25th December; Happy Holidays!

We got slightly lost in an outdoor maze... oops!
Rather wind swept all the way up there!

Well lately I`ve been busy, like... Extremely busy.I haven`t had much of a break for a while and my sixth form has luckily given us two weeks and a day off of working; which would be good if I didn`t have so much stuff to be preparing for right now!
As soon as I get back to Sixth form, I`ll have exactly one more day to get myself prepared for my University Interviews... Yeah, it sucks doesn`t it :/

My very first Interview is on the 6th of January, which means I`ll have to collect together all of the Interviewing requirements and then I`ll be off the next day for the interviewing process. It`ll last about 2-3 hours and I`ll most probably be there even longer since there may be an exception to a little tour of the facilities... According to the information I`ve been given.
Of course I`m looking forward to it, but bloody hell! I`m ridiculously nervous right now and I`m no where near finishing off all of my other written pieces that they`ve asked to see. Panic mode i slowly setting in now...

I`ve managed to take some time out to relax however...
I spent four days in Mablethorpe with my boyfriend, david, and his grandad; his Grandad lives up there in the cutest little Bungalow I`ve ever seen!
We arrived there quite late, and me being completely awkward, I dragged David along so we could go for an evening walk on the beach. I thought it would be a cute thing to do... You know, a little walk on the beach with your loved one, really cute idea, right?
Well I was bloody wrong, the first five minutes where fine and then it started to feel creepy down there. So, we ran back like idiots and had a quite walk through the town instead. I definitely prefer beaches in the winter (If the weather isn`t too bad), it was nice and quite; un-like summer when people swarm to the beaches with their screaming children... Jesus.

We did some weird things, mostly fish related; and god I love fishes, they have to be one of the cutest and most colorful animals that I actually enjoy watching. Davids granddad has three huge fishtanks aswell so I mostly fell asleep watching the fish just blub around.
One the places that we went to was a giant airstrip, and the bunker that they used to keep the large planes in (Forgot the proper name) was a big aquarium, which did also house some snakes and tarantulas... But they aren`t cute so I`ll just leave them out. so when you first walk in, there`s a ramp that takes you up to a dark pool that has some of the largest fish I`ve seen! There aren`t a lot of aquariums around Ilkeston, so that`s why I was impressed... Simple minded me. Anyway, you could pet and feed the fish, and the one that kept on coming up to me must of been about the same size as my leg. Slightly, impressed and slightly creeped out.
Then there was another center a bit like the aquarium, but it also had a giant outdoor maze, a huge shop where I ended up buying some Christmas prezzies from, and a kids play area... I may be 18 soon, but no one was around so David and I played on the giant trampolines before Granddad caught us messing around.
Afterwards, we simple went out for a nice dinner and then went back home. The next morning I forced David to come along shopping with me in town, and then to relax on the beach for a while before heading back and just relaxing for a while longer. The next day we went back home, which was Christmas Eve.
Yes, it may of been a short break away from home, but it was nice and relaxing anyway. This year will be my second Christmas with David too; and I`m seriously looking forward to seeing his face when he opens his present, he`s been wanting it for months now and is still hinting at me getting it for him. I`ve hidden it well so I hope he hasn`t found it yet!

I know that the holidays are about having fun, and relaxing; of course I`m going to relax... But I`ve still got work to be getting on with right now! There`s so much I`m behind on, including the three blogs that I have! I`m also working on more Mandala designs and dotted pieces that I can scan in and upload to deviantart and on my art blog... It feels like I`ve got so much planned and so much that I`m looking forward to doing, but I`m not focusing enough on what I can do before all of that.
I`m hoping that after the holidays, everything will be back to normal and I`ll stop stressing out as much as I have done in the past two months.

It may of been freezing,
but the beach was beautiful!

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas! Or for anyone else, Happy Holidays!
(uploaded 00:09, I can`t get to sleep).


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Merry Christmas!

I do realize that I`ve uploaded nothing for so, so long! But I`ve been busy arranging my University interviews and I`m hoping that after Christmas everything will be back to normal once more.
So for now... 

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

8th December; It`s Been A While!

When Industrial materials
are out, then protect yourself
my children!

It`s been a long time since I`ve updated anything, AND I`M SORRY!
It`s been hectic
It`s been chaos
It`s all going to be explained here.

So here`s a quick update as to what has been going on recently and why I haven`t been uploading anything for such a long time.

Firstly:
For the past two weeks I`ve somehow gained a water infection (that I had no signs or symptoms of) which has spread into both of my kidneys and has put me in some of the most excruciating pain I`ve ever felt. I haven`t been able to move around properly, My sides and back are killing me...  can`t PEE! I need to PEE! but then it was ok because I could PEE again... yeah... It`s been bad.
I did manage to get an emergency appointment at the doctors last week and they`ve given me some antibiotics that are seriously strong, make me dizzy and made me feel somewhat sick. I finish that course of Antibiotics tomorrow and I am feeling a lot better now and I`m finally updating my blogs and my deviantart.

Davids Portrait work
is coming along nicely,
He`s doe quite a few more
since I took this picture
of them.

