Em’s Blogtime Fun

     Semester is nearing and that means a barage of assignments and presentations is too.  I think those few weeks where I had very little homework and easy assignments was just some sort of sick foreshadowing of what is to come.  It’s a bad form of teasing really.  Just when I think the work load is thinning and I can see the light at the end of the dark, dismal tunnel that is school, the tunnel collapses and kills me.  Makes me think of a classic war scene in the movies; when the underdog has eliminated all of its opponents in sight and when they begin to rejoice an endless flood of more opponents comes rushing from over a hilltop or something.  It’s sad and disheartening.  Will the underdog that is me ever win against its opponent that is homework?  I believe it is a losing battle.  However, I must be courageous and fight ’til the end.  It has to do with pride, or something.  …Or the desire to not fail and not waste my money and time.
     Other than school work, I have been drawing a lot lately.  I have had this unignorable itching to sketch portraits.  So far I have drawn six different pictures.  I strayed from the realistic approach with my art for the past few years and I felt like it was time to venture back into it.  I really enjoy it.  I like taking realistic photos and manipulating them somehow and giving them a sense of endless identity.  I’m not sure if you understand what I am saying, most people I try to explain it to usually don’t.  Maybe you will understand it better by looking at the pictures I have posted below.  Click on the thumbnail to be linked to a larger view of the picture.
                            
                      
     If you look at these, you should leave me a comment and let me know what you think.  One day I will have an online portfolio, but until then, I will have to beg your thoughts on blogs like this.  I will post some of my other stuff on my next blog.  I would do it now, but I don’t want to overwhelm you.  And, that is also my secret ploy in order to get you to come back and read my future blogs.  And that is assuming you might actually have some sort of desire to see more of my work…