I realised I haven't blogged in a very long time! Like, a very long time, but guess what? My laptop has broken again; wooo! And Dan uses his for work and then in the evening we want to spend time together, so I don't get too much access to his laptop. But I've stolen it for a few minutes while he's reading!

I would like to share with you all, the climax of my Foundation year. On the 10th June, we had our final show exhibition, where we have our own display space to display your final outcomes a long with any other bits of work that are appropriate.

My final major project was on Natural Phenomenon, you can read through all my processes and stuff; including my statement of intent, reflective journal, contextual influences essay and evaluation....here! If you're interested you're very welcome to read it, if not I won't be offended...probably!

For my final outcome I created two dresses both inspired by the Northern Lights, and although they look very similar, there is a slight difference in the colours, one has green and yellow highlights to represent the more common Aurora Borealis, and the other green and purple, which is less common. I also did a photoshoot of the two dresses on a couple of my friends, Lauren and Rokiah ended up being quite a few peoples models. I decided to add light trails to the back of my final photograph to make it more visually interesting and because I had experimented with light trail photographs earlier in my project and some were so beautiful, I didn't want to waste them, I'm so proud of my final photo that it will be going up in mine and Dan's house at some point! I also included some of the samples I had some throughout my project in my exhibition space, because my tutors felt they were two strong not to include them.

I had a lovely evening at the private view of the exhibition, getting all dressed up, and Dan coming with me, we also met, my Dad, Mum and Kerry there, and we walked around the exhibition, drank wine and had a great time, and there was an after party afterwards; woo!

A couple of days after that I got my mark, which was all very quick, as I thought I'd have to wait a couple of weeks, but it turns out I got a MERIT; YAY!

In fact, it's taken me so long to write about all of this, that yesterday my place at university was confirmed! I am officially going to UNIVERSITY; aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

So now that I officially have a place, finding somewhere to live is slightly more crucial! But it's going to be amazing!

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if you could all lend me a hand?

As part of my current art research, for my 'Big Brother' project, I need people's opinions on art, yesterday, I posted a status on facebook asking 'What is Art?' People on facebook were amazing, I got about 34 responses, which is quite a few. But now I need to ask another question, a question that sparks a much bigger debate, where there is no right answer, but lots of strong opinions. And I shan't express mine or I'll end up ranting.

So here's the question:

I need as many responses as possible for my project, primary research is very impressive.

Please don't feel the pressure of social desirability bias, everyone is entitled to their own opinions and I desperately need honest opinions, any examples of artists you can give either would be amazing!

So please please please, comment away!

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

Random I know, but I love my sad little spoon, and I shall tell you the story of my sad spoon.

Well yesterday I was slightly starving because I hadn't brought any lunch to college, because I am a genius, so I made my friends walk to Asda with me, through the snow and all that jazz, so that I could get something to eat.

I got a lovely and yummy, unhealthy pasta pot, but when I found my friends again they were wandering around the yoghurt aisle, so I hmmed and went to see what horrible yoghurts they were looking at (I don't like yoghurts, or dairy products in general; yuck!), so 2 of them bought the big pots of Onken yoghurts. So we went back to college and sat by the classroom door to eat our food, my friends finished their massive pots of Onken yoghurt, greedy things!

Anyway, we are now at today, and I forgot my left over pizza, silly me, so I thought what the f***, I'll kind of start my diet a few days early, so we had another trip to Asda and I bought myself a pot of fat free vanilla Onken Yoghurt and a clementine (yummy fruit).

So we're sat in the canteen eating our food and I only eat half of the yoghurt, otherwise I would have had 60% of my daily intake of sugar, just from a yoghurt! And because I'm orally fixated (according to Freud, but that can be another blog post...) I start sucking/nibbling my spoon, and I don't realise I've cracked it a little, because I was kind of looking at this guy, who must have thought I was rather weird because I constantly had this little plastic spoon in my mouth, but to be fair he had his spoon in his mouth, so ha.

But then my poor little spoon properly cracks, and I'm all sad, and my spoon is all sad, so I drew a sad face on it, and from that moment on he was my sad little spoon and my art mascot.

So now he just sits on my table in art, being cute and sad. And although he is sad it makes me happy to look at him, because he is my little sad spoon.

Thank you for reading my random story, have a great week.

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little. ♥

So my newest project at college is based on the book 1984 by George Orwell, which I still haven't finished reading but shh!

For those of you haven't read it, or know nothing about it, it was written in 1948, about the future of a corrupt government and their mission to seize control over everything that you are. The story is based around Winston, a character who does not agree with the strict and ridiculous views of the party, so he obtains a diary, any form of self expression is against the law, he begins to write, and so on and so forth, I haven't gotten to anything exciting yet.

I swear I keep meaning to finish it, but the book is on my phone and it hurts my eyes and there are other distracting things going on in the world!

Over the Christmas holidays I was meant to be doing research and I just felt completely uninspired and anyone that does art knows that that is really not good at all and that you might as well crawl up into a hole and die (which I kind of did, because I got ill the second day in and had to stay home). So after talking to my tutors I decided to look at slogans and stuff like that, political things, other opinions and just stuff really, so here's some stuff ive done so far:

When reading the book this is how I picture big brother, he is meant to look like Barty Crouch from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, however I wanted to make his moustache bigger because I thought if I drew him exactly like the images from the film, he would have looked a little too much like Hitler, however he ended up looking like Hitler anyway, which although it was appropriate to the story, isn't how I wanted him to look. However, it is rather funny in lessons making sheets and sheets of photocopies of "Hitler's" face, all of the lower art students much think I'm a rather strange person when I'm walking around the halls with Ingsoc party slogans written allover my sketchbook.

One of the artists I've been looking at in my research is Barbara Kruger:

She uses found photographs, layering them with text, such text usually questions our views on feminism, classicism, consumerism and individual autonomy and desire. These ideas are contrasted with the images she uses, usually taken from mainstream magazines. Some of her more famous slogans are ones such as "I shop therefore I am," and "Your body is a battleground."

So remember, each day, live a little, laugh a little and love a little.  ♥