Guess who has discovered Instagram? (I’m under thethinks btw, for those so inclined.)
Sometimes, when my week gets very busy, I seem to end up making more art than ever, as if to prove a point.
But really, it’s love.
This week I adored; making a Pine Siskin with a lace-inspired train; obsessing over the exact tone of inky Orion-sky with my new watercolours and making big, bold, crochet bib necklaces courtesy of this generous tutorial.
Happiness is hula hoops and marching bands in one scenario. It makes me want to finally get an adult sized hoop and so I can learn lots of new tricks. Although I sincerely doubt I’ll ever make it look as cool as these girls!
The annual Honk TX festival of street marching bands never fails to make me deeply joyous. So much gloriously-ragamuffin, defiant, together, heraldic wonderstuff.
{Photos from last year: here}
Baby Gifts, Treetops & Bird:
{Including my first foray into embroidery.}
Austin is teeming, burgeoning, pulsating, bursting with SXSW this week.
I have not been near it by dint of other busy-ness, kids at my ankles and no camera (I think it would just frustrate me; I love taking pictures of all the SX visitors).
Happily it came to visit me. I love having British minstrels on our porch for a cuppa during SX week and this time, The Crookes came to tea. They are such lovely young men and it made me feel so heartened being surrounded by home accents and humour. Apart from writing melodic wonders, they always wear the best shoes — always brogued and booted.
Sadly, this video doesn’t really do their footwear justice but it’s still a great song:
More year by year SXSW stories here. Other years were more eventful I promise, we made babies and everything.
New things in my Etsy store, including this European Starling:
Drat it, my camera broke. In the meantime, here is a scan of the Eurasian Skylark that I worked on this week:
I am really enjoying the mental challenge of converting line drawings into paper-cuts. It’s not as simple as you might think because the lines need to join up for structural purposes and it forces you to think in binary terms of positive/negative space. It’s like a suduko puzzle! Well, a tiny bit anyway.
What a week, everything breaking, all at once, including my computer. Anyhow, it’s back now and almost better (horrible iPhoto issues though, I’m trying not to get too upset about it). I did at least manage some studio time and have just uploaded these to my Etsy store:
I love the intensity of Phainopeplas in flight! And here is the meadow that I filmed myself making last week:
So happy, spinning meadows. Another fine studiologue video for you:
Quinn and his special photo smile:
At what point is something not new? Our local corner-store, lovely but definitely not “new”:
We enjoyed celebrating King Julian’s birthday. [MLK day, that is.]
Peace on the streets:
Cheeky streets:
100 Dinosaurs:
Robin was unavailable that day:
Serious:
Attempting to be less of a complete idiot:
Attempting to pass on lack of idiocy to my kids:
Pablo and Picasso:
Getting my kids to play lego with me:
Bang’s special real smile.
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Hannah Stoney is a British artist and writer.
She paints, illustrates, curates, collaborates, cuts up old books and is working on a collection of short stories. More...
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Well Now….
By hannah stoney on March 12, 2013
I just thought I would share a couple of things I have enjoyed recently:
1. Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything.
Imagine the recondite brainiac-ness of science, filtered through the mind of a witty and warm writer and you have Bryson’s unique blend of sense and humour.
Hearing about the eccentricities of Science’s greats definitely adds a lot. Newton, for instance, once did an experiment that involved sticking a huge needle in his own eye and wiggling it around to see what would happen. Gross. But interesting.
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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