to the beach!, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

I had a great break in Kenton-on-Sea while I was in South Africa, the past month. We played in the sand, rescued beach slugs, found a rabies infested baby jackal, went canoeing, had good times with old friends. lovely lovely!

Barcelona Metropolitan October issue, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

Illustration for the October issue of the Barcelona Metropolitan. I drew the cover and a spread inside illustrating an article on the decrepit state of Las Ramblas, one of the most famous streets in Barcelona's city center.

It was a fun drawing to do. I went down and stalked the ramblas late at night taking notes, and then came back to my studio and sketched up ideas. drawing prostitutes and perverts is not something I do all the time, so it was a little outside my comfort zone, but i had goodtimes with the challenge. man o man.

I struggled a bit with the final colouring. I couldn't quite choose. you can see the other colour fiddlesticks in my flickr. somehow it turned out such a similar colour to the last cover illo i did for them, hmmm weird.

in the end this drawing broke my computer, and i had to go into the metropolitan offices to draw, but it was fun hanging out there, so it turned out excellent.

I'm pretty pleased with the final result, and some people left some nice comments on the barcelona metropolitans facebook page, so yay me!





see www.barcelona-metropolitan.com for the article and more info.
www.katcameron.com

Megans Wedding October 2009, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

So i have been in South Africa for the past month for my sister's wedding.
it was lovely to be home, Johannesburg was turing purple as all the jacarandas bloomed, the birds were out in fullforce for spring, and there were plenty of afternoon thundershowers.

My sisters and I helped my mom and aunt prepare for the wedding, we threw Meg an awesome hen party in the garden, which i sewed about a thousand scraps of cloth into bunting, which we strung up in the garden. we had sparklers and pimms with cucumber. the evening turned raucous as we ventured out into the night on our own private party bus with full on lazer beams.

the wedding itself was a fantastic vintage affair, all the ladies wearing hats and fascinators. it rained but rain is good luck at a wedding in africa, so it didnt dampen spirits and festivities continued long into the night.

i caught the bouquet, possibly to my boyfriends dismay, tee hee.

penguins love, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

a little friday penguin love

what i wore today, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

There is a wonderful group on flickr, which i joined today. Started by the illustrator Gemma Correl, whose little creatures i love! http://www.gemmacorrell.com/

anyway its called "what I wore today" but as she says some people prefer to draw pictures of themselves instead of photographing themselves. myself included...

this is my contribution. My favorite outfit of the moment, i like to call it my zebra zoot suit, even though it's not very zoot :)

go have a look at the rest of the clothing doodles and sketches here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/whatiworetodaydrawings/pool/

the key, originally uploaded by KatsAsleep.

still working on the fantasy / fairytale theme. this one just appeared out of nowhere. It may have started with an eye or a finger, i cannot recall. I have named it "finding the key" and I'm sure a million bedtime stories could come of it :)