Holiday Adventures- Nelson Mandela Capture Site.

Next on our trip we stopped at the Nelson Mandela Capture Site to visit the museum and take a look at the sculpture by artist Marco Cianfanelli.  The information and quotes displayed in the museum were 
very interesting and the sculpture itself really is amazing and definitely worth the visit.
  

X.

Andy Alcala, you're cool.

Andy Alcala is a student originally from Chicago who recreates well known paintings, such as pieces by Warhol, Monet and Pollock, by painting them onto his own face and then photographing them.  I stumbled across his work while looking for images for my art nots last term and have wanted to share them ever since. All images taken from here and here.

Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh

Untitled 1975 Jasper Johns

Impression Sunrise Claude Monet

He also posts videos of how he does the paintings on his website.

Campbells Soup Can Andy Warhol

No 31. Jackson Pollock

Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow Piet Mondrian

Girl with Balloon Bansky

Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein

Black Square Kazimir Malevich

X.

So pretty.

X.

Hayley Warnham.

Hayley Warnham is a UK based artist and illustrator whose work I came across on Pinterest.  I really like these eye catching pieces from her series of work entitled 'Everything Is Beautiful'.

X.

September, what?

Moo.

Today, while looking through a box of old toys for things for an art project I found these two.  I just couldn't bring myself to put them back in that dark, dusty box. So they've relocated to my desk.  Now all they need is names...

X.

Dip Dye♥

For a while now I've found myself drooling over the dip dyed hair of girls in dreamy artsy pictures like this one: (All images from http://weheartit.com/)

I wish I was her.

First of all deciding how to do it took me a while.  There are a couple options but obviously I wanted something non- permanent which ruled out real hair dye and some stuff involving bleach.  The next option I found was food colouring.  It sounds a little dodgy but after watching a few YouTube video's it looks as though it works.  

Anyway I thought that seeing as though it is the holidays now it should be relatively safe to give it a try so that I have a couple weeks to get it out of my hair if it does turn out to be more than temporary.  I decided that I wanted to have blue tips, like in the pictures below.

Seeing as though I'm a bit of a wuss I just did one small piece of hair as a test to see how long it would take to come out.  I used this video to get the hang of how to do it:

Things you will need:

water
food coloring
hair ties
towels
hair dryer
conditioner


1. Braid hair into plaits, tying off where you want the dye to go up to.
2. Add 5+ drops of food coloring to a cup of water.
3. Dip the plaited hair ends into the cup and leave in coloring for about 2 minutes.
4.Take out of cup and towel dry.
5. Add a few drops of food coloring straight to the hair.
6. Put a small amount of conditioner on the colored hair and lather.
7. Leave conditioner in for about 2 minutes.
8. Dip back into coloring and water in cup for about 30 seconds.
9. Towel dry and blow dry the hair.

Because my hair is fairly dark it came out quite quite a lot lighter than in most of these pictures but I still quite liked it.  Also, much to my mom's delight it did come out the next time I washed it.  I would have liked for it to stay in a little longer but I guess it's not that complicated to do even if it's only for a couple days. 

X