a year gone by.

 



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A simple self-portrait, taken a year and a week ago, that I stumbled upon while going through some old folders on my hard-drive yesterday. I don't know why I didn't notice, and make something of, it before now, but I thought I'd just have some fun with it and experiment a little bit in Photoshop! I actually really like what I came up with; it makes me think of light and grainy old film photos, all hazy light and faded memories of someone/something that once was... Also, I couldn't choose between the colour and black & white versions of it (terribly indecisive to my very core, I am indeed!) and so I just decided to show you both of them, too. 

I'm gradually going through all of the folders , collecting all of the pictures I meant to share with you here, over these past few months, and sorting them into some new blogposts that I'll be doing soon. I've missed blogging... it feels nice to have a little somewhere to go to where I can just show you all my pictures and memories of things, places, people I see around me and just be myself and to have a voice in my own little corner of the big Wide World Web. I don't think I've said it before, so I'll take the chance to now- thank you for listening to me babble on about everything and nothing :)

Lots of love, Mari-ann ♥

first impressions.

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Now, these are a little overdue (as are the hundreds of photos that I'm continuously going through, and still have yet to share with you, but alas, that's a whole other can of worms.), and I took them back in October, but here we are! These photos were taken as part of a project that I did in while I was at uni, called 'First Impressions'. We were left to our own devices and asked to create a personal set of images that encapsulated our experiences, thoughts, opinions, etc. in response to the project title about our first impressions of Swansea, university life away from home, yada, yada, yada. Ever the sunrise/sunset/landscape-lover, I chose to do a little project that would basically consist of me taking photos of the view from out of my bedroom window at different times of the day, come rain or shine, every day for almost two weeks. What I liked most about this project was all of the different colours that came across at all of the various times of the day and in all sorts of weather conditions (typical Britain, going from boiling hot and oh-so-sunny to gloomy and pouring down with rain, although I love the rain so I'm not, and was not, complaining!) Hope you like them, simple though they may be :)

Lots of love, Mari-ann ♥

miranda kerr.

#2.

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Voila! Here is #2, my drawing of a photograph of Miranda Kerr for KORA Organics. This one took me about half a day, and, I kid you not, at least 6-7 of those hours were taken up by me drawing her hair alone! It was so frustrating; it felt like it took forever, but alas, I got there in the end. (But, goodness me, did my hand was such a mess and hurt so badly after I'd finished, haha!)

 WIPs.

 

I'm really happy with this drawing, and, while I sincerely hope that I don't have to endure another hellish ordeal of hair-drawing with my next drawing, I can't wait to get started! Hope you like it! I wonder who I'll draw next...?  :)

Lots of love, Mari-ann ♥

natalia vodianova.

#1.

A little experiment I did in Photoshop.


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Since the end of March/beginning of April (when I drew this drawing of Sølve Sundsbø's photo of Natalia Vodianova), I've been drawing again. It feels so nice and fulfilling to be something other than simply photography 24/7; as much as I love photography, it can get so dull, irritating and choreish trying to constantly be on the look-out to be inspired and create 'amazing' pictures, (which I never do anyway- I'm such a sore excuse for a picture-taker, really) and honestly I've missed just drawing and painting so it's been really therepeutic, calming. I'm actually thinking of making a project out of it, a portrait a month for a year or something along those lines. Maybe something with watercolours, and/or oil painting, as well? Who knows! :) I've still got to do this month's drawing, so once I've done it, I'll post that here as well. This really isn't as 'perfect' as I'd hoped it would be, but despite that I'm still really quite proud of it, and, after all, I'm still only practising, so hopefully I'll get better as I go along... Fingers crossed!

 

 WIPs.

So, this will be #1, and #2 is being uploaded as we speak (or, as I write this, rather)... let's see if I can do this and get near to reaching #12, or even further if inspiration catches me, shall we? :)

Lots of love, Mari-ann ♥