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 | 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 | 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 | 04 Oct 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops
I spent all weekend working on images to make stencils from. I spent most of my time messing around on Photoshop. I have already been creating silhouettes from photos I have taken, but I wanted to try to make some stencils out of them with more detail. As I didn’t...
by Kelly | 30 Sep 2010 | 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Initial Ideas
I have started to think of ideas for this module now. I am thinking about products I can make that will incorporate street art / stencils / silhouettes. This all started with photos I took of my sister before returning to uni this year. I started off with one of the...
