DAY 2, Sunday, September 11 2011: Pink Dream

Not a nice day in our history, in remembrance of the September 11 attacks 10 years ago.

Waking up around 10 in the morning with quite a hangover. Oh my god, that was a night, we were all quite drunk in that little bar. I was talking to some of the country people about sunscreen and bodylotion and was so shocked, even one girl admitted, that she never uses it, not even facial moisturizer! Alright, maybe that is a matter of what you are used to, but no sunscreen, when you are working outside all day in the Australian Sun!!! Their poor skin! Then in my drunken mood I was touching their arms and really saying always what I was thinking..of course that it is to dry etc. Because I did not have a lot time to get ready this evening, I had bodylotion in my bag, which I applied in the car. I am a bit addicted to Bodylotion and I just feel not complete without it after having a shower. That fact is quite amusing for those people here, who never use it. However I ended up putting bodylotion on almost everyone in the bar and I felt like I am advertising Bodylotion. It was just hilarious and at least everyone loved the smell of it. It was a cool and funny night and by far the craziest and best drive back home in my whole live, to crazy though to comment about any details. I needed tons of water today! Whatsoever I did my second drawing, I drew Rachel Burr, an Australian Model. She had that pose on the cover of the ZOO magazine. I felt like just colouring her in pink only. She is so hot, kind of too hot to be real, so that pink creates a sort of dreamy feeling.

DAY 1, Saturday September 10 2011: Blue Monster

While working at the Station, various thoughts crossed my mind and all of a sudden I couldn’t stop thinking about the title “Around the World in 80 days”. Its that famous novel by Jules Vernes, which also was performed on stage and in film. However for me I wanted to combine different crazy thoughts. I just was so sick of my sugar/chocolate addiction and I kind of can never stop thinking about lollies, cakes or chocolate. I kind of always try to eat less of them with not such a longterm success, I guess I am really addicted. Also kind of annoying is the matter of fact that I put on some weight and my cityclothes don’t really fit anymore. 

SO I said to myself, allright 80 days without sweets, unless in any special occasions where it would be very unpolite not to try the a lovely baked birthday cake for example. Crazy and tough idea, well as my substitution I added a more crazy fact. For the next 80 days I will draw or paint one picture per day. I always loved to paint years ago, but I kind of lost track of it and never could find the time or similar excuses. Well now its time for the sweetless drawings in 80 days. Each sweetless day a drawing in 80 days. Just one crazy thought, but I knew, thats it, I gotta do that! So I am very determined now! For today I had no clue what I could put on paper, so I just drew whatever came up. Actually in the beginning I wanted to draw Billy, the farmers baby. But soon I recognized that faces are really not so much my strength. Whatever I just created a funny blue monster and some other elements. I just let the pencil go whatever my emotions were, well the result is an abstract and phantasy like drawing. I didn’t have much time, as we had dinner and then I spontaneously joined 2 workers for a little party in the closest town Top Springs. Well there is just a hotel and bar and thats it! Incredible unbelievable for me as a Citygirl! So I had no spare time left in the evening to finish the drawing, actually I wanted to add a bit more, but time is over Anja!

Intro and actually its Day 80 today

The documentary of my 80 days mission will start tomorrow, actually today is the last day of the project.

Each day I did a drawing and wrote a little diary note about it. Honestly my goal was also to blog about it every single day. Well I was travelling and had sometimes no internet or such a bad and slow connection, so that it was just not possible. Also its kind of hard to find so much time every day to draw, write and also put it up online. Soo today is day 80 and I did it! Now 80 days of online uploading work will follow.