ArtMode

We had a talk today from craft designer Linda Lovett who spoke about her work and how she arrived there. Working as an in house designer for giftware companies like Colour box and Nesco, she produced sketches to be sent to a modler. Making Winnie the pooh, Beatrix potter and other images to be made into music box's, figures and more. Linda felt she needed a change and started freelancing, Making jewellery and brooches, pulling inspiration from her garden and bits of china she found she started making Figures and more recently clocks. Showing her work off at craft fairs she started getting a good response and started getting orders in. Now she has her own shop, teaches and sells work to galleries. I found Linda Lovatt very inspiring because she told us she started in a BTEC art course wanting to be an illustrator for children's books and not seeing where her talents lay. Saying she had her eyes set on illustration and not looking at other things really spoke to me, wanting to

Today we did mono printing, it was very interesting. We also had to draw parts of a bike and reassemble the photo's, trying different techniques and ways to make the print, i really enjoyed it

had so much fun drawing my wine bottle and glass i decided to draw my cat too!

My Cubism drawing so far, trying to capture the different angles like the top of the bottle and the glass, finding it quite challenging but feeling motivated!

Today we had a visit from Humphrey Weightman, a graphic designer who told us about his past career and how he got started as well as what he is currently doing. He showed us some of his work from record sleeves to arts festival booklets and more. He gave us all tips on starting up as a designer, as well as the financial side of being a designer and bookkeeping. He shared some very wise words and life lessons he has learnt over the years. Humphrey quoted author Yogi Berra with a very interesting saying  "when you come to a folk on the road,take it." i felt this was a beautiful  metaphor for the difficulty in recognising the appropriate decision to make when one is faced with a pivotal life decision. It was very interesting listening to a man with so much experience talk about his work, i loved how down to earth he was and how much detail he went into with things like the business side of it, its not something a lot of people seem to feel comfortable discussing but it is some

a few photo's from our trip to the Haining today for later inspiration for a unit.

At College we watched a power point on Cubism we learnt it was created in the 20th century by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, We were shown what cubism was really about, and how the artists wanted to emphasise the two-dimensionality of the canvas instead of the tradition techniques of perspective. They reduced and Broke down objects into geometrical form and realigned them as well as using multiple/contrasting vantage points. We were also shown some of Paul Cezanne's work and how his work influenced the art of cubism. I Feel like i learned a lot from this as it helped me understand cubism in a way i never did before. Our tutor told us to look at Analytic Cubism (the early phase of cubism) and pick a Picasso or Braque peace and print it out, i picked this The Factory at Horto de Ebro - 1909. We were then told about bas relief art, and to create our own relief art using cardboard and other materials of our chosen picture. I started mine like this But i felt really frustr

Today at college we had a talk from photographer Sam Cornwell, he took us on a journey through the progression of his work. He stared the talk with his first photography called Pictorial photography that could be influenced man or that you could date. He spoke about how it was "clean", Filled with detail but with no distraction.He then moved onto what he called "finding my voice" he attended university and started developing photography in a dark room he stopped photographing the world and started creating images. He spoke of wet plate collodion, old style camera's and film. He told us he bought 127 disposable camera's, he was almost forced to take photo's as he has a deal on the date he could get them developed and that disposable camera's were his favourite type of camera. He spoke about his filming and a video about his son called  500 days of indigo that i just watched and it is beautiful. He showed us some of his astrophotography that was amazin