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]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/27617391/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/27617391/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:10:09 PDT This is mostly because I just haven't really been creative.
Every morning I get up, I float in a trance to the tube station and I stare out of the window for 45 minutes. Sometimes I manage to find a Metro newspaper and so I assault my brain with articles which i'm sure are carrying subliminal messages. Certainly I find I use the line 'in the Metro the other day it said...' far too often in my daily conversations. What a dangerously influential rag it is.
I have however recently started making shed loads of T-shirts for my bf's band 'Cassio Avenue'. I like the fact that the boys are very open to making our own T-shirts. I guess they think its a selling point that they are handmade and one offs. Maybe i'll put some photos up of any i'm particularly proud of. They've only been sold at one gig so far but I managed to shift a few which I think is quite promising.
It gives me something to think about at work as I watch the streaming crowds of tourists pour over my galleries. I have a meeting about doing volunteer work in one of the storage houses on friday which I hope goes to plan. It looks like an amazingly inspirational place. The few pictures i've seen show all these fascinatingly random objects piled floor to ceiling. From ethnographic artefacts to archaic medical instruments. Apparently there's an area known as 'The feather room' which is full of feathered headdresses and other feather adorned objects.
Some days I hate my work but equally there are days when I can't believe my luck.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/22373210/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/22373210/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:11:19 PST
It has bad days but on the whole I love my new job. I am surrounded by inspiration. Sometimes its frustrating because its too busy to go around really absorbing it, or taking notes. And yet when its busy all I can do is stand there and stare at visitors. Although that in itself is interesting. I so many different kinds of people speaking exotic languages wearing all manner of clothing.
As always the 'Celtic' section is still in my heart. So on the rare occasion that I am in with that exhibition I run around taking sneaky sketches. I'm using La Tene style to create a rather complicated tattoo design for the same person I did the afore mentioned portrait for. Its a stunning design style and not used nearly as much as it should.
Anyway you should all take a visit and i'll give you a tour.

Happy New Year.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/21423245/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/21423245/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:02:09 PST
Anyway, stewarding can be pretty dull. Yet in the quiet galleries it gives me a chance to clean out the dusty caverns of my mind. Hopefully some new inspiration shall arise from it. I have had some really good feedback from my poster. Even some from a PR agent in the U.S. so i'm going to try to work that connection if I can. Just to see where it takes me.

Anyhoo better get on with something practical to prepare for tomorrow.
*fingers crossed* this shall be a new start for me.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/20551518/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/20551518/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:12:33 PDT I just thought I may as well immerse myself in something more creative again.
Since I last posted on here I have graduated from uni (yay me) but i'm still living at home (boo). A big part of me wishes I was still there and I miss Glasgow, my flat and my friends. This is especially after a year. My old flatmate has moved back to Glasgow and i'd love to follow her but I have other commitments in Hertfordshire now.
I work for the Tower of London which is a very cool place. Alas the job itself isn't so cool. I sell tickets or take them at the entrance. I lose most of my money in travel to and from the Tower. So its a little soul destroying.
Some of the visitors are incredibly rude. Especially some who haven't worked out that flashing the back of your hand at someone with certain erect fingers is enough to get you punched in England.
However I love some of my work colleagues and the atmosphere is really positive and friendly in the Tower Staff.
So basically if you ever visit the Tower of London and see a smiley (for I do try to) brunette with huge earings and a posh voice please don't flash the middle finger up at me and say 'one!'

I never thought i'd be consorting with Beefeaters!
In my spare time I spend most of my time promoting friend's bands it seems and trying to find a more appropriate job for a graduate (but that doesn't seem to happen).
Anyway I hope someone in the world reads this because I can't see many people checking it after such a long absence. However if you do read this. Thank you for taking an interest.
hehe.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/11850188/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/11850188/ Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:01:52 PST Just so much has happened in the last couple of months.

