Copious Amounts of Black Coffee

You've got mail, says the computer. Seriously dude, you've got mail, come check! Please! Come here. Humaannnnn. I need you! LOOK. AT YOUR. INBOX. Dude you've got mail. You've got MAIL. What if Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan had ignored me like this? Huh? Oi, human!

So yes, I checked my inbox and what did I find? This luscious daydream of a scribble sheet by Suite Charlie. Sigh! How can I be grumpy at my mouthy inbox-man when he delivers me goodies like this? I'm not even going to play it coy like that fool Tom Hanks because who has time for a messy two-hour movie courtship anyway? Let's all begin our instagram art romance with Suite Charlie right away! One two three, go: @suitecharlie

Love Thyself

What the heck! So you're telling me 2013 is nearly, almost, just-about over? I don't mean to scoff but you might be getting a litttttle ahead of yourself, fat bearded man in a santa suit. It's only like, August? October? Wait. December? December 23rd?! Oh my gosh you're right, 2013 is almost dunzo. That means 2014 is starting to poke its newborn head out of the birth canal of time! It also means this is the last post of 2013, featuring these lovely scribble diary pages by artist Marissa Rossi. Highlights (for me) include: love thyself, make a "couch-bowl" (COOL) and initiate lots of "up top" high-five action. Solid life tips, right there. See ya'll in the new year!

Do Not Disturb

WHO IS TODAY'S SCRIBBLER??! That's the question on everyone's lips this morning. I see a handsome milkman fumbling with his glass jars and pre-pubescent boys scraping their kneecaps - everyone is so clumsy with anticipation! The sunrise this morning was like an agonising slow-clap yet to reach it's glorious climax of applause! Nuns and expectant mothers and chubby bachelors on the streets whisper, "sh shshh shh, today's scribbler, shh sh... who is it? who is it?" as they nibble on their cheese baguettes.

OKAY MY FRIENDS! NO LONGER MUST YOU WAIT! Today's scribbler izzzz.... (cut to closeup of drippy brow being wiped)... izzz... (ad break)... iz... (glamour closeup of my freshly powdered cheeks).... today's scribbler is Natalya Yamshchikova! Sorry bout the wait. And the kneecap scabs. But worth it for the double dose of Natalya's scribbles, no?

Draw Every Day!

Today's scribbler is Heidi Deguzman from California!

Imagination running wild again

Today's scribbler is Petra Kozar from Croatia!

Happy Birthday!

Today's scribbler issssss.... Stine Kaasa! The crowd roars! The cats meow! The zebras whip their tails back and forth in each-other's faces! The speakers begin to boom and all the glass chandeliers crash to the ground - crrssshhh! The old ladies take out their false teeth so that they can wildly wiggle their butts to the music and click their gums in a cool rhythmic way! The police sirens are heard faintly in the distance! Beyonce begins to scream a note so high that all the puppy dogs suddenly poop on their owners laps in unison! It is loud and smelly and everyone is having the best day EVER!

(PS - from now on I'll be posting just on Monday because this blog is getting older now and she needs a refreshing nap Tuesday-Sunday to keep herself perky for you)

Bath Under The Stars....

Today's scribbler is Cate Edwards and she's a lady after my own heart with this "bath under the stars" idea! Whatever you're doing right now wouldn't it be better done in a deep tub of hot water under the twinkly moonlight? OF COURSE. Actually no! Gosh. I just realised what you're "doing right now" should never be done in the bathtub. Oh: unless someone is kindly transcribing my blog onto audiotape (THANK YOU STRANGER I IMAGINE YOUR VOICE TO BE LIKE SALTED CARMEL MELTING INTO MY EARLOBES) then that'd be fine. How about we tap-tap on our laptops first, then soak our naked skin under the stars second? Yes!

2031

Check it OUT! Today's scribbler is Han-Yun Liang and this tricky trickster put the date as 2031 which *chimes...*... is the future... *fade out...*. Did you read those sound effects correctly? I guess we'll never know. But if it makes sense to you then it's the right thing to do! ACCIDENTAL SLOGAN. I'm actually really grumpy that I can't blog with audible sound effects because there is a beautiful mash-up of soaring eagles and fifth dimension music going on in my head and it deserves an earlobe to call home dammit!

I Will Scream YES

Today's scribbler is Carla Uriarte and we get a BONUS ROUND of *three* diary pages from her today because she "found it addicting" and just kept on scribbling. GOOD STUFF. For real though: I am a bit in love with that cat-human she drew (above) looking all sassy and satisfied with life, his floppy jazz-paws at the ready. Oh I really WISH there were a sassy cat-human sitting on the other side of this kitchen table right now in a soft pink sweater. There'd be a mellow saxophone tune playing in the background and we'd both sway gently while I typey-type and she purry-purrs. DREAM ON DREAMER! Anyway jazz-paws or not, we're all friends here. So if you'd like to keep snooping in Carla's diary (she don't mind) you can't dig in on her tumblr and below!

The Internet Is For Cats

Today's scribbler is Anita Goldstein and how rad is this scribble sheet she did for us! I'm not even sure what to say about it. It's like being in high-school and getting all coy when the cute-cool chick said hello to me. My instinct was to shout at her "HEY I REALLY LIKE YOUR EFFORTLESS COOL" but that didn't feel like an appropriate thing to do. So instead I shushed my face and mumbled something about cats on the internet until she eventually walked away. BYE THEN! Luckily it seems Anit would dig my mumbly cat comments and probably share a few of her own. So anyhow, now I'm going to pat you on the bum for good luck and send you two places today: first here, then here. Enjoy!

