A Touch of Rebellion

Well, I got the tattoo on Friday, November 11th, and I love it. Jimmy at Permanent Images was the artist, and I am amazed. I always heard that dandelion tattoos are hard to make look good, but I think he did a fantastic job. I could not be more pleased with it. Below is the image he worked off of, and also pictures from before, during, and after. To the right is right before-- there was an issue with the needle and literally every time he went to make contact, it would shut off. Major anticipation build-up.

I didn't really have any specific place I wanted it, and I'm glad that he put it there, because if it had been moved two inches over, it would have been impossible to wash. I am enjoying being 18 very much. :)

Amateur at Her Best

Although I'm not so hot at using my hands and a pencil to create something awesome, I do like to think that I'm pretty handy with a camera and/or some ghetto editing software.

 

                  ^ I'm not sure why this took a 90 degree turn.

< Not my pictures, but did the editing. ^

Nearing Adulthood, Please Unbuckle and Grow Up

Today is November third, which means that my 18th birthday is very, very close. As the first act of my adulthood, I plan on acquiring a tattoo. I've been thinking about this for the past year, and I've narrowed it down to two images that I really like and I believe will be somewhat timeless. I mean, getting it on such a landmark birthday will give it meaning forever, but I want something that I won't mind being there when I'm in my mid-40s.

I like the dandelions just because dandelions are one of the prettiest weeds I've seen. They reproduce by letting the seedlings go. Not to sound like a poetic hipster, but I like the idea of that. Me, being the seedling, and my parents, being the dandelion. Because I'm not a rock star or tattooed model, I'll probably end up getting the more inconspicuous lower hip one.

The second image was actually inspired by a henna tattoo that I decided on out of the blue. I have been a life-long attendee of Wheatland Music Festival, where they have many activities for every age group. At Middlegrounds, a place for older teens to mid-20-year-olds, they always have henna available. When it was my turn, I just decided on an adorable ribbon bow on my back, which is actually my profile picture for Blogger. I don't think these pictures do my idea much justice, but I think you get the gist. I definitely won't get it in the tramp stamp area. I'm actually not that sure where I would get the bow if I ended up getting it..

As of right now, I'm really leaning towards the dandelion, although I do have another week before I really have to decide.

I guess I was always that kid who did "Eeny Meeny Miney Moe" but was secretly changing the way it would go to favor the thing I actually wanted.

Random bits.

I love this movie.

Pulp Fiction is one of my top-five favorite movies, and I wish I had the drive to complete something like this.

Wowie.

I love cameos.

Very M.C. Escher

:)

Aspirations

I WISH I could do this. Gaah.It's things like this that make me aspire to be a better artist. At this point in time, I'd say I'm an amateur. I enjoy art, I'm just not that great at many aspects and styles of it.

Roy Lichtenstein- Choosing a Style project

My sister has always had a fascination with Roy Lichtenstein, and when Mr. Puffpaff assigned a pop art project two years ago when I was in Art II, I did a recreation of his piece that is a hand holding a hair spray can. There's also another picture that I've added that I can only aspire to do.

What I plan on doing with this project is changing the eye to either a mouth or another inanimate object. I feel like the comic- style of Roy Lichtenstein will either de-sexualize the mouth, or hyper-sexualize it. However, my plans for my projects change many times until I get too far into one to be able to start another one. I may even end up doing something completely random and different from this style.


So far, my project idea has gone from a mouth to a cupcake. I think I may have to stick with the cupcake.

Pumpkin Painting!

1. My overall thoughts: I think it's cute. At the time, I really wasn't in the mood to do a dark Halloween themed pumpkin, so I decided to do a lighter theme.

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3. There weren't any issues in doing the pumpkin, except for the fact that I had to cover it a few times with white paint first.

4. I think I would make it more Halloween-themed if I could do it over.

5. Nothing was that difficult in doing this project.

6. I learned that I would much rather paint on flat surfaces, rather than a three-dimensional object:)