Alice in Wonderland

Monday 31st January

Ok, sooooooooo..................all of last week was utter shut down on my life, as I stayed at home and just worked on my art for deadline........

Meaning I have nothing to show you for last week.......sorry, but my art is really important to me and I want to do well in it...............like I said last time, my deadlines are far apart and only happen once a year BUT they will happen, so as long as I keep up to date and keep posting PLEASE don't abandon me just because I miss a few days during a deadline............otherwise, if a few days are late then I was either away somewhere or ill - meaning they'll still be done and posted within a few days..........

Right, so after that small informational - here's today!

today I got to hang out with my friend Nikki, who works in London most of the time so I basically never see her anymore! So when she gets weeks or the occassional weekend off and comes down to Colchester, we normally attempt a small catch up.........

 here I am looking decidedly stupid, sitting in Nero's with dear Nikki filling my camera with 10 pics of this one picture because she thought it'd be funny =_=;;

first off, I did have a really nice picture of her.......not that this doesn't look nice! But she does look like a zombie here, anyway she decided to delete the pictures of her........so this is her punishment, as I wasn't able to save any other picture of her!

she REALLY looks bored with me ^_^;;

yeah, I look fairly insane............it was really funny as well, as earlier Nikki and I went to get lunch and we were both asked to show our ID as Nikki was getting a drink of something.........yeah, my ID looks nothing like me! It is me!! But it was me before I cut my hair and curled it, also the picture was taken when I didn't really wear a lot of make up......so my picture looks like this really normal quiet girl, heh so the woman kept looking up at me and down at my ID again and again.......kind of reminds me of when I have to show my passport to people in the airport =_=;; everyone's a comdian!

So yeah, I had to explain that I'd changed my look a bit since it was taken........luckily she understood and thankfully it was without the comment that I normally get in the airports, where all security think it's funny to say that 'women always change their looks, but yours is a bit extreme' =_=;;

today was Alice in Wonderland themed, mainly because I was wearing my mad hatter necklace and ring again from Disney Couture...........so yeah, this is basically my attempt at copying the illustration onto my face........I don't think I did it well enough, so yeah.......but at least I gave it a go! ^_^

Nikki commented on how plain it looked............so I think next time I need to add some colour to it to make it look right.......maybe :-S

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ok, well I found thursday's picture..........which is a fairly bad try at a Repo! image, but at least I tried.........heh you can tell I'm starting to feel the effects of 2 hours sleep every night as I look dreadful! XD

meant to be Repo Man, who comes to reposses the organs of those in debt to GeneCo and who can't pay back their debts.............

ah yeah................I feel bad for missing out a week, so as an apology I will be doing the 7 designs that I had come up with for that week and posting them.........I'd worked out exactly what I'd wanted to do everyday last week, but like I said with my work it was just impossible to go through with them.........so yeah, keep an eye out as they should be up here during this week.......... :-D

here's some of the work I was doing for my deadline, thought I'd show you some particular pieces that took some time to do...........this is based on Max Ernst (?) who used Victorian etchings and illustration to make surreal collages that looked almost real............I love his work and made my own collages, but rather than leaving them I then drew from them using charcoal..........hope you like them!

as you can see the one above is where I started and this is how it grew..........I didn't have time to take a pic of this complete, but this was one of my favourites once I'd finished it :)

oh yeah!!! My cat has discovered that he likes playing snooker and pool...........but he doesn't see the point in potting the balls...........

yeah, everytime one of the balls fell in he tried to find and rescue it as his favourite toys are balls...........I had to post this pic as it was soooo funny when he did this, he didn't hurt himself by the way, he easily got his head back out he didn't get stuck and I did not force him to do this!! So no animal rights-ing me, as I did nothing to him and he was rather pleased that he now knows where the balls go! ^_^

well that's all for today...........night all

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Rose and Stereos

Saturday 22nd of January

 simple rose and thorn...........not coloured in as I thought I'd show a simple one, as normally I'd fill in with colour and lose the original image........this is kind of me showing that it starts more complicated looking than it finished normally..........

