Ahoj! I'm back!!! Over the past 3 weeks or so I've been traveling in the Czech Republic and Italy with some friends and thus why I have not uploaded or responded or done anything revolving the internet.

-The trip
Thanks to an 8 hour lay-over in at the Dublin airport, the unofficial start to the trip was there, looking at Guinness factories and wandering aimlessly around.

We officially started the trip in Prague, which was probably my favorite city that we visited. I spent my 19th birthday there and after going paddle-boating, fitting 7 people in a little camera booth, visiting a gallery with paintings still on the floor, seeing "The Great Wall of China", getting mojitos and a postcard as a birthday card, and, (the best of all) meeting up with my old art teacher who went to the Slovak Republic for a year and recently took a job in Florence, Italy,  I have concluded that it was the best birthday of memory.

The trip continued to Rome, which was...not as cool. Granted the buildings were large, and staying in the redlight district was sweet. It was also nice to see vowels in words again.

Onto Volterra. It was pretty much just 4 days of relaxing, aside from when we visited Sienna and San Gimignano. And of course, the Tuscan feast was flippin' sweet.

It was nice to then move to the center, really, of rebirth of art in Florence. Although it seemed that we weren't there for very long, going to some of the museums was nice.

We ended in Venice which, as many say, was a maze of a place. Sucks that the trains were strike for a day and that the Dublin airport lost its radar and computer shits the day before we were going to leave, because that led to quite the delay in flights.
-End really brief summary of trip

Now that I'm back, which I'm very glad to be (I hate frizzante water), I'll be back to uploading the rest of my art from this year's class. Starting with this piece. [link]

-Na shledanou

Wow. The first thing I have to say in this is a very big thank you to all of you for your...well over 10,000 views of my main page. It's a really big number if you think about it and I'm super excited about it. As seems to be custom when one gets this far, a "Thanks for 10,000 views" picture is on the way.

The second, and probably most important part, is what's to come in the near future with THINE artwork. See, over the past 2 years or so I've been working my ass off (okay let's be honest, I've been pretty lazy) for an art exam that I took about 2 weeks. It was a necessity for the exam to have a focus on which all of your art seemed to form around. My focus was Conceptual Photorealism. But what the hell does that mean?

Photorealism is just a style. Or..lack there of. It has smooth shading, and things look real.  Conceptual is a word that I took and stretched the meaning. In this situation, I say it means "cool stuff/ideas". So basically I've done cool and fantastical ideas with a realistic style to them. Now although I've had my difficulties (mainly that I tried to work entirely from imagination and not from pictures or even life and that's hard when you're trying to make things realistic) it's been a blast and I can't wait to post up some of my stuff.

So thanks for the 10k views and I hope the next 10 happen faster and I get better (although one can only hope...)

Thanks to I'm tagged

the rules are: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 Weird Habits/Things About Yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 Weird Habits/Things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "You are tagged" in their devPage comments and tell them to read yours..."

So 6 wierd habits...

1-When I'm walking on a sidewalk I try to not step on the cracks. This makes walking hard because either I have to step only once in a pavement (which makes my steps big) or I have to step twice (which makes my steps very VERY short).

2-I'm one of those people that change the way they write and draw depending on the type of music they listen. So when my music is on shuffle, my papers tend to go from really sarcastic, to serious, to depressing, to sarcastic.

3-I don't like "liking" people, so I tend to avoid them by calling them "elephants" (don't ask.......)

4-I love cold foods. Cold pasta, cold chili, cold pizza, cold chinese, etc. But rice has to be warm-you can't eat sticky rice that's not warm.

5-I don't really eat though, or sleep. And since those classify you as living, I guess I'm a virus?

6-I subconciously am fluent in spanish, though if you ask me something in the language, I won't know what you said or how to respond. For example I don't know the verb "to understand" but I have a tendency of finishing my teachers sentences....


And the 5 people I'm tagging are going to be



And I swear I'm working on that angel series. I didn't abandon it...

-Me

I'm going to make an angel series of art. This collection will contain 4 pictures. It's a small amount so I have a chance at finishing this and not getting board of it.

What are you thoughts about it? Aye? or Nay?