kazerin studios

Smoke & Mirrors

catherine — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:45:10 +0000

I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart

flip it

Baby, baby, baby, baby, listen t’what I say

You pull my pin and ya trip my wire
You come in an’ set my heart on fire
Knock me out, you rock me off my axis
You and me are gasoline and matches

new stuff, revisiting the ACEO world of miniature art. ended up hating the colors so I went all pyro and burned the bad coloring right off. unfortunately, things got a liiiittle out of control and ended up with a torched heart.

and that’s why we love glue sticks, with glitter.

…and the only real question left… why is Wilder Napalm not in my collection yet??

There’s really no middle ground with you

catherine — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:38:44 +0000

“Either you don’t care at all or you care a hundred and crazy percent.”

“WHAT ELSE IS THERE? … Now saddle up and say goodbye to common sense =D”

I miss Better Off Ted.

And I started making ACEO-type art again, this time something dark and twisty with one of those weird up-nose angles that makes people look pig-like. Inspiration? Old auto-portrait photo, nostrils aflare. And my spellchecker just informed me that aflare isn’t a word… Looksee:

Title: Mouthful, Status: In Progress, Size: 3.5″ x 2.5″, Medium: Pencil/Pen/Paper, Genre: Twisty

stick with the devil you know

catherine — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:37:55 +0000

Another rough sketch, based on another vintagy public domain image and very likely to never be finished. My sketch made her look concerned, begging almost, whereas in the photo she looks a bit emotionless. Like apathetic pleading. Hmm… either way, I like how the backgrounds are always so blurry in all these 1900 photographs and wow, brain is really distracted by Mojave Moon in the background.

una historia sin tiempo, que no tiene fin

catherine — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:00:24 +0000

me verás en sueños, me oirás reír…

Been drawing to an extraneous extent after finding some public domain gems dating from 1890 – 1920. I miss portraiture. Current project in progress:

Messed up her boobs when I tried to enlarge them. Lesson learned.

The original photograph shows a proud woman, great posture and stance with hands firmly on hips and long, fringed scarves draping over her shoulders and around her legs. While I like that original vibe, thinking of giving this girl some clothes and scenery. She could be on the moon, or on stage with a guitar, or in an old bar, or a football field, oooor the jungle, possibly egypt, next to one of those pyramids where all the tourists pretend they’re really tall in pictures. Hm.

Also, Selma Hayek has a very pretty singing voice.

some things only exist when you’re not looking for them

catherine — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:59:38 +0000

she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown-up people and the world they belonged to. she felt as if she had lived a long, long time.

Spring is officially in full force. The trees, they are a bloomin’, and my allergies, they are a reactin’… Wish it were this colorful here all the time. Makes it seem like we live in a weird, overgrown wonderland where up ↑ is down ↓ and down ↓ is left ← and left ← is backwards §.