This week was not only scary because it was Halloween but because this was our assessment week. I was really nervous about it and spent most of the week stressing out. On Monday we had a mid module assessment type thing with Paul, I quite liked they way this ran because we were in some groups rather than on our own which I think would have been more intimidating. It also meant we could bounce ideas of each other and see where everyone else was struggling, it seemed most of us were having problems with our time management so we were able to talk about that and how to resolve it which I think helped me a lot. It also gave us a chance to talk about what we think of the course and our coursework I'm enjoying this course and I think all the different classes are helping me to explore more options that I hadn't previously thought about. For drawing we were continuing with life drawing which good, we were looking at movement which was really interesting and I liked the way that my drawings turned out. We also got our stuff back from the assessment and were told that our drawings were good but we needed to work on our sketchbooks so that's what we will be doing next week instead of life drawing. I'm glad my drawings are good and I knew myself that my sketchbook would need work, haven't not worked in sketchbooks before it was kinda difficulty for me at the start of the year because I have a sketchbook for almost every class but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it and hopefully I'll keep on improving.
Tuesday was the mega scary day because we had our hand in for the fruit project. However first we had 3D which I think helped to calm my nerves and stopped us all from stressing out too much. We were making more plaster sculptures. My classmate Amy and I made clay wall moulds and then mixed up the plaster together, we ended up making too much so helped other people with their mould but I think that was just down to lack of experience I think the more we work on it the better we will become at being able to know how much plaster is enough. Thankfully Dot (our lecturer) gave us her lesson to work on our fruit stuff. This have us a chance to stick in a few final things, add more annotations and just make sure we were happy with what we had done. However ad lunch drew in and the deadline got closer people started to stress a little bit again (myself included I've never really dealt with stress well). When lunch was over we actually didn't hand out stuff in right way, instead we all sat together with the lecturer, Catherine, and talk about our fruits. Mew talked about the concept of our fruit: what it did, where it grew, who ate it and so on. It was really interesting to hear what everyone else had came up with and what they had created in the end. I'm too sure what kind of grade I'll get but I tried my best and I was quite happy with what I handed in.
Thursday, we aren't usually in on a Thursday but Amy, Scott, Jack and I all came in to do some extra work for our 2D and 3D sketchbooks. We actually got quite a bit done, I worked on my contextual stuff (artist research) and also started curving some of my plaster creations. It was a good day and it was nice that we worked together and helped each other. Also it was Halloween so it was quite cool to see people dressed up. I then spent the rest of the night taking my sisters out trick or treating and then answering the door to different children. We had over 50 children at our door!
Friday this week we continued with looking in
