When witches don't fight we burn

As the new season hasn't started yet here's some more spooky book that I have been working on in the background. On Friday I will be posting a bit about one of the super secret zines I was part of.
Again some pages need a bit more work, so as when I update them you will get a peek.

Until Friday lovely people.

Lots of love,

LaurenPearl

xx

By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes

 Last post for magic...honestly!

Some are pages you may have seen before, but with some new pieces added, I filled up my book with a ton of different backgrounds, so I will post when I finish them up.

Below is the results of letting food colouring run down a page- the quote is from The Hobbit. Over Christmas I managed to watch all of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit- which is inspiring me to read it again. After revisiting the films, I felt I had to put a quote in here from Gollum.

In this one I just added a cool picture that I found in a magazine.

Lastly, I wanted to keep this one simple, normally I am pretty quote heavy on my work, so this time I wanted the image to speak more than the words.

Lots of love,

LaurenPearl

xx

What's this? There's magic everywhere....

And so we come to the end of magic, and with the end of magic for now is my end of being spooky. It is time to try something different next season- I'm sure I'll come back to being spooky as if you couldn't tell naturally a bit dark.

                      

The nightmare before Christmas hill is about as Christmassy I got in my altered book.

                       

I still have some pages to finish so I'm sure they'll be making an appearance from time to time. I still have 100 more pages to fill!

                         

                          

I used some quotes from American horror story as there is some great creepy quotes that various characters use.

                            

  

     

                                                                         Lots of love

                                                                        LaurenPearl xx

For a spell that can't be broken, one drop should be enough

My inspiration is back for all things dark! After discuss with a few others who wanted to come over to the darkish, we decided our themes this week would revolved around The Labyrinth, voodoo and Anne Rice (vampire prairie for those not into Anne Rice). I know we're a cheerful bunch.

First up my Anne Rice page- the quote taken from Interview with a vampire. This page was the 100th in my altered book, so lets all take a minute to celebrate that I have managed to get 100 pages out of being all dark and twisty. The other page is my voodoo using poetry from Tim Burton's 'Voodoo Girl' If you haven't read any of Tim Burton's poetry admired his illustrations then you have to get over to pinterest...well after you have read my blog post.

Next up is my double page to The Labyrinth and as you can see the tin foil has made another appearance. 

I did show this page last week- there is a reason I am doing so again and it's to show you in some kind of order how I made my first digital collage. I want you to focus on the right page with the Sia lyrics.

This unintensionally became my background for my digital piece. It just so happened I had been playing around with some different filters on an app and this cool kaleidoscope effect that looks a bit like a scarf pattern.

Ta-dah! Here is the finished product- I have gone for a witchy theme, using a poem about the Salem witch trials.

Lets hope it's the beginning of many more digital collages.

Lots of love,

LaurenPearl

xx

Your fate is in your hands....

So the season of magic hasn't been very magical for me. I have been suffering from an inspiration block- whether it was the sickness that sucked it out of me or the fact I'm spending most of my life studying. I don't know I'm not as enthusiastic about my work this time around.

So in failure of what to do- I went back to my safe place, practise fancy handwriting to song lyrics.

                      

       

                                

      

          

          

          

I have a special post coming on Tuesday for a secret project I was part of, which was super inspiring.

                                                              Lots of love,

        

                                                                LaurenPearl

   

 

Why is the raven like a writing desk?

Hi all, so I was one of the unfortunates that got struck down by that awful bug going around. Hence why I have one page to show and it's posted really late!

 

This week I am going to try and catch up with everything I have missed and more!

Lots of love,

Laurenpearl xxx

Ain't going back to Barton Hollow

Hi Gang it's that time again to share some magic, so here's what I have been working on,
First up is the book I found magic in, there is lots of other as I love to read. Recently I read 'The Night Circus' By Erin Morgenstern. If you haven't read it, I can't recommend it enough. I used my favourite quotes below.

So you might have heard me go on about how I have recently stumbled across The Civil Wars- a bit gutted at how late I am to the party and now they have split. Anyway what put me onto them was hearing was the song 'Barton Hollow' after listening to this song I was inspired to do some more spooky art for my book based on the song. When I listen to it, there are so many ideas it conjures up. Go check it out- preferably give it a listen and then look at my take on it.

Still loving all the darkness and creepy vibes!

Lots of love,

LaurenPearl xxx

All Magic comes with a price

Wow here we are with another season and it's Magic! which means I can still be creepy and still use my altered book! Below is the start I have made to Magic:

As you can see I have opted for the dark side of magic...and with magic comes a new theme when it comes to photographing my journal so look out for some acid trip colours.

Below is the last of my spooky words inspired art which I hadn't got around to posting (check out my cool Gremlins blouse in the background) .

Lastly, if you followed my blog from the beginning you may remember the material I made below at the London Fashion School. I completely forgot about it and dug it out the other day and thought it tied in nicely to the creepy theme.

Lots of love,

Laurenpearl xx