Art College! Blog no 21!

This is a painting i did in my last life model class. I got all inspired and brought in lots of watercolours, pastels, pens and brushes. i'll scans and post up some of my other work so that you can see what i've been doing lately.
Art college is pretty cool and next tuesday i get graded for my painting folio which hey isn't exactly my fav folio i've ever done. there is like no freedom in my course.
also i'd like to make a notice about this sites youtube channel. http://youtube.com/user/bellababekisses
so if i up load anything it'll be from or on there.
Also next thursday my mate Ryan comes down to visit me n boo, my sister.
next week i only have Uni on two days in which i'll be making stamps at a post office!! YAY! last year apparently they bound books.
which reminds me that i happened to have two articles on Ghost world in 2 mags i own (Yen and Empty) i might scan them up you all.
i've also been looking around on sites etc for the scans of ghostworld but haven't found any. I've also being watching the movie and i feel the character's are different from the comic, but still pretty cool but not as cool as the real thing. This morning i read the comic "Blankets" and damn well that WAS interesting. it's about a Guy named Craig and his battle with christainity and love and life. At first i thought is was preachy but at the end he's most happy without faith...i kinda disconnected myself from the character at time to enjoy it.

Ghost World part 1! blog no 20!

The cult classic comic book "Ghost world" was amde into a movie this is part one the rest lives on youtube atm!! wathc it!!

Cult classic comic! Ghost world! Blog no: 19!

Ghost world if you don't know is Amazing!

Written and illustrated by Daniel clowes (a popular american cartoonist from the 90s).

This comic book is witty (black humor) , smart and makes you feel that little bit alternative and cool.

It stars two misfits, resent highschool graduates (Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer) who both failed to get into college even though they are vastly less stupid than the rest of the "losers" in their hometown (in america).

I really real I and my sis relates to these girls, even if she doesn't agree, but i digress.

Enid apparently "drifts through life without a care" thanks youtube (never believe youtube!) as if she just does buy into the norm! ok, in the comic she makes her love interest, josh (who's kinda sheepish if you ask me) go into a adult shop and buys a bondage cat woman mask (no, this comic is not dirty in anyway...it's arty). she likes to play pranks on people for her own happyness. she loves the morbid!

Daniel clowes stated "When I started out I thought of her as this id creature . . . Then I realized halfway through that she was just more vocal than I was, but she has the same kind of confusion, self-doubts and identity issues that I still have -- even though she's 18 and I'm 39!" Enid Coleslaw's name is also an anigram of his name.

Now to Rebecca Doppelmeyer, neck length blonde hair and Enid's best friend. she is far more passive and naive than Enid. she's far more normal than Enid too, however really does feel second best. she's acturally pretty obsessive in the two's firendship too. usually responding in a sarcastic way. most of the time, her responses have nothing to do with what Enid is talking about. She has no particular aspiration in life and clingings past. she also has a crush on Josh (the same one as enid). i feel she dislikes and likes Enid at the same time and she gets mad at Enid when she does things without her. i kept on asking myself where are they going? where is their friendship going? if their not lesbians, why are they still together? yeah it's pretty undertoned.

the ending made me sad. the girls just grew apart and not much is answered. either Rebecca or neither got josh in the end, it's just never exsplained or shown. It ends with Enid's plain carried out which is states at the beginning of the book, which is Just packing a bag and hoping on the next bus to the city and jsut disappearing. alot of people think this was symbolisim for suicide. but when i read the book i didn't get that. though it kind does make sence. Rebecca grows up and becomes "a beauitful young woman" and really nolonger need Enid in the way she used too.

so it's kind 2 paths misfits can make or whatever, i don't know!

well apparently is a novel and a movie too!! i'll keep my eyes open for scans of the comic book so you can read and she what i mean when i say it's a really good read!

pinky, cat and a bear! Blog no 18!

Meet pinky,cat and bear, just hanging out. get it? hanging out? get the bad pun? cos there hanging upside down? in the picture?! lol soz for that anywho this is wear they live. upside down attatched to smiggle clips hanging from a lamp.

cat resently left us for the goldcoast because i gave it to my brother's girlfriend!

none of these softies wear my patterns.

Different Colors / FPM! Blog no: 17!

japanese ad. trippy. song by fantastic plastic machine. animated with too cute amine!! very very surprising!!!

fantastic Fafi!! Blog no 16!

at the moment i'm pretty obsessed with the work of Fafi! she's a french artist who is so totally cult it's unfar!!! she's pretty famous so it would be not surprize if you're seem her work on tee, shoes...oh and the streets!

I've been kinda reading up on her work and getting all inspired by her too cute work!

i was watching the show on ABC called NotquietArt which is all about art not being confined to gallery (you can download the eps of the ABC australian site) and on ep 2 they were talking about street art in melbourne and you can see her working on one of her famous, icon fafinettea girls!!! her work is stylized and just so fantastic!!!

her work has a sence of energy about it which i would love to capture in my drawing. atm i feel i am in a bit of a rut and i find my self photocopying pages out of books and magerzines. i have a paint due in 2 weeks and i can't think let alone do!!! that is my i am i guess doing wat i am atm.

her website: http://www.fafi.net/

look her up on line! x o elisa

paper monsters! Blog no: 15!

theses little guys are just some softie ideas i have been toying with. this blog is really just a blog to say that this site is still active and will soon be updated!!! x o