Speed up!

There is a lot of things to do, to draw, to design and to photograph. And my mum will be coming in next couple of weeks, hopefully we will have some time to go and have a look at Diane Arbus exhibition. I am missing her a lot though I know that I will not be able to spend with her as much time as I would like to. Also...but thie details will be in my next post!

Image from a sunny early afternoon when I was not locked in the college scanning my negatives frantically! Now I just have to clean these scans, prepare them, print at least 3 copies of portfolio...Holiday seems to be so far away. I am wondering how we are going to survive the summer!

A first swallow errr...seagull of Spring

I think nobody is officially declaring it yet but I have a strong feeling that Spring is on its way! I have lost all my ability to work hard - all I can do is to gaze through a window and go out on walks in the sunshine!

Driving

Next week I am starting my driving-reminder driving lessons. After 8 years of break, I will be driving again. On the left side this time. I am scared shitless!

Surprise, surprise

Why oh why, when I have a deadline looming I keep on finding so many nice OTHER things to do? Went out with friends for a coffee, went to listen about Diane Arbus at National Galleries of Scotland (there is her big exhibition opening today in Edinburgh!), varnished fingernails bright red - and my job is still not done... Luckily it is Sunday tomorrow. Picture from a previous set but the weather is still the same!

Stepping on the first rays of Spring

And then...

Our Sunday a la maniere francaise (without accents)

I have slept too long again but when I have finally reached local Sainsbury's they still had freshly baked croissants. I have also spent a good part of today on reschuffling my illustration support and research materials into one big solid case, which finally holed things in a relative order. It proved to be usefull when couple of hours later I decided that two illustrations for TS were not great enough (for me) and did a third one. I raided a travel section of Waterstones several days ago and got Michael Sandler's book about his hillarious adventures in Paris (I can see that Amazon has some more of his books - tres bien!). Now as I am trying to wind down for the night I am to sit down and do some grammar exercises in French - it is Paris fashion week n'est-ce pas? I hope Aurelia will pop in here for a bit as when we went to see MicMacs (a new J-P Jeunet's film) a key scene there, features her district and this amazing hydraulic bridge over Canal St. Michel which I like so much!

Today's image is an old one which I forgotten to include earlier - it comes from our fellow photographer's opening and as we met Joe today for a coffee, it reminds some nice time we had with Simon that evening

Glasgow - the rest

We have finally managed to go out last night and have some nice time with friends. We seldom venture out in the evenings as it is our working time. We usually are up by 10-11 am, procrastinate until 4-5 pm (we have some nice coffees, depending on the weather I might stroll down to Leith to deliver or pick up my exposed negatives, have a quick look at the colours at MAC's counter, go through some books at Waterstones on my way, have numerous coffees) and then we suddenly realise that it is time to sit down and do some work, so from 5 pm until 2 am I am usually stranded in front of my computer, working away.

Here is some more pleasant memories from our Glasgow trip with Liska and Lyovka: