The first steps towards taking the art exams to get in the art school are done. The first week-end course is over and I'm very pleased I took it. Not so much for learning new things as what she taught us was pretty basic, but for finding out my mistakes. Mistakes like I love skipping the jaws on portraits and that I make eyes too big. She took the eyes almost three times smaller than I originally drew them! I'm still puzzled by this, they looked so natural to me! Now I walk around and stare people's faces mentally measuring them to see if they really are that small . And compare the jaw with nose. Also, I learned that I really really didn't like drawing the wire-head that was suppose to show us the proportions of the face - the thing is awful to look at and even harder to draw. How can something so primal be so hard to do? To my dismay she brought out few drawings from other classes, meaning IF I get in, I gotta face that thing once more. And probably more if I can't get the basics cut in.

Painting! Now THAT was something amazing! Found out few things:

1. You can really get lost while working. In a way, it's good (and that's what I so adore about it), but it's also bad as this way you forget to plan your work in the few hour limit (I think it was 3 hours) and thus end up not getting it done. That can be bad. But it still feels good if you stand behind the easel and forget anything else exists.

2. I like using the covering paints instead of watercolors. Acrylics or gouache are my thing, but I will not go on the exam with my watercolors. I mean, I may love the last, but I like using them light and on a big canvas with all the background, the still-life looks just ugly. I felt much better with gouaches and it looked more, too. I was disappointed though for how little time we had - the first time to sit there I felt at the end as if I just started and I as the paints didn't dry that fast, I didn't get to do a good picture and it still bothers me, no matter what paint we used.

3. I have hard time seeing colors in objects. I don't know, it felt like I have forgotten how to see colors in daily objects. That notion really saddens me as I have always adored searching that extra tip of rainbow in some bottle or tea cup. And now, it just wasn't there! Like staring something dull. I have never been so close to crying than I was there, sitting next to fellow artists and not being able to see the colors, when suddenly, about half an hour before the end I saw it! A dash of red in the green bottle! And then it was too late to fix anything. Like having your second site back and now the objects are colorful again.

4. Let's draw a cup! FAINT! It is so primal I should get it right anywhere at any time and I didn't! Out of 3 hours I spent almost fifteen minutes drawing that one cup. Oh, and I managed to make such a groovy mistake as drawing the blue vase' perspectives wrong. Usually I check six times if I get the perspective right and I spent four nights constantly studying the more complex ways of drawing it and there I sat and drew the simple 1-point perspective wrong! I still think I wasn't fully there, like, my brains had taken vacation or something as when the teacher showed me my mistake I felt so shocked it was hard not to burst laughing.

5. Let's not forget you have quite a collection of paints, shall we? When I was doing my watercolor piece, I totally forgot I had such a cute thing on my palette as VIOLET. Totally gone from the head. Well, the teacher talked about how with the cold light coming from outside the shadows on the still-life ought to be warm and I felt utterly heartbroken for not getting it right (I didn't get it right even afterwords, but let's not go there right now), when I suddenly heard her mentioning violet to a fellow student. It was one of the first things my still-life teacher had taught me in my only half-year at the children art school and now, years later, I was still missing it! Bang the heads and be jolly!

6. I suddenly didn't know how to paint shadows and drapery! I loved fabrics when I was younger and now, in front of the teacher, I suddenly didn't get it right! God, that was truly embarrassing. I'm taking up some random fabrics this week and just paint them.


How can I make such newbie mistakes after spending so much time sketching and drawing and learning about it? I'd be crying right now if it wasn't so funny ! And exiting - I can't wait to go back in the class and find out what else I've been doing wrong.

Also, I seriously took up painting at home and sis brought me the missing paints, so ...

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Teddy Bear project.

It was Women's Day here in Estonia yesterday. It was adorable to see how much men care for their women and I felt truly happy staring at the yellow tulips on the table.

There is also Men's Day, not so known yet, but I think it's a fabulous idea, because let's be honest - we, women, like to be treated special, but we also love treating our beloved men special.

So, this feature will be all about those wonderful women and men, who have found each other and bring together their souls and to all those who are still searching - they are out there!

Also, as this is my last week with subscription, this will also be the last in the Featuring 99/33 series. I enjoyed bringing the wonderful art to you, it also gave me a good reason to learn more about my fellow artists and that is a gift beyond words.

So, here are the last, but not least wonderful captures of unity, of men and women worth celebrating.













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My photography gallery
Teddy Bear project.

Came here over long time and saw a number 999 in my new art section. After slight shock, I figured to redeem my "little" absence I do all the selecting for this journal from there. Wow - you really have been busy people .

Well, I haven't. In art sense that is - otherwise it's been one thorough beat up 7 days a week, 30 days a month. Still, as there is an end near by and I'm taking part an art course in March, I might get my head back to art again soon.






























If you are interested, what I've been up to in real world, here's my original journals ->
My general day events
My writings
My dream journal
My art related journal - all promises and tasks are there.
My photography gallery
Teddy Bear project.