Excercise your vulnerability...

When painting or photographing someone, I feel the best work comes from being vulnerable. It is in these captured moment we allow ourselves to show our true emotions. For a moment, we show the side of ourselves we keep hidden from the world, what we dare not admit. We fear if we let ourselves be vulnerable we will be viewed as weak. Some fear that these feeling will engulf us and that the heavy ooze of dark honey like emotions will be too strong to free ourselves from; simply lost and too weak to fight. I feel that flaunting vulnerability at appropriate times empowers a person. Owning who & how you are. Truly accepting oneself and showing it off for the world to see.

All my work is pretty much about a moment in my life or a thought I was having at a time that I wanted to show others in a visual manner. This one in particular is from a day I was just feeling a bit down and frustrated. Unlike most of my paintings, this one was done on impulse in a moment. I like to have canvas and my supplies in front of me while I listen to music appropriate to how I am feeling and just allow myself to feel the overall vibe of myself & the music so I may freely let all of it move me around in the canvas. I don't really think at first until something clicks and I vaguely get what I'm trying to do. This is an excellent exercise I recommend to anyone because I love doing this.

You don't have to get all fancy, any paper or supplies will work. If drawing isn't your thing, maybe you can write instead. Whatever you craft, try to allow your mood and/or your environments vibe to guide you and you might stubble across something new.

Fluorescent Female

So after several failed attempts to photography my cousin, Emily, we finally got around to it about 2 weeks ago. YAY!!! The enthusiasm was there but the ideas definitely weren't. With supply limitations but a surplus of imagination, I photographed her in black light. This is something I've never tried this before but was totally up my alley and I didn't even think of it. Attempting this feet is tricky with multiple difficulties to take into account:


1) Possible but pretty much definite long exposures depending on your light source,etc.
2) Possible but almost pretty definite grainy images depending on ISO
3) Sharp images VS. Soft images
4) Higher ISO.....(its the devil and a saint)
5) Finding things that glow fluorescent under black light


Once the black light bulb in my brain lit up, it was freaking on! Being a fan of color, I loved this photo shoot and I am definitely putting it in my books for a redo. It was awesome photographing Emily and seeing her get comfortable in front was a surprising privilege. I love playing with light and just trying out something new. Overall it can be intimidating & exciting but I love the figuring out process; once you know your onto something that you like its a giddy rush that encourages you to push more. Now that it's all done, I know what I would change and will definitely play more in my next attempt. I hope you guys enjoy it and voice it! Let me know what you think. If you want a session of my random creativity hit me up via Twitter, GMail, FB, etc. Trade offs, pay offs, we can talk about it.

Until next time, Toodles from DiTzyDoodle1  ^_^