Both taken in 2008, now edited and uploaded. Voila!

Well, technically. I finished displaying my GCSE art exhibition at school lol. I think it looks alright, but I didn’t have a lot of time to make it fancy or anything, but I don’t think that was a priority or anything. My photography sketchbook went missing though, which is really fucking annoying. It was by far the best out of the four and I was proud of all my photographs. Even though my art teacher says she can “appeal” and say I did the work, it’s disappointing that I won’t get to show it off. She’s still convinced it will show up though haha. Even if I don’t get to submit it, I’d still want it back one day…

Really nice sunsets lately and the weather has been good enough the past month to go to the beach regularly where I live. It’s awesome. I’m also really wanting to start photography again soon, like really getting into it. I’m developing a film at the moment, so hopefully it turns out well!

So… slightly disaster with my art project and my teacher isn’t amused about me asking to drag it out to Monday. You’re not allowed. It had to be finished by yesterday. See the thing is… I didn’t order enough brick slips, so I ordered more, but they didn’t arrive on time. Would have helped if my mum had sent the money order off quicker. I would have done it myself, but I had school all week, so I couldn’t go to the post office. Whatever, it’s my own fault. I’m just going to ramble in my sketchbook about how I didn’t manage to do it in the ten hours, but it adds to the wrecked/old/vintage look lol. Sorted. I guess.

This weekend rocks. I went to the spa today, which wasn’t as fancy as I expected, but still absolutely awesome. And tomorrow I’m going to (big city which I won’t name incase of stalkers or perves lol) to go shopping and I’m visiting the American Apparel store and also the Alexander Wang store! I love his stuff and I’ve heard they’re really comfy too… just a tad expensive. Not overly, but more than I would usually spend. I’m not sure if I blogged about him here, but I did over at ifuckfashion if you want to read about him. Not a hugely informative post, just a mention.

I wish I had a picture of my art project to upload here, but unfortunately they’re all on my school account. Maybe next week.

Guess what I got again? Another spam comment!

I’ve been managing to go to the gym a lot this week and hoping to keep it up. Today I spent 25 minutes on the crosstrainer, 2000m on the rowing machine, 10 minutes on the squat chair thingie and then 5 minutes on the treadmill to cool off. I’d probably stay on longer, but the council gym has this weird thing where a session is an hour and if you ask for longer they have to get the manager involved, so there’s no bloody point. I had no problems at David Lloyd. You could just come and go as you please. And they actually had showers that WORKED. But it was expensive there… and we live too far away to use it regularly.

Have to go an do my English homework as well as finish my art pictures. If I leave it for the weekend (oh shit, it’s Saturday tomorrow!) then I’ll just be stressed out!

Take care!

I keep getting spam comments coming up on my page where I have comments waiting to be accepted. It’s so irritating. How’s this: PISS OFF.

On a lighter note… this week has gone by much quicker than I expected it to. I still have my English analysis to do as well as the pictures for my art project, that I’m planning to draw with my wacom tablet. I don’t know how my art teacher is going to feel about me using two different paints on my painting, but I need to. It looks better in oil, but the irises have to be acrylic so I can use the acrylic based transfer on it. Any advice on this?

Had my drama group again tonight. It’s totally weird being the new one… it’s not like starting at a new school. It’s going into an environment where everyone already knows each other and talks about people or teachers you don’t know (well those who go to the same school) and they all know each other. Then I come in and I know I can’t expect everyone to act neutral just for me. They should carry on as usual, but it’s just weird for me. I haven’t been the only new one in a group for so long.

I’m trying to make some money by selling photographs. I owe money to my mum, my brother and possibly a friend too: I’ll explain later. And I really need to start saving for college, because I desperately want to study abroad and it’s pricey. I’m going in town tomorrow to hand CVs to various places, but I figured I should try this too. So if you like my prints, please consider ordering some as it will be helping me a lot. Frames are also available, just ask me!

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Sparkler fun! =)

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.

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