Squirrel

And this is a squirrel I drew in Art using oil pastels. Fun fun. Got a B for it, perfectly respectable grade. But in the real Leaving Cert I'm hoping for and 'A', so work to be done there... Took 2 and half hours, I think. Could've used a little more time, actually. The leaves aren't fab.

Have I ever mentioned that I this year decided I adore oil pastels? I never liked using colour, it always turned out looking like something a five-year-old would draw. I always just used pencils to good affect (see the lion that's my sig. Pencil, and then used a computer to get the negative). But oil pastels are just like crayons!! Like the ones I used as a child. Just like crayons except with much better, more vibrant colours, and possible to smooth them out using turpentine or white spirit (haven't tried it yet, but should). Also, they sound much more respectable as an artistic medium.
"What medium did you use?"
"Oh, crayons!"
"... well that's nice."

Yes, I'm ridiculous. But the oil pastels are working pretty well for me, what with my crazy pictures of trees and conkers (horse chestnuts) and birds and, now, squirrels. This was a my third attempt, but I wasn't allowed bring a picture for reference into the exam, so it was purely from memory. Not bad, right?

On the other hand, must improve my standard for the real thing. I get the exam paper for that on the 8th of April and have just three weeks to prepare my piece. Eeek!

In other school news, I have an English essay due tomorrow that I should really be writing now on  cultural context of my comparative texts (Casablanca, The Kite Runner and Emma). Oh well. Not that interesting when you've done it so many times all ready in the last two years... Then again, love the texts *shrugs* And didn't do that well in that section in my exam (while my Hamlet essay, which I don't particularly love, did really well :P) and need to work on it, apparently, before June.

Oh god, June!! So close... It felt like I still had so much time after Christmas... but once the Mocks are over it's like a ticking bomb! *dissolves into hysterical sobs*

Also: Art Design thing that I need to work on before tomorrow. To show that I've been pondering away at it. Need to find a few pics of tigers for it (poster advertising the "Madagascar Show". I've decided that this is an African-animal-themed circus type dealy and am doing a tiger leaping through a flaming ring :D).

ALSO: History project, due in April, meant to start months ago. Need to get cracking. It's on the death of Che Guevara. Cheery, no?

"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will conquer" ~ Terence McSwiney, previous Lord Mayor of Cork before his arrest. Died during hunger strike in 1920.

Completely irrelevant, but he's in my history book, and yesterday my dad informed me that he's was a relative to my family. Crazy. Then again, Ireland's a very small place...