A look back at April... and what's to come...

Let's see, April... I prepared and gave a bunch of seminars for my "art and intervention" class... it was sooo much work, but really fulfilling work. At the moment we are doing seminars about all the other creative interventions (besides art therapy), I had to prepare dramatherapy and psychodrama and I'm busy finishing up my play therapy seminar. It is so interesting. I wish I had gone to a play therapist or sandbox therapist when I was a kid! I'd even love to go to sandbox therapy now.. but I don't think it's for 'adults'... although I still feel like a kid I guess 24 puts me in the 'adult' category... hmmm... what a weird thing that is. 

This is a summary of April in pictures:

Creating a studio space outside my Mom's house...

Done in 2 minutes... so much more to express.. neeeeed bigger canvasses!

I still need to think of a title for this one...

#Detail... Beautiful cracks...

#Detail...

Got my degree!!

Me and my best friend = *Epic happiness for surviving this tough degree
and kicking its ass - both of us with distinction!!

It was her birthday and (of course) I put a whole heck of
a lot of sparklez in her birthday card which she rubbed all over my face, and hers...
and threw them obviously all over our boyfriend's and on my Dad... it was awesome...  

I think everyone should always where sparklez all over their faces always...
that is how nature intended it to be... I would love to have sparklez all over my face daily...
 It's just so magical... 

I accidentally broke my labtop screen - whilst I had seminars to prepare for -
and my boyfriend came to the rescue hooking up the big computer screen
 to my labtop... this has absolutely nothing to do with my art but the whole set up
 was just so funny and awesome and I just had to share it...

Going from 190 cm x 190 cm to this little bitch canvas was a tough challenge...
but I had the extra canvasses and I just had to use them...
I'm definitely not buying canvasses this small again though... 

San-Marí van Wyk, Remembering, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 40.64 x 50.8 cm.
I do like the end result though... what do you think?

#Detail.. More beautiful cracks

#Detail.. Paint is awesome...

So I planned on using these brushes and stuff... but I ended up just using plastic spoons..
I found that spoons (the backs of spoons) make excellent brushes...

I just like this photo...

So what's next? Well I entered 7 of my big 190 cm x 190 cm works into the "Future Generation Art Prize" international competition... but we only hear from them in June... I am super excited about it and very hopeful, I hope and believe my artworks will find their place somewhere in this world, and an international competition is maybe just what I need... So hold thumbs... 

I'm still working on my concept revolving around blindfolds as a metaphor for us never being able to see what's going to happen in the future, where we will be exactly, who will be in our lives... good and bad... we have to make our choices and it's like walking a path blindfolded.. hopefully you have something/someOne guiding you... but it is still blindly trusting and we don't know if we are going to fall or bump our heads or hit a wall, we can only hope there is a door somewhere in that wall that we can find and that will lead us to an awesome place... anyway, point is, life is like walking a path blindfolded. 

But I recently got obsessed with the song "Never Grow Up" by Taylor Swift, one of my all-time favorite songs... it really hits close to my heart.. when I was a kid I use to remind myself to enjoy every moment of playing and having care-free fun.. because I knew I was going to grow up too fast.. and I never wanted to... I never wanted to grow up. So now at 24 and feeling how I am maturing and becoming more and more grown up I hold on tightly to 12 year old (and younger) San-Marí inside my heart.. and the memories of the house I grew up in... my purple room with the blue waves painted in the center and the green stripes above and below... screwing hooks into my ceiling so I can drape linen around my bed and make a secret hide out... my grandparent's home... my grandfather working in his garden... and doing his crossword puzzles... walking outside under the big tree with my grandma... my mom coming to fetch me after work by them and us talking and laughing in the car ride home and seeing the beautiful sunset... riding bicycle endlessly... playing spy with my two best friends... believing the world was just full of sparklez and rainbows... I want to capture that... I frankly can't wait to start painting around this concept...