Land Ahoy

Today's scribbler is Anne-Marie Jones. Oh I love this scribble sheet. Those pale blue waves! That tiny boat drifting along in the ocean! Do you see it? I want to be on that boat right now... not in a realistic, seasick, lost at sea, gutting-a-fish kind of way. In a daydreamy way: sailor boyfriend throws down the anchor, we dangle our legs into the ocean, he mumbles a pretty acoustic version of I'm On A Boat into my ear, we snack on a cheese platter, watch our shoulders freckle, sigh deeply, daydream about getting home to our wifi connections. Mmmm! Okay, land ahoy: take a wander on Ann-Marie's cyber soil!

o o o o o

Today's scribbler is Julia Yellow. Is that not a big bowl of sunshine right there in a name? When she emailed me this scribble sheet (above) I could only imagine that she was the boss-lady in some sweet modern-day fairytale. She'd be clicking away at her macbook in a pokey apartment on a leafy street, tiny birds and baby deer poking their faces into her kitchen window. It was a confusing daydream actually because she lived four-floors up in her apartment block. How that baby deer managed to scale the fire escape with such adorably clumsy legs I will never know! Anyway that was just a daydream. Or was it?

Chocolate Bunny

Today's scribbler is Cajsa Ritar. Last week she sent me this scribble sheet (above) but I forgot to post it yesterday. That's okay though because I bet some of you are now nursing sugar hangovers and this can be a nice reminder of the chocolatey overdose that was TOTALLY WORTH IT. Or maybe you haven't hit the hangover yet because you're still nibbling on brown eggs for breakfast? Or maybe this is just a reminder that chocolate rabbits bigger than your face will now be half-price at the supermarket and maybe even 70% off for the ones that melted into deformed bunnies if you live somewhere warm!

Good Things

Today's scribbler is Mariana Rio. She makes monsters (among other things) using a stamp technique that I assume involves slices of delicious apple dipped in paint. Although maybe I'm wrong (FEIGNED SURPRISE) and her hand-carved stamps are actually not of the edible variety? They might be foam or rubber? Although if you're covering your apple in paint it's probably not very "edible" anyway, right? Actually! a kid in my kindergarten class ate three whole brushfulls of neon paint before the teacher noticed and now he owns the local laundromat and has been to Europe! Twice! So there. PS- don't eat paint.

Nine In The Morning

If this blog were a school playground and after lunch we had to find a "buddy" and hold hands, I reckon today's scribbler Rebecca Volynsky and past scribbler Kinrisu would be a sweet match! They'd be instant BESTIES and spend the rest of the school year sharing ham sandwiches and wearing matching scrunchies and sticking their tongues out at the dumb boys on the monkey bars. Or maybe not! My imagination is stuck in 1995 making friendship bracelets. But actually, Rebecca is doodling and painting and teaching and studying art therapy. She might still share her ham sandwiches though! If you ask nice!

Loosen Up

Today's scribbler is Kinrisu and I love this chick! In art school we had to do abstract collages with ripped paper and I never got the hang of it. My teacher told me to "loosen up" (he had a ponytail) but see, I'm the kind of human that spends my last $10 on neat plastic binders rather than groceries, so I was probably always destined for mediocrity in that class. Now I live vicariously through artists looser than I could ever be! Such as Kinrisu. She's one of my favourites. Certain ponytailed art teachers might call her drawings "mmm, good" while nodding their head in that semi-impressed way. Me? I go OHH! COOL! and clap my hands like a happy baby. Or a well-trained seal. More here and here!

The Breeze

Look what the wind blew in! Today's scribbler is Inna Kapustenko. Right now I'm wishing I knew a magic spell to make Inna's scribbly breeze (above) a real thing! I want to feel those gentle, hand-drawn windy bits scatter over my fingertips and then run away out the window. Actually! On second thought! It's dark and late here in my studio and I'm alone and working by lamp-light, so maybe conjuring up a creepy magic breeze to run down my spine ISN'T the smart thing to do? Whatever, I'm turning on the air con. Ohhh wizardry!

Chips and Tits

Today's scribbler is Ryan Humphrey... again! A few months ago he asked to touch your butt and you must have a sweet butt because he's back again. This time for the boobs! Nah actually he's back because I found this sketchbook drawing he did (below) and it BLOWS MY BRAINS OUT MY EARS. It feels like a manic street festival to stumble upon and get swallowed up in. Then you find yourself spat out onto the sidewalk at sunrise with paint on your elbows and your bare feet caked in mud and you can never really explain to your friends what happened that night, but you get a sneaky grin on your face whenever they ask. Point is: this sketchbook page is damn PERFECT! See more on Ryan's Flickr.

Try To Relax

Today's scribbler is Bryn Perrott and I think she might be the first wood cutter we've had on the blog! Is "wood cutter" the right word for an artist who makes woodcuts?? It sounds more like someone beardy, wearing a flannelette shirt, in a forest, with an axe casually hanging over their shoulder. Anyway! Look below. That's the type of woodcuts Bryn does. She probably doesn't use an axe, but may or may not be partial to flannelette fabrics. ALSO: how cute is this woodcut she did for a pup named Dracula! Haha!

Hairless Cat In A Sweater

Say HELLOOO to today's scribbler, Halah Elkholy! Shout it aloud to your laptop screen! (unless you're perched in a cafe and risk getting the awkward side-eye from a handsome horticulturalist who's biting the straw of his decaf soy latte. Then maybe just say it under your breath. Or do a cheeky wink? To your laptop I mean, not the horticulturalist. Unless the horticulturist is giving you friendly vibes and you know how to wink without looking like you have a mosquito stuck in your eyelash? OHHH! Show him Halah's drawing (below) of a hairless cat in a festive sweater! Horticulturist's love hairless cats in festive sweaters! They go ape for them! You're totally IN!)

PS - I'm going to name this cat Vinny Taco.