Clothes Swapping Fundraiser

My little sister is going Kabubbu in Uganda next year to build a house out there with a charity and we are in the process of raising funds this so we held a clothes swapping event which is basically where you bring items from your wardrobe that you don't like any more or don't fit you any more but are still in good condition, and you put them all together with other peoples and then you see if there are any pieces that you like of other peoples. As this was raising money, if you wanted an item of clothing, you payed 50p to £1 depending on what the item was. It was a very enjoyable evening and as some of the pieces were.. well disgusting, we had a lot of fun in making the most hideous outfits. I spent £6 in total and got some really nice things which I was so surprised at. 

These boots are originally from New Look and are a really nice off white colour. I'm not too sure about the chain on the back as it gets stuck on the heel a lot but I love these shoes. They are a size 6 and super comfy!

Sorry that these pictures aren't amazing quality but I took them at night (probably not the best idea) and the lighting was not good. This dress is originally from Rebex or a shop like that I can't remember as I have never heard of it before. I have never really liked the two part dress but I really like this one especially for the holiday party season.

This top is a bit odd I do admit but I really like it. I like wearing it because it's so big and really warm and comfy and it is very loose fitting which I love! It is a size XL but I don't know if that's childerens size or anything but even though I don't really like stripes, this is perfect for a lazy day. I also got these jeans which had also never been worn.

 These shoes are so cute, I couldn't pass them by. I don't know where they are from but they have never been worn. They aren't the comfiest things in the world but I'll live. I got them more for the spring and summer because in the winter, i'd just traipse through mud in them and never be able to wear them again. 

 This is my sister wearing another dress I got. It is a really lovely strapless black lace dress. It looks beautiful on but I think that I am going to attach some ribbon as straps as it looks a little off strapless. 

This is the last thing that I have a picture of to show which I bought. This is a white shirt which was from H&M and I love the rouched detailing it looks lovely! I got this because it will probably be useful at some point in the future for work or a formal event. It is also ultra soft!


    I also got a few more tops but they haven't come out of the wash yet as for some reason they got put into a separate wash to everything else. Even though it feels a little odd buying other peoples clothes, after a while I realised that that is exactly what vintage shopping is and after everything has been washed, it may as well be new and I got all of this for £6!

Art Sheet One

This is going to be another blog post about art work that I have done for my GCSE because there is a hell of a lot of it and I think it is a really nice thing to see. All of these pieces are by an artist who I can't remember the name of but he speciallises in watercolour and I love his style.

 This is my most recent piece of work and I did it using oil pastles and white spirit and I think that it gives a really nice effect and turned out a lot better than I expected. 

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This is the same picture but in water colours. I really like the background on this but watercolour is not my strong point, so some parts are not accurate to the original.

Surf Art

This is an example of some of the work that I have completed for my Art GCSE. Enjoy!

I never thought that I'd be able to actually paint this picture but when I found it on exposed monkeys facebook page I fell in love with the colours and the cloud formation and I had to try and it turned out a lot better than I expected. Exposed monkey is an Australian photographer and his facebook page and website are both well worth a visit.

This was painted using acrylics to achieve the strong colour and reflections and I used brushes, sponges and also cotton balls to create the effect of the clouds.

http://www.exposedmonkey.com.au/

This was also painted using acrylics and is another photo by exposed monkey but I changed this one up a little to make it clearer. I love the colours in this and I liked this so much that I painted it on a canvas and gave it to my mum for her birthday and it sits on her mantle piece in her room. I used cotton on this one too and also some flat top cotton buds to create the spray on the wave and all over the picture. 

Drew Brophy

 We all had to pick out an artist to copy the style of and I found Drew Brophy on google search and I fell in love with his art. It's so expressive and full of colour and emotion and I think he is a real inspiration.

http://www.drewbrophy.com/

I had to use a lot of different media besides my trusty acrylic paints so I used water colours for this and I built up the colour so that it would be be bold and I am really happy with how this turned out.

 This is another copy of his work which I love. I used my acrylics for this one and I really enjoyed painting it and mixing all of the colours although the wave was quite hard to blend the colours with. I especially love the sun on this painting and how it blends out.

I love this. This was the first piece of his work that I copied to see if i could do it and I just love how freeing it is. I used chalk for this which is a media that I have always hated but after using them for this I quite like them.

 This is the complete page that I did on the artist Drew Brophy. I love his style of painting and I think he is a truly amazing and inspirational artist and if you want to find out more about him, visit his website which is so impressive!

http://www.drewbrophy.com/



This painting is huge in real life and it took a lot of work and a lot of paint to create when I did it about a year ago now. We had to paint natural things and I was having a lot of trouble so my replacement art teacher at the time told me about what artists hundreds of years ago used to do. As art was so expensive to do, the only people who could afford to do it properly was the church and they only allowed the artists paint things related to Christianity so what they did was they painted a huge and beautiful landscape and then did a little bible scene in the corner and that was classed as okay. So what my art teacher told me to do was paint something that excited me. Something which I love and which inspires me and when I found this photograph, something just clicked and it was this which inspired me to do my whole theme as surfing.

Made of Gold

"Someone one said,
That a story once told
That these streets were paved with gold,
But unless you're standing on them
Or sitting on our throne
They mean nothing to me but stone"
Orla Gartland

A Place In Your Heart

No distractions. Just the blinking of a line on a page; hungry for the ideas which haven't yet formed inside my head. Seemingly waiting for some inspiration to take hold of me so that it can skim across the page, recording my thoughts.

My day wasn't the best I've ever had. I've got so accustomed to writing essays that I could diverge all of these reasons and analyse them all so that I could write a detailed conclusion but I really don't like doing that so, in short: My fears were confirmed today but it didn't hurt me as much as I thought it would, but I think this was because it was the truth that I had unconsciously accepted. I have also come to a realisation that, when I play my flute, it sounds beautiful. Beauty has a direct connection to the heart. Whatever you find beautiful holds a place in you and there is little that will make you loose sight of that love of beauty.

Beauty.