Suddenly I have almost nothing to do. I'm trying to enjoy this brief moment of relative freedom before I have to leave university and get a job, etc etc. Its rather difficult atm.
Its a week since my 23rd birthday and today is also the birthday of my grandmother had she lived. It feels like I never had a birthday. I decided to do something new, and take up a project to de-stress and distract me. So I bought an electric guitar with all the essential accessories. I love it, but most of the time I just stare at it and marvel at its beautiful shiney monochrome lines.

Technically i'm finished in less than a month now. Which is a scary thought.
I STILL haven't done my portrait commission. Why is it always hard to do things you HAVE to do. I also have another commission now. So considering I don't really put myself about or push my art work I do seem to get these things hehe.
Though i'm thinking that my art has been pretty rubbish lately. I'm almost scared to do anything atm because if I found myself dissatisfied it might make it harder for me to get on with it.

Right, anyway... I will try to make more of an effort to make comments etc soon.

Tarra

p.s. really like this storm cloud emoticon. CUTE!

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/11222964/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/11222964/ Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:11:21 PST
After my brief splurge of writing today, I felt I had to purge myself with some art therapy. I haven't done any art for almost a month now which is unnatural for me. I had planned to avoid doing any till February as well but I guess this wasn't real artwork...

Its slightly disturbing what I came up with. I might scan it into scraps when i'm back in Glasgow. Kind of reminds me slightly of those featureless skin-monster-type-things in Silent Hill. Lots of fleshy and vaguely angry colours. Mmm yes... I feel better for it though.

Unleash the art rage! Mwhahah.
Happy New Year everyone.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/11072104/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/11072104/ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:19:31 PST . So I will just talk to myself.
A very strange week this was... . I haven't felt like i've settled back in at home yet.
Time seems to rush by and yet every day drags. I don't know how to explain it. I feel like there's no point in settling because in such a short amount of time i'll be back at uni. Except its ages... kind of... not long enough.
Christmas and my dissertation loom over me but I can't concentrate. Such a pest!
I managed to get my free hair cut etc on the basis of my first draft of my commission. I'll have to scan it in at some point.

The drive back to Bushey was so beautiful. I got up at 3am in the morning and set off at 4am. About an hour from Glasgow are the mountainous borders. It was such a clear night that the moon set off the hill tops with a halo of silver and I could see so many stars. I picked out Orion particularly because the constellation travelled parallel to me for most of the journey. I'd forgotten how beautiful the stars were. It seems like a long time since I last saw them.
It reminded me a little bit of 'Forgotten', with the moonlit sky and the mountains. I am so inspired right now and its so frustrating that I can not do anything at all! I really want to start using this massive bit of chipboard that I found in a skip. I suspect it will just get left here though.
Anyway... back to... nothing.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10973814/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10973814/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:28:20 PST .

So i'm going to write nonsense into this thing instead.
I forgot to tell everyone about the Lara Croft shaped discolouration on my stairwell. It really does look like Lara Croft in silhouette. Recently she also gained a schimitar (sp?) in mysterious circumstances. I can't wait to see what she does next. I might put up photographic proof somewhere on the internet. I think I should send it in to the fortean times or something. Like those people who find the Virgin Mary in their latte foam etc etc.

This week is turning out to be the longest and shortest week of my life! Time rushes by and yet the day seems never ending.
On Saturday morning I aim to get up in the small hours to drive the length of the country back to my hometown. It will be dark and dangerous... I might possibly go insane, who knows. Last time I drove home for Christmas I broke down in the lakedistrict and had to drive 6 hours straight without a break or the car wouldn't start again. Thank heavens for small mercies though because the next day was the Hemel Explosion and the M1 was closed. So I would probably have exploded myself if I had chosen to go the following day instead.

Anyways, I hate times like these because I am so full to the brim with inspiration and motivation to be creative and I can not because of essays, and the guilt of not doing essays... *Sigh*

Still, home soon.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10889991/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10889991/ Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:14:02 PST As the title suggests, the weather has been dreary and rather cold so I have barracaded myself in this week.
Naughty Ange...

