We got a week of holiday meant for winter sports but instead I decided to spend it on art. I think I've mentioned this before, but I always feel more creative during holidays, when there's no homework and stress and everything. So I set a goal for myself to draw or paint something at least once a day. And here are pictures of some drawings/paintings I did over the holiday!
Day 1. A watercolour painting of the street I passed that night when I went for a walk at 10pm. I didn't want to make it too detailed, just have everything sort of blend in and bathe in the light of the street lamp.
Day 2. Sunrise by the window with a cup of coffee. I wanted to draw a sunrise, but didn't know what landscape I should draw, so I decided to go with a simple view out the window in the morning, with a cup of coffee and a journal. I added the flowers there because there were some paint stains on the paper from the previous painting, but I didn't want to waste the page so I just turned the stains into flowers and added a whole bouquet of them! The sunrise itself is done with watercolours, the rest with oil pastels.
Day 3. I got the idea for this when I listened to Fred Astaire by San Cisco. Those are the lyrics from the chorus, and it's a really good song. If you haven't heard of the band yet, you should check them out, they're great! I drew a small cafe at the corner of a street, you know the kind of coffee shops you go to for breakfast, and I've got a map of the world next to it because "he could take you 'round the world" . I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. I combined watercolours and oil pastels quite a lot here, and I think it looks pretty nice.
Day 4. This here is a quick drawing of some lady skeleton in a Black Parade uniform and crinoline, inspired by the song Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance and its music video. I only recently started listening to MCR and I have to say that I'm in love this band and this song, and I wish I'd discovered their music earlier! Or actually I did try to listen to a few of their songs in 2013, when everyone was talking (and crying) about their break-up because I wanted to know what's so great about them. I didn't really like their songs then, I remember thinking, "Nah, this is some angsty emo rock band, who cares" as I was more into J-pop and mainstream pop then. Ironically they're now one of my favourite bands among other "angsty emo rock bands"! (Also, I just checked which date they broke up and it was on my birthday!! I take it back when I said I wish I'd listened to them earlier. That would've been the worst birthday present...)
Day 5. Here's an aquarelle painting inspired by those Tumblr/Instagram -ish photos. The paint I used came in tubes, and in Finnish it said "akvarellivärit" but translated as "water colours". They're different from the normal watercolours I use, but apparently it's still the same thing? I don't know. But it was fun painting with them. I've almost run out of white paint even though I've only used them for this painting, they came in such small tubes.
I bought the water colours from Tiger, a Danish variety store chain that sells a bunch of random things, and usually for only like 1-3€, so really cheap. They have literally everything and I love going shopping there, even if just browsing the different patterned notebooks and fun, useless toys and items. I also got a bag of fruit-flavoured candy and two milk chocolate coated coconut bars. The Baby Lips Dr. Rescue is actually from the local supermarket. This one's in Coral Crave and it's pretty much my favourite lip balm right now. It's also got a lovely eucalyptus scent, and is very moisturising.
Day 6. This one's another quick drawing I did while listening to acoustic versions of pop punk songs on Spotify. I really like the acoustic version of Six Feet Under The Stars by All Time Low. Somewhere In Neverland is also really good, I especially like the violin parts.
Day 7. I finished making the title and text for a project in art at school. We were supposed to make posters about important topics, I wanted to make mine about sexism and feminism, and sort of comic book and pop art -inspired. I finished it in today's class, I'm quite proud of it and I'm glad it turned out nice because I'd spent a lot of time on the letters! Let me know what you think in the comments!
But guess what my dad did when I showed this to him? Well, he said it looks nice, but then he laughed and started going on about how it's normal for men to objectify women because that's how nature works, and that's why girls dress up and wear makeup. I got really angry and explained that when girls wear makeup and clothes they like, it's hardly ever to impress boys, and that it doesn't mean that guys can objectify us because we're human too. But of course he wouldn't listen to me. So I guess my racist and homophobic father is also sexist. Great. I can't wait until I move out, and hopefully I do next year already.
We got to take some of our older art works home today, and here are two of my favourite ones I've done this year so far:
Still life. I think this is the best painting I've done actually, I never knew I could do the shading and details that well! This is the only time I've painted with acrylic paint, and it was really fun. I think still lifes are really fun to paint in general, actually. So are landscapes. I prefer to draw or paint from things I see in front of me rather than from my imagination.
Snowflake tree. The background is done with watercolours using wet-on-wet technique, and then I left the paper standing upright for a while for the green/yellow to sort of drip down. The tree is done with a black marker and the snowflakes with a white crayon and colour pencil. I think this one looks pretty cool!
