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I'm currently changing my perspectives quite a lot. For instance I never used a personal budget to reach my goals, but since yesterday I'm working on my 2012 budget. Yesterday I drew up the rough draft and today I'm tweaking it so that it fits my goals for 2012. This way I'll know if I'm on track to my goals or if I lost orientation. Do you draw up a yearly budget?

Changing one's perspective is often quite helpful and in photography it leads to beauty such as this.

Drawing by Robyn Gosby, Certificate IV Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, 2011. The Certificate IV in Visual Arts is a full-time (3 day per week), 1 year course that gives a solid foundation in key studio areas within visual arts practice. The CIV offers studies in drawing, painting, fine art photography, printmaking, art history/ theory and ceramics. It is also the recommended pathway course for the new Diploma of Visual Arts, which will be introduced at NADC in 2013. Certificate IV students gain a great deal of skills and inspiration during their studies, and many of our learners this year will go on to enrol in Diploma studies in 2012. The image above is by 2011 CIV student Robyn Gosby, from a drawing class taught by Dalia Maron. To see more of the wonderful work created in this class, visit our  CIV 2011 Drawing flickr set .  We are currently taking registrations of interest for the Certificate IV in Visual Arts for 2012. You can register online by visiting this link: htt...

Good Morning. Isn't it fabulous? A new week has started. With possibilities abound. Let's make the best of it. Thankfully I'm back on late shift, therefore I have more time on my hands to get my stuff done and check out your blogs. How was your Sunday? I enjoyed mine thoroughly. Sleeping in, taking a looong shower, dressing up and going into town to enjoy Caffe Lattes and write down the epiphanies I had this Saturday. As a matter of fact I wrote so much, that I filled up my moleskine notebook and am now switching to my red knitted cover benetton notebook that Chris gave me as an early christmas present, one week early. Awesome.

  some of the works on display in the Trapezium Gallery What an amazing exhibition it was from the students graduating this year in the Diploma of Fine Arts! For more room shots of this terrific exhibition, visit our flickr set of the show. Of course, the opportunity to continue to appreciate the exhibition, and  buy work from these talented artists can still be taken up by visiting the exhibition website . The show came down without a hitch on Friday, leaving many to muse on how long a show like this takes to hang, and how quickly by comparison it takes to come down. Gone, but not forgotten! Michael Sharpe and Danielle Pearse de-install their work from the exhibition on Friday

Printmaking teacher Matthew Ablitt (far right) with students from the 7 week Fine Arts Intro course In Term 2 and Term 4 of each year, NADC offers a full-time introductory course in Fine Arts. The course is 7-9 weeks in duration, and participants attend for 4 days per week with studies in printmaking, painting, drawing, ceramics and communication skills. The photo above shows students from our most recent Intro course with a collaborative colour reduction lino print they produced during the course. As well as creating a limited edition of their own original print, the students produced this fun collaborative work. Class teacher Matthew Ablitt guided the students step by step in the skills required to make a colour lino print and the results were very impressive. The last Fine Arts intro course has just wrapped up for the year, with many participants inspired to go on to further study with us in 2012. Congratulations to all students on their achievements in the course.  To keep info...

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click for larger image  Bruni Guenther-Tsapilis, who studied the Advanced Diploma of Fine Art with us this year, is having a solo exhibition of her work at Sassafras Creek Gallery in Kurrajong.  The exhibition opens on Saturday November  26, from 3pm to 5pm. The exhibition will be opened by NADC printmaking teacher Jo Ernsten.  Bruni dropped off all her work for assessment on Friday, and her solo show opens on Saturday: that's quite a week! Congratulations to Bruni on the exhibition.

Have a great weekend.

Fresh green! *happy sigh* In Leipzig fresh green has become quite scarce, in fact green in general has become scarce. But it's the cirlces that I really like about this picture. Today, I went to another event of my club "Kreatives Leipzig e.V" . We've had a tax consultant answering our questions. It was really interesting and his answers will help us all a lot. I tell you it is soooo helpful to have joined this club. I just love it.

