I did this :D

not yet finished and scanned a little bright

Sapporo shrine and TV tower

We had a nice covering of snow last night so everything looked pretty today

I went up the TV tower to take in the view

prints and college catch up

another week flown by, one more left

I scanned in the prints i've been doing this term

the top is an ainu doll i drew from a museu (ainu is Hokkaido's indigenous people)

I really like this print, we used woodcut and i think oil or wax layer 

we added colour but it was very difficult to control

Dry point etch, i didn't have time to do the mountain so it was just an outline because the tree took so long

This one looked good on the pvc when it was wet but didn't print very well, oh well!

This week been doing a lot of painting.

Monday we started a watercolour landscape painting

Tuesday we started painting the shoes

Wednesday we started painting final's for the poster

Thursday....hmmm i carried on with the poster

and Friday i started painting the temptation final, which i'm stressing over cus i really don't like my design (it's the guardian fish moment all over again!)

I pretty much finished my necklace in silver accessories, just need to buff it i think so heavens know what i'll be doing next week ....hopefully no more filing

and we made a folder (book binding) in print, and put the photosensitive paint on the screens for next week, it was odd that we did several layers and there paint was much more illuminous green then ours

I went to the shop that i went to on saturday straight after college on wednesday, an hours walk, and i got some books....and a totoro pillow....i swear im buying no more totoro stuff after this! (but it's so cute!)

Otaru

Today I went outside Sapporo to a little harbour town called Otaru

The venice of japan, apparently, i'm thinking more the cornwall of japan

There were lots of glass blowing houses and shops, and the town was very musical. Lots of music boxes and town clocks with special features, one of them produced steam on the hour.

This is the old train line

 It was actually sunny, well for the morning at least

I have overspent today! used my card to get some totoro goods in a shop with a floor dedicated to Ghibli <3 Brought a blanket, photo frame, and some little keyrings plushes 

In one of the music box shops was a little display of the time line of music boxes! 

Bit of Hello Kitty

Some weird images

Hokkaido historical village and museum

Its the weekend so naturally after being sunny all week it spontaneously decided to rain all day

I went to the historical village of hokkaido, which was an open air museum of donated houses.  This is somewhat unusual, as in england we keep the historical houses where they are and build a museum around it, here they seem to transport them about.

you got to go inside the building and walk around some rooms, but you have to keep taking your shoes off

There was also a historical museum separate from the village.

Mammoth! 

Hokkaido university

I don't go here! but I wish I did, its so big and green!!!  (I go to the art college instead)

Plymouth eat your heart out I wish our university had this much green space!

It reminded me of classic 90's scary movie based on halloween with all the americanised buildings and straight roads 

Not sure what was going on here, they were lighting candles in part of the univeristy

Headed back towards the station and went in another underground shopping mall. 

This was just colourful ad

HELLO KITTY!!!!!