sooo there's been a change of plan-- due to Blogspot's weird formatting issues (you write the thing and get all your pictures looking all cool with text wrapped around them and other fancy tricks and then you post it and it comes out TOTALLY DIFFERENT!), I am going to start experimenting with Wordpress instead. It will be the same blog, The Loamly Goatherd, just different.
All of the posts I've written on this blog will still be here in case you ever need to reference some ridiculously intelligent blurb I spouted in November 2009, or super hip groove I posted in December that you simply can't live without. All of that will be here.
New stuff, however, will be posted at www.theloamlygoatherd.wordpress.com, so in the future you can head over there to get your sporadic-and-rando-musings-about-my-life-and-other-things fix.
Thanks pals! As always, I lurve you all very very much.
Frances
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
it's been a hot minute
Greetings, babies! Long time no blog!
I hope you are all whizzpop boom bam pow! I am feeling pretty great myself. The quarter's over: I got into Western's design program, I somehow managed to wrangle A's in French, drawing, AND band (although I'm pretty sure everyone got an A in band), and Ive been hanging out with REAL LIVE PEOPLE! As opposed to the dogs and my blankie, who are always great company and we remain quite close, but humans are turning out to be fun, too.
Also, yesterday I embarked on A Great Hunt for Inspiration and came across some really incredible stuff. Here are a few tasty morsels:
These are by a Swedish illustrator named Stina Persson. They are some of the most gorgeous things I have ever seen. The colors are glorious and her use of negative space is so innovative and bold and yet so delicate, I can hardly stand it. I love these. Don't ask me how Persson manages to keep her watercolors under such precise control-- I've been asking myself the same question for 36 hours straight and I really haven't the foggiest.
You can see her complete portfolio here.
This one is by Finnish-born illustrator, Kustaa Saksi. Both Saksi and Persson favor sharp graphics with bold contrast augmented by silky watercolor drippiness. Loves it. This one (below) is by Chad Hagen. I think the colors are spectrumtacular and I want to know how he handled all the layering and overlapping of those semi-transparent hues. Teach me preeze, Mr. Hagen?
Vintage Citroen ads-- I mean come on. Tell me that ain't crispy.
1975 is more my style, though.
I hope you are all whizzpop boom bam pow! I am feeling pretty great myself. The quarter's over: I got into Western's design program, I somehow managed to wrangle A's in French, drawing, AND band (although I'm pretty sure everyone got an A in band), and Ive been hanging out with REAL LIVE PEOPLE! As opposed to the dogs and my blankie, who are always great company and we remain quite close, but humans are turning out to be fun, too.
Also, yesterday I embarked on A Great Hunt for Inspiration and came across some really incredible stuff. Here are a few tasty morsels:
These are by a Swedish illustrator named Stina Persson. They are some of the most gorgeous things I have ever seen. The colors are glorious and her use of negative space is so innovative and bold and yet so delicate, I can hardly stand it. I love these. Don't ask me how Persson manages to keep her watercolors under such precise control-- I've been asking myself the same question for 36 hours straight and I really haven't the foggiest.
You can see her complete portfolio here.
This one is by Finnish-born illustrator, Kustaa Saksi. Both Saksi and Persson favor sharp graphics with bold contrast augmented by silky watercolor drippiness. Loves it. This one (below) is by Chad Hagen. I think the colors are spectrumtacular and I want to know how he handled all the layering and overlapping of those semi-transparent hues. Teach me preeze, Mr. Hagen?
Vintage Citroen ads-- I mean come on. Tell me that ain't crispy.
1975 is more my style, though.
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About Me
- Franny
- I was going to call this blob the Lonely Goatherd but thought that might be misleading because I am not, in fact, a very lonely person. The Loamly Goatherd works out quite nicely because loam rhymes with lone and also happens to be my favorite soil type. When I am not buzzing about being an agriculture and education student at Western Washington University, I am a cooker, a baker, an eater, a feeder of people, and a knitter-sewer-felter of all things soft and wooly.