by Kelly | 17 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops
I was at uni on the flat-bed grinder beginning the polishing process to flatten the top and bottom of my coloured glass cylinders. On the third cylinder (my favourite!), the orange one, I was on the second side and the flat-bed caught the piece and dragged it out of...
by Kelly | 16 Nov 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials
This afternoon I began making two-part moulds of two light bulbs for my Friday module. My aim is to slip cast them and as the module is all about multiples, slip casting is a great was of doing this. I have never tried slip casting before so it should be interesting....
by Kelly | 15 Nov 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops, Exploring Different Materials, Initial Ideas
There are a few people having issues as well as myself with the Friday module and the way it is being run. As the University has changed the course since we began, there are some people who joined onto a specialist course and are being force to use other materials...
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 | 09 Nov 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, My Future Art Career...
Today I completed the student associates induction at the Walsall campus. There was a lot to get through and being talked at all day and giving full concentration is exhausting! We were given our log books and booklets for our school mentors too. We were also given a...
by Kelly | 08 Nov 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, Uni Life
I finally started my sketchbook for the Wednesday module on Sunday! What a relief! I completed 10 pages in my A3 sketchbook with images, photographs of research etc and wrote comments about them. I was so pleased! My tutors will be too! Yesterday I decided to dribble...
