Twelve Paperplanes: illustration

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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

always wanted to...

If there is one thing I have always wanted to do, besides get better at illustration, its illustrate or produce a music video.
Like this one...It's crazy good.

I have watched Rage (a music video show on TV) almost every Saturday morning since I was 8(ish). The first film clip I remember watching (after Brittany Spears and Nikki Webster) was Gotye - Hearts A Mess.

It's a beautiful film clip and I would defiantly say it was one of the reasons I began to love art and illustration so much.

Katherine Anne x

B E H I N D the A R T: Such Great Heights

Not only is this my favourite song by the Postal Service (listen) but its also the words I think of when I read this Psalm..

33He makes my feet like the feet of a deer;

he enables me to stand on the heights (Ps 18:33).

My obsession with colour has grown and, like always, I am glad I have something decent to show.

Enjoy!

Katherine Anne x

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Prints can be made and framed at my ETSY STORE

(when I take a decent photo of it)

Monday, 28 January 2013

B E H I N D the A R T: Lion

This is where it all started for me.

This guy was created with ink pens and water colours in 2010. It was after reading exodus 3.

¹¹But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” ¹²And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you^[b] will worship God on this mountain.” ¹³Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” ¹⁴God said to Moses, “I am who I am.^[c] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” ¹⁵God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,^[d] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’

“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me

from generation to generation."

I did a lot of pondering back then. I had the time.

When I look at this piece and remember all the dreams I had about the future and art and what I was born to do in this world…I remember why I wrote I AM WHO I AM in his mane.

Simply put, I can't fight with someone who already knows why I am the way I am and why I am here.

He told Moses to go. He told me to go and he told you to go.

So go.

You have a gift, use it. Don't worry about the next 10 years of your life, don't worry about next week.

Trust the creator of the gift inside of you.

That is what I hope this Lion yells at you.

Just like it yells at me.

Katherine Anne x

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B E H I N D the A R T: Attest

at·test

Verb

Provide or serve as clear evidence of: "his status is attested by his recent promotion".
Declare that something exists or is the case: "I can attest to his tremendous energy".

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B E H I N D the A R T: Surfing Blues

I dont pretend I can surf well. Mostly I just say I "surf", when people ask about my life.

My main excuse for not getting any better over the 5 years since I was introduced to the sport is, for one, Mackay (North Queensland, Australia) is not a great place to start off.

Secondly, to make surfing matters worse, I then moved to Townsville (Even further north).

The most "Surf" I've seen happen is two SUP boarders chatting on the glassy water at 7am.

So when I mentioned to my friends that I was surfing for two weeks at Agnes Waters(Great surf spot) and they got all glassy eyed and their mouths formed the shape of an "O". I felt like I betrayed them.

I can't surf. And I really can't surf when I am surrounded by these little lumps of brain, tentacles and I think mouths(?). They terrified me, in a exciting "oh my gosh I'm being followed by a jelly" way. They were cute but there was no way I was touching one. There were hundreds of them trapped in the cove just off the point we were "surfing" off. So when I often flew off waves and saw their bright blue, green bodies bobbing in the water I was about to dive into... the emotions of the experience haunted me.

When it came to thinking of what to draw or illustrate from my trip. These little guys were the only things I could think of.

I am happy with what I came up with. I used ink pens and watercolours to form the original and for the prints I simply turned gradient on in Photoshop. I also love thinking of opposite colours on the colour wheel because it stretches my thinking and it means I put just a little more thought into what I was creating.