Quote Originally Posted by BOBS DAD
Miss Z,

14 years old - am I correct?

For a young lady of your age - some very nice stuff. Keep up the good work nd continue to develop your rendering style. You may have a career in it!!!
You are correct, and thank you I enjoy sketching, especially horses. Career? Probably not, unless I fail in vet training But I will always sketch when I get the time.

I'm actually not pursuing art as a subject now. In the UK, at 14 we chose what subjects we wish to continue for GCSEs and which to drop. You have to have 10 subjects, but 7 of them are pretty much decided for you (like maths, English, a language etc), leaving you with 3 to chose, out of about 10. It was very difficult for me to chose my subjects, but in the end I chose history, Latin and German, as I enjoy them very much and it gives me a good variety against the compulsory subjects. Now my art teacher won't stop telling me why I should have taken art, how useful it would be, why I need it blah blah blaaaah. It's unlike me to end a sentence with 'blah blah blah', but all the nagging is annoying me. Apart from sketching and other still life artwork, I actually dislike art. Expressionism and all that does not interest me one bit, I even did a homework on how much I despise the work of Mark Rothko. Most of the GCSE syllabus is on all that stuff, so I would hate it. I have a term left before I finish art, but I fear that I'll be bored out of my mind, as we're doing subjective art, which is art 'from the mind'. I suppose my art teacher thinks I'm insane to stop taking art. But I know what I'm doing and of course will always sketch for PT!