Casting (Modelling)

HA GOT YOU I'M 5'3" LETS NOT BE MEAN

Alginate Hand Casting
Possibly the coolest thing you can force a year below to do for you, the whole process includes alginate (if you've had braces you'll know the stuff, its the thing they mould your mouth with at the beginning that tastes disgusting)
So, I picked a year below who had relatively nice hands, shame about her nails but we cant have everything. And I set up a casting bowl and she stuck her hands in and stayed like that for a while, and then I let her go and filled the caste with plaster caste and this is the result-
Pretty cool huh

And i decided to draw it, for you art nerds, this was done in HB.B2 and B3 with a tiny bit of H2 at the beginning to do outlining.

In the past I've done some alginate hand casting on myself, so seeing as this post is about that I may as well upload that too

So this is the plaster caste of my own hand, painted in black acrylic and gold paint to look like its made of bronze.

This is the jokest thing ever.

Ugly Shoe Obsession

SO

seeing as most of the fashion today is reverting back to the 90s I feel I wanted to focus on feet.

It seems that almost all shoes that are in fashion at the min are hideous, and I won't lie I'm loving them, but when did heels go from elegant (slutty) stilletos to huge chunky block colour heels?

Jeffrey campbell seem to be the main cause of this by bringing in the 'Lita' which I think are hideous by the way, sorry If you have them

If you dont, here is what they look like:

Here are a few of my favourites: beware they are all ugly

1. BUFFALOS

Personally the shoes I always loved and wish I hadn't thrown out when I was 12 were my buffalos- retailing for way over £150 now I'm regretful. Although ugly, they're like a fabulous mix of trainers Vs rhinos with a lil platform. 

2. JELLY SHOES 

these I LOVE, and I just bought a pair of glittery clear ones but they smell kinda weird and my mum said no self respecting 18 year old should wear glittery shoes so she's making me sell them. Anyway, originally I wanted them in the turquoise colour but they weren't in stock. So, jelly shoes- featuring the hideously thick heel, weird grandma style front and childish buckle. The perfect shoe for summer minus the weird tan lines.

3. VAGABONDS (Don't know name of shoe sorry)

THESE, no one can deny they are truly hideous. But again, I'm a fan I like the fact that they girlify themselves by making the shoes in pastel colours. This shoe is the only way socks and sandals are a thing, especially clashing weird coloured socks.

4. DOC MARTENS

Not sure anyone should attempt to pull these off but if you can, you are brave. Not sure if they're unisex, but that's clearly the beauty of ugly shoes, the flatform on these is pushing new boundaries and looks like it's been stuck on to the wrong pair of shoes, giving it that sassy touch. Love.

5. LA MODA

I actually really like these, I even instagrammed them to try and win them. Not sure they completely comply with the ugly shoe theme, but they aren't exactly elegant. The beauty of these types of shoes is that they suit legs of any size, they're chunky enough that they make most legs look skinnier which is the huge bonus of heels. And again the cute-sy pink colour brings back that girly style. Luckily with shoes like these, the huge platform means they aren't that difficult to walk in, these are the best type of ugly shoes.

Finally,

6. BIRKENSTOCKS

now these I do not accept, they are ugly obsession gone wrong, and also my dad owns a white leather pair and no man should own white leather sandals. Also, you can buy vegan ones.. Vegan shoes. They're just like normal disgusting burkenstocks except they aren't leather so your feet will look weird and smell weird. Birkenstock also sell crocs, and I think that personally speaks for itself.

Yeah these aren't chic.. They are gross and they look like shoes that you'd put on a horse's hooves to protect them.

Brett Amory and his 24 Hour Art

So a little while ago I visited a small gallery just off Oxford street called Lazarides.

And it's address is 

11 Rathbone Place

London

England

W1T

United Kingdom

Brett Amory is an American contemporary artist who decided to visit 24 locations in London over 24 hours, a different location for each hour. He has done this over New York and California as well.

The paintings are meant to be 'slow motion' stylised, showing his view of what beauty and art is

In every piece he collected items and souvenirs from each location and put them in a box or on the floor below the piece 

Here are a few pictures I took when I was there: