It been a weird day

Today has been really slow but yet I seemed to get a surprising amount done. >.< I spent a while this afternoon wandering around trying to think of something to do. I am currently waiting for some boards that I have ordered from the workshop to paint on.



Here is another one for my series about female form. I am planing to paint more when I have the boards to paint on ^_^.

Today I also worked on some pieces for the challenging spaces module. These are part of the four mini projects within the module. The following photo's are for the mini project 'Land Art/ Street art' I thought I would combine a bit of the two by using sand and the pavements around campus. Then took photo's of them as the day progressed, and as it was a rainy day I was effectively taking photo's of their slow erosion.
I took the images using the Negative setting on my camera as it made the shapes a bit more clearer against the background concrete/ brick paths they were created on.
Unfortunately my octopus did not end up as cool as my initial design sketched, in fact to me it looks like he is either wearing a head dress or some sort of rabbit ears :(


This one I created right outside the art department by the end of this day this one was the most eroded because it is actually on a road and was the road leading out from the lecturers car park XD

This shark I created right outside the swimming pool :) I thought it would be a very fitting place for it XD

Out of all the mini projects I just have one to go and that is the film/ performance piece :( Which my lecturers reminded me is due in next Thursday :( I had thought it was due in at the end of April but that is apparently the bigger project for this module. I have an idea what to do but the only part I am dreading will be the editing stage. I haven't done film editing before so this could be fun. It's the London trip this week end which kind of limits my time to spend working on the film :(

Anyways I better get on with the Duchamp essay I have been putting off.

Here we go again XD

Alright then, I had quite a productive day to day though the morning was spent priming a few boards so they were ready for painting on, showing one of my fellow students how to make friendship bracelets and also how to work his new phone XD

As I promised I have put of the photos of the pieces I was working on, on Friday.

Front view of the clay piece I was working on on friday that is now waiting to go into the Kiln ^_^


This is the back view for Friday's clay piece.
Today I finished off this painting that I started on Friday (at long last) it is finished. Though I have a funny feeling that by the end of this project people will be thinking I am either a Lesbian or someone with a boob fetish >.< This above painting is a piece I was working on today it is a painting of one of last semesters clay pieces. I created this as a kind of link between the forms within my paintings and the rest of my ceramic pieces.

Just a quick sketch of one of last semesters clay pieces. Like the previous photo its supposed to be a linking piece between my ceramic and painting pieces for the creative module.

Anyways I shall attempt to work further on my Marcel Duchamp essay this evening... I think I am about three quarters through. I really want to get it completed before I go on the Departmental trip to London.
Tomorrow I plan to create another clay piece from my sketchbook ideas, however I have saved the trickiest one til last :( I also hope that some of the boards I ordered from the workshop are done cause I am running out of stuff to paint on. I doubt they are though.

Until tomorrow hopefully.

Talk about a busy few days

As the title says it has been quite a very busy few days.
I had intended to post up on thursday night especially as I had done a lot of work in the studio that day, thus having plenty to talk about but for some reason I didn't... I am not really sure why though >.<
Thursday it was unbelievable I managed to complete one painting and a clay piece which should now be dry enough to go in the kiln :). Both these pieces are for my huge creative project which is worth double the credits of any of the other modules. I have decided to continue the theme Identity from one the previous semesters modules. Only last semester I didn't get a chance to carry it as far as I would have liked. I focused on sort of female form of dancing figures. However this semester I am carrying on with female form as an identity in general emphasising on the fact that nowadays there is a lot of fuss about a woman's body shape promoting them as objects.This is the first clay piece out of the 3 or so I have planned. The female shape in this is nothing more then a body wearing clothes... or that's what I aiming for but clay workings aren't really my strong point but hopefully I am getting better.



This will be the first of a series of paintings around the theme with the ceramic pieces to go with them.

