Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Recent Decision





P1180992, originally uploaded by rgmu11.


Al watching Pink Pantha in bed. I feel this drawing is a bit like Schiele's style, one of my favorite artists.

I'm planning to take some figure painting course when I go to UK. Although I got the offer of University of Arts London, considered the big gap between their international students' fee and home fee, which is £9,300 per year and £1,390 per year, I decided not to be account on taking a course in that university, at least not in the next three years. Because the reply I got from the university to my question "If I get a spouse visa, in what condition could I just pay the home status fee?" is- You have to stay in UK for at least three years to be accepted as a home student.

The answer was quite disppointing, thinking of the HUGE gap between the oversea's and home's fees. The tuition is going up year by year, while I am not sure whether the teaching quality would climb along with it. Think about it, what if I get pregnant and have a baby in one or two years, I will still be treated as an "international student" if I wanna go to college? I did feel quite excited when I got the offer.I did look forward to going there to study, very very much. And I did work much. But what a pity, facing my financial situation I don't think I could accept loaning money for just one year foundation course for which British students will just pay nearly 1/7, and I even don't want to wait for another three years to go to a foundation course. All what I feel is I wont make it unless they suddenly changed the policy to accept me as a home student then.

I just hope Al could get a good job where he feels fulfilled and joyful in career development. He thinks I should consider more about other ways to persue art, like short courses. I guess that's a good idea. I would like to join several short courses to train myself more in traditional art technique which is helpful for me to get deeper in art.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

My Colleagues (Continued)

The only joyful chance to do art with my job is to draw my colleagues while we are working together. It is quick, meaningful and satisfying.


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Monica Li, at lunch break time
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Cindy Cong, at lunch break time

This post continues my previous post about my colleagues: http://robinwang.co.uk/?p=516