by Kelly | 15 Nov 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas, Research
Finally all my sketchbooks are now on the way! It took ages for me to start my Wednesday module sketchbook although I had been making samples and test pieces. I also finally used the images and information I had printed out ages ago for my Tuesday sketchbook and...
by Kelly | 06 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
On Friday I finished cutting out all my brass silhouettes finally! They look great. I now need to file the edges and there are six of them!! Still it will be totally worth it when they’re done. They look great already. Next week I will start putting together the...
by Kelly | 03 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
On Friday last week, I started the rotation into metals from glass and so Marcus has become my tutor for this module for the next four weeks I think. I showed him my sketchbook and in this module I have been trying to bring graffiti, stencils and silhouettes into my...
by Kelly | 29 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I should have done this at the beginning of the module really and looking at other people’s work and sketchbooks makes me feel guilty that I hadn’t done anything except bring in objects I like and talk about why I like them. So I have now started doing...
by Kelly | 28 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I started making paper flowers. The first was using a technique that my younger sister showed me. Her friend Maxine taught her how to make them so I tried it out, from memory (and my memory is usually terrible!) but did a slight variation. You make strips of paper and...
by Kelly | 28 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I have been making things out of old aluminium drinks cans. I first started off just painting them (two actually) but I didn’t know why… I was doing a painting at the time and I had some paint left over and the cans were just lying there. As an artist and...
