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It has been awhile, Holidays over, back to uni. 

Holidays was alright, good sleep ins and spent alot of time with these guys.

Feasting and drinkin' meetin new peeps.
Workin, and actually finished a painting I've been doing from a few days ago for this nice orthodontist lady.

I'm actually really happy as to how this turned out in the end! Currently in a gold frame ready to go~

Did some baking: Green tea n choc cheesecake, Cream cheese donuts, lemon tart.

Did some cleaning that took daysss! Now currently in the same state/mess as before -__-". It can never stay clean. whyyyyy?!?!!

fail Finn.
Attempted some sewing after a long time.. 

Little Boy and Munta.
During the break.. one of my dogs died.. you may remember Fluffy the brown pomeranian dog that ate my sausage. Sad times, was kinda unexpected. r.i.p Fluffy. Now there's these two buggers left! Little boy's so small and cute..

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Boy is beautiful

Backyard six

Embrace the failure- Milton Glaser.

Set up

Astro being a lion. He keeps biting my hand and it hurts.

Anyway today came in to my studio to set up for assessment.

I'm Old Gregg

Do you love me?

Today I woke up and saw my dad's bird sitting outside where it shouldn't be. It was strange cos it's normally in a cage in the backyard and I just stood there staring at it for awhile. Weird

During the afternoon while I was having my little Mighty Boosh marathon I could hear rain pouring from my room so I went out to check it out. It was pouring heaps while the sky was still so bright then it stopped for a short while.

Little boy in his kennel.

Tongue face

Squint

Spent the whole day having our painting tutorials where we spoke about our work and ideas and gained feedback from fellow classmates. Next week is the actual tutorial week where we come in on one day. Sorta have a week off, not really.

Image from my studio space from a few days ago. Quite a mess.

Little Boy

Sacred Blend

Free coffee at San Churro every Wednesday in May.
Wee back from a long day of classes. So starting off with yesterday, actually made it to class on time which is the first. We had the qvm people come in to have a 'casual' chat about our ideas and designs for the project. There were five of them which we have met earlier at the site. It was the first time for us to talk in front of everyone about ideas. I made these 5 little crates(well boxes) made out of mini popsicle sticks and they had a patch of grass sticking out on top (still unfinished). I was not prepared for the speech/presentation for them nor did I care that much. I didn't even really panic until I knew that I was up next(second up). I dislike public speaking but it was actually okay even though I did not talk for long I don't think. They gave positive feedback and suggestions for the actual final work which is to be done before the end of may. urgh. Was such a relief to get that over and done with. Afterwards had the chance to go with other classmates to see Loretta's exhibition, my sculpture teacher, but didn't for some reason. Hanged out with Thu instead. Ate some dumplings and explored myer since its re-opening awhile ago.

Boy&Babykat

Today painting class, showed my teacher more ideas I came with and all. I think she likes my work and me since I've always come in on time since she started teaching. Oh I'm such a good student.. Did a sketchy painting. Two theory class afterwards, managed to stay the whole time which feels good but tiring. I want a little kitty.

Pooka

Been watching movies lately! since I've learnt to borrow them from the library.. Life as a dog, You're my hero, Scott Pilgrim vs the world, Edward scissorhand, Harvey, Sid and Nancy, The science of sleep and now The shining. All in four days. I don't know how these will help me but I'll just call them inspiration. Had a nice meal with Susan today filled with dumplings and noodles.

Started on a new painting also of Fluffy (the right one) and some others.

Another dog painting

Hello
Painting and sculpture class.

This is what I painted today in class! of my lovely dog when he was sick. I just love his expression even though it's sad. Still gotta add colour to his fur patch and fix the body a bit. I think it looks quite good the way it is, colour wise.

When painting I like to look at the progress of of how it came about. So I just snap a pic when I do any changes and see what can be improved. So here is a little before and after shot, also including my other painting from the earlier post that still needs some retouching. It makes me happy seeing that much change from how shitty it was before.

Looking through space

So today had painting class in the morning with a new teacher. Just fixed up some bits and pieces. Nothing special happened today besides an asian lady sitting next to me on the train home offering me some almonds, which was nice. That's all. I like train rides, not really packed ones. You can feel time passing by slowly and you just drift off in another state, well for me. I think it's the only time where I get to think about nothing most of the time even though I think I do that a lot anyways. It's just something..

Working on this atm of my little boy.

My patch of grass leftover from the exhibition! that is pretty awesome. It feels so nice.

The two lovely stooges

Holla boy

My baby boy was sick yesterday :( He would just sit in a little corner far away from where he would normally sit. Apparently I think he had a rash near his bottom and he stank! so gave him a wash. It was irritating watching my parents cut his hair cos it was getting in the way and spray this thing that stings on the area. Oh I could feel his pain. He is all better today though! so it's all good. Spent the day in the studio painting from 9:30 to 3:30ish. My teacher is such an inspirational nice man.

Blank&Unblank film

Oh my, where is his head? I seriously don't know. So odd.

Started class yesterday and we got allocated our little studio spaces and today I went to the wrong class. Was such a nice day! wanted to stay out longer but didn't know what to do besides to sit on the grass.

Anyways here's my first sketch I did on the train this year.

My sad self and my roll of film had turned out BLANK! I was looking forward to it too. I should've expected it since it was expired film from 1987 but I read that it still works well anyways. Thinking about it now, it feels like my friend and I have just been taking snaps with a toy cam or something. Ah well.

These are some snaps taken the first time using the same cam with the expired film. Just testing out the cam which is Hanimex something.. I forgot.

Backyard friends

Had a barbeque on this 40degree day! Was soo good, all this steak, lamb chops, chicken and corn. mmm meat. Too bad I don't have any pictures of that but here are just some snapshots of my friends in the backyard!