MJ

2007, I started doing drawings and other works in a separate art diary and experimented with softer lead pencils, hence why the drawing appears to be faded and only half there, thanks to my shitty scanner. I done works in this separate diary as a sort of rebellion towards my art at school, I felt the way we were being taught at school was very conformist and literally pathed down and it was either this way or no way. That was a main factor that threw me off art, I felt if the only way I could do art at school was to do it their way than I would not conform, art can never be confined to a single path.

Pillars

I have quite a small scanner hence why the image cannot fit into one picture. This was on an art excursion to Sydney in 2007 I believe. We were told to draw a picture of the harbour bridge, but the bridge was probably the least inspirational thing I have come across in my lifetime of art. Although the pillars amazed me, how these four small pillars are insignificant to the colossal bridge, yet without them the bridge will fall. Done with chalk on paper. The teachers and peers seamed to like this piece a lot. My teacher for 2007 and 2008, Mr Shanohan, I must say was my least favourite art teacher, during my years with him we clashed as art student and art teacher. I lost motivation and admiration for art, it may have been a number of reasons but this was the year when my art practice deteriorated.