Confession Of Teaholic

 I have to confess that I'm having an addiction to tea. I love all kinds of tea and I have a lot in my secret drawer. It's not necessary a bad thing, because when I want to drink something refreshing, I go for the fruit one, when I want to feel cozy I usually choose green or earl grey. And as a student of art, I also love good design, so I've been more than nicely surprised when I found new adorable design of tea boxes from Marks&Spencer. I was trying to find a designer, but I failed. My searching skills are not as I wish them to be, obviously. At least a picture.

 And while I'm already talking about drinking tea, comes to my mind, that you need a good mug if you want to enjoy your cup of tea. I have a couple of mugs in my kitchen and for some reason they are all somehow broken. One is leaking from the bottom and my newest one has chipped top. Hand made mug, what a pity! I would need a fairy to fix all my broken mugs. 

 Ok we have tea, perfect mug and what else? Because drinking tea is ritual, that's for sure. Well I'm from the city of ginger bread so I love the flavor of ginger, anise and honey... ginger bread is  perfect choice. Well since I have the dough in the fridge still, I had to buy one, so I went to Ikea and got their traditional swedish ginger bread cookies. I love their cookies! and seems like I'm nicely set up for a break of teaholic. And how do you enjoy your cozy moments? 

Getting a Bit Closer To Exams...

 Students' life is easy when you look at it from the perspective of someone who's not a student, but let me tell you something, it's one of the hardest things I know in my life. Just imagine this: you have to get up early because of the morning class, than you go get some cheap food because as a student you really can't afford eating at the restaurant every day. The other task day gives you is to wait three hours for another class, well you can spend it in the library, playing games, working on your homework, there's no such point of going home for half an hour and than travel by public transportation back to school. Late in the afternoon you go home and try to learn something because your exams are getting closer and you have to take care of all "To Do's"
 Well in the art schools it's little bit different. You don't have get up so early every single day, but you certainly get home very late. You can make your own schedule with some classes, like for example drawing and go there when it's most convenient for you. Other classes might seem very easy since you are not sitting in the desk listening some boring lecture about current situation in economy. The point of our classes is to discuss works, ideas and push each other further. Yes who wouldn't like this comparing to the other, but on the other hand, it can be quite frustrating. You come up with idea, idea, which you think is great and you start to talk about it and argue about it and than they will shut your idea down, or at least make you think it's the biggest piece of crap. And this repeats another meeting, and another and than you are just drowned, leaving school with bad thoughts. And you know it's harder and harder to get back there and tell something because of the fear again. Is this really how it's going to work?
 I had this little dream to be exceptional, the youngest and feminine but still respected in the mostly male collective. Now I just want to succeed with exams and maybe next year I could do something exceptional. I started with personal topics and yeah I guess I'm working on it... but it hurts when someone says it's not interesting at all and it's the same all female artists do. I am woman, I think like a woman, there's no need for me to act like a man and why does it have to be just wrong? I'm sick of all this idea when woman uses feelings she's weak and lame.
 Anyway, here I am... writing a post instead of thinking how to do the project, because to be honest I am lost as I never was.

Night Photography

I got this idea little while ago... it was night and I had very unusual light in my room and since I couldn't fall asleep, I decided to take a picture of me, while sleeping. You know tripod and long exposure and here we go! Unfortunately the longest time of my camera's shutter speed is 30 sec. maybe if it was longer, I wouldn't have such a dark shots, but truth is it's suitable to the night. I just wish it would capture for example an hour. I guess I will have to go back to 1870... 

Way Too Much To Do And Nothing Is Done!

Well the title speak for itself. Semestral works with exams are getting closer by every day and I feel like I have nothing done. I'm used for different process from studying photography and since here it's all more about the concept, it feels like I really have nothing done. I'm just keep thinking and writing down my ideas  and thinking even more, but I feel stuck. With every consultation we have I feel worse and worse since they started to push more. I leave the school with thoughts that the idea was absolutely stupid and so am I. 
Well tomorrow again... Let's do some art. 

I've been doing some time management...

Winter In Prague

 Yesterday I've had the most awkward awaking so far, well except the one when my two neighbors woke me up at 3 a.m. having sex with some strange man. This time I woke up and looked out of my window. It was just all cover with snow! I didn't expect, that snow will last on the "heated" (I have heating right under it) window will keep the snow. I opened it and our "100 roofs of Mother Prague" were covered in snow, and since I live at the attic, my roof was too. Imagine or not, winter is back!
I like winter usually only at the beginning of the season and in February I start to curse, saying I want warm weather again. But isn't it beautiful to have the white snow everywhere? Days like these make me feel very cozy and stay in the bed and since I'm ill again, I had the chance to stay in bed and feel nice and warm. I made myself chicken soup and watched Twin Peaks, worked on some school projects and thought about getting an Etsy account. So with that, do you think it's a good idea? Selling my pictures and drawings or something else. Well I'll see what decisions future will bring.

So I will give you all good advice: Go get cozy, get a hot chocolate and cuddle with somebody you care for, if you can. 

T.

Long Time Again....

I know, I know.
I'm definitely not a good blogger.
Well at least some posts about what I've been doing. I should keep you updated.


So starting with pumpkin carving which I've done for the first time in my life. I've never eaten pumpkin pie and never carved a pumpkin. Well 20 years of age is probably good time to start, so I made up my mind and did it. And since I love Tim Burton this time of year (This is halloween, this is halloween, halloween, ...who wouldn't like it?) I got inspired and carved a little Jack's face. Mind you, I live in Czech Republic and we have no tools for this, except knives. Well maybe I could find some somewhere, somehow, in some special place, but honestly, what for? I think I did a good job with knife only.

And that was probably the only very free thing I've done. School and troubles were overtaking my life and I got little bit stuck. In any event, I had to do my homework, which was mostly drawing and preparation for drawing. I suck in this field and since my drawing class is just merged with all other studios like sculpting and painting, it makes my life harder. Imagine me standing in the class and drawing like a freshman at high school when everyone else is just doing absolutely admiring work. 

But to my homework. I had to draw lips... Well you can see result here:

Back To School

What a cliché to write that three words. I mean, if you follow some other blogs, you might have seen it for whole September. Sorry for that, next time I'll try to be more original...

Anyway it's true and I'm back in the process. You know, getting up early, going to sleep late, working for school, thinking of some ideas. Pretty exhausting, that's for sure. I have feeling like I haven't slept in a quite while. Of course I did. It's just that my body is not used to it.

Even I was expecting some kind of introduction, we were thrown to the system pretty quickly, started with figural drawing which I wanted to show you but I won't, since it didn't ended up well. The other things I could show you are still not done, except cleaning up the studio so.. you will have to wait...
Moment of honesty, I'm super excited about it...

YAY...

If you expected usual pics quality, well forget about it... It's a cell

Have a great day readers