Tentacle Love Show

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How To Wash Your Wampa #StarWars

Step 1: Throw him in the dirty towels pile. (It's a good idea to wash him with soft, light colored, fabrics.) 

Step 2: Load him in to the washing machine with detergent and turn it on Regular or Gentle wash. (I used Tide detergant with Mountain Spring scent.)

Step 3: Take him out and let him air dry! Your Wampa is clean! 

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Took pictures with my fancy frames.

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Sketch of a model.

Portrait of Max for Keith Noordzy @KeithNoordzy

I already gave Keith his Christmas present so now I can share it with everyone! It's a portriat of his beloved cat Max. The background is adorned with dinosaur bones.

Happy Holidays! I'm sitting on an iMac box. and Today Is My Birthday.

Serenading R2 #StarWars

Practicing Moon River on the Ukulele

From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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I'm not a nerd. I'm just a regular girl that likes #StarWars and I happen to need glasses.

check out my double jointed elbows! 

You want it? You got it!- Season 3 Trailer for The Life & Times Of Tim

Escape Artists : Opening Reception at Chalk Gallery

Featured Artists:
Drew Brophy
Mark Longnecker
Jim Darling
CRE8
Haste
Hector “HEX” Rios
Mark7
And resident artists DJ Neff and Justin Mitchell.

I went to the Chalk Gallery Escape Vans Artist reception Saturday night. Chalk is located in Venice, CA. It is a great space, good vibe, with awesome artist. The DJ was busting out with live record scratching! (someone even did some freestyle! Who was that? They layed it dowwwn).

I had some friends in the show and also got to meet some very talented graffiti artists. I got to shake the hand of CRE8 and have a chat with Haste, check out their work on Drew Brophy's Paint Shop. At the end of the night, I sat down at one of the live art tables to paint a thank you card for the gallery. Thank goodness the gallery knows what my real art looks like because my thank you card looked like a 4 year old painted it haha! Still getting use to using those Sharpie and Uni Poscas paint pens, which are really cool by the way.  

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In the Bathroom with Dabs Myla

Me and the Dabs Myla tree, in the bathroom at Thinkspace Art Gallery. We became like, best friends. 

 

When two artist go to the L.A. Natural history Museum

On Tuesday I went to the L.A. Natural History Museum to sketch Dinosaurs with Keith Noordzy. There are two floors full of Dinosaur skeletons at the museum. I just couldn't believe how HUGE some of them were and that they were REAL. They seem so unreal when you see their massiveness in person. 

I tried to take a picture of the Apatosaurus, but he/she didn't fit all the way in the frame. Apatosaurus is basically a Brontosaurus, but when they named it a Brontosaurus, they had put the wrong head on it or something (Keith informed me). Now that it has the correct parts, it's called a Apatosaurus and is my favorite Dinosaur, but I will probably continue to call it a Brontosaurus. 

We both did some sketches while we were there and of course I couldn't leave with out taking fashionable pictures and drawing a furry animal. 

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I made Larry The Cable Guy's beanie-weenie cornbread casserole! @GitRDoneLarry

It's delish! With gluten-free cornbread mix so it won't give you heart burn! Rufus is ready to eat! 

In this picture: Rufus The Roadie 

Have Your Fortune Told By This Great Mystic!

My Photographs of Jupiter

Last night Jupiter was in full view! To the naked eye, it looked like an extremely bright star sitting slightly under the Moon. I was looking at it through a telescope in my backyard and thought I was looking at Venus! but didn't understand why Venus had four other planets orbiting it. I came inside and googled. Duh. I was looking at Jupiter and it's four Galilean moons!! After doing some reading on Jupiter's moons, I was very excited to discover they have ice, water, rocks, volcanoes... a lot like another planet that has LIFE on it, Hmmm (EARTH.)

Keep in mind that, Jupiter, at it's furthest from Earth, is over 900 million miles away!! That's almost a billion miles. Well that's what scientist say, but I feel like it's closer than that because I can see it through a telecsope in my back yard! Amazing. 

Here are the pictures I took of Jupiter. I held my Canon PowerShot SD880 IS to the lens of an Orion Explorer 90mm AZ #9029 Altazimuth Refracting Telescope. This is the same way I captured my pictures of the Moon. http://noelill.blogspot.com/2011/09/moon.html

The first photo is how I saw it through the telescope except I could see it's four moons as well. They didn't seem to show up in my photograph. The second picture is a close up of Jupiter and the final picture is over exposed, but you can see three of it's moons. I guess my camera lost one of them. They looked like stars in perfect orbit around the planet. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

  

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I liked my outfit today so I took a picture.

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Fractals! This can help me a lot with painting.

I've rediscovered Fractals and will never forget about them again. This will help me a lot with painting especially trees and really organic shapes. It seems as though even the most chaotic shape on earth has a blueprint and is really not chaotic at all. Fellow artist and designers, you will find this episode on Fractals really interesting! I did. 

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My Halloween Illustration of a Raven

Last weekend I went to CVS with my mom and saw a Raven eating tater tots in the parking lot. All week the Raven has been stuck in my mind, so today I decided to paint it. Although it was doing something so unappealing, like eating someone's left over fast food, I still found the creature to be very glamorous.That is why I chose to leave the tator tots out of the picture. I decorated the background with splotches of red ink to give the piece a more sinister feeling in honor of Halloween.

Noël ILL
Raven, 2011
acrylic and ink on red card stalk

Memories, Photo from Season 2 in The Office

We've wrapped up Season 3 of The Life and Times of Tim! yay! can't wait for everyone to watch it air on HBO in December. Teri, aka @djteridactyl on Twitter, found this old photo on her hard-drive, from when we were working on season 2. Shorty was bringing a little cheer in to the office and we sorta had this Twilight joke going. We wanted to make sure we annoyed everyone with it :-)