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Life has most definitely immitated art this week. I hadn’t realised how deadly degree show deadlines are. I had no idea that I would find these last couple of weeks so stressful and that everything that could have a hiccup […]
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And then there were three…pasting tables that is. I’ve spent the day pulling together my research, annotating sketchbooks and testing the display of my main drawing. I’m planning to use table clips – they’re stainless steel, look utilitarian and will […]
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A done deal – 1 roll of best quality lining paper, 1 pasting table, a supply of biros, 30 days and a twinge in my lower back later – my main piece of work for the degree show is finished. […]
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Today is the last scheduled day for my daily drawing. It has been interesting to see how the lines have formed. I expected to produce a dense, black drawing over thirty days but this doesn’t seem to have happened. The […]
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I went to the private view for this year’s Foundation and Access courses on Friday. The show is at Station Square, Swindon – where our degree show will be set up in a couple of weeks time. We have the […]
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My daily drawing continues and along with it, the writing. Every time I draw, I sit at my old typewriter and write. I decided to use carbon paper rather than buying new ribbons. So I write without seeing what I’m […]
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Three weeks to go. Plans are set (almost). Display decisions have been made (nearly). Lists are still growing. Anxiety levels are rising. Deadlines are being met. This is it. My daily tasks are still shifting, with the smaller drawings being […]
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Professional Practice has been a continuing theme throughout our studies. We are asked to consider and record plans for exhibition, promotion, future career development, next steps. It has prompted me to seek out and participate in some really interesting stuff […]
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“It’s not what you do, it’s the place that you do it”…or so Bananarama might have said in the eighties. I wrote a little in my last post about taking my lines for a walk (see what I did there…). […]
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The pasting table, lining paper and biros took a trip to the photography studio at college yesterday. This was not a stress free experience – half an hour of country roads followed by a full carpark at college, three trips […]
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I am making the same number of lines every day and recording the time it takes me to make that set number of lines. Each day the time fluctuates. I use my iphone to record the time by using the […]
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I haven’t drawn yet today. When I started 13.4.13 – 13.5.13 I worked on the drawings first thing in the morning, on waking, completing my daily creative task before beginning the rest of my day. By midweek the drawing tasks […]