Dry but still breath-taking.
Tag: Africa
Victoria Falls 3
Going back in a few weeks cannot wait!
Chitenge Cravat Bow
Made this and it was safe to say I increased the dimensions. You know me I love my mistakes, attached a piece below BOOM Cravat.
Chitenge Bow Ties 2
Round 2
Chitenge Bow Ties
I have formulated a technique so I can pretty much make one of these in 45 minutes now 🙂 More to come.
Chitenge Bow Tie
So Christmas has me crafting, I usually like to make a present as well as buy them. So I thought one gift could be handmade bow ties; they’re relatively quick to make, do not use much fabric and are unisex. As they are clip ons you could place them anywhere. So here’s my first of hopefully many.
Rock Study
Love it when something doesn’t turn out as I picture it in my head. Of course this is just a study but I can’t help but feel like this is 1 of 3. Which is great news because it means I get to paint to more compositions; in practice for my large canvas O_O” This painting is 40 x 50 cm acrylic and oil on canvas.
Back to Black
You know there is something wrong when you paint all night until you hear the birds sing -_O” So I’ve been working on this study with my camera obscura thinking oh thank you Jesus for this brilliant cheat; until I noticed the shadows in the image made up 50% of the entire composition -_- When an image is like this I prefer working from dark to light. Meaning I had to paint the whole canvas black….. meaning I would have to draw the whole of the composition by eye… so I basically wasted 45 minutes tracing something that was going to be covered up. I’m tired ok. So I spent 4 hours having to draw the rock formation by eye on a canvas I blacked out (fix it Jesus!). But the fun part is yet to come, as I get to play around with my oil paints; which I haven’t done in a while. I blacked out the canvas with a mixture of black and blue, not only does this create the illusion of depth; it is also going to help with the colour composition as the rock formation does have traces of orange moss. I love painting in my room. Studio space is cool and all, but there’s nothing like getting out of bed and picking up a brush.
Yeukai Runyowa
Was supposed to have this finished in a day, but hey reality hits hard; well more like work -_- but 3 sessions later I am DONE. Hope you like it 😀 and I finally found a way to draw box braids that I can be satisfied with 😛
Victoria Falls
Well the falls was all dried up, but the rock formation was Breathtaking, so here is another teaser of what I will be up to. Don’t worry Yeukai I promise the next post is your portrait; work been on my mind -_-
Alek Wek
Been gone for a minute but I’m back at the jump off! Well It’s been a while since I have updated this blog, but I’m planning to exhibit my work in 2015 so I’ll be hinting as to what my collection will look like. I have been an admirer of this lady for a while. She was the OG dark skin model to really make it in mainstream society BL (before Lupita). I have been reconnected to my love of portraiture and I have been meaning to make more use of my Wacom Intuos5
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Let’s get it STARTED
So it’s nearing the end of my second semester, MY FIRST YEAR IN UNI!!!!! and we have a project due in May. Now you know me, my creative process involves dabbling with some crafts here and there (and not the voodoo kind though I could throw in some sugar and spice). To kick start my creative mindset, I thought it would be cool to up-cycle a bag I had from last year. It amazes me because all of a sudden there’s a mad rush for draw-string bags (THE GEIST NEVER LIES). So me and and my bargain ways got this bag DEAD CHEAP, but as usual you get what you pay for. This bag has torn in so many places, I’ve lost count the amount of times I’ve had to repair it. But I can’t leave my objects alone; so I asked my Bezzy mate Marcy D the 411 on the alREADY-MADE ways of doing things (the crowd around him laughs in confusion to try and act as if they know what he’s talking about). And here is the outcome, with love from Africa once again (so I did have to use my voodoo after all). The problem I faced was the buckles that fell off, either side of the front pockets (that I couldn’t be bothered to fix -_-) and the light shone bright towards the THUMBTACKS! Oh my mind does have it’s moments of brilliance. AND I only bled once! There is hope for me yet.
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