Secondly:
The deadlines for my final piece, exhibition piece and my Contextual study keeps on getting moved around and changed then moved again and poked a few more times... It`s getting ridiculous now, For the last three weeks I`ve stayed behind until 5pm, and I get to sixth form about 8am; So I`m really tired and I haven`t felt like uploading anything since it can take a while to get images together and writing it all up whilst trying to get more coursework done and applying for UCAS... All a bit too much.
However, last week i actually managed to finish my final piece; well i think It`s finished, the teachers think otherwise at the moment, they said that I need one more layer over the top of what I`ve already done. This piece already has about 16 layers of my work and materials added on to it, so adding another layer would take to long for me to do and would probably ruin the whole thing now.


Thirdly: 
This is the good bit....
Last Tuesday I sent off my UCAS application (only £23), It`s taken me forever to get it sent off and it was supposed to get sent off in the middle of November but more stuff came up and held it back. On the Wednesday I got 5 e-mails from my 5 choices saying that they where reviewing my applications, which made me nervous.
But last Friday I was invited to an Interview at Derby University, the 20th of January at 12:00... I cried, I seriously cried about it and everyone thought that something was really wrong with me; but it was just because I was happy and nervous and yeah.
Then today I checked UCAS track again and my e-mails, I`ve got another interview 6th of January at 12:30 at derby University.
Both interviews are 2-3 hours long and I need to finish my portfolio (which is taking forever), finish off my sketchbook work and get my contextual study needs to be finished off before the Interviews. So of course I`m stressing out and staying behind even later at sixth form and I`m getting seriously tired out by it all.

Hopefully I can update some more and get on top of everything that you may of possibly missed, I am very tired and still under the weather at the moment.
It should all pick up once my portfolio has been finished and my contextual study has been finished, I`m hoping that everything goes well in time for these interviews as I`m ridiculously nervous and panicking already.

Also... MY HAIR IS BRIGHT PURPLE NOW!

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9th, November; Quitting My Job and Getting To University.

Too pink for youuu!

9th, November; Quitting My Job and Getting To University. 

So, after working at a dump for about 7 months; I`ve finally handed in my notice and quit B&M!
Over the past few months, working there has been making my mental health illnesses worse; As previous readers must know, I`m a sufferer of depression, Anxiety and Psychosis. About a month or two of working I completely stopped my medication after the Psychiatrist closed my file and I felt much better than I previously did.
However...
Having customers swear at me, My own managers swearing at me, A job where I was not fully trained, working for only £3.89 an hour, Damaging the lower half of my back, not receiving full length breaks, having swollen and puffy feet every weekend and then having other people dump their work on me because they are just soooo desperate to go on their break so I end up being late for mine and then I never get as long and then end up having to do so much other stuff that I end up exhausted...
So even though I thought I would be alright, and I thought that I had perhaps gotten over my depression; I`ve relapsed dramatically and right now I feel like i`m not in a good place. Along with having to finish off my new art project in less than a month, applying for University and having to start putting together my portfolio... I`m feeling rather stressed and I desperately need these two days off at the weekend (which sounds ridiculous), but I need my Amy time right now.
which is also why I haven`t been uploading as much over the past week or so, however, if you do follow me on Deviantart then you`ve probably seen a lot of activity on there lately; That`s because the sixth forms laptops will let you on Deviantart now and I`m able to upload a lot of my work now.

Right now I`m working on more mixed media work and in a few days I should hopefully be able to get a head start on my final piece; But that depends on as to how much experimentation that I can do in the next few days aswell.
Luckily, In year 13 we get a lot of space to ourselves for our exhibition... And this time, I`ve got a lot of work to go in there. The giant board I`m using at the moment is 6ftX5ft-ish (6ft Horizontally and about 5-ish vertically, I`m not too good at wording things).
Then in front of the board that I`m going to be working on, I`m going to have a table; the table is going to be designed so it looks like I`ve been sat working at it and I`ve just left the table to go and do something. Along with the board and the table I`m having a display panel with other small bits of my work on, so at the moment I appear to have y work cut out for me and I`m extremely nervous for this exhibition... Hopefully It will be my best one out of the three so far.

At the moment my UCAS form has been filled out and I`m now just waiting to pay for it to be sent off, hopefully I get some offers back and I`m currently starting to get some work together for my portfolio for the interviews.
So at the moment I`m getting rather busy and I`m running out of time for all of my coursework so I`m gonna put in some extra hours after sixth form and some more doodle and brain storm nights closer to the weekend.
I`m now also accepting fanmail, if that`s what you want to call it. I`ve already had a few come through on Deviantart and facebook... So keep them coming! It`s nice to talk to some of you and if anything just keep on asking me some questions, I`m quite enjoying it at the moment!

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28th, October; Shed2Studios Artist experience!

I did wash this art shirt,
But as you can see nothing has
come out... oops!

28th, October; Shed2Studios Artist experience! 

