Cut It Out

I've never considered myself artistic. I've never been able to draw or paint as well as other people. I hated art class for a while because our teacher would make us sketch the most impossible stuff without using lines - just using the variants in shade and shadow. Well, I will admit I learned a lot from him. In fact I'm working on a picture right now, just a pencil drawing... but I love it! I'll post a picture of it when I'm done.

Photography, writing, and probably the most of all, collages are my main artistic outlet. Oh, and music of course. I'm a music fanatic, but I'll rave about that later. Don't ever give me an old issue of Vogue - I will kill it! I love cutting out pictures of people and advertisements... my closet doors are covered in cutouts! I don't compare myself to the models, that'd be ridiculous. I'm not even sure why I keep some of them. I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So when I'm looking through a magazine or something, and I see something beautiful, I cut it out. Whether they're whole pages or just tiny snippets, I keep them.

They're mostly people... not all stickman models either... I have some of children, some of food (yummy chocolate chip cookie!), just some random advertisements... But my favorite one is from a French issue of Vogue where they did an article on South Africa. The article cover photo is a beautiful woman with traditional paint on her face, in a beautiful red traditional dress... it makes me feel so blessed to have been exposed to this culture! The beauty of individuality and the differences in culture and tradition have been rooted deep in my soul. That's one thing I never want to cut out.