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Mar. 14th, 2008 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngreyThis morning when I was sitting on the bus I was struck with a wonderful epiphany- in a couple weeks I will be signing up for classes for the last time! Next year is the END! It feels like I've been at school for several lifetimes, and I can't wait to try living in the real world for a while. Even if I'm working a crappy part-time job while trying to be an artist on the side... even if I can barely make ends meet... at least I won't have homework. I know the grass is always greener on the other side, but this time I'm convinced it's true. Being graduated will be wonderful... I just have to get through one more year. Just one more year.
I don't think I'll be too disappointed with post-graduation life when it rolls around, even if it isn't all sunshine and roses. I honestly can't conceive what it must be like NOT to be poor, and even if I don't go on to great things right away, as long as I can pay my bills and can afford to fill up my tank with gas and still have a tiny bit left over, I'll be content.
Life continues apace as always. I don't have pictures of anything I've done lately, but the ornate metal headphones are done, paintings are being (slowly) cranked out, and though I'm behind on my independent study costumes at least there is visible progress. I'm making the silliest dress right now. It's somewhat late Elizabethan with a wheel farthingale and drum-shaped skirt, and the whole thing is pink. Pink velveteen, darker pink accents, pink lace, pink trim, pink hat, sparkley beads... the whole thing is ridiculously fun and incredibly nauseating.
Come to think of it, the silly pink dress fits very well with whatever odd, romantic phase I'm going through. The painting I'm doing right now has a girl walking across a sunny meadow in a pretty dress with flowers in her curly hair and a bird on her finger. I think I could probably make it a bit more sickeningly sweet if I tried very hard, and, in fact, am planing on making a painting that's nothing but disgustingly cute for my next project. Think princesses and rosebushes and a fountain and birds and bunnies in tiaras and pink and ruffles and lace and aren't you already about to vomit? Only in a good way, of course. I want to take all these "girly" tendencies and push them to the limit to see what comes out. It might be the most awful thing you could imagine, or it might lead somewhere interesting... I'll just have to wait and see.
I don't think I'll be too disappointed with post-graduation life when it rolls around, even if it isn't all sunshine and roses. I honestly can't conceive what it must be like NOT to be poor, and even if I don't go on to great things right away, as long as I can pay my bills and can afford to fill up my tank with gas and still have a tiny bit left over, I'll be content.
Life continues apace as always. I don't have pictures of anything I've done lately, but the ornate metal headphones are done, paintings are being (slowly) cranked out, and though I'm behind on my independent study costumes at least there is visible progress. I'm making the silliest dress right now. It's somewhat late Elizabethan with a wheel farthingale and drum-shaped skirt, and the whole thing is pink. Pink velveteen, darker pink accents, pink lace, pink trim, pink hat, sparkley beads... the whole thing is ridiculously fun and incredibly nauseating.
Come to think of it, the silly pink dress fits very well with whatever odd, romantic phase I'm going through. The painting I'm doing right now has a girl walking across a sunny meadow in a pretty dress with flowers in her curly hair and a bird on her finger. I think I could probably make it a bit more sickeningly sweet if I tried very hard, and, in fact, am planing on making a painting that's nothing but disgustingly cute for my next project. Think princesses and rosebushes and a fountain and birds and bunnies in tiaras and pink and ruffles and lace and aren't you already about to vomit? Only in a good way, of course. I want to take all these "girly" tendencies and push them to the limit to see what comes out. It might be the most awful thing you could imagine, or it might lead somewhere interesting... I'll just have to wait and see.
