Painting Workshop

Lovely workshop to finish with.  Colour, abstraction, process, scale – all strongly resonate with me; reflecting back over the course

Print making workshop

Looking forward to this week as I’ve always loved all the print making I’ve done before (collagraph with Double Elephant Print Workshop, Exeter; gum arabic transfer/collagraph/artist’s books with Sue Brown, Hampden Factory; artists books/poetry –

Fashion and Textiles Workshop

Looking back at this whole week, I do have some clarity about what I particularly enjoyed – once I got over myself regarding the sewing machine, I adored producing samples and I also loved working with fabric and my samples, creating shapes, form and

3D Design Workshop

Day one brief (with Matt) was to make a scale model of an object, paring down the design detail to the bare minimum to capture the essence of the object, using materials of our choice.  Examples shared were Julian Opie

Sculpture Workshop

It was only when I started the clay maquette making on Monday that it occurred to me that I have done sculpture before – at Cherry Orchards Camphill Community, where I lived for 18 months, I had a go at clay work (simple to more complex forms), stone

Graphic Design Workshop

This week has been a fast moving introduction to creating our own images using pinhole camera photography (like the one above), uploading them into photoshop and manipulating them ready for this blog.  We have also created our own blog – hooray –

Bristol Project

 

The above image is an abstraction from a series of continuous line drawings capturing a moving landscape from a train window (see sketch book for more examples).  Inspired by a drawing start point about drawing everything that moves within your field of

Drawing Week

For me drawing week was like being plunged into a shop of delights – some familiar (life drawing, wax relief), others unfamiliar (bauhaus projections, photoshop).  This is what I’ve been working towards – time and space to immerse myself in creative activity