Paintings and a Shoe

It's been a while since I updated...oops!

So here are some paintings I created for Queeriosity:

They're meant to hang from left to right, not from top to bottom like this. But oh well! Anyway, Queeriosity was a festival that a friend of mine was helping to organise, and he suggested that I submit some art. So I created some new paintings and also submitted a really big mixed media/oil pastel drawing that I created in highschool.

These paintings are each based on fairy tales. Can you guess which ones?

I also made an entry for the Footlocker Art Prize:

Click on the link and have a look!

Bats! By: alexisdraws

Also, I've been coating my quillings and they are on the verge of being sell-able! So close! Soon you will be able to buy them on Etsy. :D

Also again, I have a job again (as an animator, hurrah!) so I am really going to have to be more disceplined with my spare time, so that I can keep making my art and witchcrafts. Here's hoping I use my time well!

Okay, that's all for now.

Lex

Super Nova and Other Such Things

Well, for someone who doesn't have a job, I've been pretty busy this week! Mostly I've been doing social sorts of things, meeting new people and all that. And it's been pretty great! I must do more of these things.

Choir practise, QUT Queer Collective screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, parent time, Sprinkl (a creative networking group) and Super Nova were all the highlighting events of this week. And tomorrow I'm going to see 'A Cat in Paris', a feature length french animation. Joy!

Super Nova was pretty damn great, I came away with about a million billion business cards and flyers of a lot of things that I'd like to check out. As well as some amazing art by Ben Templesmith. Seriously though, so many things and artists to check out now! There's some pretty great local talent in Brisbane. And I definitely want to check out the Brisbane Quidditch Group. :D

Also, next year I totally want to share a table with someone at Super Nova. So friends, I'm putting it out there, it's just an idea right now, but let's Super Nova it up next year!

Speaking of friends, it was so great to see so many friends at Super Nova! It was just lovely to catch up with people, especially people that I hadn't seen in a while/ages.

Although while I was at Super Nova, I did manage to make myself ill in some way. I blame the sun. I was standing outside in the sun for quite a while in order to get in and when I made it in it was pretty hot and crowded. Combine that with no lunch or water and you get a Lex who very nearly passes out. x_x Or perhaps my friend Jarrod is so manly he made me swoon.

Well, that's enough talk! Time for some art:

It's Snow White! I quilled her using paper and I really want to turn her into a necklace. I'm going to coat her with resin, get a metal loop to attach her to a necklace and test her out. If she's sturdy enough I'm going to quill more necklaces and put them in my Etsy. :)

And here's Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. :) She shall also become a necklace!

That's all for now, I need some more rest, that sunlight sure takes it out of me.
-Lex

More Quilling and a Baby Bat

Woo, I've been so productive lately! Although I should really be channelling that into my graphic novel. >_> The next post will be all about that, I swear!

So my baby niece is turning one this week! Well, I'm pretty sure. I don't know the exact date because I am a terrible aunt. But her party is this weekend! So I made her a gift. :) All by hand, I might add, I don't own a machine. It took about six or seven hours and I really like how it turned out. I kinda want one for myself.



Big Gay Day is on the same day as her birthday party. So my day will be all, aaaw, cute baby, how sweet, WOO GAY TIME NOW! :)

When I finished the bat I stayed up late and quilled Wall-e and Eve. :D I think they turned out really nice. Eve was SO easy to do. Wall-e was kinda fiddly, but still fun. And look at his little cockroach. Cute!



Well, time to shave part of my head. (Don't worry, I'm just shaving the part that's already shaved.)

-Lex

Disney Quilling!

At Christmas I told my boyf he had to make me a card. So he got a whole bunch of crafty things to do so. Amongst those crafty things were quilling supplies. Quilling supplies that were never used. Until I got to them!

Disney characters gift cards!

Ursula and her eels. (Possibly my favourite.)


Ariel. (The first one I did.)


Belle.


Cinderella.


There will be more!

Lex