Come on Get Crafty: Bottle Red Silhouette

My latest in messing around with make-up.

I've always like the simplicity of a lot of fashion drawing that feature a simple silhouette, a flourish of a garment or gown, usually with a cloudy splashes of color.  It is simultaneously simplistic, almost bare-bones, yet beautiful, glamourous and ornate!  So I tried the simple silhouette of the face, with some bright (brighter than this scan allows) red hair.

In the Papier: Doctor Who Postcards!

A total impulse buy, but how could I not?  Doctor Who postcards?  Heaven!

Barnes & Noble is currently cleverly featuring a little Doctor Who table in their stores around here.  So after two visits of resistance, I succumbed on the third trip.  The postcards (set of 100!) come in a a TARDIS box, so even after all the postcards are gone I will still have something cool!

Most of the cards are stills from the recent season, or promotional photos (a few with a little too much airbrushing & photoshopping methinks), but I've gone through a selected some of my favorites, which often have to coolest design!

I will always want a 'Vote Saxon' poster.  I can put it on my wall on which I'm having some local hoodlums spray paint 'Bad Wolf.'

The Adispose are so cute!  They are one of my favorite of the recent monsters, along with the Judoon.

One of the most beautiful images to come from Doctor Who recently.  I super chuffed to have a copy; the original should be worth millions!

Ahh! The cybermen!  They are pretty freaky and ominous.

There is one that says "Delete Delete Delete etc." too.

And duh.  Don't blink.

Come on Get Crafty: the Gala

I cut this out out of the newspaper.  I think it was part of an ad for the McQueen exhibit at the Costume Institute and the Met Ball.  I've always been a little taken with the Met Ball.  It seems so classy and highbrow--- and combined with the McQueen exhibit, the whole thing rather fascinated me that year.

But despite the beautiful simplicity of the dress which the ad let speak for itself, I couldn't help but jazz it up a bit.  I like to think it's just an expression of the excitment and frivolity of such a fancy party!

P.S.  I also think one of the shapes looks just like a roster's head.  Can you find it?

Music this week: Ben Howard

I'm going to be doing some driving this weekend so I'm looking for some good tunes to listen to on the road.  The BBCAmerica blog recently did a post on the new sounds from London so I took a look.  Something reminded me that I've been missing Mumford & Sons recently, but I think Ben Howard is going to hold their place for a while.

I was instantly won over by his beautiful cover of "Call Me Maybe."

Current other favorites are:

The Wolves

Keep Your Head Up