I'm too tired to finish my illustration today...Maybe tomorrow!
En attendant, vous prendrez bien un pti bout du travail en cours?
Sometimes when I doodle,
I wonder if I would have liked it when I was 8?
Means "Hasten Slowly" in latin, and is well known to be the snail motto. It's also the motto of the Earl of Onslow, but I can't guarantee the Earls of Onslow had ever anything to do with snails, except maybe eating some on a trip to France.
I went on the genealogy of this old sentence until I found it on Macrobius Saturnalia. I guess it was written for the roman winter feast -not for the love of a sauropodomorph. And it was quoted :
Σπεῦδε βραδέως
But I'm sorry I never ever spoke greek.
My dear Maman used to tease us with this sentence when we were teenagers.
Hate-toi lentement. Dont acte : j'ai effectivement pris mon temps pour cette illustration, commencee le 23 janvier. Je me suis bien amusee, mais j'aurais pu faire au moins 10 illustrations avec les differentes images dont elle est construite!
On the same structure as last week chiyogami, but with flower this time, a springtime pattern with sunny side up flowers!
La meme structure que la semaine derniere, sur un papier tres different...Avec des fleurs oeufs au plat!!
Someone asked for a bowl of my little chicks, ans I said
NO!
no
no...For that person is called "God of the Cats" ha!
But I did a special today for her:
Huhu, celle la pour Dieu des Chats qui voulait un bol de poussins!! Un bol de chats ca le fait?
(tu peux le mettre chez toi aussi si tu veux)
Et un clin d'oeil à celle qui s'ennuie, parfois (mais juste un petit peu), sur l'histoire des guildes du Moyen-Âge à la Renaissance, et qui passe par ici pour mon plus grand plaisir!
when nothing works: first the internet, then Photoshop, then:
I got sick.
Guess I'd better get back to bed.
D'abord le routeur, ensuite Photoshop, ensuite moi...Plus rien ne marche.
Je retourne me coucher!!!
Pour ceux qui se demanderaient a quoi ressemblent mes carnets avant la partie numerique, voici, le scan tout brut:
For some of my friends who never seen my sketch books before digital work, here is the analog part of my current illustration.
It's not a teasing, it's a study I made...Actually my pictures are made of several pictures put together. I make them while I do my illustration, and them integrate each piece as you would do in a scrap book.
Ce n'est pas un teasing, c'est une etude. Mes illustrations sont faites de differents morceaux que je peins plus ou moins a part selon l'inspiration. Je les melange ensuite comme on ferait dans un album.
Every monday we try to make a new pattern that look like Chiyogami paper :)
Check here for more : Chiyogami Monday
Chiyogami appeared at the same moment as Edo Ukiyo-e woodblock engravings. It was created to make dolls, gift wrapping and other children and women crafting objects. Some very well know engravers and artists created Chiyogami. This adorable art survived until now, but most of the time the paper you'll find in shops are not woodblocks prints anymore. However, we can still study and enjoy Chiyogami Edo style.
I don't really know if was much used for Origami during the Edo period, but looks like it's all the fashion now! So here is a pattern I made, maybe you can find a nice origami fish to fold.
This pattern is a seamless, so you can repeat it and print it.
No commercial use, thanks.
Is the beginning of a French ditty sang by little girls mostly...It's a play on word, each end of a rime being the begining of the next one : "I'm fed up, up to the gill, gill of a fish, fisherman, mind your own business, nest box, box of chocolate, late at work..." that kind of thing. Another expression I play with in this illustration is "ras le bol", up to the (bowl) trim : "I'm fed up"...The chick should be replaced by bunnies, as Honey Bunny is a bit fed up those days.
This to tell you, I'm not fed up of my blog, not at all, but maybe I'll be less constant with it these days, for I'm exhausted and need a little rest. Take care :)
Je n'en ai pas marre de mon blog, bien au contraire, mais je vais etre moins constante dans le posting et le suivi pour quelques jours. C'est le mois de fevrier meme en Californie, et je suis fatiguee!