So I`ve been in contact with a designer and artist from Shed2Studios called Dawn Turner, I`ve wanted to go in and see her for a while or try and get some kind of work done with her. But because of my sixth form and work at the weekends, so for the past two days I`ve been in at the studio doing a bit of work with her and I`ve literally learnt so much from her about the business and about producing some of her work.
(I know i just updated about ink Kings, I was supposed to do that on Friday but haven`t had time).

So on Tuesday I was seriously nervous, I`ve been exchanging E-mails with her for a while now and talking about when i could possibly go in and see her work... So it`s a bit strange going and seeing someone face to face when you`ve actually been speaking for a while.

So she was quite busy when I first went in and I felt quite bad because I kind of stood and watched for a while until she could explain what was happening. It was quite confusing and I can`t remember as to what it was that she was using exactly, but you can use it to create a negative space for glass to melt into; so basically a mold and you can use the bits that you cut out too which imprints in the glass and pushes the shape through.
It`s really interesting, and the designs she was using are cute little snowflakes that she`s turning into glass Christmas decorations. Two different sets are going to two different galleries and they`ll keep around about 50% of the money earned from selling Dawn`s work.
(I can`t remember the names of them, but one is rather fancy and last year they ran out of Dawn`s work in two days!)

Dawn gave me a small tour around the studio, it was a lot larger than i thought and the ceiling itself was quite high meaning that Travis` huge wooden boards could fit in there easily. Travis is an artist who basis his work around wood and is currently working for the boss of Superdry, but he thought that it didn`t sound to impressive when it bloody is.
Ewan is the photography and takes some amazing images but I`ve only met him once and it was only briefly as he was photographing another artists work so she can sell them on, her work alone was amazing aswell.
Tom, now he`s practically a hoarder... His small area is stacked with old random things that people where just going to throw away and he then makes recycled objects out of them or recycled equipment; so it is very interesting but he`s a complete and utter hoarder!
Jeff designs guitars, and is currently off to Berlin (i think), for an exhibition or to sell a few of his guitars over there (if I`ve remembered that correctly). his work is amazing and some of the patterns he can make for the guitars are absolutely stunningly beautiful!

Seeing dawn`s work and a lot of her university work has been a real eye opener for me, I`m now even thinking about choosing a Decorative Art course instead of Art Therapy. Just seeing all of the roots you can go down with Decorative arts has made me think about my future just a little bit more and now I`m even considering asking Dawn for some sort of lesson on glass sculpting or creating these stunning pieces of work.

The candle made it look super
cute, It`s on the shelf in the
living room now!

So today, (Wednesday) dawn showed me some more hands on stuff because on the Tuesday there was a lot of organizing of glass and trying to get some molds ready for the decorations she needs for these galleries.
She`s been trying out these candle holders by using molds for the glass to slouch on, she`s tried doing the frosting on them before putting them in the kiln and she has one that she hadn`t tested out yet... Soooo, lucky Amy got the chance to make her own little christmasy styled candle holder!
I also got to use the sand blaster which was terrifying as the compressor kept on making me jump as it was right behind me, but I`m stupidly proud of myself for making this little glass holder! It`s the first time I`ve ever done anything with glass and probably the only time before I go off to University, I might be slightly cheeky and ask If I could possibly do any extra work with her... Hehe.

I`ll leave the link down here (somewhere), All of their work is really amazing and I`ve loved being there for the past two days, I may also go in on Friday depending on what Dawn is doing and I might ask if their are any other days that I could possibly go in and help out with; It`s worth to at least have a look at their work... it`s strange thinking that there`s all of these different styles under one roof and they all chip in and help each other out quite a bit, very interesting.
So here`s the link to their website: http://www.shed2.co.uk
Here`s the link to their faceboook page: https://www.facebook.com/shed2studios/?fref=ts

I got these amazing high waisted
jeans from ebay cause H&M`s
website wasn`t working... I prefer these! 

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27th, October; Ink Kings Work Experience Week.

These new leggings
though :3

27th, October; Ink Kings Work Experience Week.

So last Tuesday I began a week of work experience, well four days of work experience at a local Tattoo Parlor called Ink Kings... It was amazing!

Because I`m not 18 yet, I couldn`t really do much... I couldn`t be near the tattooists when they where tattooing and I wasn`t aloud past a certain point when there was tattooing aswell. So it was a little bit frustrating, and I might go back there when I`m actually 18 so I can observe the tattooing process and help them set up.

so for my four days there I was mainly doing quite a bit of receptionist work, to be honest I did feel quite useless for the first day of being there. There wasn`t much that I could do apart from answer the phone and chat away to the customers whilst they where waiting.

Steve, Tony and Maria where amazingly friendly and helped me out quite a bit for the week that i was there.

Tony is the owner of Ink Kings:
The work he mainly does is just with black ink, he`s had years and years of experience and can even tattoo without using the stencils.
This is one of the latest images that has been uploaded onto their facebook page (I`ll put the link to it at the end).
His work is amazing, and he keeps the study unbelievably clean, unless he`s had porridge... then you`ll find that everywhere in the kitchen earlier and dried bits in the bowls that he`s left out... It`s gross, I had to clean all of the bowls on my first day there and he seriously loves his porridge at lunchtime.
he really helped me out with my own work, he told me that when It`s quite I can bring in stuff to draw and he gave me some really good tips and advice on how to improve those dotted drawings that I`ve been practicing.

