How good does being done feel?!
Sounds very similar to my post exam plans! What interested you about Auslan? I started learning about two and a half years ago and it really is a beautiful language.
I've been slowly KonMari-ing my bedroom and it is life changing!
I love watercolour; but all I paint is flowers. Do you have something in particular you like to paint? If you're destroying the paper, you could try really gentle strokes, slightly less water and only going over each area once (or possibly twice as needed). Also, I got an illustrating bible and have been sticking in my watercolours and doing calligraphy in the extra-wide margins and it has been very fun and helpful! Have you ever thought about doing something similar?
As soon as exams are done, a friend and I are spending a day in the Royal Botanic Gardens (and possibly also Flagstaff Gardens) in Melbourne.
Which books are in your stack? (I also have a TBR list longer than I could ever possibly get through.)
Being done feels amazing
I do hope that I won't feel like I have "too much time" on my hands because there's always something to do.
That's cool to hear from someone who has learned Auslan! To answer your question, I learnt some American Sign Language and a bit of British sign language from my mum when I was younger. Now that we live in Australia, I figured it would be a useful skill to have, a fun experience, and a good bonding session with my mum who also wants to learn Auslan
Watercolour flowers are some of the prettiest things I have ever seen. I would like to learn how to use watercolour to paint landscapes, but right now I try drawing humans. As far as priorities go, I definitely have to do more anatomy studies before I get close to being satisfied with my current level of drawing. I've attempted watercolour several times before, but either I didn't have the proper paper for it, or my friends watched as I started off with too much pigment on the brush and ended up with a puddle on the page. It all comes with practice, I suppose, but I am scared to waste paint
I have not tried using an illustrating bible, but I do experiment with calligraphy on scrap pieces of paper using my brush pen.
Sounds good! I was debating whether or not to go to the Melbourne Botanical Gardens while I am there, but my friends say that because we have one in Sydney, it's not at the top of our list of things to do
Slight shame because hanging out in the city all the time can get tiresome.
I have more random books in my "to read" list than books I specifically set aside "to read". My school had a really cheap book sale, and I grabbed whatever looked interesting. I may end up liking some and disliking others, but I'm open to pleasant surprises
Bolded books are the ones I specifically set aside to read.
- Howards End (E. M. Forster)
- Old Kingdom series (Garth Nix)
- Smoke and Iron (Rachel Caine)
- The Bird Artist (Howard Norman)
- The Lace Maker's Daughter (Gary Crew)
- The Picture Book (Susannah Keating)
- The Sly Company of People Who Care (Rahul Bhattacharya)
- To My Daughter in France... (Barbara & Stephanie Keating)
I actually finished two books since the end of HSC: "Between Two Seas" (Marie-Louise Jensen) and "Bereft" (Chris Womersley). I was pleasantly surprised by both of them (the latter being a bit more "WHY???").
If anyone has any book recommendations, feel free to let me know! I'm pretty open to anything with a good plot or cast of characters.
Signing off for the day,
melberry
Positivitea for the day: I had a wholesome reunion dinner with friends and our teacher today