News, olds and new-olds

Today I found one of the boxes with my dolls. Some I have since I was a child and give me good memories, others were gifts from friends and others I made. My room is starting to look really nice, well, at least one of the walls and since I have my pc there I can see that wall everytime I want.

I also mended this little figure I have. It is supposed to be a... to tell you the truth I don't know if it's a cat or a dog, and because it has a mask is difficult to know ;)) but what I know for sure is that is based on some Prehispanic figures - then I guess is a Xoloitzcuintli, that means dog - It got broken several years ago and I never had the patience to sit down and really mended it, until today . Now it has two new paws and one new ear; bad thing is that I noticed the back leg is shorter than it is supposed to be :/ - my mistake, of course -.

I been working on this moleskine. The theme is "monsters" for moly_x_46. I wanted to buy some watercolours but couldn't find them so I bought those really cheap low quality ones - I know, I know, I said I wasn't going to use those kind of materials but I really needed some colours I currently don't have -. I think I'll have it finished by tomorrow... no, today ! well, today but later-later, right now is midnight and I should be sleeping after a day of hard work... he !

I still think my not-desk is a mess, though. I've seen some photos of people's desks and they're so nice and neat; mine is a " creative chaos " ;D

Because my not-desk is so... near to the floor I don't have a chair to sit comfortable and work, so right now my back hurts like hell, is so sored. I been working like this for the past 3 days and I need to find something soon or I'll get so many back problems in a few months, not years, months !!!

This is my I'm-a-so-serious-working-girl look ;)))

Today I also received this goodies from Lynne all the way from England : a package of ink cartridges for my fountain pen. Here I can't find coloured inks like that so it's a great gift ! and a beautiful postcard which is an hologram. I love it, makes me feel dizzy when I look at it :))

And before I'm going... this is my last entry for moly_x_38. I wanted to make my favourite monsters: werewolf, vampire and zombie :)

New things

I been trying to make my room looks nice, to create something I always wanted to have, a dream-like room. I know there still some things I have in boxes - lots of things ! and I stole one mask to my dad, hehehe - that are going to make the view nicer for me. For a few days now I wake up and I have to get used ot the things now hanging on the wall, not as a bad thing, of course.

Right now it looks like this:

Not bad but it'll get better soon... I hope :)

Yesterday I was trying my new nibs I bought with some W&N black ink. I bought them for calligraphy - for the moleskine exchanges -. I have to practice more and more with them, though.

Something like this, that I made with two of the nibs :

This is a little story about a guy that has pockets for every song he makes, well, not much of a story I wrote, but maybe someday, just a little something for my journal right now.

Interview

Question: If you weren’t a painter what would you like to be?

Yoda: A musician or a filmmaker.

Q: Do you sing?

Y: Yes, in the shower (laugh)

Q: If someone makes a song about you, who would you like it to be?

Y: Just one song? Why not an entire album? (laugh). Hmmm, Lou Reed.

Q: And if a filmmaker would make a movie about you?

Y: Easy, Tim Burton, Michel Gondry, or David Lynch.

Q: And a writer?

Y: Michael Ende or Janette Winterson.

Q: But Michael Ende is dead.

Y: You never said it has to be alive (giggle).

Q: Ok, ok. Which famous painter would you like to make your portrait?

Y: G. Helnwein or Arturo Rivera

Q: And which famous photographer?

Y: Eugenio Recuenco or Joel-Peter Witkin

Q: And if someone who you admire could make your portrait?

Y: In photo I’d like oladios or Slow Cheetah and in drawing szaza or occam’s razor

Q: If you could do any of these two what would you choose: to breathe underwater or to fly?

Y: Fly away

Q: To where?

Y: That’s my secret.

Q: Which is your fashion style?

Y: Like a safe box: you don’t know how the combination is (laugh)

Q: What kind of cat would you be?

Y: A poser.

Sirens

I always thought making a drawing or a painting would be much easier with one colour. I was so wrong.

The complexity reaches to strange levels and there was times when I felt nothing was going on, nothing seemed right, but still to quit wasn't a good idea, not only because the drawing was something I had to make for the exchange, but also because of the learning process. I can see now that I'm capable of making something almost monocrome.

Is it boring? For me, no, I don't know if it's for you.

El Hechizo

When I was younger...

but things can't always start with such sentence. Though I'm getting older, or as I'm getting older, I'm starting to forget things. There are some events that are erased from my memory and somehow I know they are there, somewhere, hidden inside me. I don't know if I need them, or if they need me. Maybe not. If I get to be an old lady I'll remember them, for sure.

I been trying to remember how did I learn to tie my shoelaces and when I successfully did it. No matter how much I try to focus I can't recall it. On the other hand, there are thing I don't remember but my parents or family does, like when I was a baby, so they form part of my memory.

I do remember when I was making this drawing, a long time ago. If I consentrate enough I can even remember how I was feeling those days.

Is strange what we choose to remember and what not.

Sophisticated Lady - journal31

Everytime I have a nice cup of tea I transformer myself into a new character, quite old, actually. Is a part of me, my part of a sophisticated lady, like the ones that appears in victorian portraits, in old books.

That doestn't happens with any type of tea, just with some in which the flavours are rich and soft at the same time.

A friend once described me a tea she drinks like "a mountain". It took me a while to understand what that means, how a tea could be a mountain. Little by little I've been understanding that; still I don't have the whole idea but I'm getting close to it.

I've tried some good teas, some really great, some of them makes me feel like I'd never want to stop drinking them, though is always good there's no more and my cup is empty so I can try a new flavour or an old one.

Maybe one day I'll get to drink a tea in a nice place and me, wearing a nice vintage dress; only one day, that would be fantastic. And maybe that day I'll be in England and a nice english rain would be there, outside, but I'll have my nice cup of tea, with sugar and perhaps some cream, and I wouldn't mind about the rain because I'll ahve a wonderful red umbrella with me and a lovely monster-friend by my side.

Pop up

Little by littel the idea of tridimentionality is taking a place in my imagination. Still is not a complete idea, still I can't make one of those pop up things. My dad is too kind and he gives his creations for me to use however I want. I need to learn how to make the things he tries to teach me, and I say "try" because is taking me too much time to think in another way beside bidimentional way. Maybe that's why I didn't studied scupture.

I feel that I have to start to change the way I see things, the world, everything, in order to understand how things works. Who knows, maybe if I get to understand that the next step is kinetics.

Just drawing and painting is not enough, I can't say everything I want to say.

There's much to learn and time is endless.