You can see all of my sketchbook pages here! Check them out and the other artists too!

I understand it has been a while… and that you’re probably not talking to me, but hopefully this will bring you round!

Entitled Bang Bang II

Yay! New art! You probably recognise this style. She is the sister of Bang Bang I

I’m planning on making a whole series of them. With some boys as well.

I have also been creating some crafty things too! I’ve bought myself a purple hot glue gun and am making fun brooches and magnets! I’ll post more tomorrow!

Bed time!

As you can probably guess, there is a new zine each month, for 13 months: December 2009 – December 2010. It features art, writing and thoughts from artists all over the place! I received the my first zine (May) in a Grab Bag from Bird in the Hand Zine Shop. I loved it so much, and saw that “Anyone can submit!”

So, I did.

Here are the zines I received, I’ve got two copies of May, but I’ll let you see the different covers (the insides are the same!)

WARNING. This post is IMAGE HEAVY.

(I have no January)

May number 2.

June was one of my favourites, here is my favourite snippet of June.

Pretty cool huh? This is written by Phoebe Macdonald. She has exactly the same kind of synesthesia as me!

I am also a big fan of August, here is one of my favourite bits.

This is by Mark Whittaker

Here is September, and here is my painting inside:

Here is  my painting inside:

Sweet!

In my next post, I’ll include all the other goodies I received in the package!

Love and stardust!

I’m sorry I have neglected you, but I promise I have a really, really good reason!

In fact my life is full of reasons at the moment.

I’m half way through week 6 at school. That’s right, I’m a teacher now remember?! It’s crazy, crazy, CRAZY and was initially terrifying to the max. Luckily, all the students are lovely (give or take a few ferals) and they all love music. I’m teaching from Prep (that’s kindergarten) to Grade 9. So, that’s something like 500 names I’ve had to learn. I’m also taking two choirs (yay!!!) and have three singing students.

I have never sung so much in my LIFE! But luckily music teaching is practically the funnest thing ever.

As well as not having time to update my blog, I haven’t had time to do anything even remotely arty, which is sad. I also have a casual job selling tickets to musicals, which is taking up a lot of time. But, somehow I feel like it will have to go pretty soon.

I have however, got some fun news about things I have been doing. I’ve just bought myself a darling Diana Mini.

Cute no? It’s just the tiniest little thing.

Here are some photos from my first roll. I was just experimenting, and I’m looking forward to playing with some of the rad lomography film I bought as well.

It takes 35mm film, which is much easier to have developed which is nice.

I also bought myself, these:

I know. I know. T’hey’re the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen. Mine actually have blue wheels. I went skating for the first time on Sunday, and spent a lot of the time on my butt. I also gave myself a heap of awesome skate-pad shaped sunburn. Hopefully, I’ll get better with practice.

I also bought myself this:

No it’s not a tiny guitar, it’s a ukelele. I’m in the process of teaching myself, and thankfully it’s much easier than guitar, and SUPER easy to pick up. I can already play “You make me feel like a natural woman”. I’m specifically picking songs that seem ridiculous with uke.

So with all these extra hobbies and pass times, it’s certainly hard to find time to make art. But I do have some arty news for you.

My prints “O”

and “The Moral Is”

are for sale on my etsy store! They’re only $25US for a limited time, so if you want a print. Now is the time to buy!

Hopefully next time we speak, I’ll be able to give you some more arty news, and less about my spending habits (as rad as they are).

We’ll talke again soon, I promise.

In Feburary I started back at my last ever year of uni, and also celebrated my 5th anniversary with my lovely boy (not a first or a last!)

In March I opened my etsy.com store and made my first sale in June. Not long after that I was featured in a blog (Cute Stew) for the first time and had my first giveaway at the same place.

In June I had a painting in an exhibition for the first time (Drawgasmic) and will (when the book arrives) see my art in a book for the first time. I’m planning on submitting again this year! Yay!

I’ve even got published for the first time this year, in Blanket Magazine and the Thirteen Month Project (twice!).  Much like my Drawgasmic book, my subscription to the Thirteen Month Project is still coming in the mail, so thought I have been published, I have yet to see any of my art in a book in the flesh (paper).

I submitted art to the Indie Fixx  Feed Your Soul - Free Art Project, and will be submitting a downloadble Valentine’s Day card soon!

I’ve painted four commissioned portraits this year, and have another commission for the new year (and it’s a biggun!) I have yet to post about my most recent one, but I will soon!

