Illo skinny

Deers, originally uploaded by Champignons.

Here are some skinny deer I drew today- you can't see thierlegs but I wonder how they support themselves sometimes. Deer are skinny, and so is my wee son who lent me his adorable profile.. I'm not sure if this is the last picture in the series or if I will do more; I'm thinking of making a book for my animal folk pictures. Or maybe a zine. Who knows.

one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten

I made a treasury on etsy a couple of weeks back, this isn't it. This is just a tribute... although I did take a screengrab, I can't for the life of me remember where I saved it to.. so it is gone, such is the emphemeral nature of these things. Now, when I happened to get a treasury (it doesn't happen often, sowas quite exciting) I wanted to make this; this is a remake of my treasures journal page (below) with some of the mighty cool stuff I see on etsy. However, I realised that if I were to leave 2 spots blank (as they are, either side of the bird skull) I would be beaten. The etsy police would seek me out and beat me. So I made another treasury. But this is my blog and I can do what I like. It will never make front page but my treasuries never do.

Anyway, I spent yesterday- I say yesterday but it was an hour or so while the boy napped- fiddling with my ehive shop, which has prices in pounds for britishers... I was thinking Ihad done really well, but Ihaveonly listed a small fraction of my prints. Very pleasing to the eye, mind. If you care to check it out, it's champignons.myehive.com

illo flying

For illo flying, originally uploaded by Champignons.

First off let me apologise for last weeks illustration that offended some with its creative interpretation of the theme. I really am very sorry*. This time I chose to take NO RISKS and draw some thing with the theme in its actual name. So it's also revelation to illustration themes concerning butter.Hurrah! I was going to draw a fly but no matter how amazing the feat of tasting poo (or cake, or anything) through your feet is, I don't like the way they look.


*I'm not really that sorry. Mwahhahahahahaha!

Medicine bottles

bottles, originally uploaded by Champignons.

(For Illo Friday. Being that when we have germs, we take medicine. I state that here, at the beginning, for those folk who criticise before they read, nay instead of reading)

I used to hate watercolour. I'm think it's probably because I'm not very good at it, so I am going to pretend that green bottle is one of those wibble-wobbly handblown ones (it's not) and the paper is adding to the wibbliness (it shouldnt, but probably is) and come to think hard about it, I'm not even sure that medicine is on topic since it's probably disinfectant that is waging a war against germs...but I am sure of this
1) it is the first painting I have done in quite sometime, and I did it today so that must have some merit and
2) these bottles are all pretty dirty and thus must have some germs inherent in them.

The big one looks like it's been dug out of the ground and comes courtesy of my brother- he doesn't know that yet, and he also doesnt know it fits the glass stopper I found on the beach which pleases me tremendously so he's unlikely to get it back.

Here are other unanswered questions I have today today;
Why do baby trousers have pretend flys sewn in (i mean, zippers, not insects)
and if the fly is at the back but I am too lazy to turn them round, am I negligent?
And why is there a spoon in the washing machine?

All most unusual.