Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts

Sunday, August 19, 2012

There's an Elephant in the Room


Call it what you will. I haven't made a blog post in two weeks. Sometimes I find blog-land to be very deceptive, or at least seemingly so. It can be a real downer if you choose to measure yourself up instead of being inspired. You see countless talented people, creating away, managing successful businesses and  busy families, often at the same time. You read about people creating more awe-inspiring pieces in one week then you have managed for half a year, and they seem to be doing this while enjoying a fabulous social life and receiving a fat pay check to boot -- not to mention maintaining a seamlessly consistent blog documenting the ride. I've wondered more than a few times how these people manage to sleep, or how they must be slave to gadgets and their audience when there's nearly always an artsy snap shot for public viewing to document even a romantic dinner. But I haven't delayed a blog post because of these things, it just seems to happen sometimes. Life throws a few curve balls and when you resurface you realise all the balls you were juggling so well are waiting there by your feet to be picked up again. And it often feels like you've dropped a few too many steps back. I cringe whenever I find myself writing this blog topic again, this one about not having written one. Ultimately it means those juggling balls have in some way or other hit the ground once again. Practise makes perfect. 

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Elephants & Hand-lettering


The neon blobs from my Bonkers post now have the company of some lovely (if I do say so myself) elephants, one of which has its own company of a little visitor. I've put them up for sale in the shop today along with No Place Like Home no. 6

I also recently did a bit of hand-lettering ... this one's a favorite quote by Henry David Thoreau. Unfortunately, watercolor paper wasn't the best thing to use, but it was a fun exercise. I'd like to do more hand-lettering. There's something about putting meaningful quotes down on paper that breathes new life into them for me, and it would be nice to share them with others. Maybe they would make good prints, too... and perhaps with a bit of illustration. What do you think?