new camera!

Hey guys! So my birthday was on Thursday (17 now woo), and I got a camera! It's a canon powershot sx600 hs. I don't know too much about it but from the many pictures I've taken so far, I like it a lot. Here are some of my favorite pictures I've taken so far:

my eye; I love taking pictures of my iris because normally it looks so dark and you can't see any variation but in photos you can see the detail

my little sister's eye; how lovely is her eye color?

72x zoom on the moon; you may have seen this on my instagram. how insane is this?

      

other various shots; shoutout to my sister for being a cooperative model--there's lots more of her in my pictures folder

None of these have been edited and they are mostly just test shots. Also, I would like your help. Firstly, if you are familiar with this camera or powershots in general, any tips you have would be much appreciated. Second, I would like to start a flickr or maybe tumblr or instagram for my pictures but I am not sure where to do so. I am considering flickr the most but I am not so sure with the whole yahoo sign in thing. Anyway, any tips would be great and I hope you enjoy these shots!

 

painting plants + youtube?

As part of my new year's goals, I have been drawing/making art everyday. Today I drew and painted some pretty plants and I recorded them. Now I have always been interested in starting my own youtube channel, but I never really had anything to post until now.

Anyway, I painted some plant babies and created a youtube channel.

I know this isn't the best video quality or editing, but hey, it was fun. I hope you enjoyed it and that this leads to more videos in the future!

diy beaded necklace

Hello! I'm here today with a super simple diy for you! 

So there I was, scrolling through tumblr, when I saw this image:

And I was like, "that's cool...reblog." Then it kept appearing on my dash and I was just like, "I need it." So being the cheap and lazy person that I am, I decided to make it myself.

let's get started:

And that's it! I made mine a little past my collar bone to mimic the picture, but you can experiment with different lengths and beads to achieve whatever you want! 

meowy christmas

Hello and happy December! Things have been super busy for me lately but my semester ends on friday so hopefully I'll be able to be more active in my blogging/art/etc. I'm also planning on getting a new camera soon which means makeup, outfits, more art, and other pictures that I can post.

So until next time,

diy crescent moon necklace

Hello! Today I'm going to show you how to make a super cute gold moon necklace. I've been seeing a lot of necklaces like this online so I thought, why not make my own?

Here's what you need:

 Time to start!

Now just put it on a chain and wear it!

Feel free to change up this design in any way or just use this method to make something completely different like I did here:

I hope this inspired you or helped you in some way! If you make this, be sure to leave a comment so I can see!

masking tape mountains

In my mixed media class, we had a project to create a relief sculpture using masking tape, cardboard, and acrylic paints. I've never done anything like this before and I've only used acrylics a handful of times before so I'm pretty content with how it turned out. I chose mountains because they are a special place for my family and I (and they just look nice and are relatively easy to paint).

Here is the full image. 

The rest of the images are just to show some more detail as this is roughly 21 1/2in by 12.5in.

A close up of the sky. The only thing I don't like much is that you can see the tape if you look closely enough, but I'm not sure how I could have prevented that.

As you can see, the mountains, birds, clouds, and the sun are all raised.

So what do you think? And do you take any art classes in school?