I basically just bugged Steve for the week:
Steve does a bit of everything, the picture that I got from the facebook page is two watercolor butterflies, I actually saw him tattoo another watercolor design whilst I was there and it looked stunning!
So when I`m 18, I`m hopefully going to go there to get my very first tattoo; I`m definitely going to Ask Tony to do it though, after winding Steve up that much I think he`ll just make it hurt more than usual on purpose.
Steve is really funny, but he doesn`t have a manlier beard than Tony... However, he does have a really cool motorbike.



Unfortunately i only got to see Maria for two days:
Her boyfriend was Ill so she wasn`t in for most of the week, as she had to babysit him for a while.
She specializes in realism work and this is one of the pieces that she did whilst I was there on the Friday. If I do have any flower tattoos at all in my life, then f*ck anywhere else I`m going to Maria!

Here`s the ink kings facebook page link:
https://www.facebook.com/InkKingsStudios?fref=ts



You can see the majority of their work on there, and people usually send in what they want tattooing to them over facebook, but here`s the link to their official webpage: http://www.ink-kings.com

I seriously enjoyed my week there, and I want to go back when i`m 18 to hopefully observe then tattooing this time. I`ve never had a good week doing work experience and last time i even got rejected, probably 11 times; So the fact that I got this placement with only a months notice was pretty good for me. If anything they guys there are at the studio and some of the funny and welcoming customers we had are what made my week better. Sure, I couldn`t do much cause I`m not 18 but the week for me was amazing and I really enjoyed.
I did get a free T-Shirt aswell, I offered to pay for it but Tony let me have it... But hey, A FREE SHIRT!

I`ve taken their advice with these
drawings, their starting to look
better. 

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19th October; Tattooing Work Experience

19th October; Tattooing Work Experience

So for the next week I`ll be working at a local Tattoo parlor called Ink Kings, So I`m probably not going to be updating on here for the rest of the week. Just so at the end of the week I`ll actually have something to blog about at the end of the week.
Or, I could update once every night to say how my day has been; It depends as to what works really, I`ll find something out tomorrow when it comes to actually working there for the week. 

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14th, October; A Week Of, Not Much, Relaxation

The past week has been absolutely manic for everyone, the sixth form closing, the teachers losing
their jobs and us worried about what will happen to the rest of the lower years at our school.

It`s all calmed down a little bit now and everyone seems a little bit more relaxed as the week has gone on, the teachers are looking for new jobs and the majority of the year 12 students have now left and found a new place for year 12 and 13. If anything we`re all happy for them finally finding a place after different colleges and sixth forms said that they will be refusing quite a lot of the students that we had... but it`s all calm now, no more stressing out on their behalf.

Not much has been happening, we got over 500 supporters on the change.org petition that I set up, one night it was that busy that my phone just kept on freezing whenever I tried to get onto the website and I`ve been getting messages of support to carry on petitioning. But so far we`ve met with the local MP, and all shes managed to do is keep the sixth form open ONLY for year 12 BTEC art students who are doing the 2 year course.

God I love adventure time,
and a bonus... Halloween!

People are seeming in much better spirits and this week has felt a lot more positive in my class, I`d say that the only problem that we have in class now is the noise levels. especially because most of us are getting headcolds all of a sudden (I blame my work colleagues for that), so loud music, laughing and singing won`t really be helping any of us at the moment.
I`m also going to pick up my Portfolio soon so I can begin filling that with some of my work, so right now I`m getting ready for my university interviews which I am incredibly nervous for right now. I`ve filled out my UCAS form so that`s all ready, the only things left now are my personal statement and then my reference from the head of my sixth form.



Apart from all of the sixth form closure drama:
Work has been going well, I`m trying to get a few more hours of over time so I can hopefully get some more money towards Christmas time so I can get some nice presents for everyone! This will be my first year having a job and my own money to buy people presents and I`ve been trying to budget myself a bit but I only have 50p in my bank right now... Yay.

I finally figured out how to use the Sixth forms scanning system for my art work, so now on my Devinatart theres a bunch of pictures of paper marbling and some wet on wet work that I`ve been doing; So at the moment it`s all experimentation work.

Then, next Tuesday I`ll be working at a Tattoo parlor called Ink Kings. They`re one of the best around and I`ve luckily got Tuesday till Friday to work for them as the receptionist. So I`m a bit worried about the way I`ll come across to people, because this is a professional business that I`ll be working in so I`m still really nervous about going there... Even though I work in customer service at the weekends.

Some of The Paper Marbling work I`ve
Been Doing, The Rest Is Over On
Devinatart. 

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THE CLOSURE OF MY LOCAL SIXTH FORM!

This morning we received devastating news about my sixth form being closed down at the end of this year; this place has offered so much to me and It`s disastrous to see it go. But we aren`t going down without a fight.