Nothing really very interesting has occured in the last week or so. I did have a very odd dream the other day which I will tell you about.
I was working for Blue Peter and I discovered that I had a hand growing out of my forehead. However, I wasn't worried because it was an experiment... all in the name of television (huzzah). Then the scene changed to where Bjork was being interviewed by one of my fellow presenters and she was all over him! The nerve of the woman!
Then I woke up... thank goodness. I might draw the fingers coming out of my forehead. It was great as I kind of remember this green sort of lighting and i'm sure I was in some sort of caravan...
I love green, so any excuse to make something vaguely green is a good excuse. However, I have still to finish the first draft of my hairdresser's daughter's portrait (geeze). So that needs to take precidence. Oh and uni work... X)

I hope anyone who reads this is happy and well. May you live a long and prosperous life.

P.S. if anyone wants a black kookai dress, be my guest!
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]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10779512/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10779512/ Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:32:15 PST I've just been dancing round my room like some crazy lady- probably shouldn't mix Boots own brand lemsip with wine...

Nothing particularly noteworthy to say about this week. Though this afternoon my flatmate scared the living daylights out of me as a red-Muse-ninja (well... a ninja in a Muse T-shirt)! Her boyfriend is apparently a ninja now too, so that makes my ninja team up to 5! Whooo.
Artistic efforts are being FORCED onto a backburner though I did paint one square of my friend's Christmas present (Well part of it). Its a kind of storyboard of the 'party in my pants' incident that you may remember (or not). I have also started my hairdresser's commission. Huzzah-
I desperately need my hair done!
I have put up a new i.d. I'm not sure if i'll keep it. I can't believe my hair was ever that long .
Right... back to something important, like more sleep.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10675884/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10675884/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 04:29:45 PST It took me half the week to get used to being back at uni again. So annoying that. I have spent all the week trying to convince myself to finish an Archaeology of Religion worksheet. Its in in just over 2 hours and I still have to finish one question. Hohum.

I Contented myself with knitting myself a weird corsage-type-thing... I need money.

Fireworks were fun. It was quite funny to be in St. Albans as it keeps coming up in the reading of one of my university modules. I always think I should get out the time team trowel my friend won (with a little bit of help from me) and start digging. Not that i'd have any clue what I was doing. How ironic. I've been studying Archaeology for four years and I still don't really have a clue.

Hopefully this weekend i'll be able to start on my commission piece for my hairdresser (lol yes, I have a close relationship with my hairdresser. You have to these days 'keep your friends close and your hairdresser closer').

Thanks for all the nice comments lately btw I really appreciate it.

Mar Sin Leibh

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10601221/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10601221/ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:36:54 PST ) And i've just applied for a mysterious 'data gathering experiment' at my university. Its £7.50 an hour and I REALLY need the cash lol.

Fireworks tomorrow- YAY. Though i'm still not sure what's going on. I suspect i'll just find a gap in a hedge or something and peek in if I can't actually get in.

I am really pleased with the feedback on my 'forgotten' pic. I might do some more stuff in that mode seeming as its popular.

Right, back to getting ready.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10524046/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10524046/ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:45:52 PDT I can't wait to go home next week. Wanna see pwetty fireworks, bang! I may go to London the on the same day as my flatmate and her boyfriend are coming down to London to go on the Tate Modern slides (whoooo) and go to the arcades (as you do). I really, really, really want to go but I have NO car and the tube is just so far away from my house. I know my parents won't take me. Ugh, hate not having my car. Plus, i'd be shattered come fireworks time. meep.

Pretty dull week all in all. Only another few days until the worst of it is over. Huzzah!

Take care all

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10452300/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10452300/ Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:56:39 PDT
I tried to scan in the picture that has been waiting for ages now to go up on Deviantart. I tried using my friend's super super scanner (That he got for free- evil git) but I didn't realise the paper wasn't entirely flat until I got home and checked it again. I also have begun another chalk pastel portrait but my evil flatmate (This one IS imaginary- sometimes) smudged it. This is the second time she has done this, I am very miffed.

