Love things: Work, workspace, salvaged whiskey

May 8, 2013

Things I'm loving lately:

1. Sketchbooks // Being excited about life and the 'fucking awesome' things that sometimes happen.

2. Collecting urchins (which I now know my dog likes to destroy) and native animal bones // Building flower shrines to farewell summer.

3. Some logo design jobs are just too much fun.

4. Sketchbooks // Flower shrines (again).

5. How I spend my mornings in the office before work.

6. Sending off prints, more available here // Nice light in the workspace (um, dining table) at home.

7. Humble helping me read Twoone's lithograph, Metaphysical views 'n' salvaged whiskey (how's that for a killer title) // And, well... flowers.

Die Hexe

May 8, 2013

Photography: Amanda Leigh Smith

Model: Skye Sengelmann

via Cake mag

I've said it before and I have absolutely no qualms about saying it again -- Amanda Leigh Smith is my favourite photographer.

These shots remind me a bit of the wide rivers in the mountains behind where I grew up -- as teenagers we'd ditch school and pile into my slow-rusting '89 Camry station wagon and drive the winding roads up past Bellingen and into Thora and Dorrigo, scouting for waterfalls, swimming holes, rainforests and crystals.

There's nothing like freedom, wilderness, gentle rebellion and breathing cool, mountain air

Sketchbook: Stolen flowers

May 6, 2013

By the time I arrive home from work in the evenings, dusk is already well on it's way and so Humble and I often end up going for a walk in the dark. The upside of the slightly scary experience of walking around in the dark is that I can steal flowers out of my neighbours' gardens and not feel quite so weird about it.

So, yep, that's what I do.

Also, I do this partly because Humble has chewed/eaten/ripped up/strewn-around-the-yard everything that grows in the ground and is smaller than a full-fledged tree. Including cacti.

Artist // Cassidy Rae Limbach

May 3, 2013

All images by Cassidy Rae Limbach

This is the kind of work I look to when I'm thinking: Shit, why does my work never look finished?

I just adore the composition and linework... so confident and wholly it's own, with a little twist of the sixties-psychedelic-poster-art thing.

Check out more here, or shop here.

☼ A rising soul ☼

May 1, 2013

☪ It's only rock'n'roll baby ☪

April 30, 2013

Images from Tumblr, here, here, here, here and here.

Just a little rock'n'roll magic to start your day... or end it, depends where you are.

☪

Sketchbook: Autumn yellow blooms

April 28, 2013

One of those

April 26, 2013

Old illustration // Medium-old photo

I don't even want to talk about this morning.

Just know that I really tried to create some out-there-awesome-fresh new work, but it appears that I've forgotten how to draw.

Luckily, it's Friday.

⊲ Seasonal optimism ⊳

April 23, 2013

Scarf and black beanie c/o Somedays Lovin; vintage Pendelton knit via eBay; necklace c/o Spell; vintage/pawnshop/market rings; vintage glasses; Americana by Don DeLillo; Kraken black spiced rum; Diana F+ Black Jack camera c/o Market HQ; Dr Denim jeans; vintage studded belt; vintage engineering boots; cow-skull coaster from Las Vegas souvenir shop; Hohner harmonica; Somedays print by Pony Gold.

Last night my housemate and I decided to take our dogs for a walk around the block after dinner.

Just before we walked out the door, I put on a second jumper and cursed Melbourne.

Two jumpers. In April.

(Which, for those of you in the northern hemisphere, means mid-fall/autumn).

So it's time, already, to dig out dense, wooly, sweater-beasts, and unpack robust oil-skin boots that click heavily on rain-slicked city pavements. To rally up a collection of beanies that complement your messy hair; to wrap scarves in and around anything; to tuck your knees up to your chest and huddle against the southern winter.

From now on, I think there'll be lots grey knits, grey skies and brass jewellery; late-night fireside chats in the backyard, fueled by warming whiskey and spiced rum; Sunday afternoon couch snuggles with Scotty and Humble the baby dog; soy hot chocolates from the laneways on my lunchbreak; reading and re-reading the writers who make you forget the weather and the world; more boots, buckles, leather, metal -- flannelette, denim, conchos, studs; and sketchbooks full of seasonal optimism, waiting for the world to warm again.

New prints...

April 22, 2013

Just put two new prints up online here... The world lies waiting and Iris.

Saturdays

April 20, 2013

Somedays Lovin Winter '13 Saturdays.

Photography Ben Sullivan

Model: Francesca Fame

Exploring city streets, scouring vintage shops and flipping through travel books, she lures you away from home on her favourite day, her most inspired day... Saturdays.
Spontaneous, wild, free-spirited and undone attitude, she is a quick-witted vagabond and she’ll swiftly seize your heart.
The Saturdays girl dresses in rich layers of printed rayon, textured knits, distressed jersey and vintage denim -- she cinches satin ties around her waist, scarves in her hair and treasures vintage T-shirts dug up in flea markets.
She wears florals from Mexico and paisleys from India. A worldwide aesthetic inspires her, she is edgy, electric, effortless and authentic.
She’s on a mystified journey and she hasn’t even left the city...

Somedays Lovin -- an all-time favourite Australian label of mine -- have put together something really sweet for their Winter '13 campaign, Saturdays.

Not being a native of the city where I live, I know what it's like to wake up on a Saturday and think... where to today? What can I uncover?

But then... I remember the overwhelming delight of my teenage years being a traveller in my hometown -- with freshly minted driver's licences and beat-up learner cars, we'd drive down strange roads and across paddocks to find the best freshwater creek, the most secluded beach, a friend's cabin in the hills or a hidden op shop.

Exploring, learning and discovering... They're such important things to remember to do.

Oh, and the humming bird shirt with leather pants and low-cut boots? Damn right.

☮ Sub-tropical bliss ☮

April 19, 2013

Keeping on with the flower thing... and the kinda-homesick thing... How beautiful is my sister, collecting flowers in my parents' garden last summer?

She also caught a mean bass (fish) while we were there, and helped dad wrangle a little calf that wouldn't drink from its mama.

I cannot wait to go back to the farm in July.

☼ Sun eaters ☼

April 19, 2013

Images from here, here, here and Tumblr.

Whimsical prettiness is not really my thing (I don't think), but at the moment I'm just right into anything with flowers.
OK, maybe not the ubiquitous garish floral prints, but I'm really enjoying stealing flowers from my neighbours' gardens on late-evening walks. And setting up bouquets around the house, as long as Humble can't get at them (she had a pollen-stained snout for three days last week after she had a massive, messy flower party with the lilies in the lounge room).
Maybe I'm having a kind of winter-denial thing.
Whatever it is, it's damn cute-looking.

Tiny-sweet thing

April 18, 2013

A tiny, sweet thing made from a medium-sized drawing this morning.

I'll be back with some substantial updates and interesting things soon... There will be some serious business taken care of this weekend and I'll be organised again.

Free time is going to be radical.

Succulents

April 17, 2013

Spell and the Gypsy Collective skirt; old Cassette Society dress; Harley Davidson boots via eBay; op shop earrings; markets/vintage/eBay rings and necklaces.

☽ ☼ New shrine ☼ ☾

April 16, 2013

The quiet in your mind Δ Memories of home Δ Worn shoes and new socks Δ A sleeping lover and a half-grown dog Δ Rabbit paws Δ Thistles, stolen late-blossoms and turning leaves Δ The opportunity to do whatever you want Δ