another old doodle from 3 years ago.
as usual not paying attention in one of the many redundant classes at artschool.
experimenting a character style i call The Cheekbone Theory.

its ma homies, originally part of a group of 5 who called ourselves Hwa Hee*.
after a forced split (boo to school and their “only in groups of max 3″ rules), we girls decided to stick together and emerged as the Hwa Hee Dollies**!

oh in other news…
IM LOVIN’ THE FREEDOM OF UNEMPLOYMENT

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* Hwa Hee means “happy” in hokkien (a chinese dialect)
**note to all: no association to the Dim Sum Dollies by any chance.

HELLO I’M ALIVE I’M ALIVE
AND I DYED MY HAIR
(and for cheap too which is always nice)

i havent been drawing much but ive been busy with some odd jobs here & there to put more pennies in my pocket to be squandered on beautiful shoes that i will fall out of love with once they land in my hands (shh dont tell my boy, who already thinks i spend a ridiculous amount of moneys to torture my feet but well, the men just dont get it, do they?)

once i clear my obligatory duties, i promise to come to my senses and post more art!

in the meanwhile you can admire a drawing i did 5 years ago when i was young, stupid and emo:

click for larger, please.

well, it turned out that guy was a colossal asshole. i had super shit luck with boys.

january is such a depressing month.

and now i need to eat before i die of hunger…

but ’til very soon folks! I WONT BE A DILETTANTE.

CLAUDINE & CLEMENTINE ©2009, nataliette.
digital painting + photomontage & airbrushing.

this is Claudine and Clementine, the haughtiest twins in the neighbourhood.
they love christmas for the presents, though the gifts did them a nary bit of good.

bloodshot eyes and sulky faces. puffy sleeved leotards and swishy frocked skirts. the cotton candy hair reminded me of Claudia from Interview With The Vampire and hence: Claudine. whose twin is Clementine. to see the picture in larger size click here.

and omg, sorry for the infrequent art/posts. i havent been too inspired lately.
usually mundanity turns my brain to useless mush and on the contrary: the worse my mood, the more i draw.
recently theres been plenty of family drama but this time, oddly, it was hardly motivating me to do my art.

NO MATTER. as usual i wont be home for the festivities: this year, im flying off to the philippines. hooray! my flight leaves already next Wednesday. being one of the few people who love flying, i cant wait to get my passport stamped.

BORACAY, HERE I COME!!!

until then, Happy Holidays y’all.

a surreptitious relationship. fingers with beautifully varnished nails clench the blunt nails of the other. the Proud personality in this duo gets hushed by the Cautious other half with Cautious’s anxious furtive glances. i feel sorry for all my homosexual friends leading their muted lives… and this is a little drawing to illustrate so.

BABY TALK digital painting with texture (view larger!)

dedicated to my breastfeeding sister & her month-old child, my beautiful beautiful baby nephew.
coo.

normally i work in international paper size, ’tis my first time doing a square format… i think i like it!
my favourite piece so far.

p.s. drawn with my new&shiny wacom tablet bought with love from my sweetest bestie & friends! this is the perfect bday present ever!

oh & here’s a picture of me & baby abe, taken only yesterday…he is such a beauty no?

oy people in da haus!

sorry for the unabashedly long unofficial absence… literally zero art done since the conclusion of my exhibition…! eeks. in my defense, my schedule has been crammed with work, work, and more work! (i suppose its a good thing… for my bank account)

here’s a piece i did, custom for halloween!
look for more variations soon, because she was originally meant to be for something else.
i know, im cheap, slappin’ on fangs and bloody tears and a noose – but dude, its waaaay to easy to qualify for halloweenishness!

her name is leigh. and i wrote a shitty poem for this piece:

poor leigh
she only wanted to play
but the man bit her
and she screamed murder
and now she hates the day

so im not going out on halloween because its just madness and i dont really fancy queueing 3hours to get into some shitty club jampacked with shitty smelly kids all doing the melbourne shuffle (ORIGINALITY PLEASE, GUYS?). instead, i have 2 houseparties to attend! woohoo, cant wait! im gonna be anna wintour, hawhaw… in fact, im going out now to buy some faux fur to be totally anna.

so what’s everyone gonna be on halloween?

here are the works i put up at my mini show Love is a Dog from Hell at 15minutes cafe in lasalle college of the arts.

don't undress my love/you might find a mannequin:/don't undress the mannequin/you might find/my love. -Trapped

or the terror of one person/aching in one place/alone/untouched/unspoken to/watering a plant.
-The Crunch

I loved you/like a man loves a woman he never touches, only/writes to, keeps little photographs of. I would have/loved you more if I had sat in a small room rolling a/cigarette and listened to you piss in the bathroom,/but that didn’ happen.
-An Almost Made Up Poem

meanwhile I look at young girls/stems/flowers of chance.
-The Crunch

she has saved me /from everything that is /not here.
-The 6 Foot Goddess

there is a loneliness in this world so great/that you can see it in the slow movement of/the hands of a clock
-The Crunch

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andandand: pictures of the zine!

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yeah i recycled some… so what. its ART!!!
(also, i’ve been using the “it’s ART!” statement to defend the pathetic patches of black polish leftover on my nails… it renders most complainers dumbfounded cos they believe me…teehee!)

thanks alice for organizing such a cool event and thinking of me!
special love to dave, stephy and clifton for coming to support.

also, go pick up the october copies of JUICE and CATALOG to see my feature! (i havent gotten my hands on any yet…) (also i know that there was a lil spotlight on my exhibition with a small interview for i-S magazine couple of weeks back, its out of circulation already, imma do a scan once i start being unlazy)

&&& just in the very case anyone is intrigued, here are some interviews/reviews of my solo exhibition available on the World Wide Web: A Lingering Aftertaste by Pat Law for culturepush.com / To Consume Food Like Life by Nawira Baig for youth.sg / Food Obsession! by Pamela of 93.8fm for livingroomscribbles / SCYA’s post exhibition interview by Isk for scya. my show is still running till this friday, october 9th, so go see it if you haven’t yet!