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I started drawing again recently. Because drawing is awesome. I’ll upload it when I’ve finished but here’s my other stuff. Art became fun for me after school was over because getting a C for my AS levels annoyed me, and the subject was thereafter dropped. Point. How does an art teacher tell a student they don’t deserve an A when the artists up on the wall at places like the MoMA produce things like “Abstract Painting“?

We’re taught about tone, form, ’seeing not just looking’, scale, subject, intention. We were taught things like sticking a pencil in the air in front of us to get the right angles which should then be brought down to the piece of paper in front of us. Draw and paint what you see. Stop imagining things you want to paint because it doesn’t look like that. People don’t have lines around their faces right…so how should you actually go about drawing a face?

The best students still got A’s though. But how can you define ‘best’ in the context of art? They got A’s because they produced amazing looking things for their bracket. Seriously though, don’t think that you can really.

Art should be about perception. I saw a cool image once that said:

MODERN ART = I COULD HAVE DONE THAT + YEAH BUT YOU DIDN’T

Question. How does a student become a famous artist? How do they make it at MoMA or the guggenheim? Do they paint how they are told to paint and then produce odd things when they’ve made it? No idea. If Monet’s child drew scribbles why does Rob see baby scribbles and walk away while Bob see’s the stroke of a future artistic genius and offers squillions of Pounds for the paper?

Because art is bullshit.

Art should be whatever we want it to be and if we’re told we’re not meant to take art on further, then take a look around in your local modern art gallery or museum.

Isn’t it?

Isn’t it strange when you meet someone that you know relatively well and see relatively often in a place completely out of context and unusual….to the extent that you possibly won’t even recognise them in this new context?  And then it clicks. Wait you’re my friend, hey.

Here is my holiday stress graph. They do for me it would seem….

From Jessica Hagy’s blog again – loved this one. Seriously, buy her book its really interesting!

In short, yes! Its a great weekend (or week) in the forest where you get to do as much or as little as you want, which makes it as expensive or ‘cheap’ as you want. I say cheap loosely since it depends on villa deals. You have to pay for nearly all activities (bar swimming) and you either take your bikes with you or hire them while you’re there.

The misconceptions:

1. Center Parcs is not a ’slightly better version of Butlins’. It is totally different and something for everyone.
2. No, not everything is in that dome you keep seeing pictures of. Only the pool is in there.
3. The villa’s are of really good quality – but I would recommend going for executive if you can. Its nicer.

What I love about CP:
1. You say goodbye to your car after you offload – from then on its cycling in the forest to get wherever you want to go – its great fun – and everything you need is there (supermarket, restaurants, activities, bunnies etc…)
2. If you like watersports, its there. If you like indoor sports (badminton, squash, table tennis) its there. If you like random things like fencing, its there. If you like spa’s, they have an amazing spa.
3. You can’t get those kind of views in London, you’re in the forest with beautiful lakes and animals! Lots of little bunny rabbits run around as well.
4. You can choose from four CP’s – and they are in the process of building a 5th slightly nearer to London. The one we went to was in Thetford, Suffolk. If you go, go in the summer because you don’t really want to be screwed by the rain…Either way, will definately be going back!

Found this via the Indexed blog. Its so true!

I can probably think of quite a few people who this applies to.
In the words of Barack, you can’t put lipstick on a pig – it’s still a pig