Back at uni today but I dont have to be in till 2pm. I have been thinking back on my education and I have always wanted to go into art or interestingly enough science, in secondary school I lost my passion for it and pursued art as my main subject. I remember people asking me if I had a plan B but art at first was my plan B while singing was my plan A before I developed stage fright (thank you bullies). But now Im never asked if I have a back up plan. People ask me why did I start drawing? Do you remember youre first drawing? I was drawing from back when I was in nappies according to my parents, and by the time I was 4 or 5 they had this HUGE box of artwork I had done they had to throw some of it away to make way for my newer better stuff. So they let me select the peices I wanted to keep. Art has always been something I enjoyed. I remember going on holiday which would normally contain some long car journeys, Im sure most kids would have asked for something different to keep them preoccupied but I always asked for a pen and paper and my gameboy color, sometimes I would not touch the gameboy for the whole journey which was a feat since my parents swore I was glued to that thing. When I was older I would draw and people who would call me any name they could possibly concoct would stop and watch, enjoy and even complement my drawing. One moment that I still remember is this one guy in my form came up to me and said those drawing are you I was quite baffled he continued one thing I have noticed is the characters you draw never smile, you arent happy are you?. It suprised me that someone could actually pick that up from my drawings. I wasnt happy I hated school, I hated the bullying, I hated most the teachers for looking down their noses at me because is wasnt overly keen on academic subjects and treated me like I was slow because of my lack of enthusiasm. I remember going home after school and not feeling any relief at all because I knew I had to go back to the same thing the next day, my weekends were like that too Saturday I felt some relief all be it minimal, and Sundays I would be worked up because of school the next day. Without my drawing during that period of time Im sure I would be clinically insane because of the lack of relief which I gained through drawing. College was when I first started to see I could make a living from this (Im still working towards this goal). I chose Double Art and English Language initially I later swapped English with Photography the less said about that the better. And now I do art at a degree level and do stalls when and where I can. The monetary gain is nice but I just like getting my work out there for people to enjoy, Im still somewhat of a novice when it comes to stalls but from the ones I had done my experiences have been overwhelmingly positive.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:33:29 +0000
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