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• This tea cup from Vandalized Vintage. I have been saying for about a year that everyone better watch out once I get a display cabinet, because I’m going to start a tea cup collection so hard that everyone is just going to be left behind, sobbing. My Nana is going to sell me her GORGEOUS display cabinet, the display cabinet from my childhood (!) so I can finally get my tea cup collecting dream off the ground. She also gave me a beautiful hand painted saucer that her sister gave her, so it’s officially my first piece. But there will be more and many, including some vandalised pieces! Yeah!

• Doodling helps your memory! I have always been picked on by teachers, lecturers and meeting facilitators for absent mindedly doodling my way through conversations and meetings. I always argued that I was actually listening, and that doodling helped me absorb it all and VOILA now science has proven me right. In your face, naysayers!

• My iMac. I don’t know when it’s going to stop being awesome. Probably never. You’ll just have to deal with it. I should name it, but it doesn’t really have a personality or a gender just yet. My old computer’s name was Leila (but Nick spelt it Liela, woops) as we had a Futurama theme going on with our network. I think we need a new theme! (Do other nerd households do this?!)

• My “Everything’s Okay” drawing for rand rand renfrow renfrow’s zine might be going on the cover. Exciting! I made a zine once, and then I lost interest. This one will be sold in Austin and Houston around South By Southwest time, so if you’re in the region track it down. I hope he sends me one because I don’t have enough for a bus fare to Texas :/

• The State Library of Queensland are on flickr and they are uploading all these awesome vintage photographs. I like knowing about where I come from, but Brisbane seems to have a sordid and buried history so you really have to dig for information. For example, I just found out about The Battle of Brisbane the other day and I was stunned that I never knew about it before!!

• I don’t want to alarm anyone, but over 100 people think my drawings are tops. I didn’t think more than 30 people would join up, CRAZY!

After nearly a decade of waiting and pining and swooning and cursing, I finally got a mac! I feel glee every time I need to use it, and apparently that feeling never really goes away which is AWESOME!

I’ve been pretty busy lately, I’m attending a free business course so I can learn how to run a kick arse business. Buses suck so much, so do all the people in the city. I think I want to live in the mountains now, more than I want to live in New York City!

The above drawing is the first I’ve done since I got my iMac, not that you can tell

Drawing Dolly Dimples from Natalie Perkins on Vimeo.

And this is the finished product:

Now I have to package her up and send her on to the lovely Carolyn!

I wasn’t going to set one of those facebook pages up because I was worried about what people would think of me but I asked people if they’d be my fan this morning and at least 10 people said they would so I thought that was a respectable amount of people to warrant being a facebook Celebrity/ Public Figure. (lolololololol!)

Be my fan!

First order of business, this Valentine’s Day crap. Have at you with this vaguely insulting “e-card”! I made it especially for you. Nick took me to the Game On exhibit at the State Library today and then we had burgers. I think there’s something for everyone in that date!

Brisbane Twestival from Natalie Perkins on Vimeo.

Second order of business, the Brisbane Twestival took place on Thursday night. You can see some of the shenanigans in the above video.

I tried so hard to get some decent photos of the projections! The drawing here was auctioned off to the darling Mark aka @mimobase!

The money from the night is still dribbling in I think, and final tallies haven’t been posted yet but apparently it was a pretty awesome effort!

Now, I told a big old story about how we never had brussels sprouts when I was a kid, because Dad couldn’t stand the smell of them, and then the stupid back end logged me out and I lost the tome that I had written, boo. The upshot of it all was that I’m horrid because I like to torment him with my delicious brussels sprouts that Mum cooks especially for me when she has us over for roasts

So, if you haven’t seen Carnivale yet, you might not be familiar with Lila the bearded lady, but she is a fox and one of my favourite characters on the show. I posted some progress images on my tumblr – here and here. If you’re on tumblr, say hi! I usually post frequently and more off-the-cuff there.

Tomorrow night the Twestivals all around the world are taking place (give or take 24 hours because we’re in the future)! My drawings are being projected here at the Brisbane Twestival, along with the work of other Brisbane creatives. I can’t wait to see what it looks like!

I have been unbelievably busy so far this year, who knew you could be so busy pushing pens around? I certainly didn’t, bring it on! It took me a month to be able to draw something new for myself, and I’m kind of glad because I got the opportunity to reflect a lot on exactly what I want to draw. I have also been invited to take part in my first group exhibition, which I’m thrilled about. One of my goals this year was to show in a gallery, and in a few months I’m gonna do that! I’M KINDA AWESOME Y/Y?

I had a big think about what I want to show, and I realised I have learnt so much more about what I want to draw that I didn’t want to show anything old. So the above piece was an experiment, I guess. To try and push forward in the direction I want to head. I’m pretty happy with the result, and will be making some minor tweaks here and there but I’m going to go ahead and do a series that I can present for the art show later this year.

Being an artist is expensive, so if you want to help me frame my drawings you can buy lots of prints and/or t-shirts and I will love you forever and smuggle you imaginary poodles in tea cups.

I’m proud and happy to support and contribute to the Brisbane Twestival, part of the worldwide Twestival celebrations raising money for charity: water. It’s being put on by twitter users all around the world, with a budget of approximately $0, sponsored by a bunch of awesome websites and businesses.

I drew up this piece especially to auction off on the night, with all the proceeds going to charity:water. A couple of other artists have donated pieces for auction as well, you should check them out and bid on them

There’s going to be a bunch of music and food and art projected around Metro Arts, and I’m contributing drawings for that too (which reminds me I need to email them!!) I’ll be going, and I hope I can get some awesome photos dancing in front of the projected paisley!

Tickets are available here, and if you can’t make it to a twestival near you, you can always donate! Everyone likes water!