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Halloween photo-set: Hair Ghost (Frankie)

Added 2024-10-25 14:14:24 +0000 UTC

Frankie and I have been working together for so long that when we first met her hair was only at knee length. Her nom-de-cheveux on Instagram, Floorlength Frankie, hints at hair now being longer than she is tall and the growth of her hair has run in parallel with her own interest in the mythology & visual imagery associated with hair. When it reaches a certain length hair can seem to move a life of its own, its propensity for resisting decomposition in buried bodies imparting a supernatural role in folklore and popular culture around the world, from cousin Itt of Addam's Family fame to long haired Japanese Yūrei that inform the imagery of films like The Ring. In this photo-set Frankie plays the role of hair-ghost, faceless and haunting the stair cases and dark corridors of a neglected Victorian staircase. Send us your spookiest drawings, painting and animations of this photoset, we'd love to see them! We'll be holding a live online life class on the same theme this coming Wednesday HERE.

About the model

If you'd like to listen to some themed music to accompany this photoset we've put this playlist together for you HERE
Frankie can be found on Instagram HERE
You can find portrait replays of Frankie HERE and HERE
You can find Frankie's Easter bonnet themed life drawing replay HERE, her Magritte themed life drawing replay HERE , her bath themed session HERE and her Alice in Wonderland Session HERE
Find Frankie's new portrait rotation and life rotation, as well as her clothed, portait, life & Summer Showers photo-sets by following the links.
Frankie is featured in the Insta, Selfie, Clothes Swap & Trio photosets of the Bubblegum Bouguereau series.
Frankie is ringmistress of the Drawing Circus and is in most of our Drawing Circus reference image HERE
Frankie has more reference photos available on her own Patreon HERE

About the photographer & photos

This photoset was shot by Justyna Neryng
You can find our full schedule of autumn photosets in our original 'Autumn '24 Teaser' post HERE

Use the Draw Patreon Navigator to find any of our past photosets and take a look at our blogs on how to gather, manipulate and translate photo reference.

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