Winter is here

As always Easter in Cape town marks the start of winter, rainy days and cold weather. I'm not complaining I love winter. Especially as it means I can wear my new long socks! Here's a quick self portrait of me in my new socks holding a cup of tea. Of course the thing with winter in CT is that it never stays very cold for very long, in fact right now looking out the window it's cleared up and apart from a few stray puffball clouds there is table mountain back again, against a bright blue sky.

Pretty tattooed lady

It's my friend Lorraine's birthday celebration this weekend, and as part of her birthday gift I did this little portrait of her featuring my faveroute tattoo of hers. She's got a few, because she's hardcore like that...

Happy birthday Lola, hope this one is bevange ;)

Newspaper and a coffee

These illies were going to be for a promotion, buy the newspaper and get a free coffee, but they never made it out in the world. Still it was a fun little job to illustrate the love affair between a newspaper and coffee, the two do go together. I never really read the paper anymore, it's mostly sad news and it's amazing how the important stuff filters through, you end up knowing whats going on in the world without making any effort. Still it's kind of embarrassing that I get my knowledge of the world from friends, facebook and those damn headline streetpole posters...Maybe I should start reading the papers again.

Hen party fun

Here's the save the date and invite I designed for my friend's Hen's. It was last weekend and I must say it was the funnest night out I had in a long time. The theme was Paris and there was some pole dancing, tequila and a whole lot of dancing, till 4 the next morning! And we rounded the evening off with garage pies on the way home, haven't done that in years! If the Hen's was anything to go by the wedding is going to be a blast!

Profile pic

Here's my new profile pic. I had to supply one for a new illustration agency I'm joining called Zulu's can draw. (No I'm not Zulu I know and they know.)

Sadly on Saturday when I did this profile pic I had big hair. So the hair had to go in the picture, it's only fair. This sometimes happen, you see I have curly hair, mostly it knows its place and let gravity do its thing, but every now and then it goes all country and western on me just to prove a point.

I also had to provide two truths and a lie about myself to go into my profile. Mine were
1. I once slid down a volcano on my bum
2. I'm a really good singer.
3. I've had a kitten stuck in my hair.

Can you guess which is the lie?

El Alquimista

The Booklounge in Roeland is hosting a silent art auction for Picador, and the proceeds are going to a lucky school to help stock their library. The illustration had to be in black and white and the theme is the art of the book. So I drew Santiago the little shepherd from one of my favourite books, The Alchemist. I recently finished reading it again, but this time in Spanish. Before you are overly impressed let me add that it took me about 5 months! But I did enjoy reading it in Spanish, and it seems appropriate seeing as the shepherd in the story is from Andalucia, Spain. If you haven't read it yet, do. It's all about listening to your heart.

Numerology

So my New Years resolution of being a more regular blogger hasn't been going so well. Apologies. It's been a busy year so far and it's not going to get any better any time soon. But here are some illies I did in December for a book on numerology. And I'll make a slightly used, not quite New Years resolution to try and prioritise nice illustration work and find time for it in amongst the busyness.