BLOG 5: Changes to my study programme.

 

I study Visual arts at University of Chile, I’m doing my third year and I believe that my career has a lot of classes borings what they aren't necessary. We have “Seminary” for example, and I hate this class because We need get up early and the content isn’t very interesting or important in my opinion, al most not to my process and my artwork. Well, we can debate about their importance, but I think that matters, like “seminary” or “methodology” just they only steal our time and energy to have more time in our central workshops and do practical things and produce works, and I don´t like that either.

Well, that’s just my opinion, but at the same time I think what we have just for years to study, and I don´t know, maybe if we don´t have that matters, we would be less stress and we could enjoy more our artistic process. In addition, the infrastructure isn’t the best, but I´m not sure if it´s the worst. Is more like that…is basic and very rustic, without technologies or things like that, no, we faculty just have computers with some edition’s programs and... that´s all.

But at lest we teachers are friendly, comprehensive and they try to do the best to teach us the best way, just correcting us, recommending artistic movements, artists or all kind of things to improve our art. All that things make my career the best, at least for me. I love the environment in out campus, because is cute, comfortable and all the people here is gentle, so, I recommend that about visual arts.

POST 4: Time travel to the past or future.

If I could travel in time, I would like to see my future, not to the past because my past was complicate, and I won´t like to do or say something what could change my present, even if that was something good for the Catalina of this days. I would like to travel to the future because I feel emotion when I think about It. Why? Well, because the future is something unpredictable, full of possibilities and hopeful for me. 

I would like to see how I am in three or five years more. I know what in that years I will be a graduate of visual arts, but, what about my work? Or my friendships or my romantic life? I will live alone on my own department? Or not? I will have more cats? 

All these possibilities make me feel excited, and I could stay to live in that future if all the things are like how I want, I don’t care if I don´t have my own department or I don´t have my dream job (be an illustrator) if I can feel peace be in that reality, that´s enough for me. 

Now, if isn’t something good, I won´t stay there, obviously. I just want to travel and stay in the future if I can skip all the university process. Yeah, my university process is good, yeah, I can learn about a lot of kinds of things but is stressful and I can´t draw things that I want because I need to do one project about one matter that I don´t care and ugh, yeah, stressful.

But if my future is bad or something that I don´t like, I would like return of my present to try of change that. I don´t change my past because I think is important accepted me how I am, but the future is other thing, after all, that future isn´t today. 

POST 3: My dream job.

My dream job is work like an illustrator on internet. It´s so funny, because I will draw on my tablet all the time and create original characters or draw fanart of my favorite series/characters. I will have my own times; my own schedule and I will do something that I really enjoy. I will doing illustrations with watercolors, temperas, oils...whatever I want. 
Ok, not every is pink, because I will draw things that I won´t like too, but I will be my own boss and that´s okey for me.

For the same, be my own boss, I need a lot of abilities, like be more organized, more patient, more constant and I can´t be floppy because if I don´t work, I won´ t have money, and If I don´t have money, I won’t eat something. Yes, It´s terrible, but that´s the true. An illustrator needs to be their own lawyer, boss, employee, accountant, community manager, etc. It´s a lot of work, but I want that anyway.

Oh, I will need to know things about arts, but I study arts right now so I can understand how is that world of the colors, anatomy, etc. I do my own original characters too, and I have a page of Instagram where do I upload some of my illustrations. I believe I’m started in that world.

These are some of my ilustrations work. Kenma and Akaashi of Haikyuu!! My Ig is _a.ik.a if you wanna follow me ;)

But my salary would be limited. In Chile the arts and Illustration isn’t highly valued, that’s means what I can´t makes lot of money like an engineer, lawyer, or doctor, but If I try and I'm good, I will earn $800.000 pesos approximately.

It´s the same in visual art, my career, but I can´t avoid loves arts, specially, the paint. That´s the reason why I study visual arts because I can do my own works, study the colors, the history of the arts, all things that makes me feel like...alive.

I just hope what my plans go well. :´)

Bye bye <3 

POST 2: The best Holiday ever.

I’ve been in Perú the year 2019 and that was my favorite holyday in the world until now, Merry Christmas and New Year, because all the things what I will tell you. I went on “vacation” with my sister and my mom to visit my aunt Loli for one month in December. We stayed on her house with my cousins, Darely and Sergio and her husband, Fito.

This travel isn´t like a holyday conventional because the gift was what we could travel to other country and stay with part of our family for a long time, and we didn´t celebrate merry Christmas with decoration like a tree and New year with alcohol or something like that for the beliefs of my aunt and her family. We just had something delicious and special for dinner. But, on the other hand, we could travel a lot.


Well, we stayed in the Adventist University of Peru, so we weren´t close of the Lima, the city center where be the things more interesting, in my opinion. We visited the city or commune of Miraflores, a beautiful place with a magical sculpture, “the lovers”. I took many photos of this, and I really love the sky with those so warm colors.

