these days, i’m thinking a lot about what’s inside my egg…

i started drawing this one last night and finished it this morning. i really enjoyed drawing the dots on the egg and the comb. they add the kind of creepy texture i like…

this chicken is a barred plymouth rock rooster. his face looks like an eagle. i like his black lines. i found a photo of this chicken in a library book, which is full of incredibly ugly chickens. some of the chicken have really ugly combs that look like tumors. i’m so glad i wasn’t born to be a chicken.

this is my second drawing for the women’s art festival (here is the first one).

:: women’s art festival visual art exhibition::
(march 2nd - march 30th)
openeing on march 9th, 2007

mendel art gallery
950 spadina crescent east saskatoon,

this is me sitting on my precious egg…

good news! i’ve been accepted to be in the women’s art festival this year in saskatoon. the visual arts exhibition will be on from march 2nd to 30th at the mendel art gallery auditorium, with the opening on march 9th. i’ll be in the “established artists” section. last year, i was in their “emerging artists” group, so i guess i’ve emerged now.

i only found out yesterday that they need two drawings from me for the festival by march 1st (day after tomorrow). i was planning to do new drawings, instead of using my previous work. most of my favorite drawings are already being used for another show that i have coming up. so now i’m working quickly.

i was hoping to draw something last night, but i went to attend the saskatoon city council meeting to support the mendel art gallery’s planned expansion. the meeting lasted longer than i expected - i was there until 11pm. by the time i got home, i was too sleepy and hungry to draw.

even though i couldn’t draw last night, i was drawing in my mind during the meeting. i knew i wanted to do something with an egg, and maybe a chicken, so i went to the library this morning to get some children’s books about chickens.

for some reason, i drew chickens at this time last year, including my drawing “chicken breasts” for the 2006 women’s art festival. that chicken is wearing breasts because the festival was doing an art bra contest, and this was my version:

if you’re going to be in saskatoon in march, i hope you can come to the exhibit! i just have to go do one more drawing by tomorrow…

born out of me 2004.08.18.11:28:55am in kingston.

i drew this a couple of days before my first ever show — the 2004 women’s art festival in kingston, ontario. i’ll never forget that day. i’d never shown my work in public before. i had drawings, paintings, photographs of my doctor and nurse dolls, amigurumi, and useless toys. i was so happy that people liked my work.

i’m not a diva type, but i thought i should add some spice to my drawings for the women’s art festival opening this weekend in saskatoon. the festival is called “her-icane go-diva“, for some reason. at the festival, i’m officially an “emerging visual artist”. hurray! our opening is this evening (friday) at 6pm, at SCYAP (saskatoon community youth arts programming center).

one of the main events at the festival is the “art bra” show and auction. different artists (not me) are designing their artistic bras. i’m not very good at that kind of female-oriented activity, but i thought i should draw a bra for the festival. instead, i drew human breasts on a chicken. the chicken is proud to have such delicious-looking breasts, but the girl is not so impressed. “they’re just pieces of meat, after all”.

the kanji (chinese characters) say “bird breasts”. i should have written “chicken breasts”, but i wasn’t really paying attention.

this drawing and another one of mine, also featuring a chicken (violent type), will be showing at SCYAP until march 31st.

to japanese readers:

日本人のみなさんへ。私、関西出身の日本人なので、日本語でのコメントも大歓迎です。

よろしくね。

i did four more drawings, two of them featuring chickens. i’d never drawn chickens before. “chicken fight”, below, was my first shot at drawing a chicken. i was pretty happy with it, so i got wound up and kept drawing chickens. i’m planning to show the two drawings of chickens at the her-icane go-diva women’s art festival, because one of the chickens has nice and delicious-looking breasts. i’ll put those drawings up on my blog some another time.

i think birds in general are creepy creatures, but chickens are mega-creepy. they seem unnecessarily aggressive and stupid. since i tend to draw animals a lot, people think i like animals. actually, i loathe them. i can’t tell what they are thinking! i feel very uncomfortable when they’re around — especially chickens. imagine being surrounded by thousands of chickens — uuuggghhh…. (you can imagine my reaction to the hitchcock movie, the birds). a little bit of distance, preferred. still, i like chicken breasts, they’re delicious!

this is one of construction paper drawings. chickens are mean. so am i.

(sold)