Dana Beaton

I’ve been working like crazy to hurry along my latest art project for school. I won’t give away my idea yet, but here is my testing of colours.

Please don’t focus on the crappy eyes… they don’t look realistic at all. I was practicing using blue tones as the entire painting will be done with those. It is very simple and quickly done, but it gave me a better idea of what I am planning to do. The artwork will be based on Misguided Ghosts by Paramore, which is the text of the project. I don’t like Paramore at all, but I like the lyrics of this song as I feel it relates to how I’ve been feeling about things in my personal life. I’m going to try and not get all deep now xD

And my photography project is almost done. I’m so slow. The pictures are finished, but the display won’t be ready for another few weeks. My art teacher just put up the prints for the exhibition last week, but only by themselves.

are so annoying sometimes. I won’t go into huge detail but I will bring up one thing! There’s two English papers in the two different exams. I got an averaged A in English Literature which was awesome! Then the English Language I got an A* in one paper! I was raving! I’ve never gotten an A* ever and I really want a good English grade because of art/film/screenwriting aspirations. But the second paper… I’d apparently left out a question, which I either mis-read on what/how many you were supposed to do or wasn’t told to ignore the unstructions and it ended up being a D, even though I got a 28/30 and 23/30 on the questions I did do! One of the English teachers told me my answers were brilliant but because I’d forgotten one… I think this is where I use my brother’s annoying “facepalm” word. At least it only averaged up to a B, but man! I HAD AN A FUCKING *!

It’s only the mocks… but I wanted to use them as predicted grades for part-time jobs and applying to schools. So would it be wrong of me to put A* instead of the B on my CV? Since I know I can get it and would have if I’d done the question!

I didn’t actually realise anyone from school read this. Not that it bothers me. Hell, it’s not like I’m writing on here like it’s a fucking diary. Anyway… nothing to rant about really. I’m bloody exhausted -_- I managed to get quite a bit done in Art today, so that’s good. I still need to fill my sketchbook up with painting technique tests that I’ve left blanks for O.O I don’t know WHY I ever did that, because now I HAVE to fill them in! But I have my project idea, which we have to start next Monday. We only have four weeks left, before the control test which I’m looking forward to but also kinda dreading. Hopefully it’s something GOOD. The only hard thing is that when it comes to the actual TEST (after the few weeks of preparing it) we can’t ask for advice from the teacher. Which actually is no problem for me, because I never do that anyway. I’m stubborn, hate being told what to do and never believe anyone except myself. I’m real trustworthy (: lol

I might upload a painting I did of my idea later on to dA. It’s just a test to see how it looks and how I’m going to paint it. At the moment I’m planning to use transfer solution to put the reflections in the eyes separately as I don’t know how I’d paint them, especially with only blue tones xD

So pretty dull blog entry, I just like keeping up to date. Any interesting stories?

I feel so relaxed now that most of the exams are over. This is the first day I can just relax and not have to study or be desperate to sleep. I actually expected to sleep in but I was meant to go into the art department at school and then to the hairdressers. None of that happened though because the bus didn’t show up and I wasn’t able to get an appointment for today. Which is really annoying because I haven’t had my hair cut or dyed properly in ages. It feels so messy.

I watched Waking Life this afternoon and it was really good. A lot of people thought Richard Linklater was just trying to create something that seemed philosophical for dumb people. That really annoyed me. I haven’t seen a lot of films similar, but I really enjoyed it. The characters asked a lot of questions I’ve been asking a lot and I was glad to see others thought the same way. Plus I loved that cartoon style, that they also used in A Scanner Darkly.

If you have any movie suggestions that are similar or you just really enjoyed let me know. I like more artsy, independent films but regular ones are good too

My mum had a car accident on the way to pick my brother and I up from school. She texted me half an hour before pick-up time to say she would be a bit late. I went by the music school and stuff to waste time. I came back out fifteen minutes later, expecting her to have shown up by then. My brother turned up, having gone to STARBUCKS -_- and we waited for another half an hour when she finally showed up. I didn’t notice anything as I put my bag in the front seat. Then she gets out and walks around the front of the car to observe it. I got back out, asking her what was wrong. She said, “had a bit of an accident” and then I noticed the smash on the left side: lights smashed (but still working funnily enough) and the front all cracked and broken. I couldn’t believe it. Anyway, we got back in the car and my mum was pretty shaken up. I asked her if she was okay and she said she was fine, physically. Then I had a realisation that maybe she as shaken up because the other driver wasn’t, but he was fine too. The way my mum explained it made it sound as if there was a giant motorway pile-up, but I later realised she had meant that their accident caused a queue of traffic and hold-up. Phew. I’m so relieved she’s okay and no-one got hurt. I’m never going to have the guts to drive. I’m just going to look at my gorgeous ‘67 Impala and leave it in the garage =]

What do you think of my new theme? I liked the simplicity of the last one, but I wanted something different and I liked this one! I can’t really blog about much because I have so much studying to do and I’m already procrastinating… I have to catch up loads with Latin, because I didn’t learn it much in class. My plan for this weekend is to do physics, maths, latin and german. I have those over Monday and Tuesday. Then I can spend Monday and Tuesday revising the subjects for Wednesday etc. Ugh… Revision advice is always welcome.

Nothing much else has been going on. I’ve been ill for a while, so mainly recovering and trying to study at the same time. My two week long migraine still hasn’t disappeared. Maybe it has something to do with me stressing about school? Well, my doctor suggested I see a counsellor. Yay, a head shrinker! Doubtful. If I don’t talk to my friends, I’m not gonna talk to a stupid lady in stupid white coat (my imagination is running away with me).

Funniest Supernatural episode ever: Yellow Fever

I’ve been writing more of my novel. I think I’m as far as 24000 words, but I’m too lazy to check. I use Celtx for writing my stories too, because it’s prettier than OpenOffice. But unfortunately it doesn’t have a word count, so I have to copy and paste, which I’m too lazy to do. Remember to check out http://missdanabanana.deviantart.com for updates and any new photographs I’ve taken!

Hahaha! I find this so funny. Aw, I really mis DH at the moment

I’d heard of this band years ago, back when I was in my 12 year old emo phase. But I never though to listen to them until now. I love them. They may not be musical genuises or have comprehensible lyrics o.o, but they’re unique (I hate that word) and Brody Dalle has a badass voice. Plus her style rocks too. I want the top she’s wearing in the picture above lol. Plus she’s still kinda curvy (I know Rhianna and Beyonce are curvy and fit too, but they’re mainstream) AND hot, so take that sucka-skinny-bitches! ^^ No offence if you’re skinny… just yeah

I love her voice. I hope she gets her big break soon haha! She’s been singing on youtube for ages and was touring with Mike Dingham last November.

I’ve created a film making team for 13-25 year olds, who are interested in becoming film makers and looking for others to help with ideas, motivate them and start gaining experience. I know how daunting it can be starting out by yourself and learning, when you’re young and have no idea what you’re doing

The idea of this is that it’s not-for-profit, free and online. This is for people who want to work in production, not acting. Each team member has their own profile on the website, with a mini CV of which short films they’ve worked on. All short films will be uploaded on our site, as a sort of portfolio.

If anyone is interested, please fill in the contact form on our temporary site:

http://fmhome.bangfashion.co.uk

We have plenty of writers so it’d be nice to have some more film makers and camera crew people around