http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:branwolf&section=today deviantART RSS for by:branwolf en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:01:43 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28867880/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28867880/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:05:55 PST and so all of the above some how lead to this, which quite frankey is one of the best things I have EVER seen...
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makes me proud to be welsh...sort of

gah! christmas is just around the corneras well, bah!....HUMBUG!

so bored!

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28354595/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/28354595/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:40:21 PST
We bought a new horse today...well hes a 15 month old colt called Bailey...and hes absolutly gorgeous.
Hes already well over 14hs with a huge head and the bigges knees I've ever seen...
He's a nice big cob type with a pinaloosa coat, with a increadably kind and calm nature...he's simply beautiful!
However my horse Candy is a little witch when it comes to other horses and kicked out at the little fella when I was leading him...he moved, I didn't move quick enough and she got me...so now the top of my leg is dead and by moring should have an ineresting coloured bruise. Something to look forward to.

art wise I'm slightly more productive than I have been in a good long while...I'm just too lazy to upload much. I'm also starting the "christmas art for all" type thing....so more stuff to eventualy get round to uplading.
I need my arse kicking into gear.


The festive coke advert has just been on TV....its christmas...apparently

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27323703/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27323703/ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:04:41 PDT
just a quick one, I've FINALY made a photography account been meaning to set one up for ages. so now all my photo work will be put up on that account.
I'll be uploading suff on there over the next week or so...so stay tuned.

what ells...saw Inglourious Basterds last week with my cousin and thought it was a pretty damn good, and suprisingly funny. Considering I was told by a friend it wasn't worth seeing. Also went to Warrick Castle, which I haven't been to in years....and forgot to take my camera!
ah well, another time prehaps.

Also my mum is currenly in Egypt and she's going to see the pyramids and tutankhamun's death mask tomorrow...yeah i'm increadably jelouse

anyway...off to nurse my wounds and eat the offending poptart



]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27193346/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/27193346/ Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:59:12 PDT
Though I took my mums horse Prince out on his own..which he didn't like and bolted and pranced at every oppertunity he got. Which means I now have pulled back muscles, ouch.

Ah well, off to shakespears country for a few days to see my cousins tomorrow! woo



]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26849514/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26849514/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:38:02 PDT Going to stay with my friends down south for the weekend.....and we'r going to see Walking With Dinosaurs Live!!!!!

CAN. NOT. WAIT!!!!!

and when I come back I WILL upload new stuff....Or I'll keep telling myself that anyway...

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26046559/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/26046559/ Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:39:35 PDT Well ok its my dads old car, but its about 11 years younger than the thing I was driving around in (renault 19...yeah I know I'd never heard of one untill I got it)
So good times...and its a metalic grass green...bonus!

I christend it today by hitting a pidgin...IN MID FLIGHT!
Don't get me wrong, I don't drive around the country side taking out wildlife (only the 2nd thing I've killed in 5 years) but this was spectacular, feathers EVERYWERE!...I felt REALLY bad...that is after laughing....quite a bit. :S

So that was fun.
Other news...the puppy is MASSIVE, and getting visably bigger by the day! I swear hes a bear in disguise.

And its my "anual joint Birhtday BBQ with my step-sister" next weekend....and we have a bouncy castle...GOOD TIMES!

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25539567/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25539567/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:50:34 PDT Granted still no job as of yet...but I shall combat that with some volunteer work...at least I'll be doing something.

Anyway, another reason I'm happy to be back home is that I gan go horse riding again! There really is't a batter way to spend your evenings than wlaking round the welsh moorse in the evening sun on a horse.

And to top that one off, We've just got an 8 week old Border Collie puppy, who we've called Dee-Jay....cute as hell but chews everything in his path, which includes our older collie Pan...who for the past week has been giving us pleading glares to take it away.

Well thats my life at the momet in a nutshell!

I have SO much artwork to upload its not even funny...so hopefully when I get a spare 5 minutes and I can sit down long enough without getting my toes chewed I'll begin the epic upload.

But for now I have a puppy to feed...


]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25043050/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/25043050/ Sun, 31 May 2009 00:51:04 PDT
So farewell England, I promise I'll come visit!

but for now....Cymru am Byth!

and when I get settled again, I might Finaly get around to uploading some new stuff...