Going through my pictures today, while preparing my next few posts, I just realized that I currently totally like photographies that show architectural structures and therefore geometric forms embedded into nature. Thus the new series on this blog that comes without a certain schedule. Today I took the afternoon off, since I was pretty tired and that even with 7 hours of sleep last night!  I seriously went to bed at 7:30 PM and turned of the light at 8:15 PM. However it didn't seem to matter, when my alarm clock rang at 4:33 AM, I nearly fell out of the bed.  Yesterday was kinda interesting. Somehow the Universe seems to want me to befriend Tuesdays again. If you read this blog you probably know that Tuesdays and I aren't the best of friends. I have no problems with the other days of the week, but Tuesdays always tended to be a bit off.  Sooo, during the last weeks, Tuesdays were the days when I found nice postcards in the mail. Yes, plural. However yesterday, the Univers...

 Dr Ken Marshall, Tim Allen and Trevor Barman NADC Fine Arts teacher Tim Allen recently visited the Blue Mountains Grammar School in Wentworth Falls to judge their annual art exhibition. The Dr Ken Marshall Art Awards at the Blue Mountains Grammar School is the annual art award for students from year 7 to year 11, and offers lots of different prizes across all media. In the photo is Dr Ken Marshall (sponsor of the award) on the left and Trevor Barman (Headmaster of BMGS) on the right, with Tim in the middle.

Aren't those trees amazing?

As a matter of fact I'm endlessly fascinated with tree bark and its patterns and trees growing patterns in itself. Well there is a 6-day-workweek ahead of me, with lots of stuff on my to-do-list besides my job in logistics. Nevertheless my mood is astonishingly fantastic, might be that I've already became an active member at the creative club I've joined or that I had a beautiful and successful day yesterday or that I paid myself my first "fatmoney". I hope you are in a good mood too and make the best of your new week. What have you planned to make it special? I'll have another pondering Sunday on my coffee shop with one free Caffe Latte. Wohoo.

Today I'm in a pondering mood. Going to a meeting of Kreatives Leipzig e.V. , which is the local club of creative people that I've joined recently, yesterday evening gave me a lot to think about. And so did the meeting with DaWanda-Artisans on Monday. So the next few days I'll do exactly that: pondering things related to my art and what I want to do next and the big picture for the future. Apropos picture, the one above I took in the Ozeaneum in Stralsund. Which is in my opinion way too expensive. But find out for yourself if you like it and if it is worth the fee. Soon I'm meeting up with Chris for a stroll and chat and after that I have a chock full to do list. Did you stumble upon things to ponder this past week or month?!

You know: I literally HATE the month November. Its not a dislike but pure HATRED. It is grey, it's cold, what's even worse it is a wet cold that creeps into your bones, the days go unbearably shorter day by day by day, the people around us become irritable, the year end crazyness gets to everyone, this month plainly just SUCKS. On days like this I need comfort. Comfort to me means: a warm cup of hot and awesome tea*, a thick and cosy planket to curl up in, a good book to read**, cooking and enjoying dinners with friends (in my own flat, so that I don't have to go out), watching good movies with friends including nice popcorn, watching Harry Potter 1 or 2***, warm footbaths, finding letters and postcards from friends in my mailbox or looking at pictures like this above and remembering the joy of the moment. This picture I took at the Teeschale Prerow , which is an awesome, cozy and really comforting teahouse on the Darss. The two balls aren't icecream but homemade whippe...

Guerilla knitting in Leipzig.

I've been thinking what is my goal for San's Visual Art, what is my calling and these days I think it is to make you smile. So I'm starting this new series called "Smiling Sunday". I start with me today and next Sunday... What makes me smile? - Seeing kids on a freezing November day eating icescream - Eating my first "Zimtdackel" of the season - Finding a postcard in my mailbox - Sitting down in a comfy chair with an awesome Caffe Latte at Coffee Culture on a Sunday morning to enjoy some thinking time - Watching a beautiful sunset - Dancing in front of the bathroom mirror while waiting for may clothes to soak - Sending a postcard to friends and random people around the world - Thinking of my phototours with Chris - Finding new comments on this blog and reading them - Thinking of my friends - Looking up at a beautiful nightsky and seeing millions of stars - Taking a stroll along the beach - Playing Scrabble with friends - Seeing someone with fantastic sty...

