14 years old, almost 10 years ago (!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
SUCCESS!
Drawing was so FANTASTIC! I had anxiety going in but once the class started and the teacher begun lecturing it was just great, it reminded me of all the reasons for which I loved school at one point in time, and the eagerness to learn. I don't really know what happened to me in University that I begun to hate it with passion but something was clearly not working out. My teacher is painter (http://www.chrisflodberg.com/), I was supposed to be taught by another great painter who's paintings hang in my borther's house in virtually every room: Richard Halliday (aka the doodler- http://www.richardhalliday.com/), he couldn't teach this semester for health reasons so we got Chris. I was even more pleased with the class after he made us do a silly excercise of drawing ur hands without looking at what we were drawing (blind contour he called it-pictured above), and trully I thought somehting hideous was going to result, however, as I soon found out it actually turned out more like art then anything, after looking at the other students' work I got a new burst of confidence at what I can do, maybe I'm not so bad after all. Of course these excercises followed with drawing still life (backpacks lying on the ground) which I didn't enjoy one bit, and they were on top of that quite boring objects so it was not very inspiring, I guess I'm going to have to get used to having to work on some things that I like and some that I don't. Who knows, if all goes well I may just continue taking classes for a while. Try to build a portfolio maybe, the future is such a mystery :D For right now I am happy.
PENCIL, PAD and ERASER
Tonight is my first drawing class. Im nervous. I am so intimidated by art students and even though it is a night class I will be attending I will still feel uneasy about being there. I'm curious to see if it's all old people taking my class or if there will be someone I can relate to. Exaclty 48 minutes before I leave to go to my class. The train will be crowded-I hate public transportation. Trying to finish up an assignment for another class I'm taking(TAX-soo much less exciting, i can not get into it)
Weekend could not come slower
Today is finally Friday! I felt all week like it's been dragging on, work has been hard and boring this week, i have everything to learn and the pace at which I am comprehending anything is frustrating the hell out of me. I've been super irritated at a lot of people this week and i am really looking forward to some quiet. My friend Caleigh, her siser Julia and I will go to Banff on Saturday (maybe- i am still to recieve a call from her) then we are planning to go see "A Single Man", Tom Fords movie. I am so excited, I dont think he could do any wrong. I am already predicting the movie to be fabulous. Now I'll be off and hopefully I can find somethign beautiful to wear and brighten up my mood. Have a good weekend anybody who reads this shitty blog... I will get better i sware, i feel like i need practice...
