Wednesday 18 May 2016

May 14th-16th


These 3 days featured my favourite things: the seaside, comedy, music and plenty of laughter! Starting at the Brighton Fringe Festival, CSI Crime Scene Improvisation returned to the Quadrant for 2 more sell out shows. Saturdays show was set in a boutique hospital where I played a patient with chronic boils and Sundays show featured a murdered bee keeper. 
Completely out of character for me I forgot to bring I.D resulting in me being asked to leave a pub at 9pm as 'minors were not allowed past this time'. The rest of my group tried persuading the bouncers I was in fact 27 but they insisted the minor must leave. I wasn't insulted. We found somewhere else nicer anyhow. On the train journey back to London I convinced a man Sarah was a judge. It started off fun but then he ranted about his hatred for the legal system....
 
On Monday 16th I saw 'The Vaudevillians' at the Soho Theatre with my old friend Sam. Sam knows Jinkx Monsoon so we were able to spend time with her after the show- she's incredible! Jinkx played  Kitty Witless an intoxicated Vaudeville starlette who'd been frozen alive since the 20s. Her warbling, cackling, meowing Kitty was a delight to watch as she flung herself across the stage, writhing on the piano and purring on the chaise lounge. Jinkx was my favourite drag queen from 'Ru Pauls Drag Race' from the moment she entered season 5 in the big floppy hat. Her energy live is contagious, you cant help squeal with delight as her character turns from sweet to malicious.
Its always so nice when someone you've admired on tv turns out to be so fantastic in real life


May


Klimt - in the forest there is enchantment...:
 

John Wilde, AN HOMAGE TO RICHARD DADD, 1987, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20":
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)The Roses of Heliogabalus (Detail)Oil on canvas, 1888:
Kees van Dongen.:  
 Federico Andreotti:

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Dominican Mermaid

After spending so much time in the sea I was inspired to do a drawing of a mermaid. It was a quick drawing but I plan on doing more/spending more time on one

Wedding in the Dominican

This was my first wedding I've attended as an adult and it was an absolute joy. A destination wedding in the Dominican Republic surrounded by sea, friends, hot rainstorms and plenty of all inclusive cocktails. 
Some highlights include: sitting under a full moon with my legs in the sea at midnight, dancing on the beach with fellow wedding guests, sitting drenched but happy in the rain as the bride walked down the isle under the cover of umbrellas, hearing about the bride and groom as children by their mothers during the wedding speeches, holding a monkey and feeling his rubbery little paws in my hands, seeing parrots, having a morning cup of tea on our balcony that overlooked palm trees and the distant sea, ordering room service at 1am, laughing, swimming and snorkeling!