This morning we had an emergency assembly with the whole of sixth form attending; then we where informed of the closure of our AMAZING sixth form in July 2016. Luckily I`ll be able to finish year 13 and go on to university but those in year 12 who have settled in and are loving their course will now have to leave and find somewhere new that will take them on as an emergency placements. I`m seriously devastated at the news and I`m so disappointed at the fact that they are seriously going through with this now...

Future generations won`t be able to gain the life skills, employability skills and just the general skills that they`ll need to get through life. So many students are now left without a clue as where to go and most parents are furious and have been storming into the school today so they can speak to the head of the school.

Even if this petition doesn`t work, it shows that people out there still care about the students and the community that we create. Because of all of this, we can no longer raise anymore money for students in Gambia and no more money for the charity called Ben`s Den...

Here`s the link to the online petition, even if you`ve never read any of my blogs and if you`ve never even heard of this sixth form... Just remember the students that will miss out on this amazing opportunity for work experience, community work and for higher education.
https://www.change.org/p/mr-smith-stop-ilkeston-academies-sixth-form-from-closing

Also, feel free to speak to me on Facebook about what has happened, I need some ideas for some sort of fund-raising and some sort of protest that students can do.
https://www.facebook.com/amy.watkinson.104

This is what people will be missing
out on, amazing friendships and
amazing lessons! 

A HUGE thank you to anyone who chooses to sign or contact me, even if you don`t know what this about; just think about the students who are missing out and the staff who will now be loosing their jobs.
Thank you!

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2nd October; Student Ambassador Work and Anxiety

Smexy student ambassador couple over here!

2nd October; Student Ambassador! 

So I`m starting to get a lot more confident when it comes to working with others now, i`ve done a little bit of student ambassador work in the past year at sixth form and then some in year 11.
But this time, it was bloody awesome.

So if you don`t know yet, I suffer from anxiety, quite badly too... Just last night, I had an anxiety attack when walking home since a bunch of teenagers where across the road from me yelling abusive phrases about my hair, boyfriend and how much of a "whore" i am. But i had my headphones on an pretended to ignore them... Bad idea, my hand got sweaty, i started to shake quite badly and then I couldn`t breath and when I got around the corner i ran down the street and got inside as fast as I could.

I found this on the sixth forms Twitter
account: @OIEA6thform

But it got me thinking a little bit, these people stand on street corners smoking and drinking when they`re about 12 or 13 years old, I`m 17 and still get nervous when walking past these kinds of people.
But I`m going to University, these kids are going to be getting a PASS grade in shampooing a mannequins head at college. It just makes me wonder why people think they look "amazing" when they smoke and have nothing going for them. So then i remembered the night before when I did some student ambassador work with the year 6 opening evening.

The whole school was open, parents and their children came in and looked around, sat in speeches from the head of the school, got a tour around the school by us and then got to see all of the subjects and the subject teachers.
That night the head of the school received a lot of compliments about how lovely, kind and helpful I was when it came to answering questions and speaking about the subjects that the school had to offer. Now because of my anxiety, I`m scared of gobby mouthed teenagers but not of parents who will judge the whole school on the grounds of the student ambassadors. There`s definitely  been a big change in the way my anxiety works then, before I was terrified of everything... But now I can speak to people a lot more freely than before, but I can`t walk home without feeling nervous and petrified of the chavs of Ilkeston.

Horribly, itchy red jumper crew.

I`m quite proud of myself for the opening night, I spoke to soooo many parents and tried to get involved in the kids. The amount of compliments I received that went to the head of the school was amazing and then all of my old teachers that I would usually be too shy to speak too where coming up to me and asking me as to what I`ve been doing and how I`ve been. Many of my past teachers didn`t even know that I was still at the sixth form, I`m not surprised though... I hardly either never leave the art room or I never put the effort into going and speaking to them.

But there`s a good improvement there; just like when I began blogging and uploading to devinatart I never responded to messages, but now I respond whenever I get them and I quite enjoy reading through the messages now... Like an even bigger confidence boost to be honest.
But there`s always a own side to receiving messages from people who can see me worldwide, inappropriate nude images from guys and the hate messages from the girls; I`m getting a little bit used to it now and I should hopefully stop receiving them soon. The again, there`s the supportive people who send me lovely messages about my work On devintart and on facebook, so thanks you guys!

But all in all, It was a good night; But my anxiety is changing dramatically and that was the first time I`ve had an attack out in the open like that, luckily the chavs didn`t notice. My confidence is improving, but I need to upload a lot more on these blogs if i want to keep on getting supportive messages from you guys; thanks so far!

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22nd, September; Two Weeks Back And A Bit Of Progress!

Sketchbook Writing session.

22nd, September; Two Weeks Back And A Bit Of Progress!

So, we haven`t been back for too long right now. I`ve only made a small amount of progress right now and I`m getting there with gathering ideas for my final piece already! But, I think the teachers are just a littleeee bit frustrated with me because I want more huge wooden boards to work on again... So yeah, i`m going to make a hugeee mess once again.


