Precious Mettle

i make things and collect things and put them next to each other until they (maybe) make sense (to me, maybe). this is like a diary of the scrapbooks of my creative portfolio. some stuff I’ve made, others I’ve found. i thought all of it was worth keeping a lot of it circles girlhood, horror, aesthetics, and whatever i’m figuring out at the time i’m mostly here for the feeling of it all, so hi if you’re the same. if you get it, you get it, you’re welcome to hang out

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🩵💙🤍💛colour palette name: Horizon Fade ft. Bluebell butterlight > The Invitation > Polar Expanse

• limited palette collage•

various media (inc. some of my own traditional art (ink and gouache), stickers, fashion magazine cutouts and other arts/crafts materials) digitised via a scanner.

And also the fun names for the mini colour palettes on each page, as well as the overarching theme, cos when I was little I used to think it was someone's job to name lipstick, eyeshadow and nail polish colours/shades to match a vibe, and I really wanted this awesome faerie-like job of naming colours or colour palettes when I grew up. Well, society told me I could be whatever I wanted to be in life if I applied myself hard enough, and l am nothing if not an insufferable little over-achiever (the childhood trauma from its pressures later manifested into a praise kink as an adult)...so I've taken a lot of drugs and 'expanded my mind, dude' to the point where my delusion is so powerful I have made it my reality. I am a colour faerie, but instead of naming cosmetic shades, I make limited palette collages.

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I was one of those annoying goth teens that loved Edgar Allan Poe and it was legit my personality for an entire winter once. No regrets, just giving you a lil background. Here's a scrappy fashion design concept on the Tell Tale heart and a scorned woman, kinda a Tattle-Tale Heart if you will. I used thrift store finds and random bullshit from my 'bullshit box' that fit the brief, like adding the little heart details to the mesh or making anatomical hearts for my boots. You can see it better on my insta if you're into it, preciousmettle_ on insta

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my fav frames from KATSEYE's Pinky Up video 🤩