so yeah just black eyeliner for this one..........

know what I've learnt? that I don't suit black eyeshadow............it just makes me look like I'm falling asleep!!!

jumper with stick out dress skirt from Dot P's, my rose scalf, my working boots and my velevet coat............

ah yes!! I want these sunglasses!!! See I normally don't post about stuff that I want to buy, but here are a few exceptions! I love the shape and colour of these, so if I have enough money these will be mine for the summer..........

they're soooooooooo cool!!! XD

ok, so maybe I might get these as well!! AH!! I love strange shaped sunglasses, actually I have to wear reading glasses on odd occassions and if I'm honest I want some strange frames for my glasses which no where in colchester do :'(

I mean, you know the 50's face furniture as they were called - a kind of dulled down dame edna kinda look, well I love those styles they had, round ones in bright colours, triangular, square with swirls...........

so yeah, I would look like a mega wierdo and be soooo happy about it but alas no spec shop shares my vision (if there was a bad joke in there then I apologise, it wasn't meant like that!)

Mwahahahaha!! I found the glasses on the interwebs, as the ones above are vintage whereas these are by Vera Wang - only problem is I can't afford these ones :(

Aren't these cute?!?! heh I have the Panda for my ipod and it's amazing!!! you place your hand on their ears to alter the volume of your music and their noses glow to show they're on!

But yeah, they didn't have the cat or the dog when I bought my panda, but even if they did I still think I'd have bought my panda anyway as he's the cutest thing ever!! XD

then again this does have a collar and looks sooooooo cute!! hmm............no my panda would cry if I bought him :(

so yeah.............I shall end my week catch up with my little cat Garfield, who seems to like posing strangely lately............so yeah, thanks for following and not abandoning me during my time of relentless work and nights of 2hour sleep.......this will be up to date and continue that way by tomorrow, so yeah please keep reading as I'm sooooooo not finished with this yet! ^_^

Byes

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Clouds and Stars

Friday the 21st.....

Ok, so there's no thursday which is annoying, but I can't do much about that right now so lets skip ahead to Friday the 21st of January which is the day that apparently CONDRON saw me in town........which really shocked me as I know she's following this blog but I didn't realise she was in Colchester ^_^ Anyway, it was cool to see your comment CONDRON and thankyou very much as it's nice to know that someone out there likes how I look..........so yeah, thankyou for following my blog as muddled as it can be and as late as it's normally posted.............

 so here I was today having a coffee with my friend Vicky Gray, who I hadn't seen during Christmas so we did a late present exchange today..........

here she is looking absolutely lovely today...........

ah yes, she bought a zip bracelet from Claires that ended up being turned into an arm band and as promised here I am posting about it :-P

so today's design was a little bit mystical for once................a swirling clud with stars, it's black eyeliner with gold metallic by Barry M, now I know I seem to always lately use Barry M but it's really good at going over black eyeliner - so if any mistakes are made or if you decide to alter the size of an image on a black design then it really is the eyeliner to use  as it covers brilliantly!

Hope you all likes!

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TopHat with embellishment

Wednesday 19th January

 Well here's Lydia who I met up with for the day........as always she's super cute, bright, colourful and scene kiddy (although I know she'll kill me for saying that!)

and here I am, looking like I need more sleep which I did for the past two weeks..........

anyway, it's my victorian dress with the inappropriate bright bra straps (oops), my victorian medal necklace and my Top hat Necklace from Disney Couture........

well here's the design, some silver William Morris-ish leaves curling and holding a gentlemans top hat with a silver band around it.........

wow I REALLY needed sleep huh? Sometimes I think this blog is more to show just how bad I look somedays =_=;; still, at least even when tired I can still draw on my face.........

little close up that's gone kind of blury.........so yeah, black eyeliner and silver glitter........

the leaves of the design are based on the medal that incorporates those all the way through it, heh I also have a Top hat ring from Disney Couture...........

