Hi, I'm back

I have abandoned my blog. My good friend Ian said he needed something to read and he likes my blog, and he said i could just start with "hi, i'm back". So hi, I'm back.

havnt blogged for freakin ages, just sort of forgot about it and gots caught up in other things. i worry a very lot, and since i was gonna blog about a few things and then didnt, i just didnt know where to start and so avoided the issue, sorry for any empty promises..

 

Quick recap, just to get up to date with myself and make sense of life.......whats been going down? last proj was memento and wish you were here....i did keep a travel journal and do some drawlings in spain....and i ended up making little mini wearable pianos out of origami ing fabric. It was a crafty project and i tried lots of new things like making felt from sheep hair and banging bits of metal together, and kuttle fishing, and there was shiny things.

Ummm we been on a couple trips... We went to London on the coach to the National Portrait Gallery. Some of my friends disappeared to china town and came back with fortune cookies, but i just had a gander round the gallery and liked it a lot. School trips are always a laugh.

Oh i had my birthday, that was the best....22 now.

 This year on my birthday was really happy because i realised how far  have come in a year. I was at uni which is my fav place, even though I had my assesment that day (did really well,) and i spent it with my friends from my class, we looked fancy in our dresses and we had a boogy and drinks  though i was very sensible and have learnt to drink in moderation.. But everyone else has jus turned 18 and got wasted, and that was a hoot.

Its a big comparison to my 21st, spent at The Funny Farm and then Therapy group. But that was still the best birthday in a while, since i was feeling much better and we had cake.

Umm so that brings us up to now. The unit is portrait and narrative image making. This is my most favourite exciting project yet, because i loves making stories and doing drawlings and stuff. I am doing a self-portrait, which i worried was maybe too revealing or self-absorbed or something but i ignored those silly thoughts and doing it anyway, because there is only one of me and i am the person that i know best. So i have been drawing what my brains might have looked like over the last few years, to tell the story of a journey through craziness to wellness. Ive been doing these continuous line drawings with the idea that the line tells a story when you follow it, and i draw all the emotions and stuff. I am having fun with it but dont feel yet have created anything that could really explain what i want to say properly. Ive also been playing with distorting the face to show distorted thinking and changing, using photo editings and sketching.

Everyone in my class is doing really interesting work... Making moulds of teeth and masks and crazy dolls and male/female transitions and aging faces and cool things with fashion or photos or clay. Oooooh so many possibilities.... Always look at other peoples and think they have such cool ideas and maybe i am just doodling too much? Its cool being around all arty people because you bounce ideas off each other. 

Also we have been doing life drawing again with the beautiful lady and her glorious bosoms, and we gots to do painting in oils on little canvases, like what proper artists do, at our easles with our squinty eyes.

Today i had an egg sandwhich and the egg got in my hair.