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I just picked up three of my beautifully framed pieces from Bizarre Framing and dropped them into KILN Gallery for The Illustrators show, a group exhibition I’m so chuffed to be part of. I saw Nigel Buchanan’s gorgeous giclee prints lined up against the wall, and said hello to Shaun Campbell and his fancy car as he was bumping in an installation. The show also includes Jim Tsinganos, Brett Lethbridge, Ron Monnier, Courtney Brims and Lucia Masciullo – some incredible names in Australian illustration that I’m rather honoured to be included with!

Now I shall present to you a taste of The Illustrators!

Nigel Buchanan

Jim Tsinganos

Shaun Campbell

Brett Lethbridge

Ron Monnier

Courtney Brims

Lucia Masciullo

And little old me!

Come and take a look this Friday night if you’re local. Tomorrow the KILN site should show all the pieces in the Illustrators show in the online gallery, so if you’re in an art buying mood you can get a heads up! The show runs from Friday 31 July for three weeks.

Today I volunteered to pack swag for Semi-Permanent, and we were done in super record time. See, we were moving like ninjas, my phone/camera couldn’t catch up

I was excited to see my drawing in the book! It started raining as I was waiting for Nick to pick me up so my book got a little damp

Swaaaaaag. My fingernails are buggered now after handling so much paper. They used to be terrible at my old job when I’d be dealing with freshly printed stuff all the time!

aaaand I have to show you these pens that are in the swag bags… There are SO many different colours!

I have been doing a lot of commissioned drawings lately, which is awesome! This one is for the lovely Omega and the one below is for Ms Katy.

The exhibition opening at KILN was on Friday night, and I still feel terrible about not taking any photos! I was sort of flustered because it was a little muggy and then a little stormy, and I was running in and out of the gallery saying hi to friends who were kind enough to come by and check out my debut in a gallery! Brisbane demonstrated her seductive two degrees of separation once again: I discovered that Cate at KILN actually went to school with my sister!

Afterwards, we dashed across town to the BTUB “tweetup” (I hate using “twords” as a rule but there’s no other way to succinctly explain it!) and had awesome times with awesome peoples. It was moustache-flavoured night, thanks to my entirely rad Poirot moustache necklace that I made earlier in the day!

Messieurs Spencer, Nicole and Tash.

C’est moi!

People were asking if they could buy the necklace, so I’ve made up five to sell (maybe on etsy or something?) One has already been reserved for Spencer though, because we almost came to fisty-cuffs over the ownership of the moustache

Last night I spent about three hours drawing at this table with the lovely Anna, Shannon and Renee at Connect Four: Play. Anna was writing haikus; Shannon and Renee were doing incredible portraits for people; and I was doodling on brown paper bags! Donations for the drawings and haikus and proceeds from the event went to Backbone Youth Arts.

I really regret not taking the portrait Shannon drew of me off the wall before I left!

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So, I am “debuting” at the Works on Paper exhibition at KILN on April 3. I am very excited, almost embarrassingly excited, but at least my enthusiasm falls short of pants-peeingly-excited. I wish I could get the hang of that cool nonchalance that artists are supposed to exhibit!

I am showing alongside some wonderful artists. Allow me to demonstrate:

Danielle O’Brien – Untitled 3, 2008

Nic Plowman – And there she was, 2008

Laura Skerlj

Yuki Nakano – Geisha, 2009

Also Shaun Campbell, Lucia Trove and Jordan Hart – who I can’t find any sites for! If you’re in Brisbane during April, I do suggest you check it out!

On March 28 I’ll be one of the “artists on demand” at the Connect Four art party in the Valley. From 8 – 10pm I’ll be doodling for donations for Backbone Youth Arts, and you can also see some of my drawings in the multimedia art gallery. RSVP at the facebook event page if you’re that way inclined.

There are so many exciting things that are gonna happen this year. I’m quite chuffed!

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!

By Chris Piascik [via Meet Me at Mikes].

I am in the middle of trying to get back in to drawing. My arm has been incredibly painful in recent months so I’ve tried to lay off the intensive drawing sessions. I need to organise a proper drawing space with a tilted surface but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

This is part of the new series… “fancy hair” is my work in progress title. I need to buy some more 0.1 black pens because mine ran out!

I got myself a tumblr account so I can post strictly images I like and bits of my work. Follow me if you want to!

Don’t forget, Drawing Day 08 is coming up on June 7. I’m hoping to get a whole heap of RedBubblers involved and I’ll post my favourite DD08 drawings here. If you’re joining in on DD08, or if you just want to participate by blogging it, let me know because I’ll add links to other DD08 posts in my entries!

Just a reminder about the next Dr Sketchy’s in Brisbane on September 19. It also, strangely enough, falls on “Talk Like a Pirate Day“, which I suspect may not have been a coincidence being that Ms Omega is a swashbuckling lassie from way back!

Miss Kittie Conquest will be the model for the night at the new Art Monkey HQ, the Elephant and Wheelbarrow in the Valley.

To reserve your place in the audience, head over here.

In even more happy news, I wanted to congratulate Amber and Jimmy on their engagement! Yay!

Last night was the inaugural session of Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art Class in Brisbane, organised and hosted by the wonderful Omega, one of my very own pals! I’ve longed to attend a Dr Sketchy’s class ever since Molly Crabapple started the first one in New York in 2005 so I was chuffed when Omega announced that she’d be founding Brisbane’s Dr Sketchy’s school.

The class was held at Metro Arts, on Edward Street in the Brisbane CBD, one of Brisbane’s most benevolent arts venues. Every arts kid has kicked around at the Metro, so it was lovely to be coming back to a place I had strong ties with while I was at uni. Up on the fourth floor the art school awaited, a long climb up the steps of doom or a short and quaint trip up in the ye olde lift… if you’re lucky. (Psst, don’t forget to shut the door to the lift once you disembark – an open door renders the lift inoperable and leaves other Metro Arts patrons rather grumpy!)

The model for the evening was none other than burlesque superstar, Lola the Vamp. The first thing I noticed was that she had the most amazing hair, tumbling down her back in random kinks and curls. I was gleeful on the inside, because curly hair is one of my most favourite things to draw! The second thing I noticed was that she has a very mysterious face, in the quick sketches I think I wasted precious seconds trying to catch the look in her eyes. Her costumes were all spectacular, what I wouldn’t give to possess her lovely millinery collection!

These drawings were my best of the night, but I’m eagerly awaiting the next class on September 5th so I can get more practice!

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Dr Sketchy’s Brisbane are taking reservations for seats at the next two classes. I urge you to book a seat – the first class sold out! Head over to their myspace page to find out how to make your booking now.