52-Week Illustration Challenge, Week 38

Oil pastel giraffe wearing a bilby mask - and a bilby wearing a giraffe mask. Signage created in Word, torn edges and painted with coffee.

Week 38: Giraffe

Update:

Two-part paper finger puppet - one finger forms the neck. Outlined in black Sharpie, coloured with watercolours.

Week 38: Giraffe II

Week 38: Giraffe III

Freehand silhouette in black card collaged to a safari print gift bag. 3D eyelashes cut from white paper, with curls rolled over the end of a paintbrush. I was creating this at lunchtime today when a Facebook message came in announcing the passing of my actor friend, Elaine Lee (Vera in TV's Number 96) and I suddenly realised that my new giraffe needed to have - instead of white cartoon eyes - big white eyelashes. (Many happy memories having drinkies in Elaine's dressing room, after a stage performance, and watching her peel off her huge false eyelashes.)

Week 38: Giraffe IV

Mixed media collage with chenille sticks (poking through random holes made with a hole punch), torn paper and self-adhesive faux fur safari skin on a quill board background.

The move to New Blogspot

I put it off and put it off, but finally Blogspot cornered me and forced me to move the blog's files across to whatever it is they've been beta testing.

I'm not all that happy, since my iMac's Safari browser is unable to post responses to other people's blog pages, and Firefox doesn't view many blog pages correctly, often overlapping images and text. For some reason, Firefox also often refuses to cut 'n' paste text - and will sometimes refuse to refresh to clear the cache, and show me the latest version of my own pages. So I spend a lot of time juggling between browsers, trying to keep everything working. The most agonizing bit was applying for a Google mail account, so I could register the new version of the blog. Of course, the "word verification" image wasn't appearing in Firefox, but Safari was off limits. It took at least three goes, attempting to refresh the page, but the secret letters finally turned up. Whew! I really thought I'd been locked out at one point, with neither browser wanting to "publish".

They are slowly working their way through the blogsphere. I hope it all the "dust" settles quickly.