Happy Mothers Day to all incredible mothers out there. I cheers to you, with my tea.
I don't have much to show for this week. It's been a whole lot of stuff. So here is the painting i will call complete, to start things off. (complete... for now, kinda)
I applied to a couple more competitions and scholarships and grants this week including the ARC and Florence Academy summer one. Getting that done before i leave this week when i no longer have direct access to a computer. For blog updates i intend on looking for an internet cafe abroad. I kinda consider these a part of 'the job'.
I've gotten pretty used to rejection as an artist at this point, but sometimes they can still hit. So I got declined for the Repin Academy summer program (they said they filled up mid march), which to me was a big enough bummer to blow a whole day on being upset by. Which is great because i was trying to finish up the portrait i posted last week and poo pooed that thing to hell. Poo pooed.
So now i'm trying to find out about the Repin year prep program. Yea... i want to go, or enroll full time in an academy here. Which, again, without financial aid is not happening so back to frustrating square one. Poo poo. But here's to hoping to finally landing one of these grant things so i can attend school.
Alot of work this week since i'm going to have to pay bills while i'm abroad, some modeling for Kelly McGraws class. Here are his demos. I'll put it out there that he's a pretty awesome guy too.
http://calartinst.com/
Planning my Europtrip has been an adventure, and most certainly will remain so. I'm giving shout outs to people i know abroad to see what's up. I'll be meeting with some. So far, yea, A weekend in Germnay, browsing parks and beers and painting (and drawing) :), got a couple buddies out there so that'll be cool. Then i'm off to a beachy stretch in Spain for a week which will be fantastic. I really wanted to rummage the remainder of Spain but unfortunately that will have to be rainchecked, :( never the less i'll enjoy every minute of being there. After this part of my journey everything is about 'wingin it'. So there will be Italy, there will be France, i hope for Switzerland, and perhaps Greece. Russia ofcourse is now off the books. Given the opportunity though i would go everywhere, but i'm also very fond of chillin in a location and getting to know it, relax, and paint, draw. Thanks for all those helping me out with details of the trip. Life would be more difficult without good people.
Back to work. Got some freelance stuff i gotta finish and ship so i can uhh, pack on monday.
If you ever travel, anywhere, in country, out of country, whatever, this is an awesome resource;
https://www.airbnb.com/?af=469641&c=brdsearch_d_engus_na_na_hp_txt
This week on stuff that's cool;
NOVA, ever watched it? Yea, it's cool.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/search/results/page/1?q=&x=14&y=10&facet[]=dc.type%3A%22Full+Episode%22