As the year drew to a close I had to practically abandon my art and blog and YOU dear reader to focus on my (cough) career!  I still feel so strange even saying that out loud.

I graduated from my Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education in Dec with Second Class honours, and (before I had even graduated) got my dream job at a little Anglican College teaching Prep – Year 9 music to boys and girls. I start on the 17th and am pretty much beside myself with excitement.

As for this year, I have some resolutions (many of which are the same from last year!) Some of them are already underway.

Carla Thursday’s
 Resolutions
for 2011

1. Eat better. For pete’s sake EAT BETTER. Well, I eat pretty well, but I need to eat more raw vegetables, more fruit and less carbs (I am a sucker for bread and pasta). Also, more water, more green tea, less cofee, less alchol and more vitamins (particularly vitamin B).
2. Get up early and walk every day. This is partnered with going to bed early too. I honestly, don’t know why I don’t do this, when I know that I feel amazing afterwards.
3. Meditate. At the beginning and end of each day. This is a habit that is yet to stick, it’s a tricky one, but my mind makes more sense when I do.
4. Get organised. I am starting a new job and a new life this year, and my life is an organisational nightmare!
5. Get your art out there. This I have already started doing, I have posted ads to Gala Darling

and on The Curious Pug! Click here to read about Alycia’s sponsers!

I also (DUN DUN DUN) mailed two of my prints to Frankie Magazine today.

Frankie is quite possibly my favourite magazine, and the most delicious publication ever. Just the thought that someone at Frankie will see my paintings fills me with delight!

I hope that this year will be equally huge and as exciting as last year,  for me and all of you.

xo

I’m posting automaticall from my iPhone, so you can keep up with me all the time.

I’ll make a post in the new year, I have lots of things to tell you, all about the fun things I got for Christmas and my NYE party plans, and ZINES!

I’m fully appreciating the holiday time at the moment with lots of sleepovers and fun dinners. Tonight, I’m making Epic Nachos (did you notice the capitals? Yeah that’s how epic it will be.) for my boy and two besties.

I hope you all had a delicious Christmas and will have a fab New Year.

I’m off to eat some Christmas tree shaped shortbread. Nom.

I thought I would show you this absolutely devine necklace I received.

It’s from The Yellow Owl Workshop and I feel like it really represents the kind of person I am.

What are you hoping to get for Christmas tomorrow?

Anyway, I went with collages in the end. This is what I came up with! Hopefully my parents won’t read this!

This is collage number 1, the smallest one, it’s only a few inches across.

Here are some close ups.

Here it is in the frame. I was a bit worried about the film strip at first, but I really like it in the frame.

Collage number 2.

Close ups.

And in the frame.

They’re called nesting frames, because obviously they all fit inside each other, so you can gather how big the smaller one is but this.

Collage number 3. This one is probably my favourite. It took me the longest too.

In the frame.

The last and largest collage.

Framed. WIth me in the reflection.

Here they are all wrapped up, ready to go under the tree.

I hope you all have a delightful Christmas with your family.

Love and presents and cookies and milk!

]]> http://www.artisjustfrozenmusic.com/2010/12/23/giftmas/feed/ 0 http://www.artisjustfrozenmusic.com/2010/12/22/books-ive-read-in-2010/ http://www.artisjustfrozenmusic.com/2010/12/22/books-ive-read-in-2010/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:14:45 +0000 Carla Thursday http://www.artisjustfrozenmusic.com/?p=2530 As many of you may know, I love books. One of my better skills is that I can read really fast, if I put my mind to it, I can put away a book a day. Sadly, this year I didn’t get that much time to read, but here is a list of books I’ve read.

In no particular order:

The Handmaid’s tale – Margaret Atwood
When you are engulfed in flames – David Sedaris
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles – Haruki Murakami
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
Girlfriend In a Coma – Douglas Coupland
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Messenger – Markus Zusak
The Knife Of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Series Book 1) – Patrick Ness
The Ask and The Answer (Chaos Walking Series Book 2) – Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking Series Book 3) – Patrick Ness
Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsay
Dearly Devoted Dexter – Jeff Lindsay
Dexter in the Dark – Jeff Lindsday
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Wicked – Geoffrey Maguire

These are the only ones I can think of, off the top of my head right now. I’ll probably think of many more as the days go on!

What amazing books have you read this year?

Do you have any on your to-read list?

Warning: This post is IMAGE HEAVY!

I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did.