What's Coming Next + Feature

I've been so busy lately that I haven't posted a journal in a month, which is kind of unusual for me! I have been trying to keep up with posting photo series though! I just finished posting "Cross My Heart" this afternoon, which I shot in July or August of last year I think? So obviously I'm still quite behind! Hopefully if I can post a look a day I can get caught up! I have about 10 more shoots from 2014 to post though, how embarrassing! I'll also be shooting something cute this weekend with Sheridan the darling freckled girl in "Cross My Heart!" I think I'm going to jump ahead a bit and post one of my favorite shoots of 2014 though, which is "The Raven Queen!" I finished it in early October, and it was one of my "dark" shoots of the year, and one of the shoots that felt a bit like it traveled back in time since it was based around a fairytale I created! I haven't done that in a long time, and it was a bit of a companion piece for a shoot I did wayyy back called "Swan Song."  In Swan Song, the main character is a swan who magically changes into a young girl for her last moments of life to experience the world in a different manner.  It's a shoot that I still hold close to heart, because I wrote a short story for it that accompanies the photos.  Raven Queen is quite similar in that there is a transformation (although it has a much different cause and ending), and an accompanying fairytale. Unlike Swan Song though, I had the great privilege of working with an incredible designer and makeup artist who helped me bring the story to life in a much grander fashion! I hope you'll enjoy it

And now for some incredible and under-appreciated art I've come across on Deviantart in the last month or so! If you'd like to recommend some new artists to me, I always appreciate it! <3  I'm particularly looking for some really awesome traditional artists (drawing, painting, etc) that could use a little extra exposure!