Quatre lampes

Wandering and admiring other blogs, I realized with surprise that I have a special love for lamp drawings. I'm not going to try to understand this as it's obviously a peaceful, non threatening new oddity. So here are some lamps. I had a lot of satisfaction drawing them...



Maybe I'm a little too easily satisfied, but I like how they turned out... Even the one in the middle, I know it's all wrong, the forged S on the left is too big and thick, but it doesn't bother me, and I don't exactly understand why.
Do you see it all wrong or okay in a twisted way?

Petshop, teapots, Mimi, et un apéro

I'm really enjoying summer this year. It's cooler than usual and I'm in a particularly good mood. Must be this drawing thing, I think! It's funny but I'm really seeing everything in a new way and it's great. Like traveling without leaving home. Not expensive at all, that's good too.

I played a little with my daughter's toys and shoes... That was fun! The shoes are fake crocs but the little pets are the real thing! Maybe I'll draw all her collection, all dressed up with their accessories. Très chics!

This one I think I won't color, because I wouldn't know where to begin... I drew my dad's wife, Mimi, someone I love too. She moves even more than my daughter, wether she's cooking or teaching litterature to the neighbor's kid.
In the middle is a bird statue on one of the windows above the couch. I didn't do honor to it, it's normally a beautiful object...
Then I drew the reliefs of the aperitif I had with friends today. I didn't find a right word to translate... We drink and eat before the actual meal...

These are my last two teapots and a tea bowl from Pylones called Titi. My white teapot is really a lot more plump than the one I drew. Not happy with this drawing at all...

And for Kathleen, if you come and read this : Kazumi is the oldest daughter in the manga "Ranma 1/2". She's wise, calm, and feminine, always polite and nice, and cooking, and smiling in front of everything, (even when the house is on fire or everyone is fighting and falling through the roof and windows). I'm not exactly like that but I want to be her when I grow up!

c'était pas le pied

Sunday I spent a large part of my day doing house cleaning in my parents summer house, where I was seriously bitten by some sort of mutant acarids. It was not very fun. Those little monsters are nasty, I was bitten last year and itched for 8 days (and nights).
I had to see some friends in the next little town, and my daughter left my phone there, so after the housecleaning, we drove back instead of going home.
Finally we were home and I was glad because my vacation time had finally begun for good!
To celebrate that, I broke my finger against a chaise lounge on my balcony.


In french, I'd say : c'était pas le pied (litterally : "it was not the foot"), meaning : it wasn't great at all/ it sucked! (contrary is : c'est le pied - it's the foot / it's great / it rocks)
Anyway it's all right now, I have a lot of free time and I'm really enjoying this drawing and blogging thing a lot! If I didn't itch so much it would be absolutely the foot!