i love you magpie!!

​i love you magpie!! is the second last playlist to the collection. 

Hallelujah! 

I have just been busy removing pastels from the desk, the handle of the dustbin, the computer keys, my face, my mouth, the chopstick I used to draw with, the sink I decided to wash the remaining thinners down, the desk, my hands. And now everything (including my face) smells like thinners. -sneeze- So if this entry doesn't make sense understand that a.) It's 02:06am and b.) I may be high on fumes.

This is my friend Nerine's playlist, who I adore to bits and pieces! We studied together this past year and have so many great memories and songs together. One look at her playlist not only had me grinning but I at once knew which song I was going to do for Nerinie. It was about three months ago when I fell in love with the high pitched who-knows-what signalling the start of Eaten By Your Lover-The Kooks. (the...ooo-oo-oh part) Since then I have had 86 plays of the song on my laptop alone (and everyone knows I listen to music on my iPod more...I mean come ON. I'm even doing an 80 paged sketchbook on one!)

Nerine and I studied zoology, and we had to learn a gazillion different phylums, familys, classes, orders and species of random animals. (I think it was the particularly tricky names that they focussed on.) We also learnt far too much about insects. We learnt that praying mantis females (family mantodea) eat their mates after copulation. -sneeze-

I thought this was a perfect illustration for this song and Nerine.

I spent the best part of today perfecting this praying mantids, and then... I ripped it up.

I think it's because I'm overtired. Not too happy about that...

But then I came up with something much better! When I was little, we'd always make a rainbow of colours on a page with pastels and then colour over the whole thing in black pastel. Then we'd take our scissors or pencils and outline curly whirly patterns through which you'd see the colours beneath. It's quite beautiful.

So I took Nerine's child at heart, colour lover, happy go lucky self and my pastels. And quite honestly went wild.

The result? A mess of happy colours, suiting Nerine just fine. And then I added one of my doodling characters to eat his lover (I love his lover's angel's wings to bits!)

Love you!