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Yum yum. More journal pages. Please eat them and feel good. The journal had water spilled on it recently, but made a miraculous recovery.

This (↑) is probably my favourite page. Two glorious little creatures, floating in the sky. I just like their shapes a lot. Last week I watched 2010: The Year we Made Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that film really matches the first in many cases in terms of visuals. It's different, but I really liked it. I love all the tech forms, blinking buttons, etc. Just thinking about space. Made me wanna be some kind of engineer. But I never will be!

Here we have Cinnamoroll, that dear little dog, expertly sitting on my boarding pass. Thanks, dog. My favourite detail of this spread is that hand reaching up from somewhere unseen to almost touch the topmost dog's nose. That's me, spiritually.

This one is obviously a celebration of Hello Kitty, but the horse is really important. It would be nothing without the horse.

Banana drawing. No explanation needed. I love the brown spots forever.

I drew this during my Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) video research. Beautiful couple. Barbie and her sweet nut.

In March I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Jonathan Richman in Brooklyn. He was amazing. He was wonderful. He was perfect. It was such a relaxing show, too - I rested a bag of bread against the stage for most of it.

The Spongebob here is really accurate.

Snake in my boot. This just came straight from the dome. Sometimes you're thinking about snakes in boots.

Picasso was Wacky!

 Two years ago I went to the Picasso museum in Barcelona, and there was one room I loved in particular. It had paintings of a woman holding an egg (she's just like me fr), among other things.

Finally, this month, I drew two of them. My own beautiful little Picassos.

When you look around the room in question, you'll see numerous versions of the same painting. There's something almost childlike about seeing iteration after iteration of the same thing, the same picture in different shapes, warped into oblivion. It's this amazing, revealing space that perfectly communicates the impossibility of documentation. 

Clearly Picasso was not trying to meticulously depict reality as he saw it, but in the repetition of these subjects it gives the feeling of an endless, shifting dream. Every time you look back, something has changed.

It's also just really cool on a formalistic level, seeing the endless variations that are possible while a scene is still recognisable.

And here is our egg woman. God, I love her.

Look at these three paintings of three ladies with a cat:

They're so different and so perfect and so fun! And I have to think, then, that a lot of the point of Picasso's weird, wonky shapes was to construct something funny. Like, look at those faces. That's peak funny. That would be enjoyed very much by a general Tumblr audience (the supreme art connoisseurs).

It truly makes the concept of doing five thousand paintings of the same exact thing (edit: in this case, studies of Diego Velázquez's 'Las Meninas') seem extremely appealing. What if I did this? It would be a really good project, I think. But what is the perfect subject? Impossible to choose.

To conclude, check out this cute plate Picasso made:

hehe :-)