tongari

I regret to inform everyone that I will be retiring this account.  It will remain as it is, but I will no longer be using the name tongari. This account has been a marvelous experience and I thank everyone one you for making it so!
I simply feel I have outgrown this name and I no longer have an attachment to my older works.

If anyone is interested I am still creating bits and pieces under a new name Wereville

I do intend to bring many more creatures, characters and scenes to life!
Don't worry, I haven't given up, just grown up (a little). (:

Cheers!


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It LIIIIIIIIVES!

Well, sort of hehe.
I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, and you all know I have had some serious commitment problems with deviantart lately and I'm a huge flake hehe!

BUT I HAVE RETURNED! (for now...hahah!)

What's new with me you ask?
Well, I am almost done my degree at UVic. I will be receiving my BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in November when I have my convocation at the University. Hooray! That only took... 4.5 years! I will technically be done this August, and let me tell you...that feels gooooood!


I am a changed student.
But we will save the epiphanies and talk of the hypothetical, and abstract theories I have developed and taken part in discussing, for another post. Hehe!

I have a cat now. His name is Clyde.
I bought a road bike, and have been enjoying my cycling time.
I have moved back home to live with my parents in order to save money.
I am still working at the coffee shop where I started 4.5 years ago.
I have found love and lost it.
I built amazing friendships with people that I once never knew existed.

I have watched Iron Man 2...and LOVED it! (But not as much as the first.)


Now that I have spent my last few years with a paintbrush in my hand and developed my traditional + contemporary art background, I would like to return to some digital work.

I am just in my second week of Summer Studies, but here's hoping I can get out some digital work soon!


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I fail.   
It's been over a week since I uploaded. I beseech you! Forgive me!
Gahd! I would love some more free time to work on my own drawings!


SO what is everyone being for Halloween?
Man I'm getting excited!

I'm thinking Alice in Wonderland, if I can find a blue dress. so rad.
Originally it was going to be either, Link, Robin Hood, or Peter Pan.  It wasn't until my boyfriend pointed out those are all boys...

Hell! Maybe I should just be a slutty cop! "Excuse me sir, could you please put your hands behind your back, I'm going to have to search you...THOROUGHLY."  !!!
yeah, that'll be so metal.

Sooo...
I almost cried in my sculpture class critique today.

That felt pretty sweet.


I must pour over Botticelli's, "Pallas and the Centaur." That'll cheer me up I hope.
It amazes me that the Renaissance masters get poopooed by the teachers in the visual arts' building across campus, but... those people don't have shit on Albrecht Durer or Leonardo.


excuse my mellow drama.
it's been a loooooooong day.

So I'm taking a sculpture class at my University this semester and it's pretty interesting.  
A lot of the assignments are very abstract and contemporary as I'm sure most of you Uni students know. My current, "piece" has to represent a concept of time.
I decided to do this really cool awesome amazing beautiful sculpture of a cocoon!
(Oh yeah, did I mention it has to be made out of steel?)
After hammering the steel, to give it this textured feel to it, for about 4 hours outside I'm pretty sure my neighbours were ready to shoot me in the head.

My poor cocoon, with lights inside to give it this transformational fade effect, looks like a PICKLE. A fricking PICKLE! A poorly made PICKLE!

There is nothing more depressing than spending a whole day working on a piece of artwork and not being satisfied with it.  I swear, I had pickle shaped dreams that night and my brain didn't shut off until 1am.

Ahhh, sculpture is something I have not mastered at ALL yet... I'm afraid of welding and crazy machines that can rip my body in half. I don't think I'll ever make it as a contemporary abstract artist... and certainly not in the 3Dimensional area!

The best way to deal with these kinds of assignments I've found is to, sleep on it.