Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Painting progress

I finally finished my expressive colour painting and I am pretty happy with it. I only had to finish painting the cow and the person so it didn't take that long. 
However, even though I have finished this one, I still have another painting for this project to do. Even though I still have to finish a painting that was due last month and I will be getting a new painting I have to do tomorrow. After spending an hour or working on it, it looks like this.
I don't like how it looks so far but I hope that my teacher tomorrow can give me some good direction.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Painting progress

I finally finished my 100 colours last week. It was a long and painstaking process and I am not entirely happy with it but I was sick of looking at it and not knowing what to do with it and I was happy enough with it to submit it. I only hope that I get some good marks for it.
On that same day, I also started a new project in art. My painting is an expressive painting where I take a painting from one of the 'old masters' and create a modern spin on it. I am quite happy with it's progress after only one session.
As always, I would love to get some feedback from you. And I promise to update again soon.  

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Painting progress

Since I got a lot of views for my post about my dog Gucci and our couch cuddles, I will make a mental note to post some more pictures of him. But for now I would like to share with you my progress with my art project for Uni. It is an abstract painting with tessolating shapes (repeate overlapping). I am looking forward to it being completed.
This first photo was from my 4 hour painting day and I got pretty far. I had painted on it a little before that but I hadn't made too much progress. 

This is from today and I got quite a bit done. I only have a bit more to do and then I can submit it. Thank god my Uni let's art students go to the gallery on the weekends. Most University's wouldn't be this accommodating

Also, if anyone wants to comment on any of my posts, I would happily message them back. I love getting comments

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

I just had a lovely phone call with my mum but joining in was the birds. Apparently, Jerry our cockatoo was talking to my caller ID, but I only heard him once. It was adorable! 
But the only down side was hearing our other bird Kramer screech loudly over the phone. I think I might be deaf from that.

Couch cuddles

There's something so satisfying about getting all my work done for the day and being able to just sit and relax and watch mind numbing TV. And what makes it even better is curling up with a blanked and my beautiful couch companion Gucci. He always makes me feel better and keeps my lap warm while he sleeps in it.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Guitar accomplishment

Normally I am not big on sharing me singing or playing guitar with the world because I feel that I am not good enough, but I feel this this is a significant feat for me because , 1) I have written my own song and 2) I can sing and play it at the same time. Something I haven't been able to do so well before.
So here me playing two songs, the first one is one I wrote and the second is an Iconic Australian song, and yes, they both have the same chords.


Sunday, September 1, 2013

Just a little something to make you smile

So after seeing Mortal Instruments last night with my mum, I decided to surprise her today with buying the first three books for her and I and I picked her a flower and placed it in a jar of water for her when she gets home. Over the past few months mum hasn't been unwell and in and out of hospital with having a double hernia repair, a repair of it because it was not done properly, a hysterectomy, and now she is having problems with her belly again. The first time she had been in hospital, the doctors hadn't been able to figure out what was wrong with her, sent her home even though she was in a lot of pain. She then she saw a series of specialists, they still couldn't figure it out.
Recently she had to drive herself up to hospital because she was in so much pain she was screaming. Dad had to talk to the doctors to make sure that they figured it out and didn't stuff around like the other doctors and they were able to come up with her ovary being wrapped with endemetriosis, a diagnosis that her OBGYN brushed off as a hormonal normal thing.
I felt that it would be really nice to do something for her to make her feel better and give her a little bit more joy to distract her from her pain because she is not only my mum but my best friend too.

What is actually among us?

I just finished seeing Mortal Instruments with my mum, movie which we both have been hanging out to see, and loved it. There was something about the mentioning of Angels, demons, monsters and witch craft that makes a person wonder whether these things actually exist in our world today but we are just blind to it. And maybe one day we will wake up and see the world for what it truly is.