HAIR

In trade of hair advice and styling I altered these images for my friend Jacob. He'll be hanging them in his swank new apartment...

Play Bunny

Part of a large drawing I'm working on.

Unicorns are REAL

could this be true?? I hope so... read the article and watch the vid

http://smr.newswire.ca/en/ontario-science-centre/rumoured-unicorn-sighting-reported-in-don-valley

Rumoured Unicorn Sighting Reported In Don Valley

making art feels like panning for gold;.

you get a million rocks before u find a nugget;.

today was weird,. yammering about myself and why i make art to strangers with cameras;'';;; thought i'd love it, didn;t really,. i dont really know any answers to any of these questions- i just know that i dont care for much else or care to talk about much else ;i am a self-interested sad artist, who spins the anger into pretty pictures;'.

I found THis in T.O.->BOUGHT it

i tend to find Unicorns;.

Ah, The Unicorn.,
I found this tapestry in an antique shop, the owner's name was Bart, and I was so excited that he gave it to me for $5... 

A Unicorn Fact::
Unicorns actually live in parallel universes and guide those out for the greater good.. THey live in the same realm as Guardian Angels; but where Angels assist individuals in their individual life goals, Unicorns assist individuals on a mission to influence great change in the world.

"We are peacefuL"- while they shake their fists'.;

Crumbling beneath you, this world is.
Bumbling like a drunken fool ,.
pan handling for food.

The masses feed off Hysteria
and hyper extend themselves into Her glare.

An age of helplessness, as if it's never not been here.
Armoured zombies in the streets ,.
without any shade of faith
they scream!

As they hand over their change
for a Starbucks Latte,
gripping it tightly as they throw hot opinions in your face
(in a crowd only allowed to feel comfort by being in a crowd) They SHake!

I hear sirens as I sit in my warm quiet living room,
writing without a clue how i feel..
just found a pen in my hand just now,
as i sit here grieving...

ALmost paralyzed by what I've been reading...

THe World's news flooding in through my window,

crashing across the floor
My feet dangle in the sewage,
cold and hurting.

THere is no quiet, never can be because of the distant drumming.
An angry crowd, out to be noticed
by fighting.

When it's clear, Peace is no where near.
A concept which lives in a fantasy. A foggy notion people chant loudly,
"WE ARE PEACEFUL! HOW BOUT YOU?"
I hear repeated on the news...

But you are NOT peaceful if you yell in crowds, and SHAKE YOUR FISTS!
You are fighting War with War, and that is why PEACE CANNOT EXIST!

I think the only hope, would be, if we,
stayed in our homes, unify,
and grieve.

Morn for The World the way you Morn a Dead Relative
be quiet - be kind - be sad -
and cry.

It all grows dark, heavy and thick
Smart people choose to keep walking in it..
only to be hit and hit and hit
in the face
with Stupidity's spit.

I'd like it to stop. I'd like to resist.
I'd like to quietly pray for the day when
Peace may have a chance to exist.

Until then, I'll be quiet and wish for it quietly
Because, I believe, that is what

Peace truly is.

-
Robyn Waffle
June 27th 2010

New Muse: BOTTICELLI

I went to Chapters today to find a beautiful picture book on Renaissance painting.. Funny cuz the first one I spotted in the Art section just read BOTTICELLI in white capitals along the spine. I grabbed it, flipped through, and gasped at how crisp and large the paintings were represented... i then noticed a stain on the hard cover....

I took the book to the front desk and asked how much it was, $89, I was told. 'But there's a stain right here, can I please have a discount?' ... of course, Mike said (a man wearing a name tag)... I can give it to you for 50% off, but it's final sale. PERFECT. $44 for the most beautiful book iv'e ever seen.

Anyways I rushed home, curled on my couch, and just started reading... this is what i found in the first few pages:

Cennini sets out guidelines for artistic training, developing what might be described as a somewhat simplistic description of individual style when he makes recommendations to apprentices on how to learn drawing from the example of skilled masters:

"Having now practiced drawing for a while as I have taught you above, that is, on a little panels, take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best things which can be done by the hand of great masters. And if you are in a place where many good masters have been, so much better for you. But I give you this advice: take care to select the best one every time, and the one who has the greatest reputation. And, as you go on from day to day, it will be against nature if you do not get some grasp of his style and of his spirit. For if you undertake  to copy after one master today and another tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of wither one or the other, and you will inevitably, through enthusiasm, become capricious, because each style will be distracting your mind. You will try to work in this man's way today, and in the other's tomorrow, and so you will get neither of them right. If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you to not get some nourishment from it. Then you will find, if nature has granted you any imagination at all, that you will eventually acquire a style individual to yourself, and it cannot help being good; because your hand and your mind, being always accustomed to gather flowers, would ill know how to pluck thorns."

