Arting It Up

Hello! Yes I am still here, and yes I am still making art! I tell you, this school year is absolutely insane. I cannot remember a time where I have been so outrageously busy as I have been the past four weeks. But I digress - My sister just highlighted me in her blog today (click here!), and I figured this is the perfect time to update all my social media! May as well, so people know I'm still active. I guess.. I'm very bad at this social media thing. But at any rate, here we are! On my right, we have Barbie Antoinette for my Art History project. I am recreating a dress from Marie Antoinette's time made from tissue paper. She's a work in progress, but I'm having fun.

Below we have my finished Season Series from Ceramics. All glazed and fired and looking pretty fabulous, if I do say so myself.

 We have Spring on the left and Autumn on the right.

 And Winter on the left and Summer on the right.

 I had a particularly good day in drawing today, knocking off two impressive (for me) 15-minute drawings of one of our models, and two equally as impressive 1-hr long drawings of one of our other models, both done in chalk pastel (below).

 A couple self portraits. The one on the left was done a couple weeks ago, the left page being a line drawing and the right being tonal. The image on the right is an unfinished composition of three self portraits, but the top left face is complete and I am very happy with it.

Last but never least we have painting. The one on the left was for our Halloween project called "Dance with Death", and I decided to do death of religion and get all symbolic. Which I did and it was great, but I would have liked to maybe do another one that was actually scary and more Halloweeny. Oh well. On the right I have a splatter painting that I did today that I think is rather neat and I would like to make more of them. And so I am. Because they're fun. I'm also experimenting with colour and colour mixing. There are colours that can mix with other colours, and there are colours that should never touch each other. I am experimenting with those pallettes and I am excited to see what sorts of colours I can come up with.

In the meantime I am staying busy with the Visual Art Society. We just had our first art sale and we are planning for our Christmas sale taking place in a couple of weeks here. Ain't no rest for the wicked, that's for sure!

Until next time, peace and love my pretties :)

All Packed Up and Nowhere to Go

So I'm all packed up to move. I just have to wait until the week is done to move all my stuff. I'm actually really excited- the place I'm moving in to has a huge closet and is a very quick walk to the college- I almost wish the week would hurry up and be over just so I can move. But I know I'm going to wish the week would have been longer, once it's over. So I guess I'll enjoy it while it's here. The future will happen whether I want it to or not, at the same speed no matter how much I will it to go faster. Life only becomes wasted if you spend your whole time wishing and not actually living.
Something interesting and exciting that I have found is that I have significantly less stuff than I did a year and a half ago. If you look at the previous post of mine about moving, I put up some pictures of all the stuff I had when I first moved to Rosebud, then again when I moved to Red Deer. Now it's a much more manageable size.

This will be the fifth time I have moved in the last year and a half. That's a little bit of a ridiculous notion to me. I remember having conversations with people in the past, them saying that they moved every six months, or haven't been in a city for longer than a year, and I was flabbergasted. Now I realize that it's actually not that big of a deal than I initially thought. Having had to pack everything up five times first of all cuts down on how much stuff I actually choose to live with. Everytime my parents came up to visit me I would send them home with boxes and bags of stuff that I decided I didn't need to have with me. It makes it too difficult to pack, and just wasn't needed. I have five tubs, a couple bags, and a suitcase of stuff. That is probably about half of what I had when I first left home, and I know that it's just going to get smaller. I don't think that this place I'm moving in to is going to be my home for years, or maybe even six months, but I am hoping for the best. But I'm not expecting it, so I want to be able to pack up and move fairly easy, if not easier than this time, so stuff is always going to be sent back home. Which is, strangely enough, an exciting notion to me.

Something I love about these two pictures of my stuff all packed up is that even though you can't really see any of my things, it's still so colourful! With the tubs and the bags and the hangers and the garbage can and stuff, there's still so much colour. It makes me happy. I can't wait to unpack. I'm such an organizing nerd.