The class i`m in is quite big right now there`s 15-20 people in there at one time, so it`s quite noisy at time now and I`m finding it particularly hard to concentrate on what i`m supposed to be doing; I think a lot of us are finding it hard to concentrate on anything at the moment, we all need a good rest... It`s just so loud constantly and with my illness it`s making my head go all over the place and I have to keep on going on quick walks and breaks to get out of there and have some quite.
Hopefully we can sort it out soon and get the rest of the class working as they should be, don`t get me wrong, their work is amazing; But since we`ve been back they haven`t even finished one observational drawing so far and everyone else is trying to move on now.
But hopefully, it can get sorted soon, and then we can all get along once again! ^.^

My own shirt, especially
for getting messy!

It`s also my anniversary soon, on the 24th of September me and David will of been together for a year. We didn`t let anyone know for a while though, so when I gave him his presents early (because I got mine early) everyone seemed very confused at it being our anniversary soon.
It`s really awesome having him in art aswell, It means that I get to spend wayyy more time with him without having to walk home in the middle of the dark late at night. I`m getting to spend more time at home with my mum, sisters and little nephew now because I don`t have to use all of that spare time to see David.
I still stay around at the weekends when I`m work, and yes, I still work at bloody B&M.
But I`ve still got two weeks of work experience planned out in October; for the first week, i`ll be working in a Tattoo shop called Ink Kings which is in Ilkeston so it`s even easier to get too in the morning. working with the Taxidermy artist has been proven difficult due to the amount of time that I don`t have and the amount time he spends working on large projects. Then I`ve been in contact with Shed2Studios In Ilkeston (another local place), I asked for a week there but also said that a few hours a day or just a visit to the studios would also prove to be helpful to me.

My Little Nephew Attempting to crawl.

The only other thing I need to add is that I`ve started to apply for universities and have my UCAS account sorted out now; I had a problem with logging in, I had all of the information correct, but for some reason I kept on getting locked out of my account because of failed log in attempts... But on their end, it said that I haven`t even logged in; so something was wrong there, but it`s all sorted now so I can carry on with my personal statement work and finding courses!

Not much has been happening lately, I do wish my life was more interesting right now; if it does help, I`ve been watching assassination classroom and Future Diary, so I`ve watched enough for reviewing I think. If you do read the anime reviews and also read this blog too, Just remember to go over to Wattpad (follow the link below), and you can see a ton more of newer and better animes that I`ve reviewed and that are reader to read instantly.
I`ve also hit an amazing 50.5K reads on the review book! It was originally made to help me with my English skills about 3 or 4 years ago, but I kept on writing in it to see what kind of reaction people would have whenever they read them. It`s done really well and It`s still quite surprising that more and more people are still reading it.
I`m a happy likkle Melonhead :3 !

A selfie that was actually taken today!

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14th, September; Back To sixth Form!

Idiot Sandwiches... 

So it`s Monday, i do apologize for not updating on Friday like I said I would...

So far the teachers have decided that we spend the whole week just doing drawing this week; and if anything, that`s just going to make life even duller than before. So no I`m a little bummed out at the fact that we don`t get to do much for a while, however; I have already finished my observational drawing work and I really want to move on, so just to please the teachers I`m doing little samples of observational drawings that are a bit more detailed than the A2 ones I`ve done so far.
So for now I`m just gong to keep them happy. I`ve also sorted out one of the storage rooms in the new block (all by myself, cause I`m awesome). There`s also a sixth form opening evening coming up that I`m going to be helping out at, since I literally have nothing else to do right now.

So work is going good right no, but someone who I was friends with is now moving all the way to Germany; He`s just finished University and has been (apparently), been a bit down since he`s struggling to find a job... but, It`s not all doom and gloom, He`s been accepted by Ubisoft to work for them over in Germany. He`s been working at the dump for 4 years now and he does seem upset to leave everyone, it`s a big move so I`m not surprised really; I`m happy for him though, to move out there with an awesome job that you`ve wanted for years and have had to train for, for soooo long... It`s kind of given me hope that when I leave university, I can get a decent job and earn all of that money back that I owe to the University.

Some more photoshopping stuff
coming up soon, well...
when I have the time to upload it all...

Everything is good-ish at the moment, my class is a bit distracting though since there are some reallyyyyy, realllyyyy loud girls in there now. It`s just easier to have my headphones on and write in my sketchbook right now, actually making some decent looking work is just hard because of how loud they are right now.

We`ve all decided to give them or a week or so to calm down and settle in; but if it keeps up or gets worse then they`re all going to hate us for getting fed up with them. So it`s basically going to go back to how it was with Beth and Amy at the beginning of last year, which is upsetting really since we`ve just started to get used to them and we all get along quite well now.

But things will settle down soon, I`ve got a lot of University preparation to begin and I`ve almost finished my personal statement and CV now; So I also have almost all of my Unit 10 work finished too! I`m on top of everything and ready to actually get some work done soon!

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9th, September; Back To Sixth Form!

