Nice work there,
tsq!
I just finished a three day project, but I have no idea what to call it. Any suggestions:
That looks fantastic there.
I'm rubbish with naming things, me I wouldn't really give it a name to do it justice. Maybe some unique identifier like "Picturesque Water Feature #347" or something.
I never kept any of my art work from school. I got mostly A grades in the subject, but didn't enjoy it enough to choose it as an option. My grades were mostly for abstract drawings, since whenever paint was involved, I was never happy with the result, so I tended to avoid them. I was best at ceramics though.
I felt that most school art work from the seniors that was on display, would look messy and ragged somehow. And I was rather turned off the subject by those displays. It probably influenced why I chose to not take the subject as an option, thinking that if this is the sort of stuff I'd be expected to produce, then I really wouldn't want to.
I think I was kind of discouraged from doing art seriously in school. I was never the best at painting, although my art teacher in 1st year of secondary school did like my use of shade in my paintings, and texture in a poster design I did that year. I was put off it a lot on second year (mostly because it clashed with my music lessons) although we also did "graphic communication" (i.e. technical drawing) that year which I enjoyed, and I remember my teacher also appreciated the artistic spins I put into those things. I never really got into art (in terms of creating works and things) anymore, and dropped it fairly quickly as a school subject.
Sadly, today my artistic work consists of "comedic" attempts at photoshopping and avatar creation (and even then, my artistic program of choice doesn't work all that well on Vista).
And I know I'm going off topic here, but I'd just like to add one thing:
Music class was my favourite subject at school. I never learned to play any musical instruments (besides the classroom favourite, the recorder) but I found it such a cheerful subject... teacher would play the piano and we'd have to listen out for the chord changes. Or we'd be given a chord sequence and had to fit a melody to it. All fun things
My music teacher said I had a rare gift for music, saying that I intuitively understood the subject, and could identify notes.
Hah, I almost went into the music program, but for singing. I applied to both the vocal program and the drama program, but I'm glad I chose the latter.
I didn't really like the "early" music classes in any of my schools - mostly it was an excuse to muck around and play any old thing. Me, I had already taken up musical instrument and singing lessons by that time (it was my parents' suggestion, I didn't understand it at the time although I did admit at the time that it would have been a cool thing to learn in order to impress my friends, little knowing how much effort it would require
), and I admit I had learned so much more about music theory, music history, and the other neat little nuances of music, and had taken part in orchestras (classical and "local" traditional music) and choirs that, having had all this experience, I felt it would be a bit of a waste to devote my additional studies to something I was doing in my spare time anyway, hence I decided to drop music as a school subject fairly early.
It's a shame as in the more senior classes most of the students took things seriously, and became dedicated musicians of various instruments, and even excellent composers of music. (One girl composed a "horror"-style string piece which we once played for her as part of a school music writing competition she was taking part in. I can't remember if she won or not.) I even sat in a music class in my final year of school where the lesson was to listen to various pieces of different musical styles (the ones I got were classical [the final movement of Sibelius's 5th Symphony, in fact
] and reggae) and identify as many unique things about it (the rhythm, tempo, musical tone, the types of instruments used, etc.).
In the end, I decided to pursue a different career, promising myself not to give up the music in later years. And to a certain extent, I kept it going in Uni, although to a lesser extent nowadays where learning to play the guitar has proven useful but ultimately futile.
Music class was my favourite subject at school.
So why didn't you pursue it?
I would have been expected to learn an instrument, which didn't appeal to me. I realised that the part of the class I enjoyed most was composition rather than playing the instruments... Then I discovered sequencer software.
I always preferred performance to creation, although I do remember my first piano compositions when I was 5.
Then I discovered mash-ups... oh what a can of worms that was...
But I digress...
Great colour.
