Memory Lane

For those of you film buffs out there, the much-anticipated "One Day" starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess is showing in cinemas near you. I went to see it yesterday with a college friend and you know what? It wasn't too bad. I had read the book and normally films aren't as good as the book but this time, I have to say the director didn't do too bad a job. In fact, I got a bit tearful at certain points of the film. *Ahem...moving on.

It's now 2346 hours and I'm snacking on this:

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's Onken peaches and oats yoghurt with cheerios on a chinese bowl and no I am not ashamed. Who cares that every single calorie will cling to my hips as if it's holding on for dear life? Nobody says "no" to Onken.

Anyway, moving on.

Grrr why is it taking me so long to write this post?! Just started eating pitta bread (wholemeal!) with taramasalata and now watching interview with Hathaway and Sturgess. How do you even pronounce his surname? Now I have fish breath but hey, it doesn't matter because you can't see or smell me!

So. I decided to take a walk down memory lane and go to Hampstead Heath. I went to a secondary school near there. No, not the Catholic school La Sainte Union (we had a much ruder term for them back then) but the girls' comprehensive that is Parliament Hill School for Girls. Makes me shudder just typing the words. It was weird. I hadn't been there since I left sixth form 4 years ago (Yes I'm 22!) I walked through Waterlow Park, past Highgate Cemetery then down the hill, past the Rollin' Rolls shop that sells bacon butties for £1.20. The Egyptian guy who works there is still there but don't think he recognised me. Thankfully I didn't bump into anyone from school. Man, can you imagine the awkwardness?

I walked past the school entrance too and lo and behold, hundreds of year 11's on their lunchbreak, chilling by the gates because they don't actually have a designated area to hang about. To think I was one of them all those years ago...

So that was that. It was, what's the word, cleansing (?) to take that trip. I felt quite emotional, not because I was sad, but because I realised how much I had changed. I mean 4 years, going to art school, parents divorcing, becoming a Christian, going to Bible college, you're bound to change right?

Wow this is turning into a diary! Not sure I like this, sounds a bit self-indulgent. Ok, back to art!

This is me trying to draw people doing normal things. This is quite a poor attempt because I didn't even bother to see what angle the table should be I just gave it a slight slant so you can tell it's 3D and just whacked it on. Otherwise, it's ok I guess. Think I need to work on body proportions.

I was watching Marie Antoinette and felt inspired to draw some French-style ladies. This duchess or countess or some other regal person, don't know, haven't thought much about it, is meant to be drinking wine but I was a bit too heavy-handed with the ink. Hopefully I managed to salvage it ok. Maybe she's holding the glass on her face because she's checking herself for 17th century meningitis?

It may seem that she has an unnaturally bulbous head but I like to call this "stylised".

One of my friend's boyfriend bought a mobile phone case from me on ebay. Yay! More money to pay for CAA fees! He gave me some extra money too because I was selling the case for 1p. So I drew a card for him. It's an image of him and my friend playing badminton. "What's going on with the thing in the middle?" you ask. It's the net aka a mistake I made and tried to cover up.

Ok, so a rather eclectic post. It's like going for a pick'n'mix bag at Woolworths. RIP Woollies.

Ok. It's 1234 hours now, I better check out.

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