Je continue a travailler sur cette illustration... Je retourne a un ancien style tout en rajoutant du nouveau...Je m'amuse, ca vient.
I'm working on a new illustration, coming back to some ideas I had before, adding salt and pepper...I'm having fun!
Today I tried to survive Mac World...It's OK if you go with a rugby player.
Today, and hopefully only today, I hated all the guys over 45 years old.
Read more about it.
Je voulais etre la premiere a t'envoyer des bisous...
Ouiche, deux de mes lectrices preferees viennent d'etre Maman!
Felicitations aux heureux parents!
Et plein d'amour et de bisous aux nouveaux nes!
Brewer's birds...A call for tea, coffee...And beer!
It was really nice to see you,Paintbetty. I long to see you again.
Traduction...Euh...J'ai fait une image sous la pluie en attendant le bateau pour traverser la baie et retrouver mon amie Paintbetty ...Et les oiseaux font des tas de bruits differents et je suis contente parceque si le brewer's black bird n'existe qu'ici ( j'aime bien cet oiseau , to brew ca marche por le the le cafe et la biere ) , il y a aussi des moineaux , et j'aime les moineaux!
PS: je suis contente aussi parceque Dimanche on va voir ce mr Brown a cet endroit
Whoa! I feel nice, like sugar and spice!
Vous connaissez Sam? Sam. Sweet Sam, qui se casse la tete a parler Francais dans les commentaires?
Ouiiiii, la charmante anglaise avec l'accent de Birkin qui fait une ricotta sublime et qui ravit nos estomacs a intervale regulier. Et modeste en plus. Tellement modeste qu'elle ne fera jamais de publicite, mais elle a ete choisie dans 3 categories pour son fantastique blog culinaire :
S'il vous plait cliquez ici et votez pour Becks&Posh, mon Bay Area food blog prefere!
I know Sam. She's far to modest and honest to advertise on this.
But my grateful belly is enthusiastic about it
Please click here and vote for Becks&Posh, my favourite Bay Area food blog!
"Monday's ravioli day" is a sentence extracted form "La vie est un
long fleuve tranquille" a sarcastic movie about life in Northern
France. The sentence mimics the petit bourgeois habits (kind of Monday's laundry day, but with food, yeah food, welcome to France), and
became quickly a gimmick. Since Lilfairy suggests a "Monday is
chiyogami day", I made my first one Yuzen-style with ravioli. You can
download and enjoy it for non commercial purpose only, thanks.
Le lundi c'est chiyogami. Donc, et puisque c'est comme ca, je vais
tenter d'en produire un tous les lundis, pour voir. Sans couture et
Yuzen style, si possible. Rendez-vous donc tous les lundis pour le
chiyo du jour, que vous pourrez utiliser a votre guise a condition de
ne pas en faire un usage commercial, merci!
Et pour commencer, puisque c'est lundi, et que le lundi c'est ravioli, voici sous vos yeux eblouis, le chiyogami-ravioli!
It took me some time to find a few treasurable books on the subject, so I thought I should make a list for let's say...Lilfairy, and Adelie of course, and every one interested in beautiful patterns! It's nice to know I'm not the only one to love the amazing, delicate, japanese patterns for papers. I wish I was more of an expert, but here are my favourite books:
For the illustrator and graphist:
2 books with CDroms
❀❀❀❀❀ Agile Rabbit Japanese Patterns book with cdrom. Easy to use in Photoshop layer masks, in black and white with 3 different levels of resolutions. I love this book so much I took it with me to California in my luggage.
ISBN: 9057680203
Publisher: Pepin Press
(March, 2005), Agile Rabbit collection
❀❀❀❀❀The Yuzen Japaneses paper. Very difficult to find, quite expensive, but lovely. You will find 100 color plates, most of them very useful for illustration purposes. Pick this one if you want a collage effect with the real chiyogami colors, or if you want to print some for origami fun.
Book Title: kiyouzomekami za yuuzen jiyapani zu pe pa YUZEN JAPANESE PAPER hiyaku roiyarutei furi jie pegu fuairuzu 100 ROYALTY FREE ... Now you know why it's difficult to find.
