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 :)

Skull pt.2

Here's another drawing of a skull. This time it's an animal skull. Not sure if it's a goat or a sheep skull. But whatever ;)

I used my fineliners on an a3 sheet. 

And in case you're wondering, I am not in  a cult and I am not depressed. I just enjoy drawing skulls, that's all haha. 

Skull

Drew this skull as a preperation for my portfolio.

Used my Koh-I-Noor Graphite pencisl (mainly hb, 3b, 6b and 7b). On a3 paper.

"Rainy Summer Days"

All pictures taken/edited by me.

"The man with the coin"

So while I was on my holidays in Greece, I came around many poor people on the streets of Athens. They were walking on the most tourist occupied streets, sitting in the metro stations or sleeping on the benches in parks. Some were young, some were very old. Some were disabled while others just struggled with the economic life in Athens. Every time I passed a person that was asking for money, I was honestly heart broken while others were just used to it.
One day I was walking to the Sindagma Square with my parents and passed this poor man sleeping on the sidewalk. You could see he was wrecked. After a long day of walking around the city in such a high temperature he must have been exhausted. Practically everyone ignored the poor man until one person finally came closer and placed a coin on the man's hand. The person left soon afterwards while the man was still sleeping. He must have been very suprised when he finally woke up.

Picture taken/edited by me.

Greece

All pictures edited and taken by me.
Athens-Greece-July'13