YOU DONT LOVE ME

Also, THIS. Absolute perfection, and a really good song!

UPDATE

Seeing as I'm having so much trouble with the whole job thing, volunteering is taking a precedence right now. And rather brilliantly, it's paid off! That's just my little bit of news for now, I am currently an art free zone (*sniff*) thanks to the fact it's nearly half term and most of my class is away on a school trip, which is all a bit sad. To cheer myself up I've been working on my arts award, and I think I might head into town this afternoon to buy some sheets for my Portfolio (scary stuff, I shall be planning it A LOT before I sit down to do it), but I'm really having 2 fairly boring weeks. This is all that's been keeping me sane:

NEW

I am basically, a complete idiot. I've had my Canon for about 2 years now, but stuck mainly to using it on automatic settings because I thought 'ugh, can't be bothered working out all these times and apertures and stuff' (I have learnt them, but it's kinda like learning times tables - annoying, and time consuming). BUT THEN SUDDENLY SOMETHING AMAZING HAPPENED. Realised there was a light metre inside the viewfinder. It was a bit of a, 'I could slap myself right now' moment, but there we go, I have a newfound love for my poor camera.

COLLECTING

So, I don't know if you can tell, but I've been getting a little bit leaflet-happy. I am a compulsive leaflet collector, so yesterdays IYP session was definitely my idea of fun. Think, copies of every leaflet from every single gallery I've visited over the past year, lots of photographs and even some artwork I'd thought I'd lost. There was that much of it that the folder I was carrying it home in sort of snapped when I put it down on the seat next to me on the train. It's all in preparation for my Arts Award, which I'm fairly excited about - and need to put alot of time towards putting it together. That's my wednesdays off sorted out then for the next few months!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

I think this is possibly a slight 'too much free time' thing, but it is partly relevant. For me, now's the time when I'm really having to think about where I want to take the next stage of my life to, and it is really, really difficult. I haven't had to make the GCSE to A-Level kind of decision my friends have, and the majority of them have probably almost decided or definitely decided on what they want to study at Uni. I have no, idea, at all (although, obviously it'll be art related).

PHOTOGRAPHY

Well, ta da! These, are my first ever photographic prints. We went down to the park by college last week and took these photos on the play equipment - we were out there for hours, so much fun! It's a really difficult process, and incredibly headache inducing but so worth it for the results - these beauties have been edited, but they still looked lovely before, just not exposed quite as well!

MEG

So, when I first saw Meg's blog, I kinda fell in love a bit. Her fashion sense is just plain gorgeous, a vintage dream ~ I am already planning on making myself a flower crown! I was feeling a bit arty, and browsing through blogger and thought hey, it'd be nice to just do a drawing for someone, so here we have it...actually really like this too!

MATISSE

~said painting, really proud of this~

STILL LIFE

I am an absolute mess when it comes to painting like this normally, but today has been ok for me (apart from every single brush turning the white paint gray). This is supposed to be in the style of Kaffe Fasset, which i'm not seeing yet but IT WILL HAPPEN. Last weeks Henri Matisse peice was alot more successful (I'll blog a picture of it seperately). Personal achievement from this was drawing straight onto A1 paper, because me and large scale have never gone together very well - I just can't seem to get the perspective right. Also had a nice little thoughtful moment, about how the 3/4 hours a week I get working on traditional art skills are really nice, and great for improving my 'art confidence'; even though I'm doing an extended diploma, which doesn't sound quite as nice as Art Foundation, I suppose the idea is the same - I'm getting a really well rounded art experience, and learning stuff every day that's useful.

STAYING CREATIVE

Said book for the boyfriend - plus me to slightly! Keeping creative is near impossible sometimes, and the 10 tips to stay creative and that little group of websites really, really help me to stay motivated - I don't always realise quite how much!