Alien Tea Shoppe

These are some illustrations from various films with a telly series thrown in there.  These are all done in Indian Inks. Holly Golightly, Breakfast At Tiffany's Melanie Daniels, The Birds Han Solo, Star Wars Dean & Sam Winchester, Supernatural Bobby Singer & Castiel, Supernatural

Some early illustrations.  As in earlier this year, ha!  A-hem.  On with the illustrations!  Oh wait.  Some of these are done with Sharpie, before I got my Indian inks.  I was also trying my hand at backgrounds. Done for a friend.  Ink & Sharpie.  Background, Palace Versailles, Paris.  Costumes from historical fashion plates. Done for a friend.  Ink & Sharpie.  Background & dress original design. Ink, Sharpie & watercolour coloured pencils.  Background, Spain.  Historical regional costume. Ink & Sharpie.  Background, Schloss Eggenberg, Vienna.  Historical German Court Dress.

We're having white cake! What sort of melodrama could be brewing back there? I, myself, am not even a fan of white cake.  Sure, I enjoy cake, but it's not a top contender for taste.  But there was some sort of subliminal messaging going on in the film, Django Unchained, because after seeing it last year in the theatre, I wanted white cake.  Rented it two weeks ago, & again upon seeing it, I really, really wanted white cake.   Leonardo Dicaprio, as the character Calvin Candie, only utters the words 'white cake' a total of four times.  Perhaps it is because they are uttered in about a 15 minute time frame, or because he keeps holding a plate of cake or wanting everyone to eat it.  I'm not really sure.  All I know for sure is that I needed white cake, all because of his white cake scenes.  I was so intent on the subliminal messaging of 'white cake' that I even made a soap that smelled like it, before...   I eventually made white cake! I