So.. I tried writing poetry

I was never into poetry growing up. I always preferred reading prose. Writing poetry for school was one of the things I dreaded most. I just didn't enjoy it. So when I found out I had to write five haikus, well, let's just say I wasn't too happy about that. Sat myself down one night while listening to my boyfriend's band perform live on the radio and to my surprise I was able to write the haikus pretty quickly. Here's what I came up with! My favorite one is the Harry Potter one. Do I even need to explain that? Harry. Potter. And Hogwarts. Yup. 

Gathered some flowers

On the ground below my feet

Bunched them up neatly

Read Harry Potter

Right before I slept at night

Dreamt about Hogwarts

We ran, jumped and spun

Around the merry-go-round

Like squealing infants

I spend too much time

on instagram looking at

Photos of cute pets

While doing homework

Listened to my boyfriend's band

On the radio

Lotus and Needles

As I was reading The Spider's Thread I immediately knew that I wanted to create an artwork for this story. I was also excited to use my Bamboo tablet because I was finally able to fix it (with the help of Tin-- Thank you!)! I didn't want to recreate a scene in the story or anything because I'm not that good of an illustrator. Instead, I read the story and chose a few details that stuck out to me. I chose the spider's thread, lotus flowers and the Mountain of Needles. I wanted my artwork to have those elements so I just played around with creating different things and this is how it turned out! I tried to incorporate fire and blood in there somewhere since arson and murder was mentioned in the story. I just couldn't do it in a way I was happy with. I was trying to make blood drip off the web and put fire on the mountains but it just wasn't working. Decided it'd be better for me to just stick with something I was proud of. Maybe when I have more time I'll edit this and try to add those elements. We shall see. 

Galatea

I was reading about Pygmalion and was trying to come up with a design or product that was inspired by the story. At first I considered playing with the idea of Galatea and creating a product called Gala Tea which would be tea that keeps you looking young. I wasn't sold on the idea so I did more brainstorming and thought of creating a hair accessories collection inspired by what Pygmalion would give and dress the statue in. 

I designed this collection and called it Galatea. In the story it says Pygmalion gave the statue bright shells, little birds and flowers in various hues and dressed it in strings of pearls. I based my designs on those things and I was able to come up with three different accessories: a headband, two clips, and a comb. These are all things I'd actually wear and maybe I'll make them in the future since I really do DIY hair pieces!