Another Tuesday sketch

Another Tuesday, another drawing class where I cheated. We were supposed to draw the subject the teacher set us using charcoals. Only I'm not too keen on charcoal, and the subject was some attrocious styrofoam thing. I told him I refuse to draw such an ugly thing.

I drew the balcony door of the room instead, using my trusty india ink, dip pen and paint brushes.

Yes, I am a horrible student. My various art teachers never liked me much.

It was too big to scan so I tried photographing it instead. I made a total hash of it. If anyone has any tips about photographing art, I'm all ears.

Drawing classes

Have I mentioned that I decided to go to a free drawing class?

In Exarcheia there is a self-run, self-organised building where people organise all sorts of cool free stuff just because they feel like it. They have book presentations, film showings, concerts, parties, discussions and all sorts of free lessons. My sister has been going to the spanish and photography lessons since last year.

I could never go to their drawing classes because I was working, but this year they changed the day and time, so I can make it. I'm not sure I'm actually going to learn anything; the class is completely chaotic and lapsydaisical and the teacher absolutely refuses to actually teach us anything.

Today was actually the best lesson yet. We did quick sketches. I like quick sketches, much more that boring life drawings. Especially of white objects using charcoal. Bleurgh! I think I'm going to cheat and show up with my own materials and draw what I feel like.

That's what I did today. We were supposed to be using a soft pencil for the sketches. I told the teacher I already knew how to sketch with a pencil, so I was going to use a dip pen instead. Which I did. And it was a lot more fun that a boring pencil.

Here I am being a good girl and sketching the subject!

And here I am getting bored and sketching the teacher instead!

I'm excited!

I just found out today that AutocCAD for Mac is finally here! Now I no longer have any use for Windows and I can get rid of the Windows boot up on my Mac. I feel like dancing with relief!



Of course AutoCAD for Mac is missing stuff - like saving as pdf - but I'm hoping that now they got started, they'll eventually make it as good as AutoCAD for Windows. And look at the interface! It looks like a cross between AutoCAD and Lightroom! I only hope I can change the background colour to black, because I really can't work on white.

Of course I'll first have to find the program!

Stuff you didn't really want to know

Today we had municipal elections. Like a good little citizen I went and voted, and then I went to my parents for dinner. It's nice having someone else cooking for you. I needed it after the very productive - and tiring - day I had yesterday.

Yesterday, I went to the market, I cooked a spinach pie and a fancy stuffed squids dish and had friends round to dinner, and then we went out for cocktails and returned after three in the morning. Yes, on occasion I can manage to have a life off the net!

By the way, we went to a really cool cocktail bar near my home that is done up in hawaiian style - very original for Athens - called the Tiki. We'll definitely be going again.