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I Love Saturdays
www.joannethies.blogspot.com
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Goddamn I love Saturdays! My name is Joanne Thies, I am an Illustrator, doodler, photo taker and experimental typographer. Every week I will be adding new work of my own, being illustration, photos or type. Mid week may bring some favourite borrowed things. I use pen and pencil on paper and take lots of photos across the globe with my handy cameras. How delightful. Thanks for visiting and or sharing! ... until next Saturday, hand me my cup cake and ill see you next week! HUZZAH! Commission me. I can do you doodles and photos. joannethies {at} gmail.com
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Monsterrat and the temporary fear of God

I miss my time in Spain. To ease the longing Ive been reworking some images I took and doodles I doodled while in Barcelona. If you do plan to visit, do not skip THIS place. About 1 hour north of Bar...

30 apr 12 1 person likes this

Back from the hills of Ubud, orchids in hand.

I have recently returned from a short Indonesian jaunt and I must begin by saying I lost my favourite and beloved point and shoot camera on the back of a moderately high speed motorbike in Ubud. I ha...

05 apr 12

Square One, opening tonight!

A little while back, The Strutten collective interviewed me for their site here and showcased some of my documentary photography work here - they recently asked me to participate in their second exhi...

02 mar 12

Documenting Saturdays and a love for bridges.

Weekends exploring my town. The beaches and city streets, its harder to see all things exciting and new with stale eyes. So Ive been attempting to take my normal routes with my traveller set of eyeba...

30 jan 12

Brooch collectors, photo lovers unite! Instagram love.

Above:  brooch collection documentation images taken via instagram for the iphone. Hello and happy new year to you! Yes, a little belated, but I havent touched a computer in over 10 days an...

03 jan 12

Happy Merry Christmas to you, the lovely!

A little festive doodle for you! Happy Merry Christmas to you!Over the year, I have had some very lovely words written by you reader and seriously, I thank you.For me, Christmas spells family, b...

20 dec 11

Lennox Heads & The Cliff Face

Saturday plans.Beach, swim, get dirty.Thats it. No wait, lets be honest. Beer + afternoon food delights. I recently visited Lennox Heads, NSW and took some snaps of the lovely little sea si...

10 nov 11

Spooked in Sintra & the Pena Palace

A little Portugal revisit - I couldnt resist uploading these pics. I recently watched a snippit of Return to Oz for the fist time in my adult life (Saw it as a kid, it traumatised me just a little bi...

16 oct 11

Haus der Kulturen der welt. I got lost amongst the lions.

Berlin you are a beauty. Tiergarten is one of my favourite parks in the entire world (after Munich s Nymphenburg Palace and Spains Maria Luisa park) I explored the Tiergarten on my bike all day, stil...

07 oct 11

The home of I Love Saturdays.

 This is for my beloved friend in London town, you cannot visit me so far away so I have brought my humble abode to you! Do you miss me? You would shriek at my actual&nb...

01 sep 11

Granada, amongst the runaways.

in complete contrast of my last post featuring the Luisa Rossitto colour explosion - the crispy white lonely streets of greens, blues, greys, + the afternoon sun in Granada Spain. One thing became re...

22 aug 11

Luisa Rossitto & the jungle fever.

A few Saturdays back, Luisa invited me into her studio to do a little documenting.  She paints in waterolour. They are so very lovely. She had a large painting stolen right off a gallery wall at...

04 aug 11

Poland, my love. I entered the Royal Castle all alone.

The Chandeliers of the Royal Castle, Warsaw.  So much history gone, rebuilt + not the same.  I have so many pictures of Poland to share, but I feel a bit protective. I almost want...

18 jul 11 1 person likes this

Frankies true doodles, time well spent.

So a little while back, the Frankie Magazine  blog sent me a Field Notes book to fill. The little note book arrived all wrapped up carefully in blue tissue paper and floral sticky tape (jus...

01 jul 11 1 person likes this

Porcelain, its lonely in London.