ISBN : 486100313X
Publisher : Dai Nippon Printing Company Publisher
The only place I was able to find it is on yesasia website
For the pattern lover
2 books with color illustrations, no cdrom, these are not royalty free
these two books are about chiyogami paper on the Edo period (1603-1867)
❀❀❀❀❀ Edo Chiyogami
A big book , 356 pages of pure delight and colorful plates. I wish I speak Japanese to read the text. A good gift for the pattern lover. A perfect gift for the Chiyogami addict.
ISBN4-89444-399-6
Editor: Piebooks (now I want ALL the books they publish)
❀❀❀❀❀Edo chiyogami chiyogami
A small book with colour plates. A very nice one, but the size of the book doesn't allow access to small details, even if some are sometimes magnified. Though, it's one of my favourite purse books. It's small and very inspirational, the kind of book you can study in the train. The publisher has a whole collection of little books about patterns, unfortunately I wasn't able to decipher the titles.
Author Name: Hirose Tatsugorou
ISBN: 491609462X
Publisher : Seigensha
Little spoon is a translation for the French name for Coffee spoon and Moka Spoon. I can't really taste yogurt, or pot de creme, or even a simple egg a la coque with a tea spoon. It goes too fast. Tiny spoon make tasty tiny bits. Thank you so much Maman for sending these to me!
Note: où l'on voit d'où je tiens mon sens ultratigu du detail. Ma Maman cherie a pesé mon paquet au gramme près, et au lieu de papier de soie, a utilisé du Chirimen. J'ai failli fondre en l' ouvrant, mais heureusement je m'attendais a une surprise, je connais ma Maman.
Mes paquets à moi sont toujours en retard, ils attendent patiement que j'ai le temps d'aller faire la queue a la poste a l'autre bout du quartier. Parceque les trucs sur lesquels je travaille n'attendent pas, eux.
Vivement le week end!
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PS: je signale a mon voisin indélicat que si il continue a passer des films des Monty Pythons avec le son a donf , il faut qu'il se mefie. Je connais les paroles des chansons par coeur, et je chante fort ...et faux
Flowers for Nat. Sometimes it's hard to say farewell.
I began this picture in SF a long time ago, one day I felt Paris very far away. Today I feel the same.
Cette image la je l'ai commencee un jour de 96 sur la baie de Sf , un jour ou je trouvais que Paris etait loin...Je l'ai continuee a Paris en 2003, un jour ou je trouvais San Francisco tres loin...Et je la continue aujourd'hui, un jour ou Paris parait tres loin.
Sorry my Spanish is worse than my English, and my English could be better.
Cliquez ici si le jardin de votre tante est plus petit que le chapeau de votre oncle
Pour les Parisiens: Si vous cherchez de jolis carnets. Il y a carrefour de L'Odeon, dans la suite de la rue de l'Odeon une boutique ravissante pleine de bonnes surprises et de carnets colores.D'ailleurs si vous trouvez le nom ca m'interesse. Et sinon si vous voulez du bon il n'y a rien de tel que Sennelier . Je ne suis jamais allee a la boutique Skripta....Mais j'ai bien envie de visiter a mon prochain voyage a Paris!
We almost had a catastrophy on Non dairy Diary: I couldn't find my favourite analog journal anymore ( Florentine color paper, butter soft chic colors leather cover) on the SF Moma museum webstore (don't even try to order from Europe, it's five time the price of the journal to send it) I must admit I freaked out a little bit. OK: I completely freaked out.The Non diary Diary on ordinary white sketchbook, it's like going back from Caffe Roma Moka to soluble coffe in cold water. Yeurk. I looked everywhere on the net until I found who was really doing my journals: it's an Italian brand called CIAK . This doesn't gave me my journal ...unless I want to buy a hundred of those, but I wanted only 4 to 6. So I continued my researches, to find out that I was not the only one interested into the quest of the perfect journal. Some even blog about it , as journalissimo , or papersnobbery for exemple. Finally I found some at Flax , and bought enough for filling with toughts the Non dairy Diary for a year. Saved! If you want you can find it here (I can't garanty satisfaction)
Bonen resolution numero 1
Cetet annee je relis avant de poster
Resolution number one:
1.This year I'll check the spelling before posting