At the moment we are parked in a campground with just a little stream separating the bus from the beach. The boys spend their days casting buckets and unbaited hooks (we’ve resigned ourselves to the fact that there are not, and will never be, fish in that meter-wide trickle of water) from the little bridge … Continue reading River adventures
Ok, just one more. We’re parked up in our home-on-the-road, Liberty the Great, in Te Awanga in the Bay of Plenty. It’s an awesome campground, right on the beach, and we’re loving the feeling of impending summer. There’s a legend in these parts of a beautiful woman called Pania who lived in the ocean, and fell in … Continue reading Bonus Drawing # 101, Pania of the reef
SO here it is, drawing #100. It’s taken me 231 days to get here, as opposed to my proposed 100, but I’ve stuck at it and made it through to the end. I’m good at having ideas and starting things, but not that awesome at getting them finished, so I’m pretty proud of myself. Some … Continue reading Day 100: The deepest sleep
Mr Mermaid, his tail sweeping through the air, whacking the ball out of the court, accidentally looks uncannily like my husband.
Last year I did some quick t-shirt designs for Thomas’ beach volleyball team in Hamburg. They’ve asked me to come up with a design again this year, and I’ve had fun coming up with designs for king and queen of the beach.
I’m doing an online class at the moment – it’s for aspiring artists and illustrators is described by teacher, Amy Ng as: A 6-week, fully online class, available instantly anytime 24/7, anywhere to everyone around the world. We’ll teach you how to differentiate yourself from the sea of other talents out there, how to build your … Continue reading Day 97: Me, 10 years old
A friend got in touch recently to ask if I could do some lettering for a teatowel to be given out at a family gathering. She wanted a casual calligraphic look, which I managed to put together within a tight timeframe and budget. It was an interesting process working on a handlettered piece with this … Continue reading Day 96: Bounty
Feeling inspired by the flip in seasons, I thought I’d have a go at a repeat pattern. Very simple – not terribly well planned or executed, it was still fun. Another thing to add to my list of stuff I’d like to learn more about!
I’m not sure how accurate this portrait is, but I really enjoyed chatting with Brian, so thought I’d give it a go drawing a picture of him once I got home from Hamburg.
The conference was set in an historic church in Hamburg, MC’d by a guy dressed as a monk… drinking a beer, operating a Mac.
One of the handful of women at So Coded the other day sported the most amazing binary code tattoo. So awesome was it, in fact, that two of my fellow geeky speakers proceeded to spend about 5 hours trying to decode it. I’m not sure if they succeeded.
When you’ve flown right around the world in under a week and a half, day and night, wake and sleep, standing and falling all sort of blend into one.
So, as I mentioned in the last couple of posts, I was in Hamburg to speak at a developers conference about life on the road, living and working from our converted school bus. It has taken more guts to post the video here than it took to give the presentation in the first place, but … Continue reading So Coded
Back when I used to co-produce World Sweet World Magazine with my husband, Thomas, our motto/ tagline was “Make your day”. I’ve been meaning to do a handlettered version of it for a while now, but have never gotten round to it. So here’s a first draft – there are things I’d like to change, … Continue reading Day 89: Go ahead, make your day
I’m in Hamburg, Germany at the moment, here (pretty mindblowingly) to speak at the developers conference, So Coded, about my life travelling and working in a bus. Hamburg is pretty much as far away from New Zealand as you can get, so the whole flying/ waiting/ flying/ waiting/ flying/ waiting/ flying process took about 30 … Continue reading Day 88: Long haul
I was in hospital recently with my son (for some tests and yes, he’s fine). I felt for all the weary parents who would just manage to doze off to the sound of beeping monitors and whimpering children, only to wake as a quiet nurse slipped past to whisper to the mum behind the adjoining … Continue reading Day 86: Hospital sleep
