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...
by Kelly | 19 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exhibitions Visited
Went to Oxford today with my year group. We visited the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology and then moved on to the Pitt Rivers Collection which we accessed through the Natural History Museum. I preferred the Pitt Rivers Collection, although it was so packed that...
by Kelly | 11 Oct 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials
On Friday I started a painting using the stencil I have been working on and screen printing. While on Photoshop, I had zoomed in on a section and loved the section in view, so I decided that it deserved to be on a canvas. If I hadn’t run short on white paint, I...
by Kelly | 06 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Initial Ideas
Based on the work and imagery I am currently working on in relation to silhouettes and stencils of dance poses, I think that music would be a great theme to run with for the medals. Music has always been inspirational to me and during my time at college, I focussed my...
by Kelly | 05 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Initial Ideas
The British Artists Medal Society (BAMS) Competition 2010-11 has been introduced to me today. I also decided that for this Tuesday module I want to focus on jewellery and recycled materials from the inspiration I gained at the Origins Craft Fair last week. I can...
