Embrace

If it only was so easy to embrace that time of the month...
Well, it sometimes helps to channel the shirty-ness onto paper and drown it in watercolor.


By the way, guess what I got for Christmas! My mum gave me a flu (even though we said there wouldn't be any presents. Awwww!). The most terrible thing about being ill for me is always that I'm bored to death. When I'm forced to sit still (emphasis on forced), my brain tries to compensate and runs wild with ideas and I end up frustrated because I can't make them happen (even reading is too exhausting most of the time). Ugh. Being ill turns me into a sullen little child. At least I finally get some sleep.

Purple

I hardly ever do acrylics and there's a reason for it. I just can't handle them without ending up frustrated with the results (so, if you have any book recommendations or anything like that, I'd be most grateful). Anyway, I'm using up these canvases now. They've been lying around wasting precious space in my room for about two years and I'm glad about every single piece that doesn't have to move with me when I leave this place.


My sister said it looks like a purple pussy explosion. I kind of like that interpretation.

Happy Holidays...

... everybody (no matter what you're celebrating - be it Christmas or just life in general)! I might be a bit late with this... but better late than never I guess.

That's the 10 minutes "X-mas card" I made for my colleagues at uni. I'll draw a (proper) card for the first one who can tell me what this is ;D (please deposit your guess in the comment section).

Sketchbook Project - Goddesses

A goddess of (everyday) life...


... and a goddess of hunt.

((Did I mention how much I love my little Diana?))

It isn't very obvious in the scan but the greenish-yellow part is actually very thick fluorescent acrylic paint (those shadows aren't painted but result from the surface structure - I didn't apply that paint particularly sparingly).
I have a thing for interesting surfaces and it always costs me tremendous amounts of self-control not to touch every single plastical looking or pastosely painted piece of an exhibition. I do hope people will enjoy feeling and touching my sketchbook when it goes on tour. May it be loved (or hated) and explored and rubbed and fumbled with to death (and then, may people take the remainings as souvenirs)!

Sketchbook Project - back on track

... and slightly in a hurry with it. However, I haven't given up on this yet, as you can see.

How to make a paper crane

This is what I do with my Saturday nights. Should I be worried? Does save money and liver cells, though.
Just in case you've been wondering about that little japanese girl and her giraffe and stuff...



This is lovingly dedicated to:
♥ Momo who always thought my drawings were a bit dull because they don't move,
♥ Jo who always wanted me to make him a flip book, and
♥ everybody whacky enough to think up stories behind their drawings.

What I learnt from this:
Traditional animation kills trees. LOTS of trees.

The moral of the story:
When somebody throws a piece of paper at you while you're hanging from an albino giraffe (and losing a sock), it'll most probably turn into a paper crane.

I can't believe I seriously just spent five hours on this.

CoE - International Röh-Day and icestock customizing

Don't worry, there'll be stuff other than creepy little diary comics again soon! Still working mainly on my Sketchbook whenever I have some time left. I'm a bit in a hurry with this already, since the deadline is in January.



Besides, the time of freedom didn't last too long. Due to some unforeseen circumstances (and a really generous offer from my former supervisor), I'm back at my desk at uni again (just that I'm getting paid for it now - yay!) and won't be traveling faraway countries until March or so. Still, I'm rather positiv about having some new scans for you guys and gals soon-ish, so stay tuned...

Three instants and more Chronicles

There you go, more of the (in)famous Chronicles of E*phi. Will I ever catch up?



I think I may already have mentioned in ecstatic joy that I got a Diana F+ from my favorite sister. Unfortunately, working with medium format film is rather expensive and I was horrified to discover that my scanner's transparency unit only does 35mm film. So, I got my dear Diana a 35mm-back only to find that my trusted photo lab doesn't do development only (you need to buy prints too). I'm still trying to figure out how to actually get some (affordable) pictures with that camera (I'd love to dabble in DIY developing but don't want to buy masses of chemicals and equipment right now before traveling/moving). Thus, a few instant photos for now (still in the process of getting to know that little heap of plastic and its quirks... err... settings.):



May I present: The most overexposed photograph you've ever seen! Actually, I still kinda like it, especially the winter sun which looks a little like the pupil of an eye in close-up (not sure if you can see it in this resolution, though). I might just use it as a desktop background.

CoE - More from the Chemistress in Distress

I bet you've already been dying to read more about my... uh... fascinating life. So here's another catch up post:




Also: My cutest ever sister got me a Diana F+ for my graduation! I love it and I can't wait to take some halfway postworthy pictures with it! (W00t! It glows in the dark!)

Half a meter of giraffe spots

Do you recognize them? Last week, a very good friend (whom you really should visit on flickr if you like excellent photos) mentioned that he'd love to have a bigger version of this to decorate his room. I love friends making remarks like that shortly before their birthday. He-he. (Don't ask how long it took me to crosshatch half a meter of giraffe spots though...)

Oh, by the way, I'm now officially "Diplom-Ingenieurin of technical chemistry". Just in case anybody cares. Most probably not (which I truly understand). What some of you probably will care about is that all this retained crazy creative energy will want to discharge somehow which might lead to an increase of drawings and posts here. That doesn't mean I was able to completely suppress the urges during the last stressful days though (hellooo sleepless nights).
This is what I wore for my presentation and exam (in addition to unbelievably serious clothes, of course):

(It's the structures of the two imidazoline nitroxides I was working with and one of my EPR spectra. Just in case you wanted to know.)

And here's my little red dyke-y riding hood. She found herself a decent mobile home on my bag: