Watermarks

I took down the last entry about my Autumn photographs... I realised I have been forgetting to put watermarks on my work lately, so I'll be doing those asap. Until then, the last entry will not show on my blog, sorry. I know this might sound stupid, and perhaps arrogant, but really, it's not that I think my work is that great, but I've seen work of much lower quality been stolen. I just don't want the risk of loosing credibility or someone using my work as their own. Especially since I love doing what I do, and I will use these photographs for my portfolio on school and on my own website (not launched yet).

Better safe than sorry.

Thanks for your understanding.

Edit:
I added the watermarks to the photographs, and reposted the previous blog entry. There. Live with it. ;)

DFMD: Abstract Flow I

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 6th of January, 2010.

Abstract flow, blue ballpoint.

DFMD: Abstract and Figure

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 11th of Januray, 2010.

DFMD: Composition

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 11th of January, 2010.

Autumn Walk (Photography)

Heya!
It's been a while. School's been keeping me really busy, especially now with presentations this week, and I've been blogging a lot on my schoolblog (which unfortunately is in Dutch, but you could still check it out for the pictures...).
Anyway, yesterday was a beautiful Autumn day and my boyfriend and I went for a walk. Of course I took the camera!

I think I took some great pictures... I'll upload them soon!

I'm still procrastinaging on the a picture a day project, and on taking pictures of the jewelry I made since summer :3 Too busy!!

Edit:
Selected pictures!!!
I might add some more to the photobucket album :)
I barely edited the pictures, in fact, most of them are un-edited.

For now, follow that link. Here are my favourites:

This is my current desktop :)

 

I like how this one's kinda abstract.

 

I made a banner with this picture for my school blog!

 

Lovely colours...

 

Nomnomnom...

 

This hungry goat's scaring me...

I love this chicken!

The last picture, not so much a favorite of mine because it would be good, but look closely. Such a strange plant.

Edit 2:

There, watermarks. I'm sorry if you don't like 'em, but they are needed. Better safe than sorry!

DFMD: The Letter

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 6th of January, 2010.

Title: The letter.

I just like it.

DFMD: Sadness and an umbrella.

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 6th of January 2010.

I like umbrella's. A lot.
And I really like this one. I've got plenty ideas to make things with umbrella's... If only I could really bring those ideas to life... Maybe I will, soon.

DFMD: Faces Like Mine I

*Title from that Emilie Autumn song.
*Note: This message is antedated.


I suppose I like drawing faces, and I do love a little variation from time to time, here and there. Well, usually more often than that.
Here are some "different" faces. There are a few among these that I'm quite fond of, actually (the first and the last one).

DFMD: Tree girl and Study of hands

*Note: This message is antedated. It was originally posted on the 6th of January, 2010.

I like to think of her as my tree girl;

Just some hands;

A picture a day, the 100 theme challenge and a promise of updates

Hello again (I know, I'm speaking to a wall...)
I've been wanting to post about my schoolwork, but I really don't feel like that right now so I guess I will talk about school in later posts. I do want to tell you I've got another blog, in Dutch, for school. I'm still planning on talking about my schoolwork here, so I guess I will have to translate my blogs and post them twice.

I've sorted out all my beads and other jewelry supplies, on colour. It was a lot of work but I finished in a few days time!

Anyway, I bought some drawing books, since my other books are all full. I haven't drawn in it yet, but I did start my own-invented challenge in an other new book (a small one): "A Picture A Day". From this day on I will try to glue one picture in it, every day.

Today it was a picture of Chococat that I found lying around. I should make a stack of pictures to choose from on busy or inspirationless days.

And, after wanting to start this for years, I finally gave in and selected a list for the 100 theme challenge. The 100 theme challenge means that I've got 100 theme's and that I will try to make drawings, photographs, whatever that is creatively made, that match one of the themes, using the themes only once. Of course this will take me years and I'll still make work unrelated to the challenge. The challenge doesn't mean the picture is just about the theme by the way, it could be about more than that.
I hope this will mean that in the (many) moments that I feel uninspirated, I will find new inspiration in a theme.

