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your parents for their wedding anniversary and what if it s their 56th wedding anniversary celebrating such an enduring union with an original gift might be a challenge unless you are the mighty aliza worthington hence this commission of a cartoon version of her mom and dad s original 1965 wedding photograph such a fun project i ve been so busy doing watercolour portraits and paintings lately it s been a few months since i ve done anything in my toonswag style i loved jumping back into it and it made me realize how versatile i ve become as an artist of course there s nothing like the original thanks for trusting me with your parents barbara and michael aliza as always you rock happy 56th anniversary to these beautiful lovebirds looking for a special gift for a special someone whether cartoon or fine art watercolour portraits make amazing and memorable gifts often eliciting an emotional reaction reach out to me here to arrange a commission tweet posted by the animated woman at 9 03 pm 0 comments labels awesome gifts gift idea original wedding gift idea portraits january 25 2021 she hits hard me what do you want for christmas boy boy cover art for my first single please the song just dropped last week and is called she hits hard and is a boxing metaphor for love ️ it had to be super cute chibis he said and gave me the rough concept of bandages and black eyes i used the incredible zendaya as visual reference for she who hits hard she hits hard by merlin little featuring phileep merlin little a k a the 10 year old boy is now nearly 21 and actually just moved out during the pandemic i know but what can you do baby bird s gotta fly our son is what i call a super creative type and this song is part of a collection that will be an album made during the ongoing lockdown existence please support musicians hit this link for a preview and download the song on itunes apple music spotify and soundcloud follow merly_curly_ on instagram for new music dropping soon with awesome cover art by other cool artist types tweet posted by the animated woman at 1 12 pm 0 comments labels boy chibis cover art music december 29 2020 2020 the year in animation i made a short animated film about how relentlessly bad the year 2020 is was it s been literal shit therefore the animation features the song literal shit by the band apache tomcat go check them out on free music archive they are cool i grew up in the sixties and saturday morning cartoons had a profound impact on me sometimes i think my personality was shaped by chuck jones and mel blanc most definitely there are traces of influence in my own little indie films in terms of timing and character takes though greatly simplified in execution when i started making this film i was really just thinking of animating a series of shots of me trying to destroy the 2020 it was only halfway through that i realized i was also including pratfalls because they re funny like wile e coyote and the roadrunner 2020 has been a series of desperate shots and humiliating pratfalls it served the story to go with it so i leaned in the song which i found first and animated to on a timeline is only about 30 seconds long and the shots are super tight i love that fast paced animation i added the extra downtime at the end which builds some tension before releasing back into the fury of the music actually the film will loop endlessly if you let it i really hope 2020 does not loop endlessly sob 2021 better be better seriously 2020 has been a world wide disaster and a year fraught with personal terribleness there s a raging pandemic people are divided the planet is on fire friends and family are suffering and dying i animated this while simultaneously dealing with mononucleosis full surgery to remove pre cancer in my boob and a gall bladder situation and i consider myself lucky because it could have been way worse what do you consider yourself lucky for this year ps wear a mask please tweet posted by the animated woman at 9 00 am 1 comments labels 2020 actualanimation animation animator films inspiration pandemic november 24 2020 the up the nose covid test yesterday i went for my pre surgery covid test i m having a partial mastectomy this week so the covid test is a precaution to protect the health care workers just in case i m harbouring some of that coronavirus in my bod unlikely given that i ve been pretty much isolated since last march but you never know i admit i was a little nervous about this test my son and daughter have both had the up the nose test and both told me it was the worst thing ever all weekend i kept trying to imagine what it would feel like to be probed deep into my noggin the hospital test center was solely for pre surgery patients so no one was lined up with symptoms it was really quick i went in sat down and a nice nurse lady explained that she was going to be very gentle she took out what looked like a very long white mascara wand with a teensy brush on the end of it nurse lady said she had to stick it up my nose and twirl it around for ten seconds i nodded ok i m ready she holds the wand up to my cheek horizontally as if measuring how far to stick it in out of the corner of my eye i m thinking yikes that s like six inches man wat twirl it for ten seconds and in it goes it kind of burns but not much nurse lady says she now has to start the twirling for ten seconds ok let s go she starts counting out loud one mississippi two mississippi three mississippi the burning intensifies just a little and a sound starts coming out of me ooooooooooooooooo i mean it was hilarious i had no control over this noise it was completely involuntary nice nurse lady counts faster five mississippi six mississippi seven mississippi me ooooooooooooooooooooooo nnl eightmissippininemissppiten and she whips it out from the depths of my nasal passage the burning stops and a tiny tear rolls its way out of the corner of my left eye and that was it to be honest i felt a little bit let down and like somehow they should do the other nostril as well just to keep things balanced and symmetrical i suggested it but nurse lady just laughed it was really not as bad as a colonoscopy or a pap smear or even having your teeth cleaned you don t have to take off any clothes and it s only ten very fast seconds mind you this was a pre surgery covid test with a nice nurse lady if i had had symptoms and was stressed and worried about getting sick or getting my loved ones sick and burdening the healthcare system not to mention waiting in line for hours it would be a different story things that are worse than the up the nose covid test have you had the up the nose covid test let me know if it was better or worse than anything on this list stay safe and mask up tweet posted by the animated woman at 12 26 pm 2 comments labels breast cancer awareness covid 19 health health care nurse pandemic pre surgery november 21 2020 how my dog saved my life probably it was the end of july and i was walking