Ben's Birthday!!!

We went to Ben's birthday today!!!
It is his first birthday.
We had drinks and nibblies and enjoyed ourselves - maybe a little too much!!
After all - the party is about the adults too!
Ben got a lot of presents and I'm sure will enjoy them a lot. He got to play with his cousins Joshua and Matthew and his sister Katherine too, while the adults drank lots and fed our faces with lovely salads and steak and sausages!!
I think it was a good time had by all!!!
Now I feel like a nanna nap!!!

Ben 

Digger Dog 

Ben 

Michelle and Matthew 

Matthew 

birthday cake 

Katherine 

mother and son 

family photo 

birthday boy!! 

hehehehehehehe...hahahahahaha 

bit of humour

Okay, I know that i said that I would try and find something intelligent to write and all but i saw this image - it was emailed to me, and I thought that it was rather funny -and as bird flu is an international crisis, maybe other people in other countries would see the image and be able to enjoy it as much as I!!

I have been loking at some of the other blogs that are around, just to see what people are doing with them and what they write about.
Alart from the ones that are in another language, I have found some really good ones. Ones that people use to write books, or write their experiences in the form of a story for those who look at these interesting pieces of literature.
I on the other hand have used this blog for the purposes of self illimination of negative energy - in other words - to bitch and moan!!
So I thought that seeming I am now on holidays from the ever oppressive factory of creative outlet, that I would try and write about something interesting for once - or at least try and make the things I write about more interesting for you, the reader. That is if anyone actually reads this thing anymore!!
Then I suppose that there would be no point in me doing this other than self satisfaction, and I would be at squar one yet again!!
Not that i am saying that there isn't anything wrong with self satisfaction or gratification - but there is more to life!!
So here goes!!! Stay tuned for something a little more exciting than baked beans and toast!!

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here it is - tell me what YOU think. Is it the piece of puss that they say it is?? 

Painting Critique

Well it is official according to the dimwits at art college - I can't paint!!

I had my critique on Tuesday and it went just the way I expected it to. They have not liked my work from the get go. When i was explaining my idea, they were like "Interesting". Then I showed them some of the studies that I have been doing and they did not like them that much. Well, one teacher thought that they were good. The other was like- yuck!!!
So then it came to critique and the people who had gone before me were getting amazing critiques and some of them deserved them - others did not - so I thought that maybe she was in a good mood. Then they said they would do mine.

GREAT!!!!........................................................NOT!!!!!

So here we go....I read my artists statement which tells them what it is all about. They looked at the body of work that i had done and pretty much said that it was not successful. They told me that the smaller figure in the background was comical, that the face in the foreground does not work and should not be there and I would have been better to place it on another canvas or done two more with them either side of the long canvas.
They said that it would have been better maybe to paint a scarecrow instead of the small figure in the background and that is it.
In other words....It would have been better if I did another painting entirely!!
Then she said"you haven't painted bfore have you?"
I corrected her and yes "ah, yes"
then she said that she thought I had told her that I have not painted before.
Little does she know that I have sold work before so.......
But there you have it!!!
Afterward, a lot of the people I go to college with told me that they liked the work and did not know what the hell they were going on about.

I suppose I expected it and really when it comes down to it I am not going there for painting, I am going there for Gold and silversmithing as I know what I want to paint and how I want to paint it, so they can go a shove it where the sun don't shine!!!