I have two seminar presentations before I go home- scary. I hate presentations, they should be banned. One of them is on powerpoint and I don't even have powerpoint . There's still over a week to go, but good luck messages would be appreciated .
Right, back to doing something vaguely productive.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10376794/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10376794/ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:07:32 PDT
I am a bit bonkers today, probably because both of my flatmates have gone home for the weekend and my other friends are either working, or (in the case of one of them) have gone to Dorset to eat Pigs brains at River Cottage. Fun.

I am happy to say I am coming home for the weekend of Fireworks. It's probably not a good idea but I am missed... well by about 2 people. Whoooooo. Still its still a little while off.

I still haven't caught ghostmuncher yet, so I haven't had my picture scanned. Kind of reminds me of a bizzare eyetoy game where you have to tickle the ghosts in order to score points...
Anyway, have really got to get down to some proper university style work. So I should avoid art. It may be difficult.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10336020/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10336020/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:48:09 PDT

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10301954/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10301954/ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:08:21 PDT .

I'm not feeling very well today. It's a real pest because I have to get myself over to a flatwarming tonight. Ugh. I wonder if my sickness is psychological. I'm not big on crowded places, though a place crowded with friends is far preferable. I tend to bring my little tribe of people to protect me when I attend these things.

There have been lots of flash rainstorms up here lately. I got caught in one on Monday. It was kind of exciting walking through the really hard rain, if a little cold. Sadly however, I am the least sexiest wet person EVER. Somehow the back of my head never gets wet... weird.

I am going to finish my on going picture literally as soon as I finish this journal entry. I actually only have to perfect 3 fingers of the figure! For some odd reason i'm having problems with her hands. Then I shall have to bully my friend Andrew (ghostmuncher) to scan it in for me.
I have two possible 'commissions' in the early stages. One of them is a manga style picture for someone's living room. This is going to take a lot of prelim work because I have never ever done anything in that vein. I might do something inspired by all the japanese animations i've watched lately . I don't want to put limits on what I will and won't do in terms of art... not yet anyway hehe.
Anyways, best go gather my strength for the trip out tonight.
Take care.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10221616/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10221616/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:58:59 PDT Firstly I notticed I had had no correspondence from my Celtic Civilisation course, which is half my degree. Anyway, so I e-mailed the head of department and he said that the office had wiped my details so they had no idea I was doing a Celtic Civ joint degree OR a dissertation in it. Geeze... so anyway that was rectified.
Then! Both I and my flatmate Emily realised that we hadn't had our student loans. This is yet another way the Scots manifest their dislike for us interloping English students, stealing their education... Basically 4th year English students don't pay tutition fees (n.b. Scottish and EU students don't pay any tuition fees. Just a bursary at the end). However, because of this 'privilege' they make it really difficult to actually register. So we had to go into university and beg the staff to fully register us as full students. The man at the desk didn't even know how to spell Hertfordshire!!!!! Or maybe it was just my accent. Anyway, the upshot was that we wouldn't get our student loans unless we were fully registered. So now we have to wait another 4 or 5 days and I bet it still doesn't arrive. *sigh*

This week I have been mostly an unreliable sort of person. I'm not my archaeology coursemates favourite person.
We have had a few dvd nights where we've been catching up on some Japanese animation which was good fun. Though is there a person in the world who knows what's going on in Ghost in the shell 2 without watching it several times?

Last sunday I organised a 'boil' for 6 of my friends. A boil is kind of like a sunday roast except everything was boiled... Yeah so all very uninteresting right now.
I have more or less finished the big pencil scene I was doing. I'm just adding a bit more detail to the hands. Its adequate. I could improve it i'm sure but I really can't be bothered. It will do. I'm just pleased i've finally got my imagination going.
I had a very strange and vivid dream last night. I might draw something from it... watch this space.

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10149148/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10149148/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:03:58 PDT
On Monday I drove to Glasgow, picking up my flatmate and her boyfriend along the way (aren't I nice ?). It was quite a short drive this time around, and then we hit a rainstorm and a two hour traffic jam just 6 miles from home! Grrrr. Typical. The weather is quite nice now though we did have two days of rain, perfect for dancing in .

