by the sea

I did this seafood project for my AS levels.

I know I mentioned it before, but I’m bringing it up again just in case you forgot or didn’t read about it in the first place.

Basically we had this theme to choose and I chose seafood then realised I didn’t actually like seafood, and to be honest I don’t particually like fish. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that two of my worst fears are fish-related.

Once, when I was really quite young, I went on this fishing trip type thing with my dad and my brother and my grandad and I thought when they said fishing trip I thought it would be a boat ride out to sea and there would be dolphins and fish doing somersaults and working together to put on a show for us. I was quite a strange child – sometimes I honestly think something must have happened to me when I was younger, like I hit my head or something like that. But anyway, we had to catch fish and I thought “Well, great – it will be nice to give the fish a nice new home”, because I thought the fisherman was going to look after them and feed them and play with them and tell them stories or whatever people do with pet fish. But I bimbled off, blissfully unaware. When I returned to check on my fish, to my absolute horror, it was lying at the bottom of a shallow bucket. Its scales were falling off and it was gasping for air and it was looking at me with these big sad eyes and I swear that experience traumatized me. Even to this day I deeply regret not taking the opportunity to throw it back into the water.

So one of my worst fears is seeing fish flopping around. It’s just really depressing.

My other fear is the glass would crack in a fish tank and all the water would slowly leak out and the fish would all die.

And then that would just be horrible.

This is a boat like the one that the horrible fisherman murdered all the fish I caught.

I started doing all this stuff about sustainable fishing and how overfishing was a huge danger to fish and all these things like that, so I had to draw loads of pictures of fish being caught and billions of fishing boats and in my final piece they were all surrounding this one little fish who had the same shocked expression the fish that the fisherman killed on the fishing trip many, many years ago.

My final piece was pretty rubbish actually, but I liked the idea.

squawk squawk

Hello.

I’ve realised I haven’t put much of my art on here, and I intend to change that. I’ve just been rather lazy lately and can’t be bothered to dig out the old scanner and scan and crop and watch it crash and load up the software again and scan and crop and watch it crash again, and hit it and break it and swear and reboot it and scan and crop and then it crashes and then the computer decides to restart to install automatic updates and then I sit there and cry.

Yeah, I can’t be bothered with all of that – superfluous stress.

I literally should be doing so much work right now – I was meant to do all this portfolio stuff for college for Monday, and it’s Saturday today.

I’m actually writing this in the future.

No, the past. Otherwise that would be impossible.

So I’m actually 7 days behind or something.

I’ve queued all these posts up because I have a feeling one day I’ll be too lazy to write but it will be okay because I will have 6 more days to break out of that laziness before I’ve ran out of stuff to automatically post.

But anyway, here is a parrot.

I did this for this GCSE art project about Africa and I’m not really sure why I thought this was relevant to Africa because it’s not even an African parrot, I just drew it and was quite pleased with it so I managed to blag it into my work. I probably said it was a species native to Africa or something. Maybe it is though, my parrot knowledge isn’t very good.

I don’t have people texting me parrot facts.

But, coincidently, I do have someone texting me cat related facts which is really interesting. I have no idea who they are, but I’ve learnt a lot from them.

Also I haven’t done a watercolour in ages. I might do one now, actually.

But I’m going to eat my dinner first.