Week beginning the 28th (Scary Week)

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

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.