So everyone is going back to school,everyones at college,
the year 12`s have gone in...
but the year 13`s get a lie in... :3 yayy

So everyone`s going back to school now, which unfortunately means that I will have to too; It`s been nie having this break, but now I need to start getting some more work done which should be fun.
The way that I act at sixth form is definitely going to change dramatically when I go back, and I don`t think I will be socializing with people in my class since i know what they think of me now... Which is a good thing for the blog, there are going to be plenty of new faces here, new art styles and hopefully a lot more updates about the good times I`m having since I`ve been back.

Right now i`m actually still in bed, I`m trying to get all of my work e-mailed over to my school account; I`ve been working on quite a bit of photoshop practice (if you haven`t seen it already then head over to my art blog, link is down below). In fact, i even know what I`m going to do with all of my photoshopped designs and it should be quite fun.

What are we...
Idiot Sandwiches

I`ve also been thinking about selling my work too; The style of them are a little bit plain but they`re nice. I`m already making three of them for Christmas presents too and if i do decide to sell them then they will be sold with the frames and cost around £15 to £20 each. The only reason that they will cost that much is because; the pens are £10 each! the frames are around about £5 each and then i have to pay for your postage and packaging.
So hopefully, if anyone is interested; then i could start selling some of my framed work for you guys, which will also give me spare money to make more and more better work at a better size and quality for selling.

So i`ve got a lot planned for the time being, even though it may not seem like it... I`m actually quite busy at the moment.
I`ll probably blog on Friday too, because that way i would of had three days to settle back in to sixth form and hopefully something interesting to write about. See you guys then!


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24th, August; A Level Results...

So i got my A level results not too long ago...

I wasn`t too happy though, if anything i was quite upset about it. So if your read any of my blogs then you will know that I work really, really hard on everything I do in Art and it`s actually the only subject that I do.
I get into Sixth form early to set up my things, then i stay behind to get extra work done and tidy up a bit more. I`ve always put a lot of time and effort into studying art and I was just panicking so much about getting my results for my A level. at the end of year 13, I`ll have another three BTEC`s to go along with the A level.

So my A Level was a Fine Art A level and according to my first result, i did quite well and got an A but then my second result was a C... For starts, I have no idea as to how my level could go down so much in such a short space of time, so that confused me.
So my final result came to...
B
A bloody B grade which I wasn`t happy about at all. I`ve always worked so, so hard to get the best grades. But a B has actually really set me down at the moment and has got me feeling pretty down about my work and has made me realize as to how different this next year is going to be for me.

So i`m going to try and make my work look more professional, instead of keeping loads of copies of the same work i`m going to keep on working on just the one to get it the best it could be, I`m definitely going to try a lot more different kinds of work now instead of sticking to one area and most of all... I`m going to keep my head down and stay quite...

The summer holidays have made me think a lot about people who I should associate myself with from now on, a lot of things have been said and it`s gotten back around to me. So from now on, I`m going to be more focused on blogging, my work and writing.

So when i get back, there will be a lot more updating than there has been during the holidays; which I am sorry about... It`s my holiday too!

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12th, August; Where have i been....?

12th, August; Where have i been....?


So then, i haven`t been too busy but i`ve not been on here in some time now.
It`s just that this is my holiday too so it`s mainly been catch-up time with online friends, family, real friends and a tiny bit of over time at work. I feel as if the stress of sixth form has literally just gone right now and i`m loving it... But that doesn`t mean that i`ve stopped doing any work...

So just lately i`ve been doing the obvious work for my David, (boyfriend), with his manga characters and i`ve been trying to give him advice and help him along. It`s just mainly been small characters and practice for me on making the characters.

Then i`ve been trying to photoshop people and make cartoony looking people as practice for my control on photoshop, they are quite blocky and chunky at the moment but then again this is all just a ton of practice for me. So far i`m just working on other people and doing smaller ones of them and, as i`m typing this, I have a separate window open with photoshop and i`m currently doing one of me and David!

So far people have given me advice and improvements to make (So, thank you), but i`m still struggling quite a bit and i`m trying to save up so i can buy a scanner for my drawings aswell so i`m busy-ish at the moment trying to test out new things that i can use when i go back to Sixth form... But that`s if i get back in

(Re-enrollment is on the 13th... So tomorrow... crap...)




I`ve also been trying to do creepier looking faces for art aswell... But this is where i`ll need everyone else`s help and hopefully some of my follwers and friends too.

So, my new art project is basically about my mental health problems; Depression, Anxiety and Psychosis.
But I wanted to know if other people could send in a picture of themselves and a little bit about them or their personal struggle.

You will also obviously have the option to either let me use your images on my blog or use them in my art, and the option to stay anonymous or not. It`s completely up to you guys if you want to be part of this or not, it`ll be interesting to see what comes out of this and i`m kind of looking forward to seeing what may happen if you guys do take part.

You never know, i may get no messages from you guys or i could get a few which should hopefully encourage others to send messages in!
If you are interested in seriously helping me out; then message me on the facebook page or you can send me an e-mail at :-
marshyandthemelons@gmail.com

(The same rules apply with the cartoony block images and the creepy images, I`m just doing these for practice so i apologize if any of them come out terribly bad).

