I am the world's biggest idiot.

I've been working hard on my zombie burlesque dancer. But I made the fatal mistake of tilting the overhead projector forward when projecting her onto my painted background. It didn't lool so obvious when she was just chalked in, but as I started filling her in with colour it became more and more obvious just how hideously big her head was compared to her body. I'm thining, hey what the hell? I look at the drawing and it looks beautifully proportionate and then looked back at the painting ... and I realised.

I threw a mini self hate tanty, cried and bit and had a whine and a moan. I didn't know whether to throw the whole thing in or try rectify it. Greazefest is on Sunday. Hell I'd be so far behind. I decided to get up and attack the canvas with a damp cloth. To my utter surprise the zombie girl disappeared in front of my eyes, leaving minimal damage to the blended backdrop. Hallelujah! Is there a god?

So I'm having to rework the background a tad to repaint the white spots where the paint has come off and just get the remainders of zombie blue/grey out of it. But other than that, if I work through the night and keep at it I might just get it done in time. Here's to hoping *fingers crossed*

Now back to work!

So I'm finally getting into gear and doing some more artwork. I've just completed 4 small paintings which await a lick of paint around the canvas edges before I photograph them. I've also finished another drawing that I've been doing the last few months in my lunch breaks at work. I have 4 free days to paint before Greazefest on Sunday so hopefully I can get my lovely zombie burlesque dancer completed for the art show.

The weekend before last I visited South Australia. Adelaide is so unlike Brisbane for all the right reasons and the South Australian countryside was absolutely beautiful and I think I fell in love! I also go to visit the wonderful and talented Harmony (=DalaiHarma) who subjected me to cold cold grass of her back lawn. I was distracted from freezing by her hilarious antics which had me expelling big fat tears out of one eye. Said tears merrily indulged in smudging my eye make up. After my gig as model was over I was rewarded with peppermint tea (my favourite) and sent on my merry way home. What a hoot!

Anyhow, there are a few more ideas with different photographers in the works. I'm also going to change my journal skin to something more simple soon so I can just make smaller and more frequent updates. If anyone else wants THIS one, shout out! I might give it to you

Holy mack! I finally got some CSS sorted! Well sort of. I basically took *Jamaal10's Orange CSS layout and completely defaced it beyond recognition to what it is now. But he doesn't seem to mind so it's all good.

I just turned 20 last Monday so I'm finding it a little weird coming to terms with no longer being a teenager. My lovely boy gifted me an extravagant set of soft chalk pastels in a wooden case. Oh my! How I love soft pastels. Good quality ones at that! My goal this year is to do more artworks than photoshoots, because really I don't do enough art. It's a damn shame and I want to change that.

Oh and following my search for the perfect corset (RE: my last post) I FOUND IT! It was a longline courtesan underbust corset from Meschantes.com to which a friend on LJ referred me. I was EXACTLY what I wanted so I snapped it up. You can sort of see it in my photo by Kate O'Brien but I promise there are many more to come, including pending images from Derek Smith.