On and on it goes, with no hint of plot!

On the off-chance that anyone is going to be in the vaguely Marylandish area, I'll be present at the following events;

24th April, 2010 (this Saturday)
The Friends of Quiet Waters Park Earth Day Celebration
(link)

and

1st May, 2010 (next Saturday)


I'll be selling Otto and Annastuffs. Both events benefit charities ^_^

I thought that was a species of fish

Today, my boss and I met with two ladies who work for a local news publication, Chesapeake Family. Many years ago, Chesapeake Family did a feature about an art show my parents and I were putting up in a local cafe. My picture was on the front cover of the November 1997 issue. I was eleven years old at the time . . .



. . . The overalls were permissable enough for a child of that age, but I think the mullet has to be seen to be believed.

Spring has sprung

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU LOVELY PETALS.

(copied and pasted from Fiery Coloured, for I, good sir, am a lazy bum)

I made this wee statuette in reference to the story of the Goddess, Eostre. It is often said that today's Easter holiday owes a great deal to this Pagan Goddess of Spring, who saved an injured bird by changing it into a rabbit. Every year round spring, however, the rabbit would then remember that it was a bird, and it would lay eggs. Hence, we get the Easter Bunny and Easter eggs.

Now, this story is a topic of debate, just about everyone I've heard it from/asked about it has told me something different. Either way, it's a fun idea and so we get . . .



BUNNYGRIFFS! . . . Come to think on it, I want to declare my responsibility for coining that term right now. I can not be certain the concept is my own to claim, but I'm going slap my hands down on this tabletop and say 'Bunnygriffs in name, copyright Fala Lee Hayes, 2010". Hurrah! . . . Or would it be more cute spelt 'Bunnigriffs'? Arararararrr.

Further backlogged drawings for Fiery Coloured:

For the Coffee and Tea challenge;



And for the zodiac challenge;

There's no need to embellish

This is the painting I did, as filmed in the post below this one. La la la . . .



(the 'link below' business was added because I uploaded this to DeviantArt as well)

Who needs April? I'm already a fool!

Managed to throw this together for the new O&A YouTube Channel;

Officer, I was in my kitchen, cleaning a dish . . .

I've got lots of art to post! I've also got company on the way in about half an hour and a sink full of dishes to wash! Hence, a quick bit of news, for now;

Otto and Anna is given a bit of spotlight on Simply Modern Mom! CHECK IT OUT
(Thanks out to Lisa and to SimplyModernMom.com for the feature)

There's also a contest, should anyone like to enter ^_^

Artses to be posted in a day or two. Till then, I'm off to scrub the dishes!

Just a wee bit

A very quick little mini-comic created as a placeholder for the new Otto and Anna webpage I am building;



These are the first three panels of a much longer story. Otto and Anna is going to be a webcomic! I'm excited!

Ruffling your feathers, again

Further assorted flavours, today;

Final design for the grandmother character in the last post;



I keep forgetting to post this . . . It was gift I made for my parents to put up in their new kitchen;


I made the tea pots out of sculpey and the liquid out of hot glue, then painted over the lot.

Last week's challenge for Fiery-Coloured was "Blue." Here's my entry.



And three illustrations from a children's book project;

Makes you want to stretch out your arms toward a green light across the water

A commission I just finished;

Twenty four hours of being twenty four

Well, it's midnight on the 9th of March and I've been twenty four years old all day. Er, horray? Possibly?

More importantly, I've got a backlog of arts to be posted. Here we go!

Sketches for a grandmother character in an upcoming Otto and Anna venture;



A speed-painting of my gator-hunting Cajun, Zekiel Arcenaux;


Remember that big bowl of paper cranes a few posts back? I made them into Valentines. I made a tonne and sent out . . . just under a tonne. Here are the last three stragglers of the bunch;





Here's the last two pieces I did for Fiery Coloured;

For the 'Cute and Terrifying' challenge, in which we were to pick something and draw it as simperingly cute as possible, then take the same thing and draw it as nasty and grotesque as possible;





And for the "X" challenge, I designed a tic tac toe board . . . With X-Men playing pieces. Anyone who knows me saw that coming from lightyears away, he he.







The pieces are made of shrinkydink plastic with felt X's and O's glued to the back. 'X' pieces are X-Men, naturally, and the 'O' pieces are members of the Brotherhood team. My printer was low on every ink but magenta, so the final colours were a bit of an accident, but I think they actually match the board rather nicely as is.

Here are the original marker drawings I did for them;







Good night, all!