VAMPIRE

One of my first projects with my student Carl-Martin was to make a VAMPIRE. ...why? simply just because he loves them, he likes them. To make process more interesting & creative me and Yolanda, who was helping me a lot, decided to play with colors, style, design to make it more extraordinary and unusual from those vampires which You can see in TV and in your nightmares.. :) We were using opposite colors, playing with white, purple and pink..:) Of course.. the first reaction of  Carl-Martin was a big "Noooooooooo." :) But as I have this manner of convince the people on the ideas in which I believe, I succeed.... we succeed :) The result at the end he just simply loved. 

Here you have some insight of the process.. :)

 

 

 

The result:

 Many scholars argue the word “vampire” is either from the Hungarian vampir or from the Turkish upior, upper, upyr meaning “witch.” Other scholars argue the term derived from the Greek word “to drink” or from the Greek nosophoros meaning “plague carrier.” It may also derive from the Serbian Bamiiup or the Serbo-Crotian pirati. There are many terms for “vampire” found across cultures, suggesting that vampires are embedded in human consciousness.

 Probably the most famous vampire of all time, Count Dracula, quoted Deuteronomy 12:23: “The blood is the life.”

 One of the most famous “true vampires” was Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1560-1614) who was accused of biting the flesh of girls while torturing them and bathing in their blood to retain her youthful beauty. She was by all accounts a very attractive woman.

According to several legends, if someone was bitten by a suspected vampire, he or she should drink the ashes of a burned vampire. To prevent an attack, a person should make bread with the blood of vampire and eat it.

 The legend that vampires must sleep in coffins probably arose from reports of gravediggers and morticians who described corpses suddenly sitting up in their graves or coffins. This eerie phenomenon could be caused by the decomposing process.

By the end of the twentieth century, over 300 motion pictures were made about vampires, and over 100 of them featured Dracula. Over 1,000 vampire novels were published, most within the past 25 years.

Thanks to Silvia Tayan Fernández for pictures

www.silviatayan.com

www.flickr.com/photos/silviatayan

Huge kisses for helping so much goes to 

Yolanda Florescu!

:)