more music

more music, originally uploaded by Champignons.

I don't know if it is illegal or not, but I wanted to do illustration Fridays topic again.. because I have just finished formatting Threads II which I realise is coming a bit late,and by abit I mean..nearly a year, but I have finished it YAY. Lets hope threads 3 doesn't take so long. Also just finished printing my new raven posters.. no pics yet but I'm thinking they look so spiffy I'm stealing one for my wall. Even if in means braving seasonal Ikea to get a frame for it.

Illustration friday, Music

kindness in lilac, originally uploaded by Champignons.

Here's a little bird singing. It's obvious I would choose bird song for music, since I draw birds, particularly singing ones, a fair bit. This is a screenprint of the papercut below. I printed five of each in lilac, pink, blue and red before the stencil died (which was sort of sad because I was enjoying myself). I think I will make these prints affordable, just because the sweetest music is the truth, and these birds are singing it, and they should be heard!

papercuts don't have to hurt

papercut, originally uploaded by Champignons.

This is for Cate, just because I was mean about her programme last week, and instead of reacting badly and calling me a poo head she left a very reasonable comment. Clearly Dirtgirlworld has much to redeem it, if not just it's creators are very enthusiastic. And the BBC are promoting it very heavily, so it seems to be doing well, and I am considerably over the age of 2, so I'm sure my opinions are not valid.

Anyway, I'm a rotter, and rotters are their own punishment, they expand energy thinking mean thoughts and scowling which only brings meanness and scowls their way. I'm trying to consciously replace mean thoughts with better ones, lest the birds of truth come to peck at me.

illo unbalanced

For illo friday, originally uploaded by Champignons.

So people say I'm unbalanced.
But I like a good mushroom explosion, goodf or keeping the mind open.

Andbefore you leave comments about my work being disturbing (which won't earn you any favours, by the way) If you want to see the work of truly unbalanced people, you need only look at children's TV, in particular those aimed at preschoolers. As my baby generates teeth at an alarming rate, he likes nothing better than to snuggle with me and watch 'In the Night Garden*', which I used to think was disturbing, before I saw waybaloo. I also disagree with the though of someone with only 5 neurons teaching my child science (AND her name isn't really Nina!) and there is nothing, nothing to redeem 'dirtgirlworld' which, as far and I can discern, features a freakish being that has a pornstar name and spends a good deal of time talking to an earth worm. And we all know what those look like.

*he has now found both Igglepiggle toys put aside for Christmas. He loves Igglepiggle above all others, emitting a cooing noise when he comes on screen. Note how I have watched enough 'in the night Garden' to know the characters names instead of referring to them as 'blue mutant thing' and 'Mr turd head'

Illustration blur

101 bird dancing, originally uploaded by Champignons.

Dance, dance fast,become a blur. Or a bird, ascending (if you are lucky)
I painted this a while ago. Its funny, because I was thinking I have finsihed this series now, as I said on my post below, I was thinking of making it into a book, if not just to draw a line under it all.

I was also thinking about style.. people say they like my style, though I am not sure what it is. I seem to work in a vein for a bit, and then change. Growing up, I liked to do detailed, realistic work, and then Ifelt constricted by it; I spent time avoiding detail by cutting lino, and then drawing things that didn't exist..lately I have been experimenting with simple graphic screen prints.. I am not sure I will ever settle down. I worry about it sometimes...It seems commercially you do best if you are consistent... but then if I drew things of a similar vein over and over again I suppose I would worry about that too. Lets face it, I am a flibbertly gibbet.