]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24990934/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24990934/ Thu, 28 May 2009 03:24:52 PDT

I've become copleatly addicted to the live online webcams and have been watching it untill midnight last night and switched it on as soon as I got up thismorning, yelling at the Chaffinch chicks to fledge the nest....and I think one of them has just gone!!! (exitment)
Otter cam is also pretty addictive...though havent actualy seen an otter yet...just a rat, however theres still 3 weeks left of life consuming vewing, so I remain optermistic

Seriously...this is really taking over my life and its only been on 3 days :S

Right, I intend to attempt to tear myself away from my laptop and start packing my life away ready "fledge the nest" myself on sunday...or at least my current one. Why is it you always have more stuff than you think...you thought I would have learnt by now...this will be the third time I've moved in the last year...and it gets worse every time!

finaly if you to would like to have your life taken over by REAL reality TV (not sure it works outside the UK...but give it a go)

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]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24517187/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/24517187/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:22:57 PDT
and now I need sleep....

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23765546/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23765546/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:04:08 PDT
Don't get me wrong, i have a lot more direction than i did a couple of months ago, at least i know (I think) that I'm doing illustration, but theres always that dought at the back of my mind that realy dosn't want to comit to anything. i like to keep my options open because you neve know where life is going to take you.....and i LOVE that feeling$. Ending up somewhere new, I hate beeing tied down to one thing. Besides thre is SO much i want to do, so may goals I have that are otaly unrelated to each other, and I'm worried that if i say "right thats what I'm going to do with my life" then i will have to sacrifice so of them, and that scares me.
I have a degree in model making and special effects.....this i have learned (quite recently) is something I realy don't want to do...i really don't want to be a model maker...its just not for me. But i don't regret doing the coures...not one littel bit, i gained SO much from it, but its now become apparent that I'm much better at illustration than I am at that. Which is Ok, its been a valuble learnig curve and wouldn't change a bit of it.
I guess at least freelance illustration allows me to do other things, and keeps my options open a bit...not to mention its something i have so much passion for...so i guess I'll see how it goes for a while. The only set back with this "career" choice is that it may not be the biggest earner......though money never has been important to me, thats not to say i don't understand its value, I do, I just see it as an unfortunate necesaty and is not the be all and end all.

Also I'm begining to get realy bored with where I'm living...i never liked it when I was in uni...and I still don't like it! The only reason I'm still in hatfield is because all my friends are...or at least down south.
This dislike was fueld buy a walk in the "woods" by my house yesterday. I was walking rounds and there was nothing...absolutly nothing. no bird songs, no interesting plant life, no wildlife, not even a trace of wildlife...just the sound of the moterway. I walked for about half an houre and i didn't see or find anything...back home I'm used to findind skulls and bones, and seeing so much interesting wildlife going about there lives, or at least sighns of it...not nothing.
It was weird....and it made me feel so very very homesick. and I think if it want for my friend i think I would have been back in North Wales by now.

I also despratly want some more rats....this one may not be as difficult to sort out than the above...all I ahve to do is convince my housemates...and landlored that they are awesome.

hmmmmm.....

well that tured into something much deeper and longer than I expected...with the exeption of the rat bit.

Though putting it into words seems to make all those thought wizzing round in my head, slow down a bit and make alittle more sence...odd

but on a lighter note, I'm in a super productive mood latley and I'm getting alot of work done, and have loads of ideas to keep my creative juices folwing for a while

I think I need more tea....

also, well done to those who actualy read this

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23005286/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/23005286/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:32:09 PST
so as you may know the uk has an unusual amount of snow at the moment...and set to get more this weekend, so I'm making the most of it by following fox trackes and bulding snow werewolves. My life isn't the most exiting at the moment so I have to pass the time some how

also the lack of updates is due to having just moved into yet another new house (2nd move in the last 6 months, and something I really don't intend to repeat any time soon)so I'm only just getting back to some sort of mundane stability, though I do have plans in mind which I need to get started on, but more on that at a later date.

anyhoo this entry was mainly to express my exitment about the snow....yay!

Right, I should probably stop "borrowing" the neighbours internet, so...later x

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/22210261/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/22210261/ Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:27:17 PST
]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/18270599/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/18270599/ Sun, 11 May 2008 09:34:25 PDT
But I did it and finaly I'm free! well for a little bit...than I have to find a job :S

for now, however I shall sleep untill I go to Ireland to see Billy Connolly and Flogging Molly...WHOOT!!

