Illo homage

mozart bird, originally uploaded by Champignons.

Is the bird singing a homage to Mozart?
Or did Mozart make homage to those original choristers, the birds?

This little guy is a chiffchaff. The page I drew him on was a biography of Mozart- sensible biographies state Mozart died of Rheumatic fever, though this one is rather romantic and states that he died because he thought the Requiem he was writing was his own.

I was so taken with this guy I scanned him in and made a screenprint of him!Look!

The secret language of eggs

Illustration friday is pet peeves today. I don't think I like it! how peevish of me.

I think it offends me because it has two words, or expects me to illustrate things that annoy me, which I would rather not dwell on. Lest I become irritated, and send this lovely screenprint to the person that it irritating me!

But, lest you think I am a horrible person for discretly swearing at you in egg form, allow me to express my love also to end on a more positive note:

Illo heavy

111/365 why don't you love me?, originally uploaded by Champignons.

You think of heavy as a big weight; in this case, the big weight is depression. Life itself is heavy sometimes.

Illo garden

61/365 turdus, originally uploaded by Champignons.

I don't have a garden, it's really more a patch of concrete, which to be honest is a patch of concrete more that I was expecting so it does make me happy. Still, not having a garden to inspire me, I thought I might appease you with this fellow, a most ubiquitous garden bird.

Singing his heart out, he is

I have been adding new items to my new shop; perhaps you could pootle along to http://champignons.etsy.com and give me a heart? I do need them!

happy friday!