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Painting Project

Hello everyone! I know I haven’t posted in a while, but again, my very valid excuse is that I have been very busy – despite being in quarantine! Also, I have a few drafts of posts that I was supposed to submit ages ago, but I wasn’t happy with them, so once I have finished editing, there will be a truckload of new content.

Anyway, on the note of something interesting, every year my school has a competition known as MADD (Music, Art, Dance, Drama) day which can earn points for your house with every submission. So since I’m really bad at filming stuff, I decided to not do a dance or music piece (it would end up really bad quality) and instead do an art piece, since I’m really enjoying that sort of stuff at the moment, with all this time on my hands.

It took a while to decide what I was going to draw, since my main strength is eyes, and if I just submitted a single eye, that would be a really boring piece – unless it was, you know, extremely frikin’ good. In the end, I went with a lion, since I had never drawn one before, and I thought hey, that looks like fun.

But instead of fun I was faced with proportional difficulties, shading dilemmas and the whole kit and kaboodle! I got through it in the end, despite it taking my entire weekend – I was not very smart with my time management, and I started a day before it was due! Anyway, I thought since it took up so much of my time, I would share it with you since I seem to be showing it proudly to all my friends and family! 😬😂🤗

Strena 2020 – “On earth as it is in Heaven.”

Anyway, that’s all for today. I hope you enjoy reading about my struggles of producing a single piece of mediocre art, and remember that if you wish to leave a comment, make sure it is either positive or critical in a respectful way. On another note, if you don’t know how to leave a comment, there is a page labelled “Navigation”, and that will lead you through it.

Until next time, stay safe, stay healthy and stay awesome! 😎

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Mosaics

Hello again very patient readers! As you saw in my previous post, I have been really enjoying doing artistic and creative stuff, and I have completed another mosaic using the same beads as the one in my Ancient Rome project one. As this is a very versatile blog, I thought I would share it with you…

This time it was a lot easier to complete, as I wasn’t really trying to recreate a preexisting picture, I was kind of just winging it, and so I didn’t have to be careful of how many beads I used of a certain color, or if I would have enough room for the intricate picture.

I was really proud of this particular mosaic, because I feel that even though it has a childish and playful vibe to it, it is still more authentic and exquisite than the other one, and if I had enough room in my tiny house, I would potentially hand it up and show it off to friends when they visit!

Thank you for reading this short post! Please leave a comment if you are enjoying these art posts, as I really enjoy making them. Also, remember I am trying my hardest, so please don’t leave any hateful comments…

Until next time, bye 👋🏻.

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A New Passion

As we all know, throughout lockdown, we have developed our relationships with those we were stuck with (JK) and ourselves, seeing new passions and aspects of ones personality that help us fill out the days without dying of boredom. For me personally, I found that during my many long hours of free time, I was able to kill the clock with my artistic passion.

Even though I am not the best at art, and if I decided to take it on as a career, I would probably die on the streets with not a penny to my name, I still find it exceedingly relaxing, and so today I want to share with you a few sketches and mosaics that I have worked on throughout quarantine.

As you can see, this is already in a post format since I am a part of a drawing art group on Facebook, and so I tried my hardest to make it impressive. Even though the nostrils look like they are flared in anger, and even though the eyes are WAY out of proportion (well, in the picture on the left at least) I am still proud of these two drawings, and they were lots of fun (and sometimes frustration) to complete.

So as you can see, I drew many eyes there, and you can probably infer that I was trying to perfect them before I began any big portraits. I was actually amazed at my ability, but then I had to go and ruin my big, proud moment by searching up videos of people drawing stuff twice as good as me, and of course there are people half my age absolutely smashing it. But even though they are not perfect, they were pretty perfect to me considering the way I used to draw eyes… I won’t show them since it will scar you for life!

Okay, so please, pretty please, don’t judge my mosaic cat, who is named “Sister Penelope”. I only had to make this because it was for a school project, but in the end it was pretty fun. You’re probably wondering to yourself, what in the world was this school project, and you would not be crazy in thinking that, since it legit just looks like some five year old went to town with some beads and some glue.

Well, let me explain. The school project was on Ancient Rome, and it was for humanities, and the objective of the game was to create a pitch giving some insight on Ancient Rome and Pompeii in general and identify a key primary source that fell into one of the following categories:

  • War
  • Conquest
  • Mythology
  • Religion
  • Art
  • Food
  • Agriculture
  • A few others that I have no doubt forgotten!

My group chose art, since that spoke to us collectively the most. As a part of the pitch, we were required to create a persuasive argument explaining why a specific piece of art should be displayed in Pompeii and how can it encourage further questioning of any tourists or visitors in Pompeii so that we as a global community have a deeper understanding of what life was like in Ancient Rome.

Choosing art, my group had a lot of choices as to which piece we would re create, and so we decided on a mosaic that most people generally haven’t heard of which was called “The Roman Cat”, and it was a part of a larger mosaic that depicted birds drinking from a bird bath.

As you can see from the recreation further up, we weren’t 100% accurate, but I felt we did the best we could with what we had, and if we had to do it again, I wouldn’t have changed it, except I might have bought more white and orange beads, seeing as we ran out of them, and they were kind of vital for completion, but you know – we made do!

Thank you for reading this blog post, and please leave a comment if you would like to see more of my artwork in future posts. It seems that I am finally back on track with actually posting regularly, so let’s hope that we keep that momentum up! Just a reminder that I am trying my best to put out quality posts filled with inspiring and fun content, so please don’t leave any hateful or negative comments, although feedback is welcome.

Thanks for reading! 😎