One in five


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Bits and pieces from the last few weeks via Instagram (@raychponygold)... I'm about to go into illustration-worker mode and make good on some promises, so I might just disappear for a while.
Also, my sister's wedding is on the horizon (a week-and-a-half!), so I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my family. 
Mum called the other night to tell me she's put an antechinus skeleton in a bird cage so the bugs can clean it off without other animals taking it away... unique behaviour there.

Mother totem


God. It took me two days to finish this (that includes a lot of procrastinating, namely lying in the sun reading a Jimi Hendrix autobiography and drinking tea).
Every time I start out drawing a waratah, I'm reminded why I never draw them. They're excruciating. And this is only the third time I've tried to draw one. 
But, this is for my mum, and she digs waratahs and regent bowerbirds, so. 
I'm not sure how she's going to feel about the wallaby skull (she's not big on "dark" themes)... but it is a nod to our ongoing argument about who gets to keep the animal bones my dad is always finding.
So here it is. Mother totem.


Nope.

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Why -- after a whole weekend of staring at a blank page, thinking, "I can't think of anything to draw," and "I ain't got shit to do," -- do I wake up on Monday morning and think of about seven different things I'd like to draw and at least three other projects I promised people I'd start on?
And at 5am, no less. 
It's going to be a long week.

Rising sorrows

Strange Totems

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Strange Totems II (flight)

This is the first one of (hopefully) a series.

Hell or highwater


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It's Friday! Maybe that means I'll find time to scan some of the sketchbook scrawls I've been posting on Instagram (@raychponygold) but neglecting on here...


Chaser

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Yet another incredible body of work by Alexandra Valenti for Chaser Brand.
Via Earth Age

I'm really pleased that Alexandra Valenti can channel some kind of divine, creative-mystic soul from somewhere outside the range of normal human minds. It makes the start of another office day a lot easier to take.
Also, that moto jacket in the fifth image from the top. Damn. Where can I possibly...?

☽ Mystics of the moon ☾

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Sugarhigh + Lovestoned
Photographer: Amanda Leigh Smith 
Stylist: Chloe Chippendale and Tami Snodgrass 
Models: Skye Sengelmann and Sarah Peinado 

Summer is now on its way... the days are longer, the nights are warmer... Maybe we can go lay outside on the grass and enjoy a clear night sky soon. Sugarhigh + Lovestoned have shared a little night-mystic inspiration to accompany a slip through the change of seasons -- spring in the south and autumn in the north. 

 

Spring things


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Collecting beautiful images; 
Wild daisies growing on our lawn (and my favourite, never-take-them-off Harley boots); 
Strawberries every day and killer King Brown skateboard artist issue; 
Arizona Highways vintage cactus photos; 
Workstation with blossoms and lace; 
And Strange Totems in progress.

So, so, so glad it's southern hemisphere spring. 
And Bay just arrived back from the US. 
What a day.

Outlaw

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Something Else teamed up with artist Julie Verhoeven for the spring 2012 Outlaw collection.

I'm at odds here; I'm not sure what to do... Is cactus print better on a long-sleeve shirt, a long-sleeve dress, a short-sleeve dress or a maxi skirt? And while making this important decision, we've got to keep in mind that the dresses and shirt all have cute little cut-outs on the collarbone/shoulder areas. 
Ideally, this kind of debate would end in one of each. Everything cactus print. The only truly logical solution.

Anyway, all that Cormac McCarthy I've been reading must have messed with my mind -- I can only think in terms of horses and wolves and cowboys and outlaws and vast expanses of Mexican desert. Well.


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