by Kelly | 26 Mar 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, 5AA005: Specialist Practice in Applied Arts, Initial Ideas, Research
I bought four different dance workout DVD’s which were delivered today called Urban Dance Workout, Hip Hop Dance Workout 2, Streetdance The Moves and Step Up Official Dance Workout. I watched the Step Up one today twice. I now think I know what I want my work to...
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 | 20 Mar 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, Initial Ideas, Research
I went to the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton with my sister to watch the Russian State Ballet of Siberia perform The Nutcracker. I am basing one of my module projects on this show for designs of giftware and products for the Grand Theatre possible future gift shop. I...
by Kelly | 15 Mar 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Competition and Exhibition Applications, Exhibitions Visited, My Exhibitions, My Future Art Career...
Following my entry into the British Arts Medal Society (BAMS) Competition in early February, I was informed over the weekend that although I didn’t win the Student Medal Competition, they liked my work so much they wanted to exhibit my glass piece alongside...
by Kelly | 27 Feb 2011 | 5AD008: Critical and Contextual Issues in Art and Design, Research
I have come across an amazing product range by a company called Fred and Friends on the internet when doing some research into a designer of a lamp as part of my Art, Craft and Design examples task for Monday’s research module. I found an image of a “shy...