my dog chuck the weather was warm and luscious and we sauntered together slowly down the sidewalk suddenly chuck pulled sideways towards a parked car there was a cat sulking underneath it it wasn t a hard pull just an unexpected tug chuck is 150 lbs to my 100 lbs but he s a good walker and i led him easily away and thought nothing more of it why my boobs got to do me like this two days later i felt a pain in my right breast not remembering that cat incident i immediately thought uh oh something s up with the old girl my right old girl my left old maid having had a lump removed from the left breast in my early 40s turned out to be just a lump plus being over fifty i get a mammogram every year this year i was thinking there s a pandemic out there i ll just skip it no big deal but when i got this weird pain even though i felt no lump i got worried and went in for the scan and also an ultrasound a few days later the radiology clinic called me back for another scan the following weeks they called me back for two more magnifications and different views weirdly they were focusing only on my left breast the old maid while completely ignoring the old girl next thing i know the doctor told me i needed a biopsy because i have some micro calcifications in the old maid you guys stereotactic is a word a stereotactic biopsy is a thing where you lie face down on a table with a hole in it it looks like a massage table your boob goes in the hole and hangs down in my case to the floor they freeze your tit and then do the biopsy whilst simultaneously scanning it for accuracy for the record it hurts about as much as going to the dentist a tiny needle prick some pressure and that s it the next few days were a bit ouchie though just like the dentist haha around this time i was diagnosed with old lady mononucleosis and tummy troubles exacerbated by my osteoporosis medication barf the huz was away in the uk visiting his mum my friend kym was struggling with her cancer there s a raging pandemic the world is on fire and now a looming breast issue it was a lot so it turns out i don t have cancer i have pre cancer also known as stage zero ductile carcinoma in situ and i m having surgery next week to carve that bitch out partial mastectomy it sounds dramatic and i know it s going to hurt but i m not scared as my doctor said we caught it early this is why we do mammograms i was listening to npr in the car and there was a medical expert saying that in two to three years something like 20 000 women were going to die because they delayed their mammograms due to the covid situation that might ve been me so basically if chuck hadn t yanked me i probably wouldn t have gone for my yearly mammogram the dangerous micro calcification clusters would have laid undiscovered until possibly stage 1 or 2 dcis thanks chuck you saved my life probably yes i still have to get over the wretched mono and tummy troubles as well as surgery and whatever that reveals but the good news is i have every chance of good results in the future also the old girl doesn t hurt anymore please tell chuck what a good boy he is and if you feel so moved give a small donation to sos quebec newf rescue don t delay your mammograms ps wear a mask i don t want my surgery canceled due to covid overload tweet posted by the animated woman at 3 45 pm 17 comments labels biopsy boobies covid dcis dog dog lovers hospital kymberli barney mammogram my dog chuck sick surgery november 12 2020 kym and me one can say a heck of a lot about kymberli barney beyond her family and friends kym touched many people with her gifts i m sifting through my memories of her and it actually blows my mind not only how much she accomplished but also the precious communities she blessed with her heart it s not a surprise to see how loved she was i only met kym in person once but i first got to know her as a fellow blogger and so that s what i ll spring from here to be a blogger and to spark and nurture the very specific kind of friendship that exists on the internet is a new and divergent behaviour in the realm of human connection it s a relationship that can expand very quickly from casual witticisms to sharing the intimate intricacies of our lives like pen pals on steroids thanks to technology quite often bloggers share the subtle nuances of hopes and fears with their blogging community that they may never feel safe or comfortable sharing with in real life loved ones the intensity of such a friendship has baffled those who exist in person how can you feel this depth of caring for someone you ve never met how indeed the written word is powerful and so are drawings words and pictures open doors and that s pretty much what happened with kym and me it was 2011 there i was happily blogging my drawings right here when some lady called the smartness started waving at me on twitter she said she d drawn me usually it s me who draws people and put it on her blog and was terrified that i d be mad i kym s drawing of me on a mug i m actually terrified to break it now well as if lol i clicked the link and promptly fell in love kym had dubbed me an honorary gangsta in her drawing complete with baddass attitude and hefty bling gangstas and bling were identifiers she often invoked in her writing to connect her readers and sometimes as a trope to push a point as only a black woman could kym s sense of humour was both mightily sophisticated and steeped in the brew of the potty damn she was funny i can t count the number of times she showed herself out that s how it started kym drew me and in so doing drew me to her i drew her right back and sealed the deal gangsta 101 as kym would say word what i saw in kym was a kindred creative spirit her humility thoughtfulness curiosity and sheer brains it all shone through in her writing she was a natural leader organizing fundraisers and support for others we put our heads and hearts together on projects as friends and bloggers as teachers and artists as mothers and wives she inspired me kym was generous with her light the rest was history eight years of comments on blog posts and social media advice asked and given by email endless meandering conversations via private messages always there just one click away even when she got sick i did my best to make her laugh radio kym kymotherapy i told her i loved her she said she loved me too and then she was gone kym had often ninja posed for photos after some of her cancer treatments when her mum asked me to draw a cartoon of ninja kym to print on their celebration of life t shirts i thought about drawing her in the usual way cute hilarious and kicking cancer s ass kym was funny but she was beautiful too and so much more than a simple stick figure cartoon could convey so i went with my super hero style classic ninja pose ascending with dreamy heart shaped radial wings and a halo the ultimate bling did you know kym tweet posted by the animated woman at 8 06 pm 8 comments labels angel bling bloggers 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