star gazing

I was a bit distracted this week.  Everyone's done such pretty pictures of people looking at stars.

I was thinking of star gazers as amateur astronomers.  So I decided to do a nerdy picture about their modern counterpart - people who use their idle computers to search databases for stars and things.  Last week I read about how the  Einstein@Home project published a paper announcing their first discovery of a radio pulsar.

caged

This is a picture of the Bremen town musicians locked up in jail.  They beat up some men and stole their house.  In the story it says these men were thieves, but it didn't say how they knew that.  So I think they made it up to make themselves feel better.  

artificial (flowers)

It's a bit late for Illustration Friday but I figured I might as well put it up.  We had to paint these artificial flowers in a painting class I did today.  I'm really not confident that I got any better at painting.

double

I was a bit preoccupied with other things this week, so I didn't spend much time on this, and I'm not sure I should put it here since it's so silly.  I folded some paper in half and cut out a picture of Golyadkin from The Double by Dostoyevsky.  He's walking along a river and thinks he is being watched.  I haven't finished the story yet.  Actually this is as far as I got (about page 50).  

I didn't wait long enough before I folded it though, so the paint wasn't dry and it stuck together and is not very good.  Then I got glue all over my fingers while I was sticking waves on it.

 

breakfast

I wasn't very creative with my interpretation.  I just drew what was in front of me at breakfast.  I'm trying to use up all my least-favourite coloured pencils.