Not Yet the Time to Panic

man it's getting pretty busy at school.

i'm feeling like i'm getting behind on my work, which is not good. not good at all. holidays are coming up, i'm betting they wont really be holidays, more like cramming days.

I leave you with a photo of one of my works completed last semester. edited to make it look more respectable

Envelope series

Went to an exhibition opening last Friday, the Marie Ellis OAM Prize for Drawing 2011.
was at Jugglers, in the Valley. Had never been there before so wasn't sure what to expect, but it turned out pretty well.
asked a staff member if i could take photos once i'd been there a little while.

Didn't get to take a photo of myself there though.. i would have felt like an idiot taking one of myself like all those photos you see nowadays, the ones at arms length, usually in clubs, taken by girls.
Lacked the courage to talk to any strangers to be able to ask them either.

the lady who made this piece won a prize, i cannot remember for sure what it was.. likely the Highly Commended though.

 

 

Really liked this one "Vortex".
so many lines, so well placed.
and such a bad photo of the label :(
Im thinking it must have been the black paint on the wall, it doesn't work well with photos with no flash.. and flash isn't a friend at exhibitions

Despite the glass, this photo turned out surprisingly well. Doesn't hide much of the actual drawing which is good because i was a fan.


Saw a guy with Blue Suede Shoes - Nearly made me laugh out loud

Managed to take a photo surreptitiously
felt like such a stalker :-S but it was too good an opportunity to miss


The crowds multiplied ferociously in the time i was there, which was really surprised at. who knew this thing got so much publicity. despite it being relatively small in he number of pieces it was showing.
Kicking myself for not snapping a photo of the winning entry.. oh well

Reference

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Will have to continue this another time

also might have to do up another treasury if this keeps going on

 

phew

It's okay ... he wasn't angry at me

he told me to throw it away actually

Creativity

another handsome bug, this time found on the window sill

I took a quiz to find out my creative style (http://www.psychologies.co.uk/personality-tests/whats-your-creative-style/) and got this:
 

Creativity enriches you


Creativity is separate from the real world for you. But it’s a magical world in which you like to immerse yourself. When you’re involved in it, you get the wonderful sensation that there are no limits, that anything is possible. What you are really looking for is harmony — you want to feel you are a part of what you create. Planting flowers, writing poetry, embroidery or putting together a photo album, these are all suited to your sort of quiet creativity. You want to fall in love with what you create. You also think of creativity as a part of you in which you can take refuge and feel protected. As the psychoanalyst D Anzieu explained, creativity acts as an ‘encouraging parent — loving, enriching and supportive’. You would love to use your creativity to retreat into a world that is kind and reassuring. For you, being creative means having the chance to become one with what you create, bathe in the glory of it and allow yourself to be taken over by it. This is why you seem more suited to the sort of creativity that calls for gentleness, subtlety, harmony and patience.
 

  it rings true to my heart, i love it

it isn't boiling yet

a little bug walking on a suit, JP and I found him and took photos

my order has FINALLY changed from "processing" which it was at for more than a week, to now "dispatched"
ahhh, at last
^_^

checking every day was getting frustrating because it never changed!