Progress in a nutshell....

So heres a few pics of what I have been up to for the past 3 months...

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Summer art: Self -Portrait

Hi everyone!

So, my Leaving Cert is over and I finally got back to drawing! What a wonderful feeling to have all the time in the world, to just sit there and draw for hours... I really missed this!

I apologize for not updating my blog very often but you know, studying and all sorts of school shennanigans were in the way.
But now, I finally took out my polychromos and drew... myself.
Not because I'm vain or anything. Some people write autobiographies, artists create their self-portraits. So basically, I decided to do that as a sort of, warm up before I draw more this summer. I had quite a long break from art so this was a nice practice. Also, I wanted to draw a person and I didn't really know who to draw so I settled on the idea of drawing myself :)
Doesn't look completely like me but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Now all I'm worrying about is how fast my tints and shades of brown polychromos will be gone... They're just so expensive and everytime I need to sharpen them a part of my soul dies... Argh, the struggle ;)

So here is my self-portrait based on the photoshoot I had for my portfolio.

Görlitz at night.

Görlitz- Germany- December 2013
Photos taken and edited by me.

 And also, Happy New Year :*

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:

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??? 

"Rainy Summer Days"

All pictures taken/edited by me.