January Art Compilation

In order to make it through January, (aka the worst month month ever, especially on the East Coast) there has been a lot of drawing, painting, reading, music listening, and tea drinking. My mom has set up a specific time called our "Art Hour," where we just chill out and draw. I look forward to it everyday, and am loving the outcomes from it. Although there has been hardly any blogging lately! Finally I have returned to blogger to show what I have been doing instead recently. 

  

Street Wear (above)

My most played artists, illustrated. 

(Perfume Genius, Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, Patti Smith and Chet Faker.) 

Patti Smith Doodle (up close) 

 

Aside from drawing people, I've really taken an interest in drawing plants. 

Especially fungi. I love drawing fungi. I did this drawing earlier tonight. 

I titled this "Sushi Girl," and am excited about how it turned out. The sushi was the most fun part to paint. 

(close up)

This one is still a WIP, but I am extreeemely excited about it. It's a portrait of Perfume Genius, my favorite singer at the moment. For anyone who is familiar with him, they'd know that this drawing wouldn't really be complete until his lips are colored bright red. 

So that's it for now. I feel like I always say this, but I will try to post my art/other creations more often. 

Tea house vibes, bath bombs, and mugshots.

Sunday, Jan. 4th.
Sadly, today is my last day of winter break, and I return to school tomorrow. I am not too sad, though, because I got everything I wanted to done, and I had a blast these past two weeks. Yesterday and the day before were especially great. Here's what I did:

Friday: our friends who live two hours away drove down to visit. After a lunch of spring rolls, noodles and Asian salad, we headed to our favorite tea house, Dobra. 

The menu is the size of a novel, filled with flowering teas, lychee tea, black and green, snacks, and of course, bubble tea. 

This is a Polaroid of me and my friend Sierra. It was taken by her brother Morgan.  

We all got bubble tea. It was fantastic.

I'm pretty sure they were both oblivious to the fact that I took this. 

I could spend hours just hanging out in Dobra. It's so cozy and chill. 

Next, we went to a secondhand clothing store, but left soon since we were all full of bubble tea and needed to use the bathroom in a coffee shop next door. That's where this snapchat was taken. Morgan is wearing two pins that I made.

Our final stop was to Lush, and it was really fun, as well as kind of weird. The Lush we went to is inside of a Macy's, and there was hardly any person in the entire store. It felt apocalyptic, but no one was paying attention to us, so we could do whatever we wanted in the store. 

The Lush guys gave us a demo. 

I bought the pink bath bomb. The next picture is from when I actually used it. 

It was great, except for all of the confetti that was stuck in my hair afterwards. 

Friday Night Art Night

Since my new bedroom is starting to feel like the perfect little nook to make art, sip tea, and listen to records in, I invited my friend over to make art and hangout with me. It was a blast! We walked home  from school together, got out some snacks and went right to work! 

She was looking through one of my old abandoned journals.

Some supplies we used. Yes, sushi is a supply. It is necessary. 

It got messier the more we worked. 

 We listened to an entire Vampire Weekend record, then switched to some alt-j∆ and some other indie-synthy music. The entire situation was very "indie" Because most teens spend friday nights at the ice rink, or at a movie or something mainstream and "fun" but not us. You know in movies, how there is always that group of kids who really don't follow the main trends, and are quiet at school, and dress really cool and indie-ish? Maybe it'd just be easier to say the wallflower group. Well, my school doesn't have that. it just has the two of us. So we had our own mini party in my room, including lots of paint and music and tea. What could be better?

 My friend and I went through a bunch of Nylon mags for some inspiration. It's such a cool magazine for that.

 They're cohesive! 

I guess we had a bit of an Asian theme, green tea, sushi, and the best mochi in the entire world! I could live off of mochi. 

So overall, it was a really fun friday night! We discussed song lyrics and magazines and aesthetics (that has got to be the most difficult word to spell) and other similar topics! It's so fun to have a friend that is very much into the same things as you are, especially art! I can't wait to do it again. 

-India