"The lovers"

So, I remember what we visit “the cathedral” in the center of Lima, and we visited other places, but I can´t remember the names and I didn’t take photos of that, but it was like a water park with lights and shows, and a place to get wet.

Yes, this's stranger, but is my favorite holydays because I was able to leave the country with my family for first time, and that´s all I need to have an amazing memory of that. Just like "i could be in Peru for all a mounth for the Chrismast and New Year, yeah, you know". 
Can you understand that? I hope yes. 

Regards!

POST 1 : A country I would like to visit.

 

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about a country that I want to visit in the future: Ireland.  

The truth is I don´t know much about this country, but it always seemed to me a place green, interested, and magical, especially magical; and I like it because I have heard about the legends in this place, or about the heroes like Diarmuid, or I have seen photos on internet and the landscapes are beautiful. My prefer thing are the heroes and the landscape, but that´s topic about other post.

Diarmuid and Grainne, leyend. 

Anyway, I don´t know a lot, so I prefer to visit this country only like a tourist first, and maybe in the future live here for three or two years. I need investigated more today, because in the past, when I was an adolescent, I investigated about Ireland, but I forgot all.

When I know more, I can share all my progress about this with you, if you want, and you can help me to decide if I should live in Ireland or not.

 

Regards <3

Google Arts and Culture

 This page is great to search for different paintings or artists and see the paintings in detail. If you´re an artist or you´re interesting in the arts, in general, you can use and enjoy this website.

Google arts is an extension of google related to the arts (obviously). If you want to know more about artistic techniques, important characters, places, artistic movements, color, or a museum in 360° you can use the section “explorer” and navigate until you find something you like or catch your eye.

It also has games to play alone or with friends. Games like, how much you know about x topic, or where is x character, play with music or do test, too. I don't use a lot of this section, but it looks funny.

Oh, this website has a map where you can search the museums closer to you to do a visit.

All this is great, yeah, sounds exciting, but my favorite section is “favorites” because with this, I can save all the themes, paintings, and characters what I want to watch later. It´s cool because I can zoom the image until I see the brushstroke of the artist and, thanks to that, I can study to replicate the way in which the artist made his artworks. This is the reason why I like it.

Unfortunately, I just visit this page 2 or 3 times in one month, but I recommend it anyway. Maybe someone can take advantage of google arts better than me. 

https://artsandculture.google.com/

A R T

I’m interested in art since I was a little kid. When I was 6 years old, I painted a lot with my color’s pencils and my gouaches, all the time I wanted paint on my block or do something artistic. I never stopped painting, but I thought was better if I don´t study arts because I didn´t like to study history of arts, and my cousin told me “You need study a lot of history to do a great artist”.

In any case, is for the practice that I’m good at observing and copying what I see to paint it. I think that’s my best artistic abilities because I can “translate” what I see to do a painting very similar and I love do this. 

I like paint in oil, watercolor or gouaches, the artists landscapes and their themes in their paintings seems beautiful for me. I like the “bodegones” too, but I’m not sure why I like it. With this type of art, I feel something special, you know? Like a connection what I can’t express in words. Is the type of art what I enjoy more. And my favorite artist or painter is Leonardo da Vinci for what he represents and his genius in the arts. Maybe, I love his character more that his paintings because we don´t know all about him and his personality and his paintings aren’t really “wow” neither for me, but something about he is special, the same way what the paint itself.

 

WebQuest 1

 

NAME: Catalina Díaz Lagos

Day		Place	Entrance Fee	Tube Station
Monday	AM	Camden Market	Free	Camden Town
	PM	Camden Market	Free	Camden Town
Tuesday	AM	Madame Tussands	33.50	BakerStreet
	PM	London Eye	32.50	Waterloo
Wednesday	AM	Tower of London	29.90	Tower Hill
	PM	Tate modern art	Free	Vauxhall
Thursday	AM	Oxford University Tour	Free / ¿?	Oxford Street
	PM
Friday	AM	Changing of the Guard	Free	Liverpool Street
	PM	The British Museum	Free	Great Russell Street
Saturday	AM	Kew Garden	12.10 / 9.00	Kew Bridge
	PM	Kaw Garden	12.10 / 9.00	Kew Bridge
Sunday	AM	The Natural History Museum	Free	South Kensington
	PM	Tour ”Jack el destripador”	Free	Liverpool Street Station

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1. What is 135 meters high?

The London eye or millennium wheel.

2. How many glass capsules does it have?

The London eye have 23 glass capsules.

3. What can you find opposite on the other side of the river?

The famous clock tower, Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster.

4. What is in the Palace of Westminster?

Is where the government meets.

5. What can’t you do in the parks?

You can´t use the cycle.

6. In what year was the Battle of Trafalgar?

1815.

7. How can you get to the Tate Modern Museum?

You can walk over the new millennium bridge.

8. What is the name of the cathedral?

St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Baby, baby, baby.

