...testing

Art...

This was a pencil/coloured pencil sketch I made of a female highwayman. After reading

Celia Rees 'Sovay' I fell in love with the idea of female highwaymen. Years and years ago I watched 'Plunkett and Macleane' and have watched it hundreds of time since...this brought about my interest in highwaymen in general...but Sovay, made me research into the female ones. I was totally inspired and came up with the above. I am extremley proud of the shading on this, and the hair.

This is a mixed media picture of Rapunzel. I wanted to draw something more true to the Grimm brothers than the child friendly version. This is after she has met the prince, and is possibly pregnant with her child. She is no longer the niave innocent child. I pictured her crying because of her healing tears.

Work catch up

I'm catching up on alot of work for college at the moment, to get back up to date.

This is all of my photography work I did last lesson. This was just about developing negatives in different light, and attempting to use solarisation.

These were the negatives from the modelling I did, for my partners photos :)

These are my copies of artist 'Modigliani'. I've still got alot of art to catch up on, as I'm a whole artist behind though...so lots of work haha.

Halloween

Orange
Black
Candles
Pumpkins
Samhain
Spells
Trick or Treating
Dress up
The veil between worlds
Monsters
Ghouls
Toffee Apples
Candy
Horror Movies
Decorations
Blood
End of the Harvest
Warmth
Skulls
Spiders
Night
....


The holidays can be very inspiring, especially the ones you love. In my book Halloween and Xmas are tied in first place.

Egypt

Well for two weeks a week ago, I was in Egypt. It was amazing, a trip of a lifetime. I took over 700 pictures on my SLR...oops...haha.
Here is no where near that many for you to look at.

I went snorkelling with hundreds of amazing fishes, I played with an octopus in the ocean, I fell in love with a dish called Vegetarian Shakshoka and a dessert called Om Ali, I almost fainted time and time again due to the 46degree weather, I saw the pyramids, I saw the sphinx, I watched the sunset from a boat on the nile, I went to the valley of the kings, I went to Cairo Museum, I went to Karnak temple, and Luxor Temple, and the temple of Hatchepsut. I did alot...everything I wanted to achieve in Egypt I did.

Another quick novel update

Sorry to bombard, but I've uploaded the beginning of Chapter 6 of my novel to my DeviantArt, so here's the link, for those who want to read it.

http://jade-rat.deviantart.com/#/d2zdden

Thanks xx

More Photograms

I played with some more photograms in the darkroom today, mainly of snake skin again. I adore the way they're coming out, and can't wait to start processing actual negative film over the next few weeks.