On Friday I got another one of the paintings complete and started on one of the others, as well as completing another of the clay pieces but unfortunately I do not have photo's of them yet so I shall probably go into the studio on Monday and take some so I can post the images up on here.
I am pretty proud of myself and like I said in the previous entry I have got my motivation back so I hope to continue to have many more productive days like Thursday and Friday.


This piece with the white Rabbit is a concept piece from one of my other modules for this semester. The module is all about challenging spaces; creating alternative spaces for art amongst other things. This one was for one of the projects entitled interior, exterior alternative... we could decide on our own themes obviously and I decided to do a play on Alice in wonderland, the rabbit represents the modern person (it was the first rabbit toy I could find) and the rabbit is being choked by the watch round it's neck as it reaches in the confines of the bread bin for food but instead of food there is nothing but tablets and drink.
This one was also for challenging spaces the theme this time was miniatures: humorous or shocking. Yes there is a miniature police towing vehicle and on the back of it is bumble bee from transformers. There is quite a few of these as I went all around the campus to fins the perfect places to place them.
This above painting is some of my last semester piece in which I have continued across the theme into this current semesters work in my ceramic pieces for the creative module.
This piece is also one of last semesters pieces it was part of a concept titled 'Icon' from my sculpture module.

Anyways Good bye for now

Hello again

Well here it goes...

Last week was so very busy, I had gone back home for a visit. It was nice to see my mum, my brother and my Boyfriend again... not to mention my Grandparents and little Marbles (our Cat). That's not all what I was up to that week; I also went back to school for about four days.
It was strange being back, the school has decided to re-name all the blocks which would have been an issue if I wasn't in the art department the whole time.
I had gone back to school with the motive of doing some extra work experience, not just cause one of my modules, (business of art) demanded it but also due tot he fact that I want to be a secondary art teacher. You are more likely to be accepted in to a PGCE if you have prior work experience within schools (or so I am told) So every little must help.
I was helping out with a range of things within the classes. I helped four different year 7 classes create their own African Tribal masks by generally cutting out shapes from corrugated cardboard, to helping some of them to catch up by helping collage some sugar paper (and each teacher I was with had a different method with the making).
I also assisted Mr Downing with three different classes of year 8's with their Giacometti themed sculpture. Which actually was a lot of fun especially as I got to make my own too :) . (See Below)



I didn't just help out with the teachers in their classes that week... I was set a few technician style tasks too. For example finding and repairing a number of alphabet print blocks as well as creating a display withing the departments computer room. The display was composed of ex- students alevel work from photography to paints, both portraits and landscapes. I recognised a fair few of them as my fellow Art class Year mates.
There was one problem with just me doign the display on my own was I couldn't tell if I was putting them up straight, >.<>.<
On a brighter note I am feeling much better now and my appitite is back now!!! :)

I have a few ideas for some ceramic pieces and I can't wait until I next go in to the studio to start putting my sketches into reality. When I have finished them I might put up the photos on here for any who read this to comment and perhaps tell me what could be improved and such.

I'm really getting into my projects now. It was another slow and sad start to the year again due to the passing on of one of my oldest and dearest of friends. May she rest peacefully and happily where she has gone to now.
It been quite a hard and sad two years, with the passing of my dad, my boyfriends father and my dear friend. Too many good people have been taken. I was quite low for a while but with the support of friends and family I have started to buck up much more now. I hope to improve my grades for this year by working my butt off in this semester (my first semester marks of this year had dropped maybe a little bit for obvious reasons and I might have failed my History of Art module by two marks) So I am determined to bring things back around now.

Ok I am generally not good at these kind of things

Like the title says this blog will be my attempt to keep myself organised. However there are a few problems with this, I have a tendency to be a bit of a scatter brain really. My mind tends to flit around from one strain of thought to the next. Well when I think about it there are two problems; I am also pretty forgetful so the likelihood of this being a regular blog are pretty slim. I intend to give this ago though and hope to at the very least post up here at the very least of once a week.

So all that's left to say is....

Wish me luck