Yes! I am now fully enrolled for my second year at uni!! It should be a good year!
Only problem is that I won't be seeing my boyfriend any where near enough! After living together full time for over 9 months it is going to be difficult only seeing him weekends!
But I will be busy with uni and he will be busy with work so when we see eachother it will be lovely :-)
So, excited for a fresh start on my course but pooping my self at howmuch it will hurt to be away from my man... All will be good though!
Wednesday 11 August 2010
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Just found!!
So as I was looking to post the photos from my last piece I made, I came across these photos of a decorative piece I made at college during my Nat Dip A&D.
To me, the piece looks like leaves blowing around in the autumn when they have fallen from the trees. I thought of this as I made it and I made the leaves mostly be possitioned in the same direction going arround the contours of the bowl form and then flicking out like they are in controlably being blown out of the restrictive form of a symetrical bowl.
To make this piece, I rolled sheets of steel thinly and cut the leaf shapes- including a mock vein pattern, with a micro torch. I then rolled them again to distort them and then coloured the metal again with the micro torch. I joined them with a small spot welder, bending and holding them into place to make the concave/bowl form and also the flick too.
I like this particularly as I like the contrast between the stiff oxidised steel I used and the texture of a natural fallen autumnal leaf, thin and brittle. I also like the colours you can make in the metal simply by heating it.
Unfortunately, this piece is no longer with us- it got damaged beyond repair and so I took what I could from it and scrapped the rest - appart from expense of wasting materials, I don't mind scrapping metal as I know it will easily break down into the environment- unlike if I was into using materials such as plastics.
Nature is one of my biggest, if not the biggest influence and inspiration to my work. It always has been from me drawing and playing as a young girl right through my Artistic education into to my work now. You can see this as nature was my inspiration for this piece as well as my most recent piece I made for my final project.
CLE
Xx
To me, the piece looks like leaves blowing around in the autumn when they have fallen from the trees. I thought of this as I made it and I made the leaves mostly be possitioned in the same direction going arround the contours of the bowl form and then flicking out like they are in controlably being blown out of the restrictive form of a symetrical bowl.
To make this piece, I rolled sheets of steel thinly and cut the leaf shapes- including a mock vein pattern, with a micro torch. I then rolled them again to distort them and then coloured the metal again with the micro torch. I joined them with a small spot welder, bending and holding them into place to make the concave/bowl form and also the flick too.
I like this particularly as I like the contrast between the stiff oxidised steel I used and the texture of a natural fallen autumnal leaf, thin and brittle. I also like the colours you can make in the metal simply by heating it.
Unfortunately, this piece is no longer with us- it got damaged beyond repair and so I took what I could from it and scrapped the rest - appart from expense of wasting materials, I don't mind scrapping metal as I know it will easily break down into the environment- unlike if I was into using materials such as plastics.
Nature is one of my biggest, if not the biggest influence and inspiration to my work. It always has been from me drawing and playing as a young girl right through my Artistic education into to my work now. You can see this as nature was my inspiration for this piece as well as my most recent piece I made for my final project.
CLE
Xx
So...let's try again shall we??
I have a blog app on my iPod now so should make it easier to remember to blog.
Well, since my last attempt at this, I have completed and passed my first year at uni, moved into a new house with friends( for uni although I am actually stopping at my boyfriends everynight ) and I have sorted my student finance for my second year and enroled too!!
The last thing I made was a wearable/sculptural piece for my final project in yr1. I'll put up some photos as soon as I figure out how ha ha.
I have made a few attempts at drawing but I find it hard to focus unless I am drawing for a purpose- or if I am drawing to relax when I am stressed or down- but seeing as I am neither drawing for a purpose or stressed or down I haven't got much done.
Anyway I shall try to put up a few pics of my wearable piece and maybe someone in the world of bloggs may see them and comment in stead of me blogging to a seemigly empty cyberspace?!?
CLE
Well, since my last attempt at this, I have completed and passed my first year at uni, moved into a new house with friends( for uni although I am actually stopping at my boyfriends everynight ) and I have sorted my student finance for my second year and enroled too!!
The last thing I made was a wearable/sculptural piece for my final project in yr1. I'll put up some photos as soon as I figure out how ha ha.
I have made a few attempts at drawing but I find it hard to focus unless I am drawing for a purpose- or if I am drawing to relax when I am stressed or down- but seeing as I am neither drawing for a purpose or stressed or down I haven't got much done.
Anyway I shall try to put up a few pics of my wearable piece and maybe someone in the world of bloggs may see them and comment in stead of me blogging to a seemigly empty cyberspace?!?
CLE
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