Life Update!

So, where have I been?

Well when I stopped posting I was up to my eyeballs in dissertation work, which was as you can imagine verrrrry time and energy consuming. So everything else kind of took a back seat, but all that hard work and stress was worth it in the end because... I got a first! I'm so happy as I put in a LOT of work into it and I'm glad I got a grade I can be really proud of. 

Anyway since then I've celebrated by chilling and going on a few holidays and enjoying the summer. Besides my part time job I volunteer at a couple of places now, a small gallery and at an art group, both in Glasgow. I've revamped my website to fit more with my professional art image and branding, and I think my Blogger page is next, just so everything is consistent. I'm now working towards setting up an etsy store to sell drawings and also looking at a masters for next year. So writing up C.V.s, proposals and personal statements is what I have to look forward to the next couple months. 

Art wise I've been practising and playing about with photography as I've been taking one photo a day for the first few months and plan to print them and stick them into a sort of scrap/sketchbook thing. I've also been working on a watercolour/ drawing for a present and I think I might play about with this style to sell on Etsy.

I'm also working on building up concept, workshop and artist folios. This is to help me with research for further study and my goal of working in community art. I also plan to write up my artist folio on this blog and also include some exhibitions that I've attended reviews. 

So I'm looking forward to what the rest of this year might bring - so watch this space for what I'm working on :D

Byyee!!

Róisín -x

Planning for Graduation

So our brief for our personal development planning (or creative futures as it's now know) is to write up a report on where we plan on going after we finish our degree. So it's important stuff.

Right now I'm still doing some research but I think the bulk of it is done now. I didn't think I would find it all that interesting however I have discovered some things tat I will definitely consider doing in future, which mostly includes volunteering abroad.

Here are a couple of them I looked at:

VSO

Art relief International

My plan is really to go into art therapy, but not immediately, for three reasons:

1. I'm not sure if I want to go into the clinical, more theory based art therapy, or more practical art therapy
2. I would need to get art therapy to go into this course anyway
3. I want some life experience before diving into a career path

There are also other things I want to consider like opening, or being a part of local workshops in my community, which would mean getting experience of these before hand as there are none availabe right now and so I would need to open my own one. Also to get these experiences I would be better off learning to drive as I think this would be easier as some workshops would be out of the way and harder for me to attend via public transport.

That's all for now 

byyyyyyeeee

Róisín -x

Life Drawing Images

So when we had our life drawing classes, I never got a chance to take photographs of them, so here hey are now - and only a year or so after I did them ;)