Festive week before Christmas

Studio Practice 1 Part II

Brief “Emperor’s New Clothes”

Concept Development

Photoshop Layers  

Photographic image of young boy

Textiles layers

Text from the story.  

Image transfer with freezer paper onto silk

Reflective surface with acetate imagery of young boy pointing

Slash and Burn technique

A Variety of materials secured onto a canvas base with a combination of bondaweb and sewing machine.

Sewing machine disaster

Home sewing machine technical difficulties resolved by access to college machinery. 

 

Soldiering iron and heat gun distress and distort layers of textiles.

The technique of slash and burn is a metaphor for the layers of lies that distort the truth in the story of “the Emperor’s New Clothes”. 

reflectve surface

under layer of

Slash and Burn techniques

 overlay with acetate  

Conceptual circular reflective surface

The Mirror never lies

PDP

The Module’s folder handed in to tutor. The next stage will be to wait for the for assessment feedback from the tutor. 

Critical & Contextual Studies

The college will be closed for staff development so no class this week. 

 

Week 15 – Presentations galore!

Studio Practice Emperor’s New Clothes

Concept Development of Silk material layered with batik wax scratched layers of silk paint colour.

Research

 Jeffrey Edwards  

3 colours

Concept development

 Layers of 3 fabric paints added to the textile composition of hand drawn gutta baby faces.  The imagery isolated with masking fluid prevents colour bleeding into composition.

Concept Development

Reflective surface – finding truth

Sketching – a youth points out that the emperor has nothing on.

Gutta drawing on silk

Photographic imagery of youth

Photoshop Experimentation

 Youth with layers of coloured material

Text

Freezer Paper & Silk Ink jet photocopier

Cyanotype Imagery of youth and text on Paper

PDP

The promotion & Presentation PowerPoint went well with Tutor & colleagues.  

CV

Statement of Practice

Business Stationary:

Portfolio Traditional / Online

Website: Constructing a website with Wix.com was time consuming & confusing process with internet browser difficulties.

 Blog

Next week the Module Folder will be prepared for hand in to tutor.

Critical & Contextual Studies

A Gallery visit to Edinburgh arranged for degree students led to the cancelation of the Petcha Kutcha PowerPoint presentation. The Draft presentation has been delayed until after New Year.

 A practice work shop with the timed presentation gave an opportunity to gain my first experience of this mode of presentation and to receive feedback.

Week 14 it’s the season to be changing deadlines

Week 14 it’s the season to be changing deadlines

This week commenced with the old mobile phone joining the  digital camera in that scrapyard of broken technology.  They say these things come in 3s  

Studio Practice 1 “Emperor’s New Clothes” brief

The time plan extended deadline by 1week. 

The project's main idea: layering colour and materials. 

The project’s concept is a child finding truth in layers of deceit.  

Concept ideas from sketches and photographic images of children led to concept development.

Acrylic photographic imagery

 

drawn imagery acrylic paint



Photographic Imagery textiles materials



Drawn imagery textile materials



photographi cimage tissue paper 

drawn imagery tissue paper

In depth Research of story themes: The concept of finding truth

Concept Development

Circle imagery and reflective surface

Silk painting with batik

Sketching young boy

Gutta drawing

In the story of “Emperor’s New Clothes” a child points to out the truth that the emperor has no clothes on.

PDP

The update of CV and artist statement has been completed and added into the website.  The website' construction  continues with the final  touches of  inserting portfolio &  community project imagery.

The stationary of business card, business letter head, compliment slip and invoice has been completed on computer programme publisher.  

 The  Promotion and Presentation PowerPoint needs to be ready for next week. 

Critical & Contextual Studies

The tutor reviewed the story board of the proposed Draft Power Point Presentation and has suggested some amendments. 

The tutor has given the good news that the Draft Power Point Presentation date has changed to next Friday.  So I will be doing another PowerPoint practice session.  Fun!

Week 13 HIV Alive and Well Artwork on Display

Week 13 HIV Alive and Well Artwork on Display

Studio Practice 1

This week Degree adventure began with a gathering of fellow students all putting up their HIV Alive and Well Artwork at the Forth Valley Hospital, Larbert.   

Studio Practice 1

2^nd Brief theme “Emperor’s New Clothes”

A draft PLP and time plan e-mailed to tutors with idea and concept given the go ahead.  So it is full steam ahead with the project.

Further research

Story -: “Emperor’s New Clothes”

Concept Development

Sketching

Experimentation with layering Colour & Materials

 

PDP

The internet access difficulties with creating a website resolved with the help of computer experts at College Campus.

The self-promotional materials reviewed layout and costs for business card, business letter head, compliment slip and invoice.  The Website input of artist statement completed.  The next challenge is processing digital portfolio images onto the website.  Fun!!

