The fool

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! My name is Charlotte (Charl, Charles, Charley, call me anything!) and I've been toying with creating a blog for a while and seeing the succession of one of my university friends and one of my friends I've known since I was tiny and their amazing blogs, I feel more motivated to create one to help showcase my life and my art and also, more personally as a way of getting across what it's like as a twenty year old girl, a twenty year old adult, living with suspected manic depression. However, I have absolutely no idea how to start this off.

So beginnings; I've been at university for a year and a half now on a Fine Art degree and I feel it's about time I at least try and get my foot in the pool of showing my work and to try start building relations through commissions and print sales. I would say I am primarily a traditional artist, in the aspect I prefer using mediums like pencil and charcoal to draw but I also like to try new things and get really hands on with everything. I also feel like I have a lot to say and have a lot of different aspects of my personal life to share and what better way than on a blog!

I was diagnosed with suspected manic depression when I was 18 years old and it was a very scary and emotional time as I had just moved away from my home and family to a new town to attend university and I was very alone, I think that the transitional period was a lot to take in and a lot to deal with but now I'm getting better at dealing with it. Things are starting to look up!