Haii guys.. It's been a long time since I've been active and I don't have much of an excuse for it.. well other than that I've been working more on my school art (which is annoying me right now because it's all locked up in school and I can't post any of the half decent s*** here when I have the time.

I'm also gonna have a major clearout of work.. or at least move a lot of stuff to the "scraps" section.

Not really something I want to do but looking at my profile last night I realised how outdated it was.. it still said I was 14.. and since then two years have passed. I started with DA when I was 13 and I'm pretty sure my works changed a hell of a lot. Now I'm seeing these excuses for work clogging up my page and wishing I could up my standard.

Music-
Cocaine and Toupees- Mindless Self Indulgence
Night After Night- The Sounds
L7- I like F******

I bought canvas today!! Infact I bought 4 sheets of it (What can I say... it was buy one get one free in Au Naturalle! )

Basically, I've started work on my first ever tonal acrylic painting, (I have never used acrylic paints for tonal purposes: I used it once for a multicoloured eye though XD)

My painting is of 'self portrait of an '80's superstar' but I haven't finished hence I won't post it yet.

so I'll cya! xx

Art video club was on today at school and can I just say that it was absolutely great! Today's video was on one of my current favourite artists: Gillian Wearing. Because I am studying her work and using her work in relation to my project I naturally found it very interesting.

I was expecting 'Dancing in Peckham' to be less energetic and extroverted.

I have found so many connections between not only my work and that of Gillian Wearing but also of her personality. She claimed to be quite quiet and shy which is true of me when I am not in a mood to cause a scene (I swing from introvert to extrovert very quickly).

I also had decided that after a lot of work, study and even my own go at her 'signs which say what you want them to and not what someone else wants them to' project that I would move on to cover inner emotions and how there is often *a lot hidden deeper* (GW's 'I'm desperate' in 'signs...' portrays a smart looking businessman holding a sign reading 'I'm desperate' and I find this very effective.)

Gillian said in the video how she was very concerned with emotions and believes that the skin is like a mask which we wear to hide the bagage we carry around through all our lives: the skeleton.

I find this image good in explaining my own ideas with how I want to take my project further and what I want to explore with it.

So far I have drawn things close to me such as my guitars, ipod and idols (might post some of this if I can be bothered)

I have also went on to draw the 'self-portrait of an '80's superstar' my own self portrait of me dressed in ''80's wear' to show different sides of myself (my love for the '80's).

Recommended Gillian Wearing Pieces
Dancing in Peckham
Self Portrait
All of the 'signs...' project

Basically today I was pretty disorganised in art. Everything that I was meant to do in school had been done at home over the weekend (I had a good, productive weekend).

So after a long period of faffing about I finally got to work on an anime piece to pass the time. It's a double page spread in my sketch book of a band. (so essentially it's on an A2 page.)

I was so happy with how well my 'passing the time went' that I spent the whole day working on it inlcuding my maths classes, lunch and any spare minutes I got.

After school I had to go to the dentist so I was hanging about in the bus station for ages. *important bit* It had been raining (very heavily too). I was working in washable ink. You can probably put two and two together now but basically it is a black mess now and my work is ruined *cries* *cries a lot* *just breaks down in tears* I am sad now. I put so much effort into that. I'm trying to think of a moral for this story. Possibly it is: do not do artwork in a bus station after it has been raining... but who knows