Art and crafts time kiddos!
I woke up at five this morning, and the sun was already up. It's things like this that make me feel like I've wasted a lot of my time here already and encourage me to draw, paint, etc. I've been in London over a month now, and I have hardly done anything touristy at all. I've been meaning to go to Trafalgar square and see the changing of the horse guards and the parade they have every morning and then go to the national gallery and then go grab a pint at the red lion. See I've planned this whole day weeks ago. Have I gone? No. But I have been to the art store three times in Islington. I guess i'm just too invloved in my sad little life that I constantly ignore the real world. Plus every time I drink in public here I almost get arrested. I have a problem with looking the wrong way when I cross the street and have caused wrecks becuase of it. Woops. Stupid American. I've even been told to go back to the states. What do I do? I drunkenly say I'm sorry, and teeter off. It was an honest mistake. I'm pretty sure the car was ok, I think she was just scared she "almost killed me". She would have missed me anyway. I am doomed to be the sole survivor of self destruction. Seriously, I have a lot of dead friends.
I was having a conversation with the Japs in my dorm about world war two. Now I know this may sound like a sticky subject, but we were actually able to have a civilized conversation about bad things each other's country did and none of us even got upset. It started when one of them said " you know we have to pay china 50 million pounds a year because of what we did to them in WWII?" I did not know this, but I knew the japs were pretty damn brutal during their stint in the war, so I said " well you guys were pretty mean. You raped a lot of woman and children and treated POW's like dogs. I think war is a boy's bussines. Not many girls are rushing out to buy guns and joining the army to fight. So leave women and children out of war. It's a solider's game, not a civilian business." ( i know this isn't entirely true when it comes to economics of war but as far as invasions go this holds true). Then they said it. " Well what about America? You just blast entire cities flat with bombs and don't care who lives there" Mind you this was said in a nonchalant tone, completely unargumentative. Just like stating a fact. So I said in the same tone and manner, " well you guys asked for it. Didn't America give you guns and teach you to shoot?" "Yes" they said almost in unison. " "Then you guys turn around and bomb the hell out of Pearl harbor. We didn't even want to be in the stupid war in the first place. " And they agreed. And I agreed we bomb the hell out of shit we don't like a whole lot. It was basic guilt free admission. I never thought of myself as particularly patriotic. I'm not even registered to vote. I don't beleive in voting. That's another post entirely though. I drew this picture this morning. I scanned it in, and like usuall my scanner cropped the image without me telling it to, and even though I tried like 20 times for it to scan the whole picture it still turned out cropped funny. I think it has something to do with the size of my clipboard. I'm not sure how to change that.
It's a slef portrait. But those of you who know me would know that by my plethora of ugly tattoos. Oh I bought new markers. As seen in the picture above. I haven't colored with markers since grade school. I
So here. I made this for you.
I've also started a new painting. Since none of my paints have arrived from home yet and the American dollar is crap, I could only afford to buy 5 tubes of paint. And I don't have a palate so I used an old chocolate box. I thought it was pretty so I took a picture. The paint kind of looks like candy upclose. That sounds like a good idea for a chocolate specialits "a box of chocolates in all the colors of the rainbow that look like paint globs. They could be called "Artisan chocolates" This is for you.
This is my painting so far. It looks too sweet. I need to darken it up a bit and add more detail to the tree line. I'm going to put a character in the middle as soon as I figure out what I want there. I didn't really plan this painting out. Which is unlike me. I'm just kind of playing it by ear, which presents some problems (as you can see) but it's still refreshing.
I bought this cereal yesterday because it had a super cute box. So here, enjoy my cereal.
