MURDER!!!

I'm a terrible person. I've killed him. I killed Jason. My own adopted Fruit and I killed him. I have my reasons! He was getting too much to bear! Actually that's a lie, I wanted to draw him and he looks more interesting on the inside. It was part of my research! You know what they say anything for art and all that.

Painting my fruit!

Scott, Amy and I all came in early to paint the clay models that we had made the week before. I decided to go with cold blue colours as it reflected the environment my fruit would be growing in and it also made it stand out as there isn't very many blue fruits that we know of.

Clay :)

Today I made my fruit! I went with clay because I felt that it would be easy to create the shape that I wanted.

Holiday!

We had this week off and so I just continued with my sketchbooks and made sure that I had all my PDP stuff up to date.

A New Addition

Our little family is growing! Today my Mum brought home another little baby! She is called Chantelle and she is a coconut. Her and Jason seem to be getting on really well and I hope that everything continues that way.

7th to the 13th of October

In our PDP lesson we discussed CREAM as a way to be a dedicated student, different ways of working and went over what our lecturers would be looking for in our own work and how we can achieve certain grades. After that we filled out a hand out on our long and short term goals. This was something I found quit difficult because I keep chopping and changing what I want to do with my life. The short term goals were simple pass my classes, finish this course, pass my ITC (cadet training) etc. I think I''l need to work on what I want to and work put how I'm going to achieve it. 
Drawing was a good lesson me and my class mate Amy left and worked out in the corridor which I think made a difference because I couldn't get as distracted because there was less people to talk to. I was working on making my work more abstract, I was adding more geometric shapes to the drawing and I really enjoyed the way that it was turning out. 


On Tuesday we got to use the vacuum former in our 3D workshop. I really enjoyed this, I had used this type of machine before but not for a while so it was good to use it again. I decided to go out side with some of my classmates as to get leaves and other natural objects to put in the vacuum former as I thought that would look interesting. Also sort of went along with my theme. I've decided to go with the industrial revolution in Scotland so I looking at contrasting things like built up areas like Glasgow and little country villages. Its a really interesting theme that I hope will allow me to explore a lot of different things. For Creative concepts we didn't have a lecturer for the first 2 hours, however contrary from what I thought we all got on quite well and worked quietly. I even helped Amy come up with a new idea! I was using her water colours and I had used a lot of water so she decided to flick the painty water on to her page as to create an interesting background, which contrasted really well with her sleek and polished drawings. I'm enjoying creating my own fruit have have several little ideas that I'm working on, so that I can whittle it down to the best idea before I make anything 3D. 

I wasn't in on Friday because I had to leave for my Cross Flags (infantry signals course) on Thursday. However I was told that in Contextual Studies they talked about taste and how things are viewed in our society. Also for Fridays 2D lesson they just continued on with research for the transformation.

Paper folding

One of the first 3D workshops that we did was for paper folding. I really enjoyed this, we got to learn some simple techniques that created some really interesting effects especially if you repeated the folds. This is something that I'm pretty sure I will use again in other projects.

30th of September to 6th of October.

This week started of a little bumpy for me. On Monday there was still road works and a lot of traffic this meant that I was late to my first class. However I got there in the end, and that was where I made this blog. The rest of the day went smoothly, in drawing I decided to leave the classroom to complete on of my sketches, this was quite a good decision as it meant I was own my work, so I was able to concentrate fully on what I was doing. I started drawing the corridor that I was sitting in but in order to make it a more interesting piece I started to abstract and simplify the shapes. You can still tell it's a corridor (I think) but it's hard to which one and what is in it. I really enjoy this class gave me sometime to think about what I wanted to achieve through my work.
On Tuesday we were meant to be in the workshop but sadly our lecturer wasn't in so instead a group of us took it upon ourselves to go do some more research in the library. I got a couple of interesting ideas of 3D objects I could try to make. Later, we had the creative concepts (fruit) this class I worked mostly on my own, try to work through the ideas that I had. It was a nice afternoon, a couple of us talked about how we are going to actually make our fruits: what materials, what tech quite, how. Which was fun as we were able to bounce ideas off of each other.
Wednesday and Thursday I was home, working through problems in my sketchbook. I was also research further into 3D sculpture as we had missed a week, I didn't want to have done no work. These two days we pretty chilled.
Friday started well (I got a lift in, so no bus!) we had a lecture from Nicholas Oddy (a guest lecturer from GSA) this was about branding, how it came to be, how it's changed, how it effects us. It was really intriguing, and was an interesting way of looking at something that is never really put much thought into. After words we had a group discussion about it which was fun but also gave me a chance to see how others felt about the subject and how it affected them. Later in the afternoon we were learning how to make felt, which was really enjoyable (but quite tough from all the rolling!) also I later discovered that I was allergic to the shop that we used to bind the fibres together (not too good) but it isn't that bad and it wouldn't stop me from doing it again! Maybe next I'll wear gloves!
Over the weekend I just continued with my sketchbook work, nothing too specific as I had set myself a clear task for the weekend. Although it started out a bit bumpy the week improved and I enjoyed it a lot especially Friday because is never done felt making before and I like to try new things :).

The Blogging Beginnings!

Ok, so I've to keep a blog of everything that I do for this course, simple enough however I will probably for forget :L. Any hoo, so I will quickly sum up my first month or so.
The very first week we mostly sat and listened at things were explained to us, what was expected of us, where things were (discovered that the college has amazing chips!).
Then after all that came the briefs at the minute we have 3 briefs: Transformation which is for 2D and 3D , Fruit for Creative Concepts and Negative Space for Drawing. They are all completely different which is a good thing I think, gives us more room to try new things and explore with I think is kind of the point in 1st year. For fruit we also had to adopt a fruit as our child, which is fairly odd but interesting none the less. We were eventually told that all the research that we were doing was because we would be designing our own fruit!
In 2D and 3D we have been learning a lot of different techniques: like how to make silk paper, paper folding, how to use the band saw (pretty scary), how to make felt. These were all really fun to do and something that I had never done before so it was good to try out new things.
For drawing we have been working with positive and negative space, so we were drawing different parts/areas of the college, which was interesting to do (also gave me a chance to wander and find out where things were!) and now we are taking the shapes and creating our own abstract area. This is really interesting and a new way at looking at things, taking ordinary things and turning them on there heads.
Another class we have is PDP which is good because it gives us a chance to build on ourselves, see where our strengths and weaknesses lay.
Also we have Contextual Studies, in this we get to have a board look at what art is, we are studying the 90s in this class. We have even had guest lectures for Glasgow School of Art which was a great opportunity and we have had some really intriguing discussions in this class.
I'm struggling to remember what I actually did oh well. I know that getting to know the class was better than I thought it would be and we all seem to get on really well.