Learning the Basics

About a year ago, I had an idea. I should have a website.

After all, I am a painter.
I may not be a very good artist, but I am a fairly decent painter, and while deviantART works perfectly well as an image dump for all my work, it may not be the most professional place to direct a potential customer - one might get distracted and end up looking at someone else's work before you know it, and we wouldn't want that.

So I need a website.
A nice, professional website to display my work.

And in order to get a website, I can either pay someone to make one for me, or learn to do it myself.
I chose the latter.

So here I am, with a nice big book explaining the use of HTML code and CSS rules, and a program that promises to do it all for me once I've mastered the basics. I can't say how long it will take to finish the lessons in this book, and later to create a website for myself, but this is how far I've got:

This, by the way, is hand coded in TextEdit and opened in my browser.
I did a little victory dance - however simple it looks, I did it myself.

Non-Artistic Self-Expression

Some say the purpose of art is self-expression.
That's all very nice, but self-expression comes in many shapes and forms, and not all of them artistic.

Look, I'm a girl.
I take pride in my appearance.
I can spend hours figuring out what to wear, put my makeup on, and do my nails. This is how I decide what to express. I may decide to look smart and a little bit cute, completely natural, absolutely fabulous, or SCARECROW.

This is self-expression, but certainly not art.

Or if you want, twist your world view and call EVERYTHING art, making it synonymous with ALL human activity.

The Obligatory "What I'm Wearing"- Post

Well here it is, my inner fashionista showing off this delightful ensemble at a location near my current residence (bonus points if you can guess where).

So let's talk shopping.

The t-shirt was a present from my boyfriend, possibly meant as a joke - or possibly wish-fulfillment, what self-respecting motorcyclist wouldn't want his girlfriend to at the very least LOOK like a hardcore biker!
If you find yamaha and ladies clothing, you'll most likely find this or at least something similar.

The skirt is one of my favourite ridiculously-short-almost-unwearable items, however should you want one for yourself I couldn't point you in the right direction if I wanted to - I picked it up at a local charity shop.

I've had the tights for a very long time, a couple of years in fact, and I'm amazed they're still... you know... whole. That might be partly due to being hidden away in a drawer for a long time, and only recently rediscovered.

The shoes are my all time favourite shoes, more about them later. I'm in something of a long-term relationship with them. Did I hear anything about the modern woman's relationship with material things? Didn't think so. Keep not thinking that.