Some embaressing things occured, like I tried to direct some first years to a building called the Joseph Black only to send them to the wrong building. When I saw them later on I appologised profusely. They acknowledged my apology with a big pinch of salt. Then I proceeded to send them again to another building which ALSO wasn't the Joseph Black *Smacks forehead* . I have resolved never to help freshers again.

It has been quite hard to get into it this year. I can see now why English universities usually do 3 year arts subjects. It is very strange to think that I could have been finished two years ago. I'm already wishing the days away till christmas even though I haven't even enrolled in my courses yet.
I have also had to hand in a massive archaeology project. Yuck.

On Wednesday we went to see Dead Or Alive at the cinema . We were expecting it to be awful but it actually was one of the funniest things we've ever seen... as well as being awful. It was deliberately terrible frankly. A homage to the game that didn't try to be even slightly serious. "Get ready... fight!" is my new catchphrase.

Basically this week has been about catching up with friends and getting back into Scotland mode: ochayethenoo.exe.

On a more deviantart related note, I have been doing a large pencil sketch. Recently i've notticed that I don't really do anything from imagination anymore and that, that is a bit of a bad habit. So I started a new piece yesterday, its kind of a fantasy pic I guess. I'm really pleased with it so far. I hope it continues to go well. Hopefully it will go up here quite soon. It might be my last piece of work for a while for when Uni kicks in i'm going to have absolutely no time . Well, nothing will get in the way of procrastination, my slouching over the dinning room table with a cup of tea and a vacant expression will continue.

Right, now I will attempt to pay my car tax over the internet- woooo- the wonders of modern technology. ]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10076277/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10076277/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:48:37 PDT
At about 5am this morning I got woken up by a daddy long legs which was dancing around my head- ugh. Lalalallala....laaaaaa, sorry, just imagining some music for the daddy long legs to get down to . Evidently the stupid thing wanted to be set free from my bedroom and frankly I don't blame it.

On wednesday I got cast in a film would you believe! And I never even auditioned ... not to mention I haven't acted since I was about 11. Still, i'm willing to give it a go. I'll try being a thespian, see if it suits . The film is actually about an office worker who likes to dress up as Elvis. In case you were wondering, i'm not playing that character hehe. It's all pie in the sky right now though .

I'm back in Glasgow on Monday. It's great there. All the Scots think I sound like Keira Knightley... they obviously don't hear many homecounties accents. Still, for the first time I can remember I feel slightly reluctant to go back. Hmm, gonna miss my friends here .
Still, another reason to go back is that I have got very out of condition on the old Tekken and my flatmate has been practicing all summer. I can't give her the satisfaction of thrashing me .
As if to get myself back into the fighting spirit, I got down my sword yesterday. Yes... I have a sword, and yes... I had, had a few glasses of wine- it was my Dad's birthday.
The sword is a minature claymore broadsword, that's 110cm of sexy metal. It would be absolutely no good in a real battle situation though. Say if an army of anti-jam warriors were set upon me i'd be in trouble. Unless I planned to knock them all out with the weight of it. The sword is completely blunt.
Oh well...

]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10046125/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10046125/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 02:10:00 PDT
I got commissioned to do a portrait yesterday. I'm getting the equivalent of £30 for it which isn't bad for a pencil drawing essentially. I decided a free cut and colour from my hairdresser was more practical than money which will probably get frittered on weird bat shaped hangings for my flat or those packs of £1 frames from IKEA. You never know, this could be the start of a sideline business for me lol. Sod Museum work. I should remember to leave my sketches lying about randomly more often. Though I did in the process expose myself as someone without a life- i've been trying so hard to hide it!

I am a redhead again (kind of- I have bits of red in there somewhere). "I may not be red here *points to head* but i'm red here " or something like that...

I'm having crepes tonight! Woooo. I haven't been to the creperie since just before I started uni 4 years ago *eek*. I hope it's nice.

