This weekend hasn't been the best, but since I've been at home I've done a lot of creative stuff. Mostly for my A level art, but I also made 2 new necklaces.
My friend Mariusz cut out some adorable little wooden bats, and asked me to decorate them. I painted them with black acrylic on both sides, and then added glitter on top. I used red glitter for one, and white/green iridescant glitter for the other. When the glue had dried I painted a few coats of craft varnish over the top to hold the glitter in place and give it a nice glossy shine.
Here are the results:
I'm also thinking of entering LeahMouse's youtube giveaway contest (That glass goblet is so pretty!) but I don't have any interesting ideas at the moment. In the meantime, have a nice week everyone!
I didn't post yesterday as I was so tired when I got home I just ate, watched a movie and slept. xD
Yesterday, as I mentioned in post beforehand, I spent the day with Nizz to celebrate what is now known as The Valentine Birthday Celebration. When we both got there at eleven, it was a lovely morning. It was really sunny and fairly warm for once, so we sat in the park and enjoyed the weather and each other's company. I gave him the card, rose and chocolate, and he got me a lovely new dress for my birthday.
At about 2pm there was a mini blizzard. It suddenly started snowing REALLY heavily, and it was so windy the snow was flying past almost horizontally. Of course we immediately packed away our stuff, folded up the blanket we were sitting on, and headed towards town. By the time we'd done all of this, the snow stopped and the sun came back out. -__- Typical!
But nevertheless we went shopping for a little while. We first went to all the shops we normally go to, usually just for the sake of being silly. These include The Works, Poundland, and one of the several toy shops in town. There's always lots of really bizarre things in these shops to fiddle with, and we always have a good laugh. After messing around for a while, we headed to HMV, and on the way, found one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. We walked past a little flower shop that was selling off all it's Valentine's day roses and whatnot, and they had blue roses. BLUE! I'd never seen blue roses before now, and didn't even know they existed. I genuinely thought they were just a mythical flower. I know they can't be naturally grown anyway.
Being a gentleman, Nizz bought me one of the roses, and I'm planning on drawing/painting it at some point. Blue roses are so pretty! I'm also thinking of pressing it before it dies so I can keep it.
Once we got to HMV I finally bought the Nightwish 2 disk album I'd been after for aaaages (It is a fantastic album by the way), and Nizz got himself the game Deadly Premonition and Scott Pilgrim on DVD.
After this we went to Chiquitos for a nice meal together before going home. Overall, I had a wonderful day! n__n I hope everyone else had as lovely a weekend. To finish, enjoy this song from Nightwish's new album:
Just a quick post, as I have to sleep soon. Tomorrow I'm hanging out with Nizz to celebrate both our birthdays, and Valentine's day, sort of. xD I finished making his Valentine's/Birthday card earlier:
Featuring Wusky the wolf /husky (we're not entirely sure xD) and Swoop the bat. And yes, he's wearing a Trivium shirt. You can have a look at his blog here: http://ninjahcraft.blogspot.com/ , but he doesn't update it too often. If you're into gaming it's worth looking at, since he was telling me about doing a weekly/monthly game review.
To finish this fairly boring post off, please enjoy this lovely semi-valentine related song by one of my all time favourite bands.
I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine's day, and has a wonderful weekend! :3
This week I was on a geography trip in the Lake District. We went to Blencathra on Monday to study rivers and glacial features, which sounds really really boring, but it was fun to see all the scenery. Monday was also my birthday, but it wasn't really too exciting since we were just wading through rivers with a tape measure, and most of my friends had forgotton.
On Tuesday we got the minibus to Grasmere before we hiked across one of the hills to see a corrie. The drive there fascinated me, our country really has some amazing landscapes. I sat and stared out of the window the whole time. When we got there we were up to our knees in snow and there were icicles everywhere; it was a long and very cold hike. The corrie was completely frozen over too. When we reached the top we stopped for lunch, and I did a quick sketch of the gorgeous scenery (which I'll upload when I add a bit to it!) and I took a few photographs on my phone, since my real camera is kaput.
By Wednesday everyone was exhausted and ready to come home, so we went to Keswick to have a brief look at the town's flood management systems before getting the bus back to school. Overall, the trip has really made me think about moving to the lake district one day, or at least visiting more often to see the hills. It really is a beautiful place.
I made a firm decision that now I'm 17, I'm really gonna concentrate on doing something productive with my time and make more memories for myself. I was looking back at the past few years and although there have been many fun times, there's been a lot of wasted half terms in front of the PC. I really want to work hard on my art this year too, and be the best I can be. So, to start, here's a huge dump of sketchbook doodles:
The Duchess of Tea and her castle
A goblin
Lord Lupus the Insane
Lord Lupus the Insane and Mistress Arachnis
Snowpeople
A village in winter
A tower
A mermaid sketch I did in the hairdresser's
A dragon I'm currently working on
Also, to finish off, last week we had a Chinese Silk painter in Creative Cafe at school, with it being Chinese New Year and whatnot, and I was asked to draw a dragon for her to symbolise the year of the dragon. I finished the dragon in time, but I ended up being off school ill that day, so I scanned it in instead.