I don't know if I'm still making sense so here's the list: 
(yay for alphabetical order)

1. Abandoned

2. Afraid

3. Alice in Wonderland

4. Anesthesia

5. Bandaid

6. Bird

7. Blood

8. Blue

9. Bones

10. Break Away

11. Bridge

12. Bug

13. Button

14. Card

15. Castle

16. Change

17. Cigarrette

18. City

19. Clone

20. Dancing

21. Dark

22. Death

23. Dinosaur

24. Dirt

25. Dream

26. Drowning

27. Earth

28. Empty

29. Envy

30. Evil

31. Expectations

32. Fade

33. Fairytale

34. Farm

35. Future

36. Gamble

37. Grow

38. Hat

39. Heal

40. Hero

41. Holiday

42. Hope

43. ID

44. Illumination

45. Illusion

46. Inevitable

47. Insanity

48. Insomnia

49. Lace

50. Lake

51. Life

52. Light

53. Locked

54. Love

55. Mankind

56. Message

57. Mirrorimage

58. Misunderstanding

59. Monster

60. Morning

61. Mother

62. Move

63. Muffin

64. Multitasking

65. Night

66. Ninja

67. Obsession

68. Poison

69. Progress

70. Pure

71. Puzzle

72. Queen

73. Rain

74. Rock

75. Rose

76. Run

77. Sandwich

78. Sharp

79. Silence

80. Somewhere

81. Sound Effect

82. Starvation

83. Stitch

84. Storm

85. Tears

86. Teeth

87. The Asylum

88. The plague

89. The seven seas

90. Time

91. Toy

92. Tradition

93. Underwear

94. Vulnerable

95. Warmth

96. Wind

97. Winter

98. Word

99. Wrong

100. X

About painting on fabric

Hello there!

I still haven't completely figured blogger out, yet, but I think I'm getting there..  *arm wrestles with the images*

*Should really get to know other people out there on Blogger*

Today I was still ill, as I have been for a whole week now. Even though I do feel better than last week, it’s still no good going to school. I wouldn’t be able to stand the sounds, the chatter, kinda everything.

But, since I felt a bit better I decided I would try how much I could take. I started to sew something, it was meant to be a simple bird, but since I’m not very good at sewing (yet) and I’m too lazy to find a pattern, the project failed. My headache growing much worse didn’t help very much either so I quit and took a break.

After a while I thought I’d try something else, something less difficult. Therefore, I cut out a little patch of white fabric and a piece of paper, and started drawing on the paper. When I decided it was good enough I traced the lines with a black marker and then traced the drawing on the fabric with pencil. I got my textile paints (I recently bought a gold one, it now appears to have glitters in it...) and brushes to paint the fabric. I don’t have many colours (black, white, red and gold - I need silver!) so I’ll just do what I can and wait until some more colours come along and I’ll be able to finish this. Maybe my mum's got some more colours, I'll ask her later today.

Damn, I should have tea-stained the fabric before I started...

Here’s the work in progress:

The design is inspired by steampunk, tea parties and Emilie Autumn.  (Silly me prefers the drawing over the painting. A lot.)

Remembering that I really enjoyed making my patch for the quilt, which I did in a rush, but still, I enjoyed making it and that's what counts. (it was a project on the Emilie Autumn forum, everyone that signed up would make a patch and then send it to one person, who is going to make it one, big quilt, and then it will be given to Emilie Autumn as a present. How rad)

I think I’m going to do something like this again.. If I don't forget, I'll show you the result :)

To be honest, the reason I've got these textile paints is because I have been wanting to paint something on a top. But afraid as I am that I'll make a mistake, even though I bought a cheap top especially for this (which happens to fit really well), I haven't done it yet. I did try some little designs out, though.

Here are a few of them:

Inspired by Alice in Wonderland

Inspired by, obviously, tea parties, Alice in Wonderland (or even Emilie Autumn, secretly). This piece of cloth now adorns my bag! ^^

-- Inmate --

Plain something, inspired by Emilie Autumn (did you notice I take a lot of inspiration from her? I'm a big fan, you'll find out.)

 

These last two actually are my first tries with textile paint. Both inspired by Emilie Autumn, among other things. I really want to paint a big rat on my top! But I can't really choose because I've got so many other ideas... For example, I'd like a David Bowie quote, too (like "Is there life on mars?" on the front and "David Bowie" on the back).

Note to self: I need more tops!

Well, I think that is quite enough for one blog! See you next time, I hope :)