forever young,

studying for our final ib french exams on friday, and my eff-ing god it was hot today!

this week's been pretty quiet...which sometimes i like but right now i'm going a little stir-crazy! i just can't wait for this week to be over!

graduation is almost here, though it's one of those things there always seemed like it would never happen! i mean, i knew i was going to happen...eventually, but i never really imagined actually growing up and a having life after school. because you know, you hear about it all the time and see it in movies and read about it, but it's always something that will happen. it's so overwhelming to think of everything ending in just a few days. 

everything! 

but the grad party should be très awesome! :DD

although it's crazy to think about finishing. i can't wait! i still have no real idea about what i'm going to do, career-wise :S but, we'll see - i'll find something haha.  anywho, i'm going to rainbow beach with some friends from school for two weeks for schoolies on the 21st. so i will be MIA for a bit. warning you now. i plan on just chillin' and having fun and reminiscing and taking photos.....ahhhhh it will be gooood!

it would be so cool if i could wear something like this to rainbow

hehehe...i love pandas!

:DD

xo

duuuuuude....

 i am soo excited about finishing school!

TWO DOWN,

ONE TO GO!

yeah baaaaby!

NO MATHS EVER AGAIN

IN YOUR BACK-FACE BE-ARCH!

XD

now, i just have to study for english and french, woop woop.

xo

sorry for the short posts, 

IB student = no social life and limited time to blog.. so. pretty much no life in general. argh!

print me up baby,

hey lovelies, 

so, because i've had a couple of requests from people about some of my works in exIBit, i'm getting two works printed on postcard sized cards, about 20 each, which is pretty damn exciting :DD

So Long As I Get Somewhere...

40 x 54.2 cm

Giclee Print: digital painting (with Wacom Tablet) on smooth cotton

description (didactic): This is perhaps the digital work I’m most happy with. I was able to combine my drawing skill with my knowledge of Photoshop. The text is drawn from the song Runaway by The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs from the most recent album It’s Blitz. I felt the lyrics were appropriate to the “Alice” theme because they evoke a sense of isolation, escapism and entrapment that is also explored in the story. I wanted the “Alice” character to appear trapped and isolated, using elements of Art Nouveau and her hair to achieve that.

Breathing Black/Breath in Black

29.5 x 28.1 cms

graphite, ink + finepoint pen on Saunders watercolour paper

(description is in the post 'the mad-header')

if you would like a copy/copies let me know, 

though i must levy a fee (haha) to cover the costs of printing, but it shouldn't be too much.

xo

marley's 17th birthday murder mystery party,

so,

saturday night marley had her 17th birthday party :DD

it was pretty much like a game of cluedo, we each dressed up as characters to solve the murder.

IT WAS SO COOL

XD

 it was 1961 and we were solving the murder of Jerry Oilman...

the characters:

Patsy Cline (1932-1963)

jess

Fred Astaire (1899-1987)

ayeesha

Ginger Rogers (1911-1995)

sarah (aka smack)

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)

emma 

Janis Joplin (1943-1970)

maddy

John Wayne - the 'Duke' (1907-1979)

nicki

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

alex

Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

phoebe

Judy Garland (1922-1969)

clare

Rita Hayworth (1918-1987)

hannah

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

steph

Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

marley (the birthday girl)

Bob Marley (1945-1981)

maddie (me)

it was a good night, but no one liked my reggae music DD:

oh god! i had to sing i shot the sheriff and dance hahaha... it was terrible

 

BUT

you know what wasn't....

the sunday bar and sundays!!! 

PHOTOS OF THE NIGHT

...and then i got 'high'

the duke, bob and janis,

birthday girl :)

somewhere over the rainbow

the detective - pete persimmons

oh marilyn

love me tender

foxy lady

and the murderer (and best dressed) was....

JIMI HENDRIX!

(weapon: his guitar)

thank you marley for a lovely night and happy birthday :)

xo

the mad-header,

so, i changed my header :DD

it's a digital version of the original work completed for IB visual arts.

Breathing Black/Breath in Black

29.5 x 28.1 cms

graphite, ink + finepoint pen on Saunders watercolour paper

description (didactic): I was cleaning out my art shelf to see if I could find any good paper that I hadn’t used yet. I found one with ink splatters on one that I had around when I was using batik (ink and wax). My original plan was to have the “Alice” character blowing out smoke (reminiscent of the chapter, Advice From The Caterpillar), but it looked more like she was coughing, which still works quite well. The text is a quote from the chapter The Pool Of Tears, the work is a cross between the chapters The Pool Of Tears and Advice From The Caterpillar.

hope you like it :D 

and then... a blog was born,

hi there

Welcome to my first blog! (and that's me ^ right ther) :DD

Though it probably isn't the best idea to begin a blog two weeks before final IB exams >< 

Anywho, 

This is short and brief, but kinda feeling obliged to write something - anything :) so for now, hi! and, hopefully I won't grow bored of this and stop blogging - as it was pretty much a spur of the moment type thing, 

xo madeline

(but you can call me maddie)