Barbadian artist Sheena Rose has a cool tumblr called Strictly Art, which you should check out here . WATCH a cool Artzpub video featuring her here:

I think this speaks volumes.

Sometimes I need pictures like this. On the one hand yesterday was quite successful, I've made myself an amazing lunch, I clicked with my hairstylist and therefore have a cool hairstyle that fits me to a tee, I finally through out tons of garbage, I've succeeded in eating healthy grain- and sugar(!!!)-free, I got the ingredients for kimchi including korean hot pepper flakes. So yeah, quite a day. However my mood was rotten. Today will hopefully be better, well, I've started it with an awesome breakfast-omelette, so it should be a nice day. How are you?

Personally I really like fog. Fog that lets you see only 50 meters is my favourite. I like how it rolls in the light of lamps and how it obscures the world, how it makes the world slow down, how it turns down the noise. Therefore I really like this weather we have in Leipzig at the moment. It's quite unusual to have heavy fog several days in a row, but now we have an I love it. The best experience I ever had with fog happened in Edinburgh. I was walking down Princess street. I walked from the southern end to North Bridge. When I started at the southern end it was sunny, coming up to North Bridge I could barely see the next 30 meters. It was truly amazing to see the fog rolling in. I was probably the only person to enjoy it.

click for a larger image Mike Moore and Jeff Lees began their ceramic training at NADC, and are now very active in the community organising classes, workshops, and exhibitions. "The tyro’s of Positive Pottery would like to invite you to the opening of their exhibition, titled “T4 12” on Thursday 1st December; as part of World AIDS Day, 2011. This class has been made possible by a generous “Matching Grant” from the CITY of SYDNEY and the exhibition is sponsored by St Vincent’s Hospital. Please find attached your invitation to this event at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst; official opening will be by Professor Andrew CARR, Director of HIV and Infectious Diseases at 6pm. See you there" -Mike Moore and Jeff Lees

And this is another of my holiday- and K-inspired postcards. You like it, then you can buy it here: San's Visual Art - DaWanda-Shop

Let me get this straight: Tuesdays SUCK! I don't know what it is with Tuesdays and me, but we don't get along well. Yesterday was such a crappy Tuesday again. I had no energy whatsoever and my mood was truly rotten. Even though I was in such a hole I finally gathered the courage to do something that I had wanted to do for years, but I just was to scared in the last moment to do so. Sometimes I need a last push, in my case it was this blogpost: http://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2011/11/07/swab-your-cheeks-for-amit I'm probably not a match for Amit, but there is a chance that I can save another persons life with my bone marrow or stem cells. So yes, I've registered yesterday at the DKMS . After I did it I felt quite enthusiastic about it, but in the evening I was having second thoughts. Which is my normal time to start to fuss about things that I've done that day. This morning I'm feeling great and am still proud that I finally took this step, even though I'm ...

My friend K recently complained that my art is too pointy and sharp, since I felt that I had gotten into a creative rut I tried to get rounder and this is what I came up with. Since the holiday season is right ahead of us, I chose dark green and (what should have been) a dark red*. You like it, then you can buy it here: San's Visual Art - DaWanda-Shop * Yeah, I know it isn't dark at all.

Gee, I'm having writers block. Nothing to say.

click for a larger image Opening at the same time as The Diploma of Fine Arts graduation show, is 'Top of the Heap', work by students in Year 2 of the Diploma of Fine Arts, who will continue their studies before graduating next year. When you come along to the grad show this Thursday at 6.30pm, make sure you climb the stairs to see a wonderful collection of painting and drawing by our continuing Diploma year 2 students.

As I've already told you way back in October this set is a combination of calm and humour. Since my friend, who I gave it for his birthday, thought it's totally awesome, I sell it now on my shop. The circle means emptiness and completion and is often used as the symbol for Zen. Which, funnily enough, I only found out after I had created the set. Now, there are three cards, three circles but endless uses. Naturally you can use those cards to send them to your loved ones, but you can also use them for meditation and decoration of your home. I will eventually put this set up in different colors. So if you want it in your favourite color just write me an email and I'll make a set in that chosen colour. By the way, I photographed these pictures in a "new" way, meaning I put them on a black cardboard on my easel. This gives them a much more sophisticated touch as the scans that I used before. You like it, then you can buy it here: San's Visual Art - DaWanda-Shop

I might have said it before, I'm obsessed with pattern. In this case it is chaos vs. order nature vs. humanity Initially I shot this for the shadows, but now I think the three different patterns are more fascinating to me. Have a great new week.

