Crisis point

After a very frank discussion with my tutor( she is right actually) I am a very worried person but stepped up  and taken on board everything she had to say. Regarding the artists I have been talking about Ghader Amer and Tracey Emin for example I haven't really explained how they relate to my own work. I don't explore very personal feelings. I don't talk about pornography, sexuality,so what messages to I portray in my art.MY ART belongs to me I do say a message and as my tutor says it is a very quiet message. She also says I have to throw away the rose coloured spectacles. I know I do and I will starting from today. I did cry but it was good I really need to stop the pretty stuff and make art  my art and I need to explore the difference between art and craft otherwise I will be destined to be in evening classes with old ladies painting flowers...................I don't want that.......... I'd rather give up and do a hairdressing course..........no disrespect to hairdressers.
    

PS. The picture is the open cast (disused mine) near my parent's house. I will continue to put my heart and soul in to this project and continue to work very hard I did feel a bit disheartened and have a couple of days pondering, but like the swans in the picture I appear to look serene but the legs underneath are paddling away.

Monday again

Another Monday and I have been busy doing some research about the embroideries of Ghada Amer and Tracey Emin two very different women  with very but with some similarities when it comes to some of the subject matter and medium they are not as poles apart as I first thought.I am still working on my embroidery but finding it very hard to work on the tiny detailed work with a very bad cough and not very hygienic if I get the embroidery mixed up with my hanky.Tomorrow is my birthday and hopefully I will be left quietly to get on with my art project and that will be the best present ever just time to work.

Tuesday May 7th

Today I must have worked over eight hours on the project and I'm still at it. Still frustrated with the printer. It is driving me mad so in the morning before college I'm going to pop into boots and get some prints done so I can get them in my sketch book because they are recording the making process of my work.I will put them on here so that's good!I have done the etching on the glass culett, my hand is really hurting now but it's done and I think it will be ok.I am now going to have a rest ad watch some trash on the tv and get ready for the early start tomorrow.

The Shed

I just couldn't concentrate in the messy work room/shed or actually now I really should call it a studio. I packed away the fabric and patterns things ,I'm not going to use very often. I now have a clear mind I have found lost glass etchers(crucial to the project) lost camera lead and a long lost memory stick so I feel a whole lot better. Don't get me wrong I have been working very hard but now there is no stopping me .Today I have been looking at typography with view to etching on the glass cullet. I'm going to keep it simple and somewhere I have a book which belonged to my late father in law George, I just have to look on all the bookshelves.First I must practice on some old jam jars .