Last Donut of the Night

I was supposed to start painting my idea for Kinga Bee's and my illustration project, but I got side-tracked by this round piece of cardboard.

 EXIF says September 2010

Primed and ready to paint after 9 months...

If I remember correctly this was a random piece of packaging from the box of an electric kettle. When I first saw it the customising cogwheels in my head kicked in and I thought donut. So I primed it with gesso, with the intention of painting it to look like a donut. When it had dried I put it in a box and forgot about it. Then last week when I decided to start another painting for some reason the cardboard donut sprang to mind.

Two sides to a donut

The design was partly inspired by Stones Throw's Donut Shop, a 2 disc vinyl LP of J-Dilla tracks that has slipmats designed to look like donuts. I decided to paint a donut on each side so, if you feel like a strawberry glazed donut you can pretend to eat the glazed side. Or if you're in the mood for some sprinkles, the sprinkles side.

Donuts for the eyes and ears.


Doughnuts, donuts. Whichever you prefer. They are both tasty.

The choice is yours...

I had a bit of a sound trip with Black Sheep's The Choice Is Yours not too long ago, then I found this video. Great concept, and funny too.

"UHH! C'MON!"

Illustration Friday: asleep

Sleepy cat, sleepy cat, why won't you go to sleep?

(watercolour, 23x31cm)

The sleeping kitten is Kara. I named them Kara and Mel, like caramel, because they're both orangey-brown coloured and siblings. In the original photo they are about 3 months old. They both lived in my family home in the Philippines. When they were older we gave Mel, who ended up being called Kulit (annoying) to my aunt. She did indeed live up to her new name.


Only later on did I realise that Kara was actually a tom, but the name stuck. He's still known as Kara but I call him Karabao, like carabao. I think it's better for him to be named after a docile beast rather than a cutesy sweet treat.

This is Kara in December last year. He's about 1 year and 4 months here.

Still sleepy as usual. Of the 2 Kara is much friendlier. You can easily pick him up and he doesn't mind. He often climbs up onto my lap to take a quick nap. Kulit on the other hand was always wary of being handled, even approached. Good thing we gave her away.

When he's awake and fully alert he is a beast:

We used to have mice living in a pile of wood in the garden. I think he caught them all.

Illustration Friday: soaked, part 2

Another one, this time with colour. What a day to forget your umbrella:

(watercolour, 23 x 31cm)

At least her feet are dry...

Illustration Friday: soaked

Seeing how the end of the world hasn't panned out today, I might as well post my entry. No colour this time:

(charcoal, A3)

Third portrait in a row. Still not brilliant at doing them, but they are fun to do.

Maybe the hellfire will come later...

Shhh!

(charcoal, A3-ish)

It's oh so quiet.

Earrings

(charcoal, A3)

Keeping it sketchy.