by Kelly | 24 Mar 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, Creating in the Workshops
I took my work out of the kilns today and had a very odd result from the line drawing slump. Rather than the glass being flat and the lines becoming 3D above the rest, it had the total opposite effect and the spaces between ballooned up. As the drawing was of a leg it...
by Kelly | 22 Mar 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA003 Creative Applications, Creating in the Workshops
Today I put three glass kilns on – two with scraps of glass from the hot shop: for jewellery from “found waste” to re-use it and the other has larger pieces which I hope will fuse together as they did in a firing I had the other day. I want them to...
by Kelly | 23 Feb 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, 5AA005: Specialist Practice in Applied Arts, Creating in the Workshops
I had a new acetate printed with my new images on this morning, then took it to Andy in the screen printing workshop to make up a screen for me. Spent a lot of money on this task so it better turn out well! I produced small versions of the image so I can produce some...
by Kelly | 22 Feb 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA003 Creative Applications, Creating in the Workshops, Initial Ideas
Today I had a tutorial about my Tuesday Module – Design Discourse, which I now feel slightly better about having some idea of how to progress the project. I then went to the Digital Print office and had my sketchbook drawing scans which I spent hours editing...
by Kelly | 17 Jan 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Competition and Exhibition Applications, Creating in the Workshops, My Future Art Career...
After a week at St. Edmund’s Catholic School last week, I am settled back in Wolverhampton after the Christmas and New Year break. Hand in day for the BAMS Competition is at the end of January so I went in today to cast my medals. I used the bottom of a plastic...
by Kelly | 08 Dec 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops
I spent today drawing with paint in a very expressive way partly as a response to Laura Higgins Palmer’s work as mentioned earlier but also to continue my own work in developing movement in imagery. I had a tube with a fine nozzle filled with black paint mixed...