Now I shall depart... like a errr... cloud over the moon into the great unknown. ]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10005065/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/10005065/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 01:54:55 PDT There was the strangest moon last night. I would have said it was prophetic if I didn't know better . It was very large and at one point the colour of rust and gold, except it was half concealed from above by a shadow... very odd.
Yesterday my friend Louisa and I cycled all the way to this old pub in the middle of the forest called 'The Old Fox'. I took some lovely photos in the forest of my friend, but she's not happy for me to put them up here, so i'd better not. It's such a strange wood, lots of spindly trees all twisted up to a canopy of green leaves that makes you feel very enclosed for the great outdoors. Magical.
Today is a boring day. Not doing anything at the moment, it's so annoying. So i'm having to entertain myself/ procrastinate away from my uni work. Today I am working on a large oil painting for our living room that i'm painting onto a bit of chipboard I filched from a field in Dorset. Go me! I shall hopefully put it up here when i'm done.
I'm also making summerfruits jam, for which I will be picking blackberries this morning.
I like to think it's all part of my 'anti-cool' stance on life. And by that I don't mean being like those contentious people who deliberately avoid the fashionable and the established, but rather that I try to make things that aren't necessarily considered to be the 'in' things to do tempting. Who wants to be a follower when you could be a trend setter
And I tell you, people find jam making a lot cooler when they get to taste the stuff. There's nothing like homemade jam. Being anti-cool however is hard work, and quite dangerous round here so I wouldn't recomend it. It has already brought me to loggerheads with my brother.

And now, your subliminal message for the day:
"Forget the handcream, forget the handcream, forget the handcream!" ]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/9941490/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/9941490/ Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:22:49 PDT I'm really pleased about the positive feedback i've had from some of you in the last couple of days. Thank you so much.
I've recently been offering my services to my local museum and as part of that I had to do 'art appreciation' with groups of young primary children and pre-teens. I demonstrated how to use chalk pastels to create a quick seascape which was remarkably nerve wracking. Children are incredibly honest. Still it was strangely invigorating to be put on the spot like that and deliver results even under the pressure of 20 beady eyes hehe. I can't really imagine why my uncle doesn't enjoy teaching art (though that probably has something to do with the fact he's teaching secondary school children- no offence intended to all well behaved secondary school art students )
Anyway I was really proud as following my demonstration the children went on to create some really quite advanced work. It's so good to catch them this young before they become inhibited about their abilities with art. I think a lot of people who say they 'can't draw' probably had their potential quashed in early childhood. However, that's another story entirely.
Still i'm in two minds about the demonstration as the children obviously didn't demonstrate much desire to try other approaches and media when they had an example to follow. However, I don't think that having a little bit of direction is detrimental to their artistic growth.
Anyway, this isn't exactly the stuff of journal entries.
To go from the sublime (ha!) to the ridiculous, today I invented a non-alcoholic cocktail called 'Party in my pants' inspired by the events of last thursday when my friend got chatted up by a young man who invited us to a 'party in his pants'. We still laugh because we never expected anyone in real life to use such a weird chat up line. Apparently the party in his pants was to be held in Potters Bar... how random.
We decided that if that ever happened again we would not be able to restrain ourselves for trying to undo his belt while singing the Maceraena (is that how you spell it?). I imagine all these mini people down there blowing those shiney metalic plastic whistle rolls and setting off party poppers.
My friend and I went for a very long walk all around Bushey and on the way back stopped into tescos for two chocolate eclairs. I can't remember the last time I had one of those!
Right now I am listening to a track by Justine Electra called Fancy Robots. The fact it was free download of the week on i-tunes pretty much swayed that choice of purchase hehe. I'm always happy to experiment with music, especially when it's free! ]]> ~Quixotisma http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/9926651/ http://Quixotisma.deviantart.com/journal/9926651/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:51:45 PDT Today is the first day of september... whoo. I'd pinch and punch you but it's past 12pm *sigh*. I like to get my moment of violence over and done with for the month.
I have put up a couple of paintings that I have done in the last 5 years... the photographs are awful though! I really need to update that.
I really ought to say something about myself but you really don't need to know. Not even entirely sure who would want to read my journal frankly.
Better get down to walking the dog. ]]> ~Quixotisma