yh... it gets better :P

So... anyway... Last week was reading week, or better known to those of us who require time off... half term... technically this doesnt exist at uni... but it does if you hav a 6 nearly 7 yr old...  I meant to pop in from time to time,,, but as it happened... there was no time :(

So anyhow .. back to today... ,,, it started well as always :P,, first, due to the fact that the washing machine has died, and the heating has died... and we are washing and wringing out :( by hand.   Naturally i hav a uniform for work which has failed to dry... always a good start at 3.45 am.   then i did my toes in on a bookend. yes it was on the floor, naturally to prevent the large mouse from wrecking havock amidst the hours (there are very few of them) of  our sleep.  then what... oh yes i know... the joys of work :(... followed by the joys of rushing straight off to uni ( minus one large seed pod, not drawn during reading week) and then we trapsed around town... this is our drawing project... but dont get me wrong, because i am liking this one,,, it's real stuff you see... but my legs werent so keen... they had been standing since 5am (works start time)  so they , naturally weren't so amused :(

but now it is 22pm and i hav to get up again for work soon ... so i'm off ....

Sculpture and workshop choices.....

So... today we handed in paint workshop stuff.... you know... paints still not dried... research that isn't relevant :P  that kind of stuff.

And it's off to Sculpture.... (Finally a tutor tht can... well... tutor...!)  but that was our run of the good stuff because the workshop was freezing :(...
Oh well, can't have it all I guess :P
So anyways... we made sculptures out of plaster and straw..... Quite liked it myself, not sure that anyone else did though.  Well, they may have done, they just forgot to tell me they did that was all :P

Then heaps of research... I think there are about 12 artists to research :(... probably nore knowing my extreme good luck.

Only got a 2.2 for painting... I think she marked me down because I left the brown tape around the edge of the stretched paper :(   thought it was kind of effective myself.... well, that and I was running a bit late :P
:)

textiles workshop and more blobs.........

We had a workshop for textiles today... you know.. the optional kind.    Textiles is good... not very often my chosen path but, hells ... I do believe that I don"t have a chosen path right now :P

So anyways... what I really wanted was to learn some techniques that I didn't already know, but that kind of didn't happen... we just got a few suggestions what to do... but it's okay... I made a kind of patchwork applique thingy... thats probably not the technical term for it, but I think I did mention I was going to fail my course :(  

So.. it will look good in a textiles sketchbook.

Painting workshop sketchbooks need to be handed in tomorrow... that's my blobs of a few days back, for the uninformed.  So this evening was more blobs and a few splashes of colour :P  In the brief, it says black and white, but I have done those parts so I am thinking that the colour counts as taking it further and besides it's my response to my research, so i assume this is on an even keel :)

anyway... now I have given up, and shall hope for the best.... probably get the worst though :P

hmmmmm.... during the lecture....

well... today is kind of a tired day :p.  Went to work at 5am until 1pm, then uni for the lecture. I managed to stay awake during this, others didn't, but he speaks well even if i dont like the art he is talking about.  Anyways.  We have to do presentations in groups :P, we had fore-warning of this last week, so naturally i have been living in dread that i will be in a group with someone i really dislike, bordering on hatred, whn i think back to why i dislike this person.  Don't get me wrong because i normally like everyone, but this is exceptional circumstances and i reserve and defend my right to near-hatred.  but anyways, they reavealed the groups slowly and guess which names didnt emerge :P... thts when i realised just how much there was no way on this earth or in this universe (or any other universe) that i could work in the same group as she.  Luckily there is a happy ending to my tale as we missed each others groups very narrowly... Do you think they did that to make me sweat!??  

So, although i really don't want to do this presentation and truly suspect this is another aspect of my degree course which i can fail spectacularly,  nothing compares to the "okay I'm leaving this course now" feeling i had when i thought sods law was coming into practice and putting us in the same group.

So yay.... I have to do a group presentation with nice people :)

...a bit later...

So anyway, so far, we have learned to draw blobs and to admire other peoples blobs :(  I'm a little convinced that fine art isnt my forte.  I really cant see unmade beds and dead sheep as at all artistic :P. oh and last week we drew many cardboard boxes in perspective, and an unattractive skyline in negative space.  This is just me being negative.  I can see why they do it, and it does make you look at things in a different way (not the dead sheep - there is no different way to look at a dead sheep - I mean how did he make a sheep... oh i know... he didnt... it was already there).  But, I really don't want to draw blobs.  I want to draw people, or animals (live) or trees or something that lives ( not really any concrete...).

Im going to fail this course, aren't I!

I should re name this blog.... I think i shall add to it ... here goes....

I'm not entirely sure that I'm going to be soooo good at this :P

Well... it was a good idea at the time...

I'm not convinced that it was the best idea ever... at least it was... only it wasn't ...

Anyway, I appear to  be at uni, and floundering wildly with no clear idea of what the heck I should be doing.  Everyone else will be fine, but me??  I'm not so sure i will ever get the hang of this :P

But all that aside i have a dyslexia assessment arranged.  Not sure I have dyslexia, i may just have a good old fashioned case of stupidity.   it's getting a little annoying having to keep rewriting this and putting in caps etc... but i dont want you to think i don't put in caps... so this is going to take forevever :(... actually.. I give up... you have to put up with my bad punctuation.   I was always pretty convinced that i was really intelligent before this :P... uni is so ruining my good opinion of myself.  Hence the bad idea .

Anyway the whole idea of this was that un-findable on the internet is the uni Sketchbook examples of how a uni sketchbook should look :P  How about the poor fools like me, who need an example before they can begin being amazing... i havent a clue whats meant to go in this... but thats not really going to help is it... and besides  which my only offering is to post my own sketchbooks which are probably all totally not how they are meant to be... couldn't someone else have done this so i could copy them :P