We're 12th through 2007 already, and sure, the time is going fast. Life at the moment is rather hectic with doing overtime at work, pressure to complete the Blue Fusion video, and of course, doing the usual things like evening classes and well, living in general.

Last Wednesday I attended an open day at Bournemouth University as I was keen to know more about their Masters in 3D Animation course. I managed to know a lot more about the course, chat with the tutors, chat with some students (who were trying to get on with their 3D projects) and chat some more with the tutors in the student union. What can I say, if I had the chance to do the couse, I would. It would appear now that doing this course will be the main driving focus to my creative endeavours. I just also need to find the 20K to be able to do it though. But rather than convince myself that it wont happen, I'll convince myself that it will happen, even if it takes a few years yet.

Putting that aside, I'm lined up with two new video projects through work (again, not related to the day job). This would be the 2007 Blue Fusion video and the Extreme Blue video. Should be good fun, but hopefully I wont be tied up in the day job to cause problems with these ones.

My guitar course has come to an end, and after 11 weeks of lessons I have concluded that it was a nice introduction to the acoustic guitar. No, I can't play the guitar. But I understand it a lot more, and have a great basis for when I want to pick it up and give it a go. I have also decided that while understanding guitar tabs is nice, I do miss having the knowledge of sheet music. So I've picked up a couple of books on reading music to read for when I go to bed. Shame I can only manage about 2 pages before I start to nod off. However, what this has made me realise is that I want to get back into learning the piano - eh, but not just yet.

However, coming back to my drawing and painting course, I've completed my next piece using oil paints and, what was intended to be the glazing technique. I will admit though, I was struggling a little with the water, reflections and the reeds, so the tutor did take hold of the brush and show me the way. I'm still fairly pleased with this though, and after all, the paintings so far are just to get a feel for what the medium is like.