my room a once-over, i've decided i don't have nearly enough! i'm currently waiting for my petit lapin to come in the post, & have only just realised how many of my smaller toys - including a wind-up domokun & 4" munny - i've got on my desk still in my studio. anyway, on with the show:

1. my birthday treeson set, sitting happily in front of a collection of french buttons. i wanted a treeson since i first saw them, & was happy i could take advantage of the birthday set when it came out. now i have two!

2. one of the newest to my collection, my surprise from the kidrobot kiiro blind item mini series. & lucky me, i got the rare secret item!

3. on my bedside table sit a small plush gloomy bear & my unazukin doll. unazukin dolls are small dolls that respond to sound by either nodding or shaking their heads, helpful in making decisions! i got her at the end of 2006 from bandai, although i don't think they sell them there anymore.

4. two french additions from the start of this year, ange lapin (angel rabbit) & a latitude enfant knitted robot. i bought the robot with no hesitation in paris in january, & upon return alan bought me my ange lapin online after i fell in love whilst in paris, but couldn't afford one. these chaps relax on my bed when i don't.

5. this is my collection of robots! i currently have six tin robots (two from alan, one from sanna, one from a dear friend, one from yours truly, & one - the little tiny one - was found in the art college library. he's actually a tin/plastic sharpener, made all the more incredible by the fact that he has a star on david emblazoned on his belt, & "tin light", "mr robot" written on his chest.) in the background is a plastic robot plate that i bought in paris, & some rubber stretchy robots from my chum jules.

6. this is my momiji that i got from my sister for christmas. beside her sits a little piece of sushi that i got in a packet of sushi plasters. ideal!

7. a little wooden robot pencil top from my friend lauren-y, plus another gloomy bear, although this time he is a plastic key-chain, with arms & legs that move. the robot resides in a sulphuric acid bottle i got from a charity shop.

8. last but not least, my munny series 2 zipper pull, attatched to my praktica slr. i have two zipper pulls from series 2, the white & white bow-tie'd verisons, & from series 1 i have the banana. friends of mine will be witness to the fact that i was gutted to get the banana rather than an actual munny. i will rant about it when brought up (i'm better now that i actually own tiny munnys however).

there we go! that was fun for me, i don't know about you. my one grumble after my little task is that i miss my canon even more. i haven't used my trusty little nikon coolpix 4300 since i saw willy mason last summer, but oh how it made me wish i'd taken it for a spin rather than the dslr on degree show night! it's funny how holding something so small feels bizarre after a year of a bigger model, especially when it used to be the camera i relied on.

right, now i have cleaning that i promised myself i'd do this fine saturday before work. hup-to-it.

le tigre - fake french

valentine

what a nice surprise. (: my first flowers from a boy. despite a "no-presents-we're-skint" pact, i got these, & one of my favourite films (eagle vs. shark) on dvd, as well as a yummy surprise main course in our homemade three course meal. i think my dessert was successful too, no cooking necessary! just as well i bought massage bars from lush as a present to share, so that it wasn't all completely one-sided.

the kinks - this time tomorrow