Airport lounges are great places to let your imagination go crazy and daydream for hours. I love watching people & wondering where they might be going to, or coming back from & why? I sketched this while waiting for a flight to San Francisco as I was observing another young couple who were waiting and watching the comings and goings.
(edit - the guy had his hand on her leg in case you were wondering, nothing else :o )
tags: dreaming, airport lounge, sketch
Yes, today is birthday which means I have reached a quarter of a century. Although today itself is just a normal day at work, yesterday my girlfriend surprised me to a champagne afternoon tea at The Savoy in London, a very swanky hotel. This consisted of lots and lots of bitesize food ranging from Scottish smoked salmon finger sandwiches to chocolate & gold-leaf slices accompanied by any tea you could imagine - all extremely rich & all extremely satisfying! It's a wonder all rich people aren't a bit tubby, or should that be the other way around?
It goes without saying I'm back on the kit-kats & value cheese sandwiches today.
I treated myself to a new hi-fi system last week under the guise of 'it's my birthday soon & I can afford this', so I'm currently rediscovering all my old CD's which now sound about 20 times better. Today was the turn of Replenish by Reef. If you haven't heard any of their early stuff I highly recommend checking out 'Choose to Live' off this album, fantastic stuff!
Circular drums are so last year, that's right eight-sided is the new round - The folks over at Octaboom sure know how to make a crazy looking drum set. Pair it up with some laser drum sticks and there'd be no stopping the rock!!
I'm finally installed in the new house, just the cleaning to do in the old place now. I always think houses/flats look really sorry for themselves when you move everything out, they are sorry to see you go as much as you are.
Seeing as a topic of mine was chosen for this weeks IF (yay thanks Penelope!) I thought it'd be rude not to submit an entry, so here is my take on my theme, inspired by my old, bare looking apartment.
I tried to keep it minimallly coloured to add to the emptiness. Where there is colour I used a large dry media brush in PhotoShop over the top of pencil strokes.
tags: empty sketch
Got the keys to the new house over the weekend - some work had been done by the landlord to clean it up from the previous tenants, so it wasn't in too bad a state apart from a strange smell emanating from one of the downstairs rooms. Hopefully we've fixed this with lots of candles and air freshners!
At least this was what I thought until I checked the freezer...The grimy students had actually left a bunch of food in there, turned the freezer off and moved out. Over three months later, we were presented with stinking pools of stagnant liquified food with enough pond life thriving in it to rival the Thames.
After a weekend of bleaching I would almost consider putting food for human consumption back in there, but not before it's had a good airing!
Next time I move into a new house, I'll be sure to get me one of these bad boys:
