American Beauty

Another 4th of July outfit

American Rebel

A fun 4th of july outfit idea

Perfectly Patriotic Nails

Here is a 4th of July themed nail polish tutorial. It is super easy and I think looks really awesome

Anything Could Happen

This is my Anything Could Happen music video I know I've posted it before, but I had to re-upload it because I had to change my Youtube channel, so here it is! The info about the video and the idea behind it is on the actual youtube video

El Camino - Album Cover

 

        A watercolor I finished today for a friend. The Black Keys is his favorite band. 

Oh the Places You'll Go

Pencil Portrait

California Mountains

Watercolor Collage

Galaxies at Her Fingertips Tutorial

So, I know I've posted this before, but I figured you would like instructions to make these really cool nails. I might make a video of it too, but instructions will have to work for now.

What You'll Need:

Black Nail Polish
Wet n Wild Fast Dry Nail Color Gray's Anatomy
Loose Gold Glitter
Clear Nail Polish

Instructions:

1. I'd suggest painting on a clear coat to avoid nail damage first
2. 2 coats of the black nail polish
3. 1 coat of the Gray's Anatomy polish
4. 1 clear coat
5. While the clear coat is wet dip your finger into the glitter and sprinkle it onto the wet nail
5. 2 clear coats
6. BAM! Now your nails look like little galaxies!

The Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes

Sunset Waves

This painting will be up in a few upcoming galleries. It will be up in the Singletary Center on May 19th and will be at the Lexington Living Arts and Science Center during the summer. 

Ice Skating

Wanderlust and Packaged Peanuts

Beatles Concert

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

Hit the Slopes

I'm Going On an Adventure - The Hobbit Inspired Outfit

Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Other Infinities - The Fault In Our Stars Inspired Outfit

A Date on the Couch

Traveling to India

Gay Pride Festival Fashion

Trust me, I'm the Doctor

Down By the Creek

Colored Bubbles

The really cool thing about this painting is that the spatters you see in the painting were made by actually blowing colored bubbles onto the paper. 

Here's the instructions to make a super easy and super fun work of art.

What You'll Need:

Paper - preferably watercolor paper, but really any thick paper (I actually used Bristol Vellum paper)

More paper - This will be used to cover up parts of the painting. I suggest using something more thick than print paper otherwise it might bleed through.

Masking Tape

Scissors

Pencil and/or Pen/Sharpie

1 cup of water

2 tablespoons of light Karo syrup

4 tablespoons of dishwashing detergent

Plastic Cups

Bubble wand

Food Coloring and/or scholastic watercolor pan set

Easel (Optional)

Instructions:

1. Draw out your design (make sure to go over it in pen or sharpie!)

2. Cover up any parts of the painting you don't want to be spattered with paper and masking tape

3.  For each color of bubbles you plan to use mix the water, Karo syrup, and detergent together in the plastic cup. 

4. If you're using food coloring (which I highly suggest) add it into each cup. I just added it an tested the bubbles out on a scrap piece of paper and kept adding more color until I decided it was vibrant enough. If you're using the watercolor palette you need to pop out the tablets out of the plastic palette (its ok if they break) and drop the entire tablet into the bubble solution and wait for it to dissolve before mixing. Again I suggest the food coloring, but I also used the watercolors and it worked too, just not as vibrant of colors. 

5. Go outside with your bubbles, art, and bubble wand and place your easel or tape your painting to a wall in the direction the wind is blowing. (You want the wind to be blowing the bubbles to your art not away!)

6. Start blowing bubbles!

7. Leave your work out to dry when finished

8. When its dry you can take off the tape and paper and finish painting the rest of the art in watercolor.

9. And voila you have a colored bubble painting!

Pixelated Self-Portrait

Sakura Mountains

Fruit Bowl

Acrylic Still Life

Elegant Innocence

Acrylic Still Life

Le Papillon Danseuse

Through Multicolored Glasses

Watercolor

You Always Look So Cool - Great Gatsby Inspired Outfits

For more info on the clothes go to my Polyvore site

Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold

This is a Hobbit themed watercolor and pen ink painting I made for a friend. She's a big J.R.R Tolkien fan.

Run for the Roses

If I was to go to a Derby party or even the derby itself this would definitely be my outfit of choice

My Blogging Apology Letter

Hey guys,

Sorry I haven't been blogging much recently. My life just got stolen by AP Exams, College decisions and Tumblr, but I've made my college decision now (I'M GOING TO SKIDMORE COLLEGE WOOT!!), I still have AP exams, but only for a little bit longer, and well I'm still addicted to Tumblr. :P Anyway I promise this summer I'm gonna be a lot better at this, I might even have make up tutorials. FINALLY! So again I'm sorry (not that anyone actually reads this, but hey I like to pretend I have a lot of followers :P) Anyway I will be much better. I'm even gonna start posting my Polyvore stuff on here!

Love,
Colleen

The name's Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221b Baker Street

Watercolor+fandom=happiness

Music's the only thing that makes sense anymore play it loud enough andit keeps the demons at bay

My most recent painting (title: a quote from across the universe)

The Path to Moksha

This is my Hinduism project for my Eastern Religions class

We all live in the yellow submarine

Bottled Flowers

I call it Bottled Flowers, its made with pastels

Rainy Days

Just a little girl on a rainy day

Anything Could Happen

Here's a cool montage of vintage film clips set to one of my favorite songs Anything Could Happen by Ellie Goulding

Technicolor Mouse

How To Write A Poem

They asked me
How to write a poem
How to splatter it with emotion
I tell them to open a vein
Let your soul pour out of it
Let the thoughts drip down onto paper
As they make no sense
But all the sense in the world
Paint a picture
With the fresh thoughts that contain facets
Of every beautiful color imaginable
Pooling in the middle of the paper
Watch it blossom into a flower of your mind
Then you will have a poem
One that is soaked in the tears of emotion

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep John

I'm a huge Sherlock fan, so naturally I made a fan video for my poetry project in creative writing class

She Has The Galaxy At Her Fingertips

 I'm generally not that good at nail art, but this came out beautifully. I feel like I have little galaxies on my fingertips. I'll probably make a tutorial video for this soon.