Thank once again to anyone who still reads my blogs and to anyone who has messaged me on Deviantart and the facebook page with your opinions. It`s always a big help...
(and thanks for being patient with me since I`m quite slow right now).



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12th, August; Japanese Lessons!

12th, August; Japanese Lessons!

So in the second week of the holidays i went for my very first Japanese lesson with Mia...
So this year it will be three years since i went to Japan, and Mia has gone about 4 or 5 times now, and she went the same year as me too.
When we where there I considered her as a best friend and mainly tagged along with her whilst we where there and she`s been learning Japanese for years now so she`s getting pretty fluent in the language.

So before she goes to University she`s teaching Japanese for £15 a lesson ,which when you think about it, is an amazing price for quick lessons.
She even stayed up till late at night to make me and my friend Lauren  lesson plans and small little flash cards for our Japanese lessons with her.
She really seems to know what she`s doing too and acts like a proper teacher when we had our first lesson and i seriously appreciated her then going out for dinner with me afterwards to a restaurant just around the corner.

So i filled in the work sheets she gave me in the lesson, which was an introduction to Hiragana, casual conversation and numbers. I feel like i`ve got the whole number thing down though, it`s just remembering how to write the symbols. she was really helpful and patient with me trying to guess the numbers when we did a little quiz.
I also bought a little book to do revision in so i can memorize what it is that i`ve just learnt since i`m quite forgetful.




So far, so good! My next Japanese lesson should hopefully be just after i get paid... So i think it might be next week or something, but hopefully i can keep on doing these lessons.
Mia has been a lovely teacher so far and i have a feeling that i`m really going to enjoy the lessons that i have with her!





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22nd, July; Almost The end!

22nd, July; Almost The end!

So i now have two days left at sixth form and i`m seriously ready for this break which is coming up... but the only thing is that there will be even less updates; I`ll have plenty of time to do the updates, but i`m rather boring and prefer to hibernate away in my room rather then be in the sun for the whole six week break that we have for summer.

so things are gonna be a bit slow, and i`ll probably only do three or four updates; i`m not quite sure to be honest... But it`ll be whenever i try and at least leave my room i guess...

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9th July: Taxidermy Work Opportunities!

9th July: Taxidermy Work Opportunities!

So i don`t quite like my previous job, i just feel like we`re all being taken for a joke and messed around quite a bit. So i`ve been looking for something part time that i could do instead of working at B&M.

I began looking at local taxidermists and designers that could possibly take on an assistant or a part time worker/apprentice.  There`s nothing definite out there, no where advertises jobs or apprenticeships in the taxidermy field, but i have e-mailed one person and have asked if he has any work available for me either during the summer or at the weekends.

His name is Russell Oxley, he owns the Taxidermy Emporium which is very close by to me; a lot of the work i`ve seen in person is actually in Wollaton Hall. Wollaton Hall is very old home and a very large one too, it towers over it`s own land, lake and deer.
check him out at: http://www.taxidermyemporium.co.uk/11.html

I love his work, but un-fortunately he doesn`t work at the weekends as he prefers to spend it with his family, so i`m going to have to arrange a time to go in during the summer break so i can get some experience in the Taxidermy field with him.
I`m looking forward to it, but it`s going to be very strange at first; especially because it`ll be something completely new and different to me. So i`m a little bit panicky about meeting him and talking about job opportunities, but at the same time i`m pretty excited because i get to meet a real artists who runs his own business.

Just thought i would drop a quick update for you guys since this is going to be a pretty big deal for me right now since i`m quite nervvous and shy around other people, especially since i`ll need to make a good impression on this guy... Oh god help me...



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1st, July: UK melt down, we`re like pedos in nurseries...

So the rest of the world thinks that us English are going slightly insane...

So to everyone else this is normal summery weather, it`s currently 30 degrees; so we`re used to about 20- 15 degrees. So apparently us English look slightly insane right now and other countries are finding it quite funny..
I don`t blame you all.

It`s plastered all over the Internet, on news papers and all over social media... Yes; we get that this is the hottest day in nine years and that none of us can keep cold right now, but it`s going a little bit too far. Luckily i haven`t burnt at all, i`m quite pale so you`ll be able to tell when i have burnt up; that`s even if it is just a tiny bit of sunburn i get.

I`ve done literally no work at all in the past two days, it`s too hot to do anything. Even whilst i was asleep last night it as 25 degrees... That`s wayyyy to hot for England during the summer, never mind in the middle of the night.
So nothing has actually happened, we`ve been stuck in a small, enclosed, sweaty art room for the past two days and we`ve all been very close to passing out. Even as i write this, i`m sat in front of a fan and i just cannot keep cool. Apparently there are going to be some storms in the next few days too, so there will be nothing uploaded on here for a few more days... Maybe Sunday? Or something? I dunno... Hopefully soon ish as i`m spending the weekend with my boyfriend again, so there should be at lest a few things to discuss with you guys, if not; then check back in a week and see if i`m still alive ^.^


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