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[Faith-and-Hope]

Hi @Zoe7 @Shaz51 ..... anyone else interested ....

Had my first real day at Art School today.  It started with an introduction to the course,receiving our timetables, receiving our student-subsidised art materials 🎉 and being assigned lockers and storage to keep them in.

We had a tour of the studios to see where we will be working, and found the coffee shop ☕️💕

Next was a talk about workplace safety and being issued the guidelines.

After stopping for lunch 😋 we were introduced to our Art Studies teacher.  They are teaching art by dividing it into subject topics rather than by a timeline of art history, and we are to develop projects from the materials presented.

The other people in the course seem nice.  We chatted a little,  it there wasn’t a lot of time for it between everything else we were doing.  I managed to name-label everything in the art materials before putting it away.  It was good to get that out of the way there, and not have to bring much home .....

I did, however, bring home the Visual diary they gave us ..... some fool provided me with chalk pastels and a visual diary ..... c’mon ..... that wasn’t going to see the day out without something in it ..... lol ..... 😂

[Zoe7]

I presently have a huge smile from ear to ear @Faith-and-Hope ...and maybe just a tear or two in my eyes because of how excited you sound 

...and seriously - pastels and a visual diary - that DEFINITELY wasn't going to last long at all ...so happy for you Hon 

[Faith-and-Hope]

Thank you @Zoe7.

It is feeling like my home-away-from-home from Day 1 .....

[Zoe7]

Could not be happier for you @Faith-and-Hope 

How many days a week are you there?

[Faith-and-Hope]

Four, but the fifth will be a study day anyway ....

Don’t worry, have study breaks and Internet 😁

@Zoe7

[Zoe7]

haha - you knew what I was thinking @Faith-and-Hope lol

I am actually more happy for you to be doing something you love and having a space you can do it with other like-minded people than I am concerned about myself here Hon. I told you last night - I will be ok - I am even working again on a return to work in some capacity this year - the rest of the time I will look out for you and when you 'pop up' it will be like a nice surprise lol

[Shaz51]

@Faith-and-Hope, it makes me soo happy to hear you are happy

[Faith-and-Hope]

This is one of Picasso’s early works @Zoe7 .... and there is a blue nude that is a personal favourite .... but assuming I can’t post it here.

I find this one very interesting .... and probably a first step away from the softness and light-engagement of the impressionist work above.  There is an intrigue and sense of balance to it .....

This one I have cropped as it was semi-nude, but this is a further progression into cubism, but still appealing to me.

[Zoe7]

Will come back to these in the morning @Faith-and-Hope - look forward to seeing them 

[Zoe7]

I tend to like the 'softer' images @Faith-and-Hope - definitely more impressionism than cubism. I find the stronger lines and shapes less appealing but in saying that there are some abstract painters that I do like - especially Kadinsky - love the colour in his works.