Dawn

This seems to be one of those nights you kinda just want to stay up till dawn, maybe inpired by my painting and the accompanying quote, but still.. it is one of those productive nights. After a whole day of not doing anything and hanging on my friends cauch watching movies (40 year old vergin=bad! don't watch it= a waste of time!) and eating a marvellous dinner cooked up by my dad, I wandered off to my room (which I finally cleaned and vacuumed) and sat myself down. I think the emptyness helped starting a new project, it just flowed out.. after some brainstorming (consisting of not more then 5 lines per sketch and a couple of words) yesterday I just started painting.. no sketch, no controll, no nothing..

I knew this illustration friday thing was going to be good for something! It gives you deadlines! So... I watched the bats pass my window as dusk set in, had my heart go out to a coupe of friends, and then my mind set of to God knows where.

The moon has so much magic, is such a fascination, a guiding light and well; the origin of so much
myth and legend I didn't at first know exactly how to show my association with the moon. It has always been a sign of femininity and creativity... a full moon is there for me to stare at, to charge me with creative energy and after a little thought bits and pieces of this quote started coming back to me. One that I associate with myself and so the one that inspired my picture...

Quote: "A dreamer is one who can find his was by moonlight, and his only punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." -Oscar Wilde


Last week we had a rather intesnive training week, but it was filled with good teambuilding activities like cycling, going out for dinner and sailing!!!! I think the sailing very muchy contributed to being creative.. honoustly there are few things that go above and beyond straining a ship against the wind, beaing beaten by the wind and flying over the water. Soooo good!

Music: Dire Straits, Sultans of Swing