My uni art course (in school VET course or TAFE for those Aussies who know what im talking about) is finished for the year now, unfortunately the classroom at the university i was in is one of the art exhibition rooms for end of year displays so my course was cut by 4 weeks So i should be getting an art certificate in the mail soon!!!

I got to clean a skull from scratch for the first time! it was an amazing experience and i want to do it again sometime. It was pretty sad at first because the animal i cleaned was a bush stone curlew: [link] which was the baby of a family of curlews that i have been photographing and watching. It was hit by a car and on the side of the road, a friend mentioning a strange bird getting hit on her way to school in the morning so i asked her to show me and i took it home with me (it was freshly dead) and froze it. My friend mentioned that i should stuff and mount the curlew but it was missing quite a few feathers around the rump so it'd look bodgey if i did So i decided i should clean the head and get the skull insted
May sound pretty gross but its quite fun, skinning, gouging eyes out, striping the muscle off the bone and getting the brain out, the only problem i think was that i didnt take pictures of the process, and i ruined the skull by leaving it in Hydrogen Peroxide for longer than i was told to....so it fell apart in the end But i dont think it was completely my fault for it falling apart, but also the fact the curlew was a juvenile, meaning the head plates wernt connected and hardened like they would for an adult.

So im hoping to find myself a cat to try next time for skull cleaning....going for my L plate in November so im sure ill get myself a cat during some driving lessons Just have to pass the theory part first...

And im sorry for lack of activity from me, bugger all art passing through my brain right now since my art major is due real soon (school finishes up in 3-4 weeks for me) and im nowhere near finished, plus my major piece is pretty big (A2) and done completely in graphite pencil. I'll definatly take a picture of it when im done though so everyone can see. But to give you an idea of what im doing, its a extreem close-up of an owl, thats all the little feathers which i hate but love doing on a bloody huge page...but its looking pretty nice so far and i havent given up on it yet so i guess im doing good.


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