To course or not to course

Yes – I’m thinking about doing another course, this time a photography one – street photography. It starts in March, and it goes for 5 weeks (one session a week, on Saturday).

I haven’t been doing much in the way of creative stuff lately. I’ve been practicing my crocheting (Miss Nyx taught me how to when I was in Perth late last year), and sealing balsa wood to use for projects. I’ve been reading a lot and trying to sort out my work schedule. I now have Fridays off, so hopefully art/craft stuff will pick up again!

I took some photos at St Albans a couple of weeks ago, some turned out quite well. Nowadays I’m mostly using the D80 plus a lovely lens I got for Christmas – a Sigma 50mm f2.8 macro/portrait lens.

Then a few days ago I went on another photo rampage, in Balmain this time (an inner west Sydney suburb) – photos coming soon!

Painting – Week 2

Tonight we played around with watercolour. Not my favourite medium, although you can get some really cool effects with it. You can sponge it, bleed it, and even use sandpaper on the finished product, if your paper is sturdy enough. We had to paint a still life scene – thankfully, no fruit or wine bottles:

Here is my watercolour WIP (I am apparently really slow! other people in the class got to do a couple in the time it took me to do this):

I don’t like the top mask. I love masks, but that top one was just too garish and detailed for a watercolour painting. It would probably work better as a detail in an oil painting.

Details:

I added a bit more detail at home:

Details:

I’m really pleased with the feathered mask and the bowling pins. But there’s too much wasted space on my paper, and I don’t think a background would work all that well. I’m going to keep experimenting with watercolour, perhaps I’ll try something a bit more abstract – an abstract cityscape comes to mind. But I really like how well it expresses light/shadow, and I like layering/bleeding it.

Also, because this post is not picture-heavy enough, here are some pics of the College:

Hogwarts gets a Catholic makeover, much?

The photos turned out surprisingly well, considering the camera (my little compact Ixus) and the time of day (night).

Blah

Lately I’ve been feeling really tired and drained and having a bit of a crisis regarding what I want to be doing vs what I am doing. Haven’t been doing much lately due to feeling drained and kind of down, and due to lack of time. Here are some photos:

More here.

The End.