Illustration Friday : Gesture

Well, this is illustration with a twist.

Click to see him run!!

This is a what I did for the State of Design Festival running officially from July 20-31 here in Melbourne.

It is a little light box with the animation (run little wabbit!) and a wolf making a menacing gesture.  (Boy I really have it in for rabbits lately, don't I?)

This is currently in the window of the Hill of Content Bookshop, along with 11 other beautiful animating lightboxes. Quite a sight at night! :-)


footage by Sonia Kretschmar

It was fun getting back into some animation, which I did at my first 'real' job out of university, at ImageBuilder Software in Portland, OR (now defunct, sadly).

Illustration Friday : Stay

New Orleans would have to be one of my favourite places to stay in the USA.

This is a map I did for They Draw And Travel -- they asked for a very personal map -- things that aren't necessarily in the tourist guides but the things YOU love to do in a city. And that's exactly what this is. We often visit NOLA due to my musician-husband's desire to have been born there, so we have many rituals, a lot of which are on the map.

I have always wanted to illustrate a map and I had sooooo much fun doing this. If I have time I may do another for Melbourne!

Illustration Friday : Remedy

There are certain situations where there are no remedies....

(poor little wabbit)

The age of reason

I watched a great movie last night called L'age de Raison (sorry no subtitles on link). It's a french film about a woman turning 40 who receives letters she wrote to herself when she was 7 (which the French call The Age of Reason -- the age when a child's conscience matures -- very interesting read here)

Did this powerhouse exec follow the dreams of her 7 year old self? Was she being true to herself? It made me think of something that my parents unearthed a little while ago:

A project I wrote when I was 8 called 'My Life as a Kid'. And it's basically 'my life so far'. It's pretty funny really, but the last part is the best: (click to see big)

It's been a difficult patch lately, and it's always easy for self-doubt to creep in through the cracks... so it was good for me to realise that I think my 8-year-old self would be proud of me :-)