Moving

Dear all,

Behind the Page will no longer be updated (at least not frequently). It's moving to my homepage www.fayestardust.com. I kindly request those of you who follow my blog to move along with it.

With love,

Maartje

Intuos4

Just wanted to spread my joy. I am now the owner of a new Intuos4 Large. It's bloody gorgeous, and such an upgrade from my Graphire4. The surface of the tablet itself is kind of rough, it feels like you're drawing on actual paper. The pen comes with several pen nibs that I have yet to try out. May I just say that Wacom has gorgeous design in both product and packaging? It's just amazing.

I also got an 'inking pen' for my Intuos that allows you to trace any real drawing with actual ink, onto your tablet. I still need to try that out as well, though I am waiting for an actual sketch to ink...

A little update

Time for a little update on my life and on my look and art. First of all, I've had a haircut today, which is the least important thing that has happened but I still wanted to share.

 I also made new art, which again, is of me, a self portrait for a competition that I am not going to win because I stand no chance against all the other fabulous artists that entered. The reason I look so freakish is because the theme of the contest is dreams, and I can not like this except for in dreams, so there.

More news, I have a job. I am now a community manager, at Mobillion, the same company I graduated at. I manage all the social networks for charity Malaria No More, and will soon also be helping Mobillion in this department! Woo. You can help me out by joining the facebook account and linkedin, and following on twitter, and retweeting. I know you won't understand, but I promise to let you know on here when something exciting happens!

Caricature of me

Can't believe I forgot to put this on my blog :). Sycra on youtube drew a caricature of me!

Because good music shouldn't be missed

On the 4th of November Codeine Velvet Club played an exclusive, invite only, live show for fans at Oran Mor in Glasgow, UK. The entire show was filmed to give fans a taste of what to expect on the band's forthcoming debut UK tour, which begins next week.

Two songs from this show, Time and Little Sister, are now online at the band's official YouTube channel.

Art update

So, judging by the new comments I've recently received, there might be some new people looking at my blog. And they've requested more art. I've done some art recently, but there arent celebrity portraits. Oh except Zac Efron.

So...

I often wonder if blogs can survive on irregular posts that seem to focus on a person's life rather than an informational topic. That said, I do plan on discussing informational subjects as that is kind of my thing. I like research and I like to give my opinions, and all that.

Today though, there is just going to be an update on me, because I realise that I haven't written anything on here in over two months. Tomorrow I'm off to the hospital to get surgery on my left hand. This is actually the second time I'm going in, because the first time, about two weeks ago, I got sent home because of a couple of cases of flu had been determined amongst the anaesthesiologists. I do appreciate the hospital's care about flu, of course, but at the time I felt pretty pissed.

So, see you all later.