Back Home

Well I'm back home, with the vibrant greens, chilling winds, harsh accents and showering skys. While looking for a job (which is turning out to be a quest fit for Indiana Jones) I am trying to sketch and doodle different ideas for my direction next year, it gets complicated very easily though.With the stress of having no money, no social life and a constant threat of severe boredom, means that there is nothing concrete I have come up with. Someone suggested to me the other day to start drawing caricatures and sell them on the seafront in my town. I tried out a couple of quick undistiguished mark making and exaggerated forms, I didn't much care for them. It may evolve into a money making venture but at the moment I do not want to be the guy who sits on the pavement, obeying the commands of the general public to create 'An Art', not that I have anything against the demand and supply of art for the public, but being an artist that is available to all and not losing the artists integrity along the way is, to me, the essence of art.
Overall, I am planning on building up a Summer portfolio of work, possibly exhibiting it at the end of Summer before Uni starts again. Which means I am going to have to learn all the tricks of the trade. Selecting venues, cheap advertising, and creating some kind of interest and rappore with whomever may come.
Well, you gotta do something with your spare time i suppose.
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An end to a beginning, sadly

Ok, I have only just created the blog so it may take a while to get it up and running the way I want. Plus at the moment the academic year is coming to an end, so the late nights, copious amounts of coffee and screaming at sketchbooks will be picking its pace up. I will get round to it eventually, but I plan to post some of the interesting arguments, theories and the sheer amount of art and its never ending intricacies and confusion involved in it.
But for now it's time to buckle in for a scary rollercoaster of disappointment, excitment, fear, loss of sanity and overall panic as the term comes to an end.
Watch this space............