Plugged in and ready to surf

Good news: I now have a home Internet connection again after almost two months browser-free (thank you, dongle). Bad news: I seem to have a cold or something similar. Oh well, you can’t have everything I guess, and I’m happy enough!

Cue a hasty upload since it’s been so long without one. These resolutions are taking ages – I’m really going to have to get a move on with them. On the other hand, being without the Internet has kick-started me into reading again (see above!), as well as made me appreciate all the more the resources it places at my fingertips and motivated me to start working on some new things. Case in point: colour reference photos are only a click away, rather than printed out in monochrome, annotated haphazardly for colour, folded up, and lost deep in the recesses of my, or most recently my boyfriend’s, bag. Anyway, we’ll see how long this new earnestness kick lasts, though it’s a good feeling while it does.

P.S. (Haha - ‘dongle’! I have a puerile sense of humour. In my defence, so does my boyfriend.)

Music: Death Cab for Cutie - Long Division
Materials: HB pencil, Photoshop 7 

Be my Cooper

So, I haven't updated in a little while (another failure to keep my New Year's resolutions!), but in my defence there have been some mitigating circumstances! Sure I've been lazy and unproductive, but there also hasn't been any Internet connection where I'm staying for the last couple of weeks. I'm not sure the non-Internet maths adds up, but factor in the laziness quotient and that pretty much covers it, I think.

I'm updating this from my boyfriend's place (while he cooks me dinner - he's so good to me!), which is appropriate given the theme. I did have one short period of peak productivity round about St Valentine's Day: I've been a sucker for personalised treasure hunts ever since I watched Amelie and I really wanted to put something like that together for him. In addition to being an absolute gentleman, domestic god, and all round top-notch person, he's completely turned me onto David Lynch, so what resulted was a distinctly Twin Peaks themed adventure centred entirely around his desk. In this case, half the fun was probably in the making, but most of the details are classified Top Secret!

Surprise number 1: "Diane, I am holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies..." Bunnies not pictured. 

Surprise number 1.1. Incidentally, my boyfriend's name is not "Diane"!  

Surprise number 1.2: even more Cooper. 

Exhibit B: my favourite oddball romantic pairing after Andy and Lucy (I still can't get over "I'm a whole damn town!"). I was a bit hasty with the watercolour on the card, but I was really happy with how the fake coffee ring turned out. I love Audrey Horne. She's such a flirt. "Do your palms ever itch?"

Anyway, I'll finish off with a picture I took around the same time on my new camera (my old one had a  run-in with a banana and wasn't quite the same afterwards). It's of the area behind the flats where I'm living and it reminds me of the sinister and strange goings on in the woods around my favourite fictional town! The owls are not what they seem... 

Music: Tom's Valentine's mix-tape CD

Materials: black biro, watercolours