I was originally going to write this blog about a manboy called Charlie who I once played footsie with under a table while we were having lunch. Then I thought that would be weird and so refrained.
In other news I get to meet New York Times Best-selling author John Green in three days! I am very excited about this. But I will talk more about this once I’ve actually met him.
On to the main body of this post. As most of you know I took GCSE Art. I chose it because I like art and because I’d heard that you were allowed to listen to your iPod during the exam. What I didn’t know was that an awful lot of Art GCSE consists of writing about other people’s artwork. Sometimes this caused me to end up writing fairly strange things when a deadline was coming up and so I was just trying to fill to page as quickly as I could. Here are so of my words of wisdom from my pages about Gary Hume:
“I do not like Hume’s work. I simply do not like it. I think that it is Ugly, I think that it is Bland and I simply do not like it. Here are some more things I don’t like:
- His use of colour
- His subject matter
- His whole style
I have come to the conclusion that I would rather eat the paint I am going to use in my final piece then use it to paint my piece in the style of Gary Hume. I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice guy and he’s talented but I just personally hate his work.
Well, maybe HATE is too strong a word. Infact I quite like the piece on the right. I don’t think it’s particularly good I just think that the blue blobby thing looks cute. It’s a bit like some king of Amoeba floating in an algae filled pond. And I have a soft spot for Amoeba. However this is THE only piece of Hume’s work that I have found I even vaguely like.
I have painted a female Amoeba below to go with Hume’s Amoeba that I have decided is male as it is blue and I am in a stereotypical mood. I think what makes the cute is the size, shape and distance apart of the eyes. I spent a long time of that.”
I then went on to fill almost a whole page with a block colour painting of a lilac Amoeba. And that my friends is some A* GCSE artwork.
On a different note entirely my mother bought a miniature cheese grater today and it made me smile.
Amen and Out
