Night Time

This is sort of like a Part 2 of a previous photoshoot I had a year ago. Same lights, slightly different setting.
 I took and edited all the pictures myself. It's been such a long while since i last took proper pictures... Here's just some of my favourite:

Goat Skull: Close up + detail

Hello there!
So this weekend I decided to draw my skull from upside down for my portfolio with my graphite pencils.
It took me around 20 hours, not kidding you. I had barely any sleep and I genuinely started hallucinating, haha. But I regret nothing. It turned out pretty good so I'm happy.
I'll post better quality pictures tomorrow or something. I don't have a good flash in my camera + the battery is dead so tomorrow I'll publish the good full size pictures :)
Here are just some of the ones I took today with my phone and webcam:


Here's me while drawing. It was around my 17th hour or something. I was wrecked but at this point I stopped seeing things (this sounds so weird, i know, but I genuinely saw mice in my kitchen and flickering lights. And yes, I am perfectly fine. I was just sick and besides I didn't sleep for a long long time so don't try to convince me i need help, haha)

Aaaaaaand here's the final piece. Pheeeewww, I am so glad i finished this. This weekend was genuienly one of the most productive weekends I had in the last few weeks. 

Orchid- portfolio

Here's one of the few orchids I made for my portfolio.
Conte on a2 sugar paper.

The development of my art in 2 years

I was looking at stuff on my blog and i am not gonna lie. I am very proud of myself. I really improved and just look at me now, I'm currently preparing to go to art college. If you told the 14 year old me that I'm gonna be making a portfolio, I'd be pretty stunned. I always loved art, it's been a huge part of me. I draw for as long as I can remember and I will probably draw until the last minute of my life (whoa, got pretty dramatic there haha. But it is true in all fairness). I obviously have those days when i can't just put my thoughts onto paper but everyone has that. And I am insecure about everything and I always conteplate whether I'm good enough to even make a portfolio. But then i just get rid of all the negative thoughts and i tell myself "Shut up! It doesn't matter if you're good or not. If you love art well then bloody make art" and that is what I am doing.

(I drew the first picture when i was 14 and the second a few months ago-16)

Skull- Gif

check out my other stuff on flickr!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/youucallmelavender/

Skull- "Human Canvas"

Another part of my portfolio. I decided to paint on my friend because paper is too mainstream, haha. So techinically this is 2 in 1: my painting/pastel piece and photography.

Lots of thanks to Oliwia for being my canvas. Oh the things we do for art ;)

now i gotta choose maximum of 2 images to put nto my portfolio. which ones should I pick??? 

Halloween '13

Hi guys! I hope you all enjoyed Halloween this year. With my friend, we dressed up as zombies. I actually put a lot of effort into my costume and I guess it looked pretty cool in the end :)
I did the make-up myself. Materials I used were:

-cotton pads
-toilet paper (the thinner one. it sticks better)
-normal glue (the non-toxic one. the one you use in schools etc. obviously not super glue, haha)
-acrylic paints (mainly red, brown, black)
-fake gel blood
-black, purple, brown, white eyeshadow
-talcum powder
It took me quite a long time to complete the look but it was worth it. I scared a lot of people which really was my main aim ;)

my friend also made similar look except she didn't have the eye patch as you can see. she used all the same materials as I did

hope you like it :)