Now that my A-levels are all done I can now indulge the hobbies I had, in what seems a former life. A lot are the usual hobbies like reading and sports, but now I can go back to one of my favourites; drawing and painting.
Since I was about 9 or 10 I really got into drawing, mostly Disney characters, but my enthusiasm for drawing and painting kicked in when I was about 14, drawing all sorts from anime to tattoos. When choosing options for the later years of my school life I chose both Graphic design and art, which probably wasn't a good choice in hindsight. Anyways, all that came to an end once I entered A-levels, and I haven't picked up a pencil since...
But, now I have all this spare time, I really feel like I should start painting and drawing again. One of the main reasons is that I miss it. Just investing the time and focus to make something beautiful or whacky or whatever. Just something that is not dull or serious. I also want to get back into painting, specifically water colour painting because I have a ton of flower pictures that I took almost a year ago, in the local flower gardens, that I haven't even began to look at yet. 
I first got obsessed with flower paintings during my last year of secondary school, because I had chosen a project based off the paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, and really admired the way she captured the beautiful shapes and colours of tulips she often painted, with my final art piece being a HUGE watercolour painting of a red flower, particularly focusing up close on the centre of the flower.
Incredibly, on my birthday my equally incredible friend was wonderful enough to give me a giant art set, with all the materials I needed to get painting, but couldn't due to me being slave to my studies. Fast forward 3+ years, I now can finally delve into this treasure trove of art supplies and can finally get painting again.
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