Oh, and hopelfully I will find time to upload the backlog of art that been clogging up my room and hard drive for the past god know how long.

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/16411902/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/16411902/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:19:21 PST Sorry for the lack of updates latley, my life has been taken over by University work at the momnet and as I'm in my final year it shows no signs of letting up.

Oh well, happy belated new year, hope you have a good one.




]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/14980224/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/14980224/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:37:03 PDT Also this year I've moved into a flat with 3 other girls....which was a little scary, but aparently I was missled, because I absolutly LOVE it, we get along sooo well (despite 3 of us beeing on the same course and see each other every waking hour) and make cups of tea at every concevable moment
Also liking learning random words in different languages I now know how to say "Big Woolymamoth" in German, not quite grasped the Irish yet though, also enjoy attempting to teach them random words of Welsh. All in all much fun.

What ellse to report, hmm? not much apart from I'm going to see Bill Bailey in November which I'm soooo unbelievably exited about!

Ah yes I knew there was something ellse! That time of year is aupon us again!!!! HALLOWEEN!!!!! and we have big plans this year, my mum is beggingin to sent her yearly shippment of Halloween goodness my way and I've looked up some great recipes all in add of our halloween weekend (I love living with girls) all I need to do now is get making my costume.....so many ideas and so littel time.

anyway I have a presentation on thursday and I've not done much work on it...so I should do some work.



]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/13134909/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/13134909/ Tue, 29 May 2007 07:13:16 PDT
Finished my second year of University a couple of weeks ago....its going to fast and it scares me because it meens aonly one more year to go int he relative safty of education, and then I'm cast out to make my own way in the big wide world....

Anyhoo...enough of scaring myself.

Well now that I have nothing to do for the next few months I will have lots of time to do art, well I say that now...but I'm sure it will turn into me beeing very lazy and not really doing much...but whatever happens I fully intend to enjoy the summer...when it finaly arrives.
The only downside is having to pack my life up again and move out of this house back to North Wales for the summer, although that bit dosn't bother me, because i love my home....but I really really hate packing, and my overly enthusiastic mother who will probably be picking my up about 6am.
But I'm gonna miss this house and the blokes....next year moving into a house with 3 other girls next year...gonna be interesting

In other news...

OH MY GOD!!!!! PIRATES 3....was a hell of a lot better than I thought it would be....and soooo many Jacks! can't wait to see it again

also going to Download festivel next weekend...and CAN'T WAITE!!!!!! 3 days of the biggest bands in rock and metal, yeah baby!

right I thats it I think....must go as my as my window is beeign used as targit practice byt he boys who just bought some big scary water-guns

T.T.F.N.


also my 21st Birthday in july....I do't quite know how its happend...but I perswaded my mum to let my have a costume party and hire a big bouncy castle....soooo exited!!!
and making the costume will give me something to do!


EDIT: OMFG! my landlord has mowed over the pidgen skeleton I was keeping in the back garden to let it clean off....I've kept it there since christmas, and it was finaly nice and clean!....nooooooooooo!!!!

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/12128745/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/12128745/ Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:13:50 PST
Hooray its geting warmer adn the sun is shining (well more so than it has for the past few months)

hmmm...well not a great deal is going on at the moment with me...well i'm sure there is exept I've forgotten or its not important. All i can say about life in genral is that is good and the only real thing I have to worrie about at the moment is where my housemate will turn up in my room next...e.g. under the bed in my wardrobe e.c.t. ( i kid you not...it happens, and is greatly amussing if a little scary)

well iI've just finished doing a project for the Alber hall...very exiting to think that costumes I've helped make are gonna be on stage in the Royal Alber Hall! whoot! despite the fact they are made fromt eh foam of doom...that repels absoulutly EVERYTHING you try and stick to it....but we did did it eventualy!

and so its onto my next project. Making a Marionette to go along with the story of Beddgelert (a Welsh Folktale), ad intend to make Gelert himself, and the designs will be based on celtic drawings and knotwork....thats the plan anyway.
But I have absoulutly no idea what to make it from, because I want to use thick heavy fabric and give it an old middle ges feel aobut it. But I don't what it to be a soft puppet eather.
So any help on the matter would be very helpfull...also if anyone knows any good book or artist who deal with marionetts or puppets in genral it would be much appreciated.