The power point slide presentation preparation progressing along with the tidy up of Creative Future Graduation Plan Report. 

Critical & Contextual Studies

Redirected study preparation of Recycling essay PowerPoint story board.   A Power Point practice session with the timing of 20 seconds for each slide proving to be a comedy routine at the moment.        

Week 12 - A Game of 2 Halves

Studio Practice 1 -Module Hand Book Time Plan

11	11.11.13	Issue of Brief 2 – Emperor’s New Clothes
12	18.11.13	Research
13	25.11.13	Submission of draft PLP
14	2.12.13	Studio Activity
15	9.12.13	Studio Activity
16	16.12.13	Studio Activity
17	23.12.13	Christmas Holiday
18	30.12.13	Christmas Holiday
19	6.1.14	Final submission of Brief 2 plus Statement for Assessment
20	13.1.13	Assessment and Reading Week

Week 12 -A Game of 2 halves  

Studio Practice1- 2^nd half of module begins with Initial mind plan for ideas and concepts for theme “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. Quickly followed by trip to the library for to get the story book” The Emperor’s New Clothes”.  This focused initial research of ideas and concepts and directed primary sourcing via Art Gallery.   

The Module requires A Draft Personal learning Plan (PLP) and detailed Time plan for the project submitted in week 13 (25.11.13). 

The Previous brief HIV Alive and Well competition winners announced and congratulation is send to them and all the students work. 

The feedback for the “HIV alive and Well” Project given by tutor will be useful for the 2^nd half of the module. 

PDP

The Tutor positive feedback for the Creative Future Personal Graduation Plan Report will only need a few changes. 

The examples of previous PowerPoint presentation of personal promotion highlighted the level required for module success. 

The 2^nd task of the personal promotion continues with exploring the joys of setting up a web page .  This process will require time.  Where is a time lord when you need them?

Critical & Contextual Studies

The recycling essay writing has begun.

The presentation workshop is the next step in this module.  An example of a Petcha Kutcha PowerPoint Presentation sets up the standard I will need to achieve.  

The question of what is a Petcha Kutcha Powerpower asked by yours truly. The answer is a Power Point with 20 slides with uniformed timings set for 2o seconds. 

A fellow student kindly suggested looking at Internet tutorials that explain the process.  Please accept my thanks for your helpful suggestion.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVCKCn6jBc

After Internet viewing I am more confident to proceed with the content of the slides.

Studio Practice Block 1 Brief ends

Artist Statement

                                                       Artwork Title: Layers of Positivity
                                                    Art Medium: Textile and Mixed Media

 HIV Alive and Well Brief theme is layered with positivity. Each layer of positivity supports the holistic health and spiritual wellbeing of each life. The positivity of each layer of 25 years campaigning for global support for World Aids Day is symbolised by the many layers of textile and mixed media art mediums in this artwork.

The layer of positivity that improves all our holistic health and spiritual well-being from walking together on life’s journey reflected with a layer of cotton material. The layer of cotton material has an image transfer layer of photographic imagery of Larbert Woodland walk within the grounds of Forth Valley Hospital. The layers of golden gutta words of positivity give positive perspective layer to health and well-being. A positive perspective for holistic health and well-being echoed in the artwork’s audio layer of reiki music positivity. The positivity of the red ribbon layer wore by each person in support of World Aids Day layers positivity within their community is symbolised by the layer of hand stitched iconic shaped red ribbon. The layered positivity of community support to the issues of HIV and to a person living with HIV metaphorically reflected in the artwork with a layer of colour muslin texture bonded onto tree leaves.

Brief 2 for Studio Practice 1

1.       CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Brief

UNIT TITLE/NUMBER:	CLASS:	ISSUE DATE:
BAD31 Studio Practice 1 Block 2	BAD3	November 2013

In response to the theme of:

‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’

produce a body of creative art or design work which evidences through your  individual creative practice, the resolution of creative art, craft or design works that respond to this theme.

You may interpret the theme in any way that fits with your specialist area of practice; however the theme has to be visually or conceptually present within all artistic interpretations.

Possible Mediums

Mixed media; Sculpture; Photography; Graphics; Physical Installation; Animation and Video Installation; Painting; Textiles; Digital. 

PDP

A brave new world of social media has exciting possibilities with Facebook finally accessed.

The 2^nd task has progressed with CV, Artist Statement, Portfolio, business card updates.  The self-promotion with digital input will be an adventure.

New possibilities continued to be explored with business start-up seminar.   

Critical & Contextual Studies

The feedback from the tutor  for Recycle essay is “promising”. 

DEADLINE:
Friday 10th January 2014