House progress: The back bedroom

 It's about time I show you the back bedroom of my miniature house.

Bed, books, fancy picture.

Nothing weird here...except shouldn't there be a duvet?

Purse, pens, jewellery box.

Wait, are those fleck of blood on the drawers?

Oh, it must just be a nose bleed.

Dude, stop looking in the bin. You guys are gross.

Erm...I think it might be a bit more than a nosebleed...

Holy cowbags!!

The next day this happened.

No relation!

I just got a little too confident with the craft knife.

(Sorry if real blood makes you squeamish, but I had to live it! And I'm kind of a medical lightweight so I had to just sit very still for a while until I stopped feeling funny)

"But Lisa, if you had cut yourself the day before then you could have used real blood for your piece."

No! You're sick.

Geez.

Doing a Dexter

No I haven't been killing people.

I've been looking at blood patterns.

It all started with this book I got out from the uni library.

'Exploring the cutting edge in forensic science'

And they are not kidding with the graphic material warning on the front cover.

Stages of decay anyone?

My degree show piece is going to have some blood in it, so I've got to make sure it looks right, hence the reading about blood patterns.

And because I'm an art student I thought I'd get the water colour paints out to illustrate.

Blood drops.

Circular, and from heights greater than 50cm they start to spray out around the edge dontcha know.

Splashes.

Blood flying through the air, looks like exclamation points.

Misting.

It's what often happens with gunshot wounds.

And more misting, cos it's fun to do.

I blew on the paint brush so the paint splatters on to the paper.

So yeah, I have some interesting hobbies.