Last piece

Spirituality (acrylic on cardboard - March 2010)

Forgot this one...

End of Term

On the Inside (bark, wire, nuts, leaves - March 2010)

End of term was also assessment time. I finally got my head around collage and put together the above piece looking at bark as it falls from the tree. I wanted to encourage the viewer to look beyond what you can see to what's on the inside.

Swinging with the Daisies (cardboard, acrylic, string, paper, wood - March 2010)

Our last task for the term was to create a piece (still focussing on the ideas that evolved from our words) but where one dimension of the piece was equivalent to your height. The other link was that it had to have a connection to a favourite object that we had brought in.

Mine was my Gingham Daisy Megacino Mug in a Paisley design. The finished result was this cute swing using a book as the seat with the cover painted in an Indian inspired henna design. The ropes were simple pieces of string with daisies threaded through (to resemble daisy chains) hung from a branch. I could picture myself happily swinging there for hours. I think I might have to make a real usuable one of these.

Roll on Term 2...

March and April

Week 2 found us working in groups to create some form of artwork using overhead projectors and obscure images such as a photo of zebras, a really crappy plastic poinsettia flower, a transparency of some manequins and another transparency of a grid with little car and truck shapes on it.

Not very inspiring objects but what we came up with was interesting. It certainly puts the individual dynamics of four people who are nothing alike to the test.

Cup of Life (pencil on paper February 2010)

For week three we had to use the three words from the previous week along with one of the design elements (mine being tone) to create another piece. Must say I quite like my giant teacup...

Books of Life (acrylic, cardboard and paper - March 2010)

But rather than just using tone as in black and white, I experimented with developing the 'tone' of a piece which is what the Books of Life does. Each book contains a poem relating to the title. The books represent each stage one goes through in their lifes journey.

Later in the term provided the opportunity to work with collage and also to manipulate photographs. I particularly like the second photograph. Originally it showed a group of students sitting at individual consoles in the library but when it was folded removing the computers from the image, it ended up with some very intense gazing.