Photo by Alex Smailes Here's sneak peak at Miquel ( Hit Me With Music , Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? ) Galofre's latest film, The Mikemen . FIND OUT MORE here .

FROM THE ORGANISERS: Nov 17, 7pm Drink! wine bar, Roberts Street Roger Robinson will be performing a selection of old and new work, and will be supported on the night by poet Keegan Maharaj and DJ Tillah Willah SoundBoy Killah. SEE VIDEO:

Ummm yes, it is the administrative building of Leipzigs North Graveyard. You know it is quite funny, most of the times I really like the architecture of the buildings on Leipzigs graveyards. I really would love to live in a house with this architecture. Have a magical weekend everyone.

If you followed my blog you probably have recognized my domain switches during the last weeks. Yes, it got on my nerves too. However, after deleting my drawing blog today, I switched this blog to the adress of the drawing blog and this is the URL I'm sticking with, after all it is the blogs name. AND I PROMISE no more domain switches! (this year ;-)

Good Morning. It's Friday and that means the weekend is only a few hours away. I don't know about you, but my Thursday was brilliant. I've got tons of stuff done and therefore my to-do-list was shrinking away like a waterlily in the Sahara. I was also quite creative, I drew several new postcards* and I took a few pics when I went for a walk during the golden hour. And I finished my day off with watching a few nice movies. Today, I have also tons of stuff to do, a lot of it is related to San's Visual Art. In any case I wish all of you a wonderful Friday. And if you are searching for holiday gifts check out Dawanda and etsy . "The Sunshine Fountain" is on offer in my Dawanda-Shop and will be on offer in my etsy-shop shortly. * some of them I might offer as a set in my shops** ** Yes, I've decided to give etsy a chance.

click for larger image A fascinating opportunity to find out more about the work of Margo Lewers, and particularly interesting to anyone who saw  'Framed ' at PRG by our Advanced Diploma of Fine Art students, which also explored the work of both Margo and Gerald Lewers.

Advanced Diploma of Fine Art student Barbara Kenny was recently featured in the Mount Druitt Standard, talking about her work that recently featured in Synergy-8, at the Trapezium Gallery. To read the story, click here: http://mt-druitt-standard.whereilive.com.au/news/story/art-inspiration-is-from-nature/

Alex Zou,'Reality Non Phase No.12', mixed media on paper, 2011 Carol Fitzgerald, 'Waiting', mixed media on paper, 100cmx45cm, 2010 At least three students currently enrolled in fine arts courses at the Nepean Arts and Design Centre have been selected for this year's Fisher's Ghost Prize at the Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery. Alexander Zou and Carol Fitzgerad from the Advanced Diploma of Fine Art, and Shiou-An Zou, Marcela Vilaplana, and Natalie Horvat from the Diploma of Fine Art, have been selected as finalists for the Prize, which opens tomrrow night at 6.30pm at Campbelltown Regional Gallery. Congratulations to the artists on their inclusion in this exhibition.

seen from the fountain. Being on the late shift is pretty good for me, enough sleep and creativity leading to this: By the way my friend said he would join the better the world project for which I had the idea yesterday. XD Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone.

Good MORNING!* It is surprising how fantastic I can feel when I sleep long enough. I had at least 9 hours this night and now I feel energetic and alive and am full of fabulous ideas. Some of them are for my art, one other is related to my art and has the goal to make this world better again and will include my friends. However I won't make the mistake of talking/writing about it too early, because it isn't ripe yet and when I talked about ideas too early before then I haven't put them into action. Since this one idea is really important to me and at least one of my friends and our lovely planet in general, I need to mull it over and talk to my friend before I share it here. However the picture above is a hint of the direction of this idea. By the way I think I took it in Wolkenburg in April this year, but I'm not sure. When do you have your ideas? What projects do you support to make the world a better place? What do you do in day to day life to make this world a better...