Sunday 30 November 2014

Late Night Adventure-Time Related Post

Sooooo this is a touch late - but do you remember last September I created a tea party scene for my friend Viv? Well, over the course of the year we got addicted to Adventure Time (...in a BIG way).

Anyway, I made her a bday card in late September which I forgot to blog, with the lumpy space princess (my spirit animal) which is super childish and not great but I love it and I love stickers and I love glittery tape. 

Yes we're 21 and addicted to cartoons. Deal with it ha!




Friday 21 November 2014

Is it really too early to don the Christmas pyjamas?

Dear all...*this is not an art related post* but I promise you that art will come soon. It's just that most of the stuff I've created of late has been intended as gifts, and therefore it would be a bit crap of me to upload photos of stuff for people which they have not yet received. 

Also, I have an essay to do. And I'm not doing it. No siree. I'm suddenly all in a Christmas flurry of joy, despite it being over a month away, and despite having a scrooge for a flatmate. I can't wait to go home and see my Kent crew. It's freezing outside, but I have my pyjamas and my jumper and I'd rather be here like this than out. 

Cool Friday night Anna. 


Monday 3 November 2014

Somerset House Funny Face Family workshop!

This weekend I met up with some of my young German/Australian cousins - we attended a family workshop at Somerset House and had soooooo much fun colouring/regressing/creating. The children's author Jacky Bahbout has just released a new illustrated book called 'Funny Face' so we just drew a lot of funny faces and I am seriously considering treating myself to the book (but first I must complete my colour-me-good Benedict Cumberbatch book). 

A very happy Saturday well spent I think :)

My on-the-spot Magritte knowledge failed me a bit, but the reference is there. Also, this guy looks very much like my own Grandad, Frank. But Frank doesn't have a moustache. He doesn't trust men with moustaches. Or beards. Or only children.

This one was meant to be a self-portrait...(disclaimer: I don't actually look like this)

Mini faces! Note (not so) subtle Rocky Horror reference. And Los Campesinos! lyrics.



Saturday 1 November 2014

Summer in Sandwich

So after some chill time in London I returned home to spend time with the fam, and our new cat, Mikey the cowcat. It was fathers' day, and also my dad was actually very ill (he's recovered so well now! Back on the bike, literally). It was a very nice summer indeed.

I went on a beautiful walk with dad one night. Sandwich was very pastel, like so;





Summer in Shoreditch

I know this is very late, but we had our flat over Summer, and it was a slice of heaven to hang around in the city for a bit, doing very little and enjoying time with my flatmates and my friends. I've got really into disposable cameras again (at some point I'll do a blog post with my favourite London/English/Amsterdam photos I've taken over the last 2/3 years). The following three pieces I feel communicate that late-June feeling of relaxation and pastel calm I felt :)


This spread is a little random, but a very happy picture! Figures inspired by the gorgeous work of Laura Berger (one of my heroes, please check her out!) stand opposite a gloriously sunny photo and pencil image of the street I live on in Shoreditch. Long live Arnold Circus!

What my mother always said to me when I felt down as a little girl, and continues to do so. It's now my mantra. Life is transient - we should just try to enjoy ourselves when things are actually good.

Finally here's a very quick stylised sketch I did of my flatmates who are (and always will be) some of my best friends, and my London family. N.B. Since this point Helen's hair has been blue, green, blue & green, purple and now pink - how Shoreditch. 


Revision angst



So while I was revising for second year exams (heavily theory-based art history), way back in May, I got really into Lacanian theory and procrastination at the same time. The subsequent piece is a bit poor, and very small, but I enjoyed using ink and digging out my old 90s typewriter again...