All these photos can be found on my Instagram, so if you're not following me yet then maybe check it out? My username is @xforbaltimorex which is also my Tumblr URL, if you're interested. So I hope you enjoyed this post, and have a great day!
xx,
Mary
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Day 1. A watercolour painting of the street I passed that night when I went for a walk at 10pm. I didn't want to make it too detailed, just have everything sort of blend in and bathe in the light of the street lamp.
Day 2. Sunrise by the window with a cup of coffee. I wanted to draw a sunrise, but didn't know what landscape I should draw, so I decided to go with a simple view out the window in the morning, with a cup of coffee and a journal. I added the flowers there because there were some paint stains on the paper from the previous painting, but I didn't want to waste the page so I just turned the stains into flowers and added a whole bouquet of them! The sunrise itself is done with watercolours, the rest with oil pastels.
Day 3. I got the idea for this when I listened to Fred Astaire by San Cisco. Those are the lyrics from the chorus, and it's a really good song. If you haven't heard of the band yet, you should check them out, they're great! I drew a small cafe at the corner of a street, you know the kind of coffee shops you go to for breakfast, and I've got a map of the world next to it because "he could take you 'round the world" . I'm quite happy with how this one turned out. I combined watercolours and oil pastels quite a lot here, and I think it looks pretty nice.
Day 4. This here is a quick drawing of some lady skeleton in a Black Parade uniform and crinoline, inspired by the song Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance and its music video. I only recently started listening to MCR and I have to say that I'm in love this band and this song, and I wish I'd discovered their music earlier! Or actually I did try to listen to a few of their songs in 2013, when everyone was talking (and crying) about their break-up because I wanted to know what's so great about them. I didn't really like their songs then, I remember thinking, "Nah, this is some angsty emo rock band, who cares" as I was more into J-pop and mainstream pop then. Ironically they're now one of my favourite bands among other "angsty emo rock bands"! (Also, I just checked which date they broke up and it was on my birthday!! I take it back when I said I wish I'd listened to them earlier. That would've been the worst birthday present...)
Day 5. Here's an aquarelle painting inspired by those Tumblr/Instagram -ish photos. The paint I used came in tubes, and in Finnish it said "akvarellivärit" but translated as "water colours". They're different from the normal watercolours I use, but apparently it's still the same thing? I don't know. But it was fun painting with them. I've almost run out of white paint even though I've only used them for this painting, they came in such small tubes.
I bought the water colours from Tiger, a Danish variety store chain that sells a bunch of random things, and usually for only like 1-3€, so really cheap. They have literally everything and I love going shopping there, even if just browsing the different patterned notebooks and fun, useless toys and items. I also got a bag of fruit-flavoured candy and two milk chocolate coated coconut bars. The Baby Lips Dr. Rescue is actually from the local supermarket. This one's in Coral Crave and it's pretty much my favourite lip balm right now. It's also got a lovely eucalyptus scent, and is very moisturising.
Day 6. This one's another quick drawing I did while listening to acoustic versions of pop punk songs on Spotify. I really like the acoustic version of Six Feet Under The Stars by All Time Low. Somewhere In Neverland is also really good, I especially like the violin parts.
Day 7. I finished making the title and text for a project in art at school. We were supposed to make posters about important topics, I wanted to make mine about sexism and feminism, and sort of comic book and pop art -inspired. I finished it in today's class, I'm quite proud of it and I'm glad it turned out nice because I'd spent a lot of time on the letters! Let me know what you think in the comments!
But guess what my dad did when I showed this to him? Well, he said it looks nice, but then he laughed and started going on about how it's normal for men to objectify women because that's how nature works, and that's why girls dress up and wear makeup. I got really angry and explained that when girls wear makeup and clothes they like, it's hardly ever to impress boys, and that it doesn't mean that guys can objectify us because we're human too. But of course he wouldn't listen to me. So I guess my racist and homophobic father is also sexist. Great. I can't wait until I move out, and hopefully I do next year already.
We got to take some of our older art works home today, and here are two of my favourite ones I've done this year so far:
Still life. I think this is the best painting I've done actually, I never knew I could do the shading and details that well! This is the only time I've painted with acrylic paint, and it was really fun. I think still lifes are really fun to paint in general, actually. So are landscapes. I prefer to draw or paint from things I see in front of me rather than from my imagination.
Snowflake tree. The background is done with watercolours using wet-on-wet technique, and then I left the paper standing upright for a while for the green/yellow to sort of drip down. The tree is done with a black marker and the snowflakes with a white crayon and colour pencil. I think this one looks pretty cool!
All these photos can be found on my Instagram, so if you're not following me yet then maybe check it out? My username is @xforbaltimorex which is also my Tumblr URL, if you're interested. So I hope you enjoyed this post, and have a great day!
xx,
Mary
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| Me in maths class today lol. Idek what a tree diagram is. |
