#opencollegeofthearts

[ninastarkey]

It’s taken me two years to finish this first Creative Writing Degree module and it’s been a struggle from start to finish. Even in the Post Office the kids were screaming at me. I’m so pleased I managed to get it finished though. Fingers crossed for a pass in November 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 #oca #opencollegeofthearts #creativewriting #creativewritingdegree #bahons #degree #studying #assessment #maturestudent (at Maidenhead) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPEH3DAPvP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yytlcypuvira

[sallyharrisonart]

I&P - Pt1 - Pj1 - Ex 1.2 - Personal Experience - Mixed Media ‘My Journey’

I&P – Pt1 – Pj1 – Ex 1.2 – Personal Experience – Mixed Media ‘My Journey’

Task: Create a Mixed Media work entitled ‘My Journey’ that communicates the important elements and experiences of your journey. Be exploratory and take risks.

Planning

Stage 1

Review

Once the plasters dried I lifted the piece out, worked to remove the sand for a while and then reviewed both sides.

This is the reverse, it’s tactile and has some interesting elements but it’s not ascetically…

[ahforfoxsake]

[passifloradesign-blog]

My Life Palette. #artist #artistsoninstagram #sketch #sketchbook #sketchaday #illustration #student #oca #opencollegeofthearts

[bloggingmyboringlife-blog]

Studying #creativewriting #maturestudent #oca #opencollegeofthearts

[alexpatersonphotography]

A pyramid of oranges - mostly eaten #opencollegeofthearts #tatebritain #tate #london (at Tate Britain)

[artbydenise-blog]

Reposting this painting from a few years back - it's a closeup of an assignment I had in Uni to draw a natural still life. The cactus was my favourite part, hence this snippet 🌵 Supplies: Chalk pastels and acrylic paint. 🎨 #itsgreattocreate #opencollegeofthearts #succulentart (at Chipping Norton - Gateway To The Cotswolds!)

[rochellephipson]

As of April 2014 I am officially a student again. Due to a few years being out of the study loop I am finding this quite daunting. I hope to gain my degree which I had set out to complete almost 10 years ago. I can do this! 

[ninastarkey]

Thank the lordy lord, all the assignments for my first module are done! Got two months to edit them and submit them for assessment. Such a weight off my mind (for the time being!) #maturestudent #student #creativewriting #oca #distancelearning #opencollegeofthearts (at Bray, Berkshire)

[sallyharrisonart]

I&P - Pt 2 - Research - Rp2.1 - Part 2- Working with repetition - The next 2 artists

I&P – Pt 2 – Research – Rp2.1 – Part 2- Working with repetition – The next 2 artists

I received some positive feedback about my first blog on the artist list that I’ve been given to research for this part of Ideas and Processes. So, I’m going to carry on in the same vein and after batting off offers to socialise I’m sat in Costa on a Sunday morning writing my personal views on 2 more artists.

Whilst doing my research I notified that although their work is very different they both…

[ahforfoxsake]

Book Covers

[passifloradesign-blog]

Done! #selfportrait #sketchbook #sketchaday #sketch #drawing #artist #artistsoninstagram #artist #illustration #opencollegeofthearts

[sallyharrisonart]

I&P - Pt1 - Pj1 - Ex 1.7 - Place

I&P – Pt1 – Pj1 – Ex 1.7 – Place

Task (1) Chose a location, get to know it well and gather design source materials.

My place

I chose to return to Attingham Park for this piece. I’ve been working in and from this location for years now and it’s somewhere I am comfortable. This presented me with the problem of finding something new to say about the park.

My visit

I spent a day looking for new places within a landscape that I know…

[sallyharrisonart]

MMT - Pt5 - Final Piece - Making a Plan - Rough Draft

MMT – Pt5 – Final Piece – Making a Plan – Rough Draft

Drawing? It’s so easy to get caught up in the ‘can I?’, ‘can’t I?’ stresses of drawing. But, when you start looking you soon see that many of the great sculpture’s and architects start their designs with very simple, energetic and gestural sketches.

I first came across this on a visit to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao and my first introduction to the architect Frank Gehry.

Inspired by Gehry’s…

[sallyharrisonart]

I&P - Pt1 - Pj1 - Ex 1.6 - Music - one step further

I&P – Pt1 – Pj1 – Ex 1.6 – Music – one step further

When I looked back at the drawing I had done for this exercise I was happy with them as the final explorations. I didn’t feel that they represented the atmosphere of each of the musical pieces as fully as I would have liked.

As I looked at them I was finding it difficult to see how I could use them as a design for a textile work, there is insufficient pattern or repetition for my liking.

I…

[sallyharrisonart]

Visit to the Nordic Akvarellmuseet (Swedish Watercolour Museum)

Visit to the Nordic Akvarellmuseet (Swedish Watercolour Museum)

In August I went on a trip to Sweden, we actually went to got to a music festival, not the big one being held in Gothenburg but a small local festival called Frivolton Skärhamn. I’d never been to Sweden before and I never easily miss a chance to visit and tick off a new country. As an added bonus, when we got to the festival site, set in a beautiful bay we found the Nordic Akvarellmuseet. I was…