(something i wrote today, on a page in Adbusters)

I DON'T WANT TO REMIND MYSELF AND OTHERS OF THE AWEFUL UNTHINKABLE UGLINESS THAT RIDES OUR WORLD THESE DAYS... I WANT TO REMIND MYSELF AND OTHERS OF A TIME SO DISTANT AND BEAUTIFUL THAT IT FEELS LIKE A DREAM; A PASTEL DREAM ABOUT ROYALTY AND MYTHOLOGY - WHEN SPIRITUALITY WAS A WAY OF LIFE - AND ANIMALS WERE GODS.

Fascinated by Renaissance;;

Primavera (c. 1482) By: Sandro Botticelli

A 15' by 6' foot canvas print of this painting lives in our house right now... found it in an antique shop yesterday.. i sleep next to a life sized Goddess of Love and Goddess of Spring. It's incredible.















It has completely inspired me. I've decided to study Renaissance work...
I have always been interested, but I think I'd like to become an expert...

collag.ist

So. I've become obsessed with collaging..
tearing , puzzle piecing, creating in depth sketches with photos, drawings and paint... i'm strangely inspired by it all.. and imagine turning these intricate collages into large paintings.. .
Right now I am working on one inspired by ALexander McQueen, his tragic death, and his brilliant clothing. I will finish a few of them, then get them scanned professionally to post on here ...



THis is not mine, by a man named Romare Bearden -
The Calabash 1970
read all about collaging::

INSPIRATION

Marvelled by these jelly fish prints, and this moving tribute video: ALexander McQueen: A Tribute VIdeo

dream house

I had a dream about a house that looked like this last night,.



It was a crazy vivid dream , in colour, that my parents moved into this amazing dream house. THis is what it looked like...

a broken feather becomes a rock

I have been wearing this necklace for about three years.

I had it custom made for me out of glass to represent the rybon feather I sign my paintings with. I dropped it recently and it broke. So sad as it is my good luck charm, and favourite thing to hold when I'm feeling nervous.

Luckily I had two of them made for me, and I gave one of them to my Mom. She has sent me the other one, and I now wear it in the place of the original... of course it looks and feels different, and so i don't love it nearly as much :/

Bart Batchelor

,;'';,.;';.

(packing to a friend on the radio. . .
(moving yet again, . . . .. . . ))
(probably the 12 thousandth time since 21 .. .
(each one marking a morph to my character . . ))
(a changed perspective, while i examine existence . . .
(while i analyze each true pleasure held within IT. . . .. . )
(i suppose I am :: (

(an Experience Scientist)) . . . ; )

My Website

I have been working hard on my website... www.robynwaffle.com
I still feel like I have a long way to go, but it's getting there...

Fluevog Ad Design

I have recently entered an ad contest for John Fluevog Shoes.
I actually used to work for this brilliant design for about 3 years, and was excited to see that he's inviting artists to design his advertising for different shoes! I discovered one of the winners in Juxtapoz magazine, and figured it would be amazing if I got picked, because all the types of fashion and art magazines my illustration would appear in. I really hope I get chosen for the top four by John and his team, and then it's up to people I know to vote for me to be the winner... fingers crossed!

Have a look at my design on the Fluevog website:
http://www.fluevog.com/code/fc_gallery.php?view=311

Photos whiLe I work

Yesterday my friend Tristan Casey came by to capture me while I worked on my paintings. I was a little nervous, being that I find it hard to paint around other people... but it was seamless and amazing... it was like he wasn't even there, even though we casually chatted about very interesting things. I have never had such pretty photos of me in my element.... so so happy about it : )

See the photos of me at blog.tristancasey.com/2010/04/robyn.html, and check out tristancasey.com, he is truly a brilliant photographer.