My 2012 Part One

Well I'll begin by saying that I totally forgot that I changed my blogging day to Monday, was sitting doing college work then I suddenly remembered! So I'm gonna try and get through this quickly as my college finals are sitting piled on top of each other, they are looking at me as if to say "Complete us, you want to pass don't you?!" Oh and this is gonna be long so brace yourself!

Today was pretty good, I'm only starting to improve in life drawing we'll see how long I can keep it up. Right now I'm getting all my final's done, and God I have a lot of finals - four final photos, three mixed media, three prints, one A2 painting final, four final drawings and then all the life drawing stuff,oh and not forgetting essay's.

So far I have two final drawings completed, I'm in the second stage of printing, second stage of mixed media, I have one photo (but my first idea might be changed) and I've started my painting final, it's taking shape but I've got a long way to go. Hopefully I'll have my third drawing final finished tomorrow at some point and I'll have a better idea of what I want to do for photography.

But now I gotta talk about my 2012, even if it's not finished yet.

Like usual this year was filled with great events and bad ones. The first bad event was in February when my ex broke up with me, I was heart broken and it took me a while to get over it but I'm all fine now and me and him are friends who still care a lot about each other. Defo way to go. Before this happened though I was hill walking in Arran and I got some of the best photographs, here's a reminder



I think these photo's really helped me understand how to take landscape photos as before I only really just clicked a button but being there I was trying different angles, tried getting different parts of the landscape...it was a brilliant day, afterwards I got two cups of tea and irn bru, then once home got a Chinese take away

This year my photography course came to a end, and oh I miss it so much. I miss all my friends and doing proper studio work. That course taught me so much and looking back and seeing what my photos were like before I started, man I had improved so much! I loved it (apart from product photography) These are just a few of my favourite photos I took on the course:



And times were tough so I had to come up with a way of getting money and this was what I did:



When I left school I was yet to know what my grades were and if I had gotten them before I probs would of went to do art instead of photography. I opened my results and for art I got a B! This was brilliant as the year before I got a D for Intermediate 2 and I was heart broken, so I decided I was going to come back fighting. And I so won that fight!

I haven't really uploaded a lot of my new college course but the drawings that I have uploaded got a great response!



Nothing major has really happened to me this year, though for a while I was suffering with artist/photographer's block. I had no faith in my work at all I was all over the place but I've found my feet again thank God. I suppose one thing I should mention is that I got a new boyfriend. He's lovely, charming and funny, he lives far from me but we work it out and we talk through social media a lot. So yeah, tis all good.

I've not stopped taking photos, I take photo's whenever I can, and when I finished the photography course and was more or less on my own my skills just seemed a lot better, what do you think:



I think I've done enough talking for tonight. The next blog won't be a feature it'll be part two as I do have a lot to say as I love talking to all of you.

Speak to you all later

Jen-Jen xxx