 

Hello again. It´s my ice cream/cat, Irú, when it was a little baby. My dad took this photo with him cellphone 5 years ago. I know, this isn’t the most beautiful and important photo of the world, but I love how my cat looks so pretty, small and tender on top of sofa while it´s sleeping.

Irú was always a curios and hyperactive cat, it usually goes for the house looking for something to play with it, so, when it was still and relaxed, we needed to take a photo to remember that moment, and, please, it´s very nice! We needed capturer that.

Today Irú is nice still, but when it was a baby…I can´t explain with words, but, sometimes I wish that my cat go back to be more small and delicate, then, I’ll put it in my hands and rock or snuggle without problems. I like this photo because I remember that moments with nostalgic and a lot of love.

My baby. <3

 

My favorite thing of the world

 All the time I have my favorite technological device with me: my headphones. I got it when I was 19 years old, but before of that I had the same headphones because it’s a good product. I use It from 2019 and still work fine. I recommend this brand, “sonny” of blue color; if you decide to buy this, tell me in the comments!

So, I use my headphones all the time, all day to listen to music, YouTube, or audios of WhatsApp. It’s necessary, because I love to listen to music; if I don´t listen to music, I feel bad, boring, and depressed. I can put them, yes, but only when I should pay attention on something or someone. Maybe, it´s an addiction, but listen to music help me to imagine more things and make me feel more emotions. My headphones are like a refuge, too, because with them I can be more relaxed when I´m in a place with a lot of unknown people. 

I guess my life without my headphones would be sad, and more complicated. 

ME, PROFESSIONALLY

 

I´m an art student at university of Chile and i´m doing my third year; I said that in my previous post, but Why I decided study that? This´s the question.

When I was a child, I didn’t have one dream job, never. I didn´t have one inspiration for my life like go to the moon or something “Wow”, maybe eat ice cream all day, but I didn´t want to have health problems; so, I wanted to study arts too, but my cousin said, “you can do that, but you need read I learn much about history” and in that moment I didn´t like study a lot. So, I ignorer my preferences and preferred to look another career. I wanted to be a veterinary, psychology, study philosophy or literature, maybe be a teacher of language at university, but I never had something what I loved more than painting.

I had many doubts, but my mom inscribed me at Liceo Experimental Artístico LEA Barroso when I was a student of “media” and I started to go to paint all the day. That was really amazing! There I learned how paint in oil, watercolor, “estracto de nogal” and “temperas”. Today I don´t regret to go at the academy, finally that´s why I study arts this year; the teacher of art at Liceo, my friends and all the experience gave me courage to decide!

The terrible was the Covid-19 for two years, I lost two years of university because nobody can go out! Yes, we can study in our house, we made that, but isn´t the same what study in person. Fortunately, this year we can go out to the “sede”, but…I miss sleep all the morning now. Yes, it´s a contradiction but I was accostumed. The hardest thing has been this; I’m so bad to stand up earlier, I hate that with all my soul.

I would like stand up more later, but I really love my career. I can paint in oil a lot, can I listen to the art all day and all is like…magical. I don´t like to do test but the art´s test aren´t so bad, maybe.

Any case, I would like to be a good illustrator and painter in the future. Give me your good vibes (?)

 

Bye bye <3

I ONLY KNOW THAT I NOTHING KNOW

Hey, hello. I wanna tell you a little things about me, beauty person; only little things, don´t worry, you can´t go back right now. ; )

My name is Catalina Díaz. I was born in Santiago of Chile the year 2000 and this year I’m going to celebrate my 22 birthdays. I grew up in Lo Prado neighborhood, but that part of my life isn´t interesting. So, in the present I’m living with my mom, my sister, my dad, and my cat: Irú. It´s a cat with white and coffee colors, and I always say that it looks like a vanilla ice cream with caramel souce, ja. My dad and my sister say that is stranger, but my cat is really sweet and I don´t care what they say; If my cat is white, coffee and sweet, then it´s an ice cream for me.

I love the cats so much, they´re so pretty, cute and smarts. But, I like paint, read fanfics, watch anime and cook cookies too. Oh, an activity that I enjoy so much is watch movies with my family. The Saturdays at night we buy something to eat, we sit in our “sofá” and watch a movie in the notebook. Usually a suspense movie like “2012” or something about natural disasters; my mom loves that.

I said that I like paint, no? Well, I study visual arts at University of Chile. I´m doing my third year and I love all that I do there. As a matter of fact, I paint all the day if I could, but isn´t the case. I hope can paint more in the future, it´s frustrate for me when I can´t do all that I want. I don’t like that, or when the persons lies or they´re say “this isn´t pain” and yes! Is painful for me! I hate the dentist for that. Pft, a random case.

Oh, I said what this post could be short. Don´t worry again, I don´t lie. I hope this was fun for you, at least a bit. This was necessary for me, so, thanks for read and maybe we can read us more in other opportunity.

Bye Bye!