What my camera shows me

       

Some photographic adventures with the iPhone.  Instagram is seriously awesome sauce ~ it makes everything ten times prettier and I feel like I don’t have to stress about not having my DSLR on me all the time because this app is doing a fairly good job as a substitute! 

Mind you, there is definitely a slightly different technique required when you are using your phone camera.  Yes, you can still do your fine art photographic style, but framing, focus, lighting, and all that jazz is pretty iffy.  I tend to think of my phone like a polaroid camera; you have your limitations but you can still get some really good snaps with a bit of creative juggling!

In the mean time here are some more ‘serious’ pieces I’ve put in the Studio recently. 

You can click through on the photos to go to my studio and check out all the other pictures I have also put up.  Apparently I’ve been a real busy little beaver!  I didn’t even realize how many I had done until I started looking at which ones I wanted to share.  It’s good though; maybe one of these days I will get out of 2010 and start editing the photos I have taken this year….  -____-‘  Hopefully I can get fully caught up soon!! 

xox,

bonita

Experimentation!

I sketched the lines of this picture a while ago, but today I decided to colour it.  The main reason for that is that I was browsing through more fashion blogs ~ just clicking and following links that interested me and I found a picture that made me go ~ “Huh.” 

It was a simple line art that was coloured in a really nice pastel palette.  I looked at it and went “That style of colouring really suits the type of sketches I’ve been doing lately ~ I wonder how it would look if I tried something like that?”

And this is the result :

~  “Curls”  ~

So my next question after completing it was ~ I wonder if anyone would buy this picture on Etsy?  I have a hard time knowing if my work is good enough to sell and if it is, how much to price it at.  I don’t want to overcharge ~ I personally hate it when you find something you like, but it’s ridiculously expensive.  But at the same time, I don’t want to under value my work and the time and effort that goes into it.  Not forgetting materials either!

It’s more than a bit of a quandary.   And I don’t have a ready answer for this one I am afraid.

Anyway, I haven’t forgotten about posting the inspiration.   I found the inspiration picture when I was looking at Fallie’s Scrapbook.   Can I just say that I am in awe of this child?  She’s thirteen and has some seriously awesome photographs of her outfits {she looks like a model in an editorial spread in just about every photo of her.  I don’t know if she takes the photos herself or gets help, but either way they look fantastic.  And she does really good art work in Photoshop.  I’d love to be able to do graphic art as well as her.  And she’s thirteen!!  Can I die now?  Some one kill me please…..}

 

It isn’t Fallie’s work, just a picture she posted.  I used the pastel colour palette idea.  Other than that ~ it’s not really the same at all!  Of course, I did the line art before I saw this picture or I might have tried something a little different in execution of the pencil technique for my piece.  The subject would have been the same though.  I am quite fond of this little nymph and her expression.  I won’t point out the flaws I can see ~  I don’t want you to see them too {!!} but I hope you enjoy the picture.

Oooh, and tell me if you would be interested in purchasing a print of this ~ or what price you think that  it would be reasonable to sell it at.  I need help!

xox,

b.

Edited Notes:  Turns out Fallie does have her older sister to help her take the photos, but considering that Fallie’s poses are more model-eske  than Anni’s {Find Anni’s blog at Style Hurricane} I am thinking that she comes up with them herself.   o___O