A card for the teacher who has heard ALL the excuses! This ones’s a doozy!
Some people will use any excuse! / Cutesy dino munching on a legal pad. / The bone structure is not meant to be acurate. It’s only an imaginary dinosaur anyway! / Looking for something to wear for Last Day of Term? for either students or teachers!
That’ll teach him for drawing aliens attacking in the margin! The doodle gets his own back! I don’t think teacher is going to believe this one!
I know this is far from perfect but I was just practicing masking layers on PSP with this. But does anybody agree that young kids get far too much homework? Hannah is 8 and this is what I have pulled out of her school bag tonight, to be done by tomorrow, maths, English, Spanish and reading in both languages, plus practicing for her Assembly! What happened to kids having fun?
Audience member at the O.A.T., City Hall, London, May 2009 see me later !!! © 2009 Urban Umbra
Two Sisters enjoy a slideshow on a Powerbook in a popular cafe in Western Massachusetts …
my child
Done for school in art. The assignment was to draw one of the family pets, I drew our dog, Crystal. Drawn with my Derwent Artists.
Young girl doing homework with pleasure.
Taken on February 12, 2007: My coworker was diligently studying during our lunch break. And yes, she’s okay with my posting this. I liked the setup and again used my 1.3 mp cell camera. Dimensions: 1280×960
Playful spin on classic “College” shirts. The irony is the misspelling…just in case you didn’t get it:)
pastels blocks colour
Apparently feel asleep during spelling class.
This is my homework for the course I am currently doing at Brunswick Street Gallery. We have to take a self portrait which does not sh…
This is my homework for the course I am currently doing at Brunswick Street Gallery. We have to take a self portrait which does not show our face but which does show something of ourselves. This may not be the one I submit, but it has been an interesting exercize and I thought I would share. I often post work here without much of an explanation into the choices I make. I thought it might be nice to make it available so you can see that I do actually put a bit of thought into my work, even if it is not obvious at first glance. The Easels: / Faded and old. They represent myself as an artist. How of late I am taking fewer and fewer photos and am out of practice. They are scattered at random, which is a lot like my very hectic and chaotic life. Yet they all match, which shows my underlying need to have organisation, even if it is organised chaos. You may notice the empty frame. For me this represents not only my occupation, but it’s emptiness means it acts as a window. A way to see into me. It is a comment on the whole image as well as an element within it. The Doll: / This is a childhood doll and has my old name written on it (from before I became Jo O’Brien). So it connects to my past and reminds me of a time passed. She is naked, which reflects how I feel as an artist, always confessing through my art. She is torn at both arms from being pulled in a tug-of-war game. Much like how I feel when I have more things requiring my time than I have time for. On a more human level. She represents my desire to one day have children, my “femaleness”, my nurturing side. The Costume: / It was scavenged from an op shop. Something I absolutely adore doing. And it fits like a second skin, showing my comfort in front of the camera. It’s close colour match to my skin implies nudity which highlights a more general level of comfort with my body, and ability to play a role within my own skin. It’s second hand nature reminds me that a ‘creative artist life’ was never my first choice. In fact, I studied Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Maths Methods in VCE and always had an aptitude for the sciences. Art was an accident. The Location: / At home in the back yard. Here I feel most relaxed and comfortable. It has been the location of numerous photo shoots and self portraits, so much so that I would feel like I was abondoning this space to take self portraits elsewhere. It also represents for me, my ability to live off my creativity, as my best selling shot was taken here. More generally I enjoy the idea of fences, of what they hold in and out. And of how to break them down. This is a theme I like to play with in a lot of my work- the emotional and psychological barriers we put up around ourselves, often needlessly. Setting up the shot: / I wanted to appear within the forest of easels and yet comfortable which dictated my pose, leaning gently against the fence. This shows my acceptance of the situation and environment and willingness to participate within it. However I am still holding my doll and not interacting with any other part of the environment. This suggests I still cling to something from my childhood, and have insecurites about the art world and my credibility as an artist. Your thoughts?
At least not for a while. I won’t say never, just in case I decide in a year or so that I do want to do the bachelor of Arts, majoring in…
At least not for a while. I won’t say never, just in case I decide in a year or so that I do want to do the bachelor of Arts, majoring in something lovely!! But for now I’m happy with just having work to contend with and juggling my art and RedBubble around it. / btw… I finished the Diploma of Mulitmedia and my parchment will arrive sometime in January!!! Yay!!! This week’s been really slack where the computer’s concerned… so sorry to those who have missed my gorgeous cow batting her eyelashes around the bubbles. After the 3 weeks before that of mad rushing around, working double shifts and trying to get tafe homework done, I didn’t even want to look at the computer. But I did check my emails then answer or forward one or two, then turned it off again. Today, I’m back to nearly normal ;D Yay!! No work until next week, hopefully mid week, so I can still have a few more selfish arty days (with a bit of housework inbetween I suppose). I defrosted the freezer today, so one job a day’s pretty good!! Tomorrow we’re putting up the Christmas tree. Its ok… the camera is charged and memory card is empty!! Ready to sneak up on any adorable kitty climbing and chomping on branches!!! Today, I also revamped my Cat and Bird into a Christmas card and wallart. I happen to think they’re pretty cute!! They make me smile, so when my art does that I’m happy to upload it here ;D / I’ve sketched another card, with insects this time! I’ve just got to redraw it to bring it to life. Something to do on Monday if I don’t get to it this weekend. I love this new hard life I’m going to lead… drawing and painting (traditional and digital) on 1 or 2 days a week and working on the days left over after time spent with Zac, friends and family. So that’s me for now… here’s some pics for you all to gaze at!! / Love at Christmas to colour in / Happy Christmas in white Oh!!! And one more thing… bragging this time!!! I sold a calendar!!! My first calendar sale!! woo hoo!! So Thank You to the mystery buyer. Its of a collection of photographs I took while backpacking in Europe ;D I wish you all a happy, wonderful and relaxing weekend ;D / xx / GG
Photography excites me in the way Christmas excited me as a child! I love it so much that I even get elated over homework. I’d create pic…
Photography excites me in the way Christmas excited me as a child! I love it so much that I even get elated over homework. I’d create pictures and sketchbooks without stopping to eat or sleep if I was more than mere mortal. I’ve heard some people never find true love; I used to believe I was one of those people until common sense and a desire for something more than ‘conceptual cotton’ inventions drove me to seek out the shrine that is the dark room and submit to my passion. I need to photograph. Is it strange I remember a place, not through my memory, but through my photos? Vietnam gave me amazing light that I’ll forever crave whilst in England (Or London, to be more precise). Paris introduced me to symmetrical architecture, and the notion of capturing romance and love within a picture. North Wales seems to forever produce sea and sky as one, whether in winter or summer. Colour is my comrade when creating such beauty as nature and people in nature. I think the coast inspires me most; and anything in greens and earth tones. But it’s the sea and water and clear skies that cause me to forget to breathe and the overwhelming sensation of butterflies in my stomach tell me that I must capture this; I must have it forever in good light on paper, on screen, on my mind…
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