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Well it’s hand in day for this module and I havent been able to use any facilities for a long time due to easter holidays (two weeks), then third years having priority and stealing all the technicians (one week), then […]
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Brought some clay, intend to make a patterned ‘press-mould’ of sorts with it for inpressing a design upon my plates. Plates?!?? I hear you cry! Yes, plates indeed. for my many tiered cake-stand. I have decided that a huge cakestand […]
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Haven’t had internet access for a while. :( The leaf layering went well but its a very long-winded process. I will try to add an image but I can’t find the option on here anymore… I took Jeremy to get […]
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Finished my trophy commission and went to the awards ceremony last week! It was awesome! Everyone loved the trophies and wanted to know how they were made, I had my photo taken with one of the award winners and his […]
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Craft and Art. Is there really a difference? The students from the ‘fine art’ module came to see my work the other day and continued to refer to it as ‘craft’. This irritated me as I would call it art. […]
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Need to get my comissions out of the way so I can really focus on my work. Really getting in to developing my ideas now.
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Huzzah! My modules have finally been sorted out! It’s great that I pay loads of money without any kind of help or funding to be at this extremely well-organised establishment… Anyway, I now have print-outs of my research images (thankyou […]
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Just had a week confined to the house because of food poisoning. I was bored out of my tiny mind, all I did was throw up and sleep… also a few less pleasent things. Back to uni, and I need […]
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Coldworking the Jelly baby is hard work, I have named him Jeremy. Decals are interesting. I’m testing three different types of cover-coat at the moment, fluxed high-firing, fluxed low-firing and unfluxed. Just trying to get the covercoat to burn away […]
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Been doing some interesting tests with decals since we (the uni) got a new decal printer. Results to follow shortly. Jelly baby is out!He just needs some polishing up now! :D
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I made some glass teacups yesterday! If they come out without damage they will be so cute! (I may have to bribe the lehr faries with something… they did remove the base of a vase I made the other day, […]
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The cherubs came out way better than I thought they would! Proper chuffed! :D Started new module today, Professional Practice with Pat Dillon. Should help me progress. Jelly baby at 360 degrees.