 For a porcelain skinned lady with a lover named Si.  For a massive overcrowded city, London sure would be lonely without you, you are right at home. Miss you + all things oddball.

20 jun 11 1 person likes this

Alcazar walls + pink sighs of relief.

Best things of Seville are, the geo tiles, the orange trees, the effortless search for beer on tap which is calling from ever street. CHEESE. Streets lined with lights and feasts for the eyes. The&nb...

01 jun 11 1 person likes this

Secret spots found in Sevilla. Night night to the NoDos.

Obsessively finding NoDo symbols in Seville, embedded into the buildings, tiles, bricks, gates, door knobs, windowsills, everywhere ... fed me with the same excitement felt in finding those secret le...

17 may 11 1 person likes this

Illustrations in Seville guide me home.

I didnt use any of my pocket maps to find my way around recently in  Seville, Spain. I had some magical internal guide showing me the way. So impressed with dyslexic myself.  I Love you Sev...

06 may 11 1 person likes this

My eyeballs first fell out, then in love, at the Gallery of Modern Art.

Im a bit sad to say I visited this show on the very last day. In true style on my lonesome. Wish I had gone a little earlier ... give you, reader,  some kick in the ass enthusiasm to go too! But...

30 apr 11 3 people like this

Anzacs + Easter Eggs.

HUZZAH EASTER TO YOU READER! Australia has an unheard of 5 day long weekend. Its due to the Easter break and our Anzac Public holiday all falling in the same spot! The day the Australians landed...

23 apr 11 1 person likes this

Thunder in the heart on up Castle de São Jorge.

No more Portugal pictures, I need to stop. I have too many and need to stop somewhere, so this must be last. I could post on Portugal for months and months. My very last highlights her of Lisbon incl...

15 apr 11

Red lights mean youre leaving.

    More of Lisbon, dirty reds in the late afternoons and evening time. Pictures + layered doodles done while waiting, so much waiting.All taken by point + shoot + Cannon 30D  + p...

07 apr 11

I love you Lisbon.

Oh My God how I freaking love Lisbon, Portugal. Days getting lost in the street and riding the No. 28 tram. Handpainted tiles and walls and walls of pastel colours. I love you Lisbon, Marry me?If you...

28 mar 11 1 person likes this

Manteaux de fourrure et regard seul ...

 Lonely In France with fur coats. So many Fur Coats. This woman in the fur coat in my pictures above was the only person I saw that afternoon, I said bonjour she scoured at me and kept walking. ...

25 mar 11 1 person likes this

Things Lovely + Wasted Time

Wasting time on paper pages and all things lovely.Pen on paper doodles + all images taken with Cannon 30D.

23 mar 11 1 person likes this

The farthest away and I succeeded, stalking in Paris.

Being along in Paris meant I met alot of strangers. Mostly ... ones I didnt want to meet. I decided to make them feel uncomfortable in return, so I told them to smile for me. They did. Mostly. Drank ...

10 mar 11 1 person likes this

It only took a week ... and now, you are all mine.

  It only took a week, and now ...  you are all mine.After the snow fell, everything looked so glowing in white, pink & pastel. Clear skies, coloured doors and freezing air.  This ...

03 mar 11 1 person likes this

Paris is burning, all night long. Bon soi Lovely!

 These street side snaps are from my midnight jaunts mainly around the back streets of Montmartre, Paris. Day time snaps will come next week - ill keep my thoughts on Paris in my sleeve until th...

22 feb 11 1 person likes this

Boros Bunker Berlin!

 The Boros Bunker Collection. I jumped on my tredley on that freezing German morning in Berlin and raced to my appointment at the Berlin Boros Collection Bunker. (only to stop and adore the fixe...

15 feb 11 1 person likes this

Blankets bring people together.

Here we are! Side by side on the street - two little strangers. Joao and I. A Porto local and a Australian ... far from home. I couldnt help but blur our faces ... just a little bit.  A meeting ...

06 feb 11 1 person likes this

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