surreal snow and light changes

candles in my room

sunset light in my bedroom & bathroom

toothpaste

I have no idea how this came about. I guess it's the kind of thing one creates in MS Paint after midnight.  I've actually been making my own toothpaste for a couple of years now; I may or may not print this and stick it to my jar. Perhaps then my family members won't mistake it for a facial scrub.

inspiration: gloom & fumes, smoke haze & sunset gaze

Dream | Ergaki Mountains, Russia | Mikhail Vershinin

The two above images are photo-realistic paintings by Mike Bayne

Break of Day by Danna Ray

Cold Night, Athens, 2008 by Jim Bonzo

Claire Boucher (Grimes) in the Genesis music video

A collection of photos I've reblogged on my tumblr over the past couple of months.

stargirl

Something I scribbled up at work before I knew how to do basic copying.. now that I've learned some things, there seems to be a lot less time for doodles.

emerald eyes

emerald eyes
I knew them
but had not love them
until I met the mind behind

Begin Again

I watched this movie last night, and LOVED it!! For many reasons. It's about music, and it's about what music means to you as an individual, and it's about choosing to do your own thing. And the music was really quite fantastic; I certainly never knew Keira Knightley could sing, but her voice is distinct and lovely. The acting was excellent as well - seriously, compare the Mark Ruffalo from, say, 13 Going On 30 to the Mark Ruffalo in this movie. Same actor, completely different characters, and that's what I love about good acting. I love this movie, and the soundtrack, and I'm sure you will, too.

Also, major style inspiration from Keira Knightley.

quarter after noon

a (very) quick charcoal sketch of my reflection in the bathroom stall door at work

my messy bedroom

my day summarized by pictures of things on a white sheet

Christmas presents - adorable tea infuser and an initialled mug

Valentine's chocolates from my sweetheart

Tylenols in a watercolour paint palette

homemade toothpaste

putty I've been playing with lately

and my lovely&chubby guinea pig, Kimba

ice cold

A doodle I made on the back of my tracking card at work. Since I have yet to be trained in many different areas, I have a lot of time on my hands to work away at something like this, especially when customers are scarce. My boss saw it and raved about it and showed everybody; that's a good feeling :)

whining eye

This is a little something I envisioned randomly when I fell backwards into a snowbank and closed my eyes. It started out in my sketchbook with pencil crayons but I decided it would be too difficult to create the gradient effect in the sky that way, so I decided to recreate the image digitally. I think it turned out pretty good, but I have to say I like the original eye guy a little better.

cavebird

A little acrylic paint on canvas. Somehow, this idea came to me while I sat in the back seat of a car and stared through the frost on the window. 

skin under undershirt

There is something so soft and comforting about wearing your boyfriend's t-shirt, especially when it stills smells like his deodorant, or whatever that is. I'm not even typically romantic, nor do I particularly agree with variants of the phrase: 'Give her your hoodie to wear, and she'll love you forever'. I don't intend to steal your clothes. But if I'm staying the night with you at your friend's house and don't have a change of clothes, I'll gladly accept your undershirt. I will also gladly wear it home. And gladly keep it on the pile of clothes at the end of my bed. It's not that I refuse to give it back. But if I can hold on to it a little longer, and wear it when you're not around, I'm probably not going to give it back. By all means, take it. But I won't hand it to you.

   

Anyway, enough cheeze.

- Have a lil listen to the above tune

- I went in for an interview and got the job on the spot!

- Found the perfect prom dress at the first place I checked woo

- The book I'm reading (Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz & Ron Bass) is pretty lame - I do not recommend.

- I heard chickadee calls this morning and the sun shone and made little rainbows on my wall