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.