Also I only have 5 weeks of term time left this year...its scary thought! becaue it then means I only have one more year of university left....and then i have to go out into the big wide scary world of work!
However it also means i have a hell of along summer...and i fully intend to make the most of it this year, lost of personal projects that I want to do, which I'm itching to get to work on. Also want to get into Taxidermy so i will have to hunt for somewhere/someone who is willing to teach me. easyer said than done.

Right enough of me......

bye for now!



]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/11149676/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/11149676/ Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:54:40 PST
Ok so been working my arse off for the last month or so on my uni work....but it all done, and i have a nice long relaxing 3 week break (2 now) to do absoulutly nothing! YAAAY!

Unfortunatly I don't have a good enough picture of my final finished model to upload it here yet....bu I will do in the new year!
Basicly the model is from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and is of Death. But as the Hogfather (Discworld's equivalant of Santa....only with pigs)
I was also re-reading th eHogfather and watching the progretion of Sky's adaptation of it
(which I really didn't think I would be able to see because I don't have sky, which inturn amde me sooooo sad....but one of my uni friends taped it and sent it to me a couple of days ago ). So I have practicly been living Discworld for the past 2 months!

So to get the the point of this post.....

HAPPY HOGSWATCH!!!!!!!

or Yule or Christmas....or whatever you celibrate this time of year...have a happy one!!!!



]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/10797610/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/10797610/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:21:01 PST
anyway.....I have been looking at my gallery and thinking I really should start some sort of continuity to my work, because lets face it at the moment everything is just so...damned...random!
so continuity would be good!

anyway on to matters less mundane......YULE/CHRISTMAS! = YAAAY!
I usualy hate this time of year with a passion (bah! humbug!) however this year for some reason I can't wait....strange world

I can't wait to get back home for a break. As much as I love Uni and my house, home would be nice...also the fact that my funds are slowly running out....espesahly with buying everyones xmas gifts. However, I did just get my dog a super-dooper cool funky new tag for his coller...which is gonna rock his none existant socks off!
(and buying stuff like this is probably the main reason my money is running out!)

So yeah home would be good...where I can become super lazy again! hooray!
also I'm missing my dog and horses.
oh well just over 3 weeks (and counting!) I will be back in the wet, muddy and cold hills of North Wales! great stuff!


ok, enough ranting.....

bye for now!

p.s. I learned a VERY important lesson the other day....beware Germans spouting water

]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/9617166/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/9617166/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:04:23 PDT
anyway...

on my summer break...soon be going back to uni (and can't wait!) second year of university already...only 2 years and I actulay have to join the "real" world and get a job, a proffesion (scary stuff)...anyway enough of scaring myself.

What else...hmm...yes art is slow...primeraly because I don't have anywhere to put my scanner when I'm at home, and the fact that I have been so DAMN lazy over the summer....taking the tern chilling out to a new extream....I have meant to do art....and its not as if I'm stuck for ideas...its just I havent had the enerjy or drive to do anything!

But as I thought its now comming back to bight me on the arse...I have an essay I need to hand in on 1st September and I havent started....nore have I done work for my portfolio...however the portfolio thing isn't really a requiremet....but it would help me in the long run....this is typical of me...I ALWAYS to this...you would have thought I would learn...but apparently not

I also had planed to make myself a new Autumn coat (pirate style )...and havent even thought about it yet!

I think I've just become accustomed to this way of working...because I always seem to get throught, and do everything I need to do in a rush...but one day I know I will slip up

anyway....from now on I really need to pull myself together and become less....a LOT less lazy......ha! for me its easyer said than done

anyway rant over

to you all! ]]> *branwolf http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/7290963/ http://branwolf.deviantart.com/journal/7290963/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:28:33 PST
I have a million ideas floating round in my head or on random peices of paper that I've probably lost, and I just don't have the time to do them all...oh well.
I think at the moment I will just be glad of the christmas break...wow first term of university over...its gone so fast!

anyway I wish everyone a happy yule/christmas and a fun new year! ]]> *branwolf