Illustration Friday - Scary

A lil' page from a childrens book I illustrated and co-wrote for a semester project called..

"Somewhere far far away"

: )

This was my first experience with childrens publication, as stressful as it can get I loved it.

And now that (fingers crossed) a few more similar projects are coming up,I've realised that I really love writing and illustrating for kids!Here are a few more pages :

You can check out the entire book here

And a big thank you to my squealer Tanima <3

Illustration Friday - Fuel

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

                                                                                 ~ Thomas Fuller

*I LOVE my tablet*

Good news!Good news!

Thanks once again to the lovely people at They Draw and Cook.

You can check out the recipe here!

* Very grateful.As always :) *

To my dear blog

To my dear blog (Wander Dust,is that your name?I'm really not sure),

It's 3:30 am and as usual, I can't really sleep.So I decided to check you out.I also thought I'd look at my blogger profile which says that you've been active since August 2006.Wow.

   I don't know why I started you.But it happened anyways.I was a 16 year old kid messing around with photoshop and I really liked what I was coming up with.At the time.I don't really approve of my work then now but that isn't really suprising now is it?

   When people ask me why I started a blog I'd like to tell them it's because I really want to know what people think of my work.But the truth is, I'm still and will probably always be very shy when it comes to putting my work out there.The reason I started this blog was to record my work and in the process unknowingly, record my life.

  When I go back 6 pages or 2 years on this blog and I look at my work I can come up with a whole story about what urged me to think up what I did then.And I guess thats the beauty of it.

  Steve Jobs died yesterday.And I came across a quote of his about loving what you do.It was about how you should believe that the work you're doing at the present moment is truly great work.How this belief will only get better as life goes on.It meant alot to me,because I love what I do.

  But let's face it.I go through so many phases.I don't know where I'll be next year, and if I do end up studying curation and art history I only hope I have the courage to pull through.And that courage has certainly come from this blog.Alot of the good things that have happened in my professional life have happened because of this blog.The lovely comments.The lovely people leaving those comments.It's all good.

  Thank you :)

So if I do choose Tumblr or Wordpress to start my writing blog don't be mad.Just be glad I finally got the courage to write!

Love,

Taaneya.

Illustration Friday - Hibernate

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death." 

 - Anais Nin

*My fear exactly*