NAKED EYE EDITORIAL: LIQUID GOLD

Above are a series of editorials I just completed for the next issue of NAKED EYE MAGAZINE in MONTREAL.
I am a featured illustrator this month so I have a lil' picture with some info. So fun! Love those guy.
This was an article about a really expensive cup of coffee ($100 a cup) that is harvested from Indonesian cat poop. Mmm mm!
Love! Christine

CATOPUS

I almost went to bed without posting but I really want to try to post every day as many times as I can so I whipped this lil' thing together. I LOVE this new Vector world I've entered only because I can draw a thousand times more quickly and in vivid colors. And I like building things up too--for example, all the elements in the cheeseburger are their own image. If you peeled it apart, it would be as if you were pulling apart a cheeseburger. I'm sure lots of people work this way but it's fascinating to think of creating in more than just 2D, because 2D is about the angle and the perception, whilst making this cheesburger was about making every part of it real and then laying them together.

Another advantage of working with vector is that I can work as fluidly and lucidly as I like with minor adjustments. The purpose of Catopus was just to make something for tonight, but I had no idea so I started off with just a doodle of a monster body and as I added each element, the story grew in my mind. In the end we have this Cat-octopus monster thing eating cheeseburgers from this creepy cheeseburger that makes cheeseburgers every time it opens its mouth. They're friends which is odd because the cheeseburger is making it's own kind to be eaten by his friend. But, I don't think the cheeseburger really cares, his reason for existing is to make cheeseburgers, nothing more and nothing less.

What else, I worked on some music today, and I slept A LOT, like a CATOPUS! In and out of sleep in the sleepy sun that shines between the buildings, getting up to make toast (I think it was my last day of Toastcapade), and then sleeping more.

Later Simon and I met up with Boris and we ate at a sweet little Italian place and then headed over to Drawn & Quarterly for Matt Forsythe's super cute comic book release called Ojingogo. Ah, Montreal why are you so amazing? Should I try to see what winter is like or just be a summer lover?

SEELING MY CAR: If you live in LA, I'm selling my car for super cheap, like mere handfulls of rubies!

Speaking of "lover", I wrote a new song (and now I have recording equipment that I borrowed from JP) about the moon being my nighttime lover and the sun as my morning.

OTHER NEWS: OH! I fell off my bike today too in front of a windowful of people. Whoops! It was really funny, like in slow motion. I was talking to someone and leaning up against my bike and then the bike fell back, slowly, slowly, and then I fell back slowly slowly on top of it plop.

ZZZtown now because I have too much work in the morning and I want to go to Quebec City in the evening.

Love!
Christine

I LOVE CUPCAKE

I have SO SO SO many patterns and textiles that I don't have uploaded online!

But this one is new. It says "I LOVE CUPCAKE" in cyrillic because "cupcake" is the new "mochi" ( I used to make a comic strip, a little book, some jewelry all about MOCHI [ a japanese confection made of gooey rice], and even met with the Mochi Ice Cream guy about making plush mochi dolls and t-shirts). A lot of people call me Mochi, actually. Isn't that strange and amazing? Some people ONLY know me as "Mochi". Wow. I like it. Nicknames are endearing, they take an extra effort to remember.

OH! I won a contest today!!!
I won HOOD ART by INFECTIOUS.com by submitting a really crazy picture of me that I just happened to have lying around of me with a mustache and a unibrow drawn on my face...if you dig deep into my Flickr, you might find what I'm talking about. Haha. I'm going to submit my own hood art as well! Maybe you might see someone driving around my with illustrations on their car! Crazy! :)




I can't decide whether this is a cat-cupcake or a cat crawling up on a cupcake. I like the idea of a super happy cat with a mustache (bien sur) crawling up a giant cupcake he found saying "I love cupcake" in Russian. That's the winner. :)

Love! C

MIAM MIAM!

Yesterday I spent most of the day looking at bakeries and little shops and than taking photographs of food. Also we have an orphan Cat here, so he was part of the photo series as well. :) (He has no name but I call him Baby Kitty.)

I'm in photo mode right now, so I haven't drawn anything the past couple of days, but, while I was laying in bed yesterday morning I kept seeing this very bauhaus ad for a muffin with illustration all over it, so that set me off in search of muffins. I'll work on the ad's later with some illustrations! I love to combine those things.


CLICK on the pictures below to see larger versions! :)






Last night we had a dinner party with Simons friends: all very cool girls. Genevive and I talked about Acupuncture and how she was going to do the training in the spring but right now she builds helicopters. YES! She actually puts helicopters together. Amazing.

Also, yesterday, I met up with my friend Eve and we walked around Park and Mile End and decided to go into this huge church with a dome. I had the insatiable urge to sing, and when the church cleared out we sang and filled the whole place with a happy resonance. I have a recording I did on my ipod (I have this little mic that attaches to it that records very high quality. It is one of the best things I've ever bought!). The sweet guy at the front who had to watch the church was very pleased. But, after a while, we heard this loud sound and an old man came out of one of the doors and asked us what we were doing.
"Singing!"
"You can't do that."

Well, okay. We left. I think it was a perfect amount. When we walked into the church I really felt like praying or doing something, so I asked what I could do and then singing was the answer.We were singing in praise and filling the place with joy, so, for a while, it was a very energetic moment. Eve and I decided we wanted to clear the repressive energy with ours so I said to imagine our hearts shining with joy and coming out of our voice. Ah, it felt so good.

So the music samples below are untouched---just one tiny sound in the cathedral echoes all over the place, resonates against the tile, a splinter in the pew, the light shining through the stained glass windows.
Love, Christine


Eve and Christine

Christine Cathedral Improv