UCAS - Applying!

So the time has come! The dreaded UCAS Application. I'm stuck between Nottingham Trent and Staffordshire University at the minute, but I'm swaying more towards Staffs mainly because its that little bit further from home but not too far and the course just looks brilliant! I'm wanting to do Surface Pattern Design and it looks so interesting, with all the different skills you get to learn. I'm going to see my friend whose studying there and to have a look round on Friday so I'm seriously excited to see where I could hopefully be spending 3-4 years of my life!

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Fison-Zair by Katy Aston

A couple of weeks ago Katy Aston, a previous Art Foundation student, came in to give a talk about what she did at University and how she'd progressed since leaving. After the talk I was left with the decision to do textiles. I just loved the patterns she had created using print both digitally and by hand. She made some really vibrant, eye catching cushions and various swatches, by printing onto velvet and just looking at them makes me want to feel the gorgeous velvet. Her prints also include PEGS! So I'll be definitely looking at her work for some inspiration.

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New Project!

So I passed my assessment! (YAY) Its such a relief to finally have it all handed it and not to have to worry about it anymore! Today we were given a mini project just to do over the next week, we were each given an object and we have a to fill a sketchbook with ideas based on the object we were given. My object was..... a peg! I was fairly happy with it though because I've already got a few ideas to do with print and observational drawing, I'll keep the blog up to date with how the projects progressing and the idea's that I'm developing.

Graphics - Collapse

This week we were given 6 words and we had to create abstract collages to represent the words, at first it was really difficult to come up with so many different ideas for each word but in the end I was really happy with my final idea, I like the way its only black and white as I don't think "collapse" is a very colourful word, because it brings up images of destruction which I imagine as being very dark. I also like the way the words fall in the same way the blocks are falling. Over all I'm really happy with the outcome of Graphics week.