I had to post these.........another big apology present for you all, my little garfield conking out about the house.......he looks so sweet, but he always reminds me how long he's gotten since he was a kitten........

someone's dreaming about rabbit hunting

he looks soooooooooooo sweet!!! XD

Eyes

Right, onto the 18th January Tuesday.....

My wonderful T-shirt dress from H&M which inspired me for today..........

so here I am, again in my belted boots, my t-shirt dress thing, my cardy with the studs and my spotted hair bow..........

see the T-shirt dress says 'the one eyed red-head' so I thought well that's a bit boring and added a few eyes to my face.....

black eyeliner and blue metallic by Barry M

these are extremely comfortable boots, that are kinda piratey/highway man..........so I adore them!

my lovely hair bow that was my mum's in the 80's

oh yeah, to match or to confuse to two sides on my face - my lipstick was half and halved........so the odd side with all the eyes and spiky eyelash decore is red lipstick which is a theatrical but normal colour, then the normal side has my blue lipstick that in all honesty I used to wear everyday until going to Sixth form and being told by my friends that I looked like I was dieing from the cold...........

This is kind of me going well I like it and I don't care, also my friends are now extremely used to how I like to look and dress so the colour is no longer as shocking as it used to be for them.........infact most of the time when someone says something mean about me they stick up for me, or scare the person away......I don't actually care, I mean it's Colchester after all and the people here are only just used to the sight of goths in town, so I'm a flipping freak show when I walk around :)

ah yeah, remember monday I showed the latex mould with holes? Well this is the end result of placing it in a glass so the mould would stay straight and the resin would dry without spilling............apparently I hadn't blocked all of the holes, so it leaked into the glass which ultimately died for the greater good of my experimentation that is art..........I'll miss it, but I have so many pint glasses now that really it was just cluttering the cupboard..........

I couldn't get all the glass off and smashing was the only definite idea I had to tackle it..........so I called mum and she came over and decided to attack it with kitchen utensils..........why I hadn't thought of this I have no idea, but it worked and left me with a frankenstein kind of shape......not what I wanted but well, practice makes perfect right? or is that practice makes the glasses disappear? :-S

I really like this look.definitely halving my lipstick again and the eyes turned out really well!

Oh yeah!!! Look what I found!!!!! XD

While going through DeviantArt to read a fan comic called GND that I've followed for ages now, I noticed two new characters in the latest posts.... a Graverobber and a Shilo.........

Ok, so let me first explain about the fan comic, it's mainly based around the idea of all fictional or movie based characters being in this appartment block.....as an example Sarah and Jareth the Goblin King from the Labrynth.....in every post it's explained that none of the characters are hers, but the comic is.....

so it really is a fan comic, that explores what happens to the characters and the interaction they have with other characters, like Elizabeth Swan from Pirates of the Carribean is obviously with Will Turner but whenever she bumps into Legolass or Sweeney Todd she gets really confused and De Ja Vued because those characters are played by the same actors in her movie and therefore look similar to Captain Jack and Will Turner.........

but yeah, so I read the posts with these characters in and was intrigued as I'd never heard of Graverobber or Shilo before so at first I thought it was  TV series from SyFy or something that I hadn't seen.......so I searched them up on google and wow was I surprised.........they from an epic movie called Repo! The Genetic Opera...........

The minute I found it and saw clips on youtube, I was hooked.........it's a brilliant and clever movie, that I wish had more publicity behind it as it's the kind of movie that you wish people would create!

I mean, for a quick kind of understanding about it I'd say think Sweeney Todd meets Rocky Horror Show, with the definite theme of they're the baddies and they're the good guys that you find in the Moulin Rouge...

I hope that hasn't confused you!

So uh, yeah, visit their site => http://www.repo-opera.com/

and give them a look up on youtube, or do the super awesome thing that I did and order the DVD as it's a movie that you really will kick yourself for not watching if you don't get it........

that's all for tuesday byes xxxxxxxx