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Collating Collections for Hand In

Its only a couple of days to my first hand in of the year and I've been making myself do all the fiddly little bits that I always leave to the last minute.  All the labeling of my resources and tidying up the sketch book, bibliography referenced the right way - all the boring bits but the devil is in the detail!!!

old and new buildings - line drawings exposed on a cyanotype base
My head is still spinning with ideas as usual but I need to do the essentials first and then if I have time in the next couple of days I may add some extra work if it can be executed to the necessary standard.  The really good thing about this module is that it mainly about producing a body of work and imagery to develop in the next module grandly known as the Final Major Project - FMP  for short - so we can keep adding and developing ideas.
red gladioli in a tall blue vase, found paper collage on black paper
I've done quite a bit of collage this time, I love cutting and sticking and find it very therapeutic, but my big discoveries this last term have been the life drawing and different printing techniques, and also working with my own photographs in a more proactive way.  Its been fun to trawl through my last year collection of holiday snaps and pictures I thought might come in handy for this year and experiment using them digitally,

The work I have produced is basic but in places quite effective an I am pleased at how confident I continue to be working with Photoshop... next stop Illustrator and who knows what comes after that!!!
men on the moon digitally manipulated photographs - Moon photo by Matt Robinson (used with permission) acrobats from statues on bridge in Krakow
I also used some of my drawings to try and define a colour palette and experiment with some easy layout and Photoshop effects


 I am loving this potential colour scheme and cant wait to start developing motifs and layouts for scarf designs.

Hidden Hartelpool
We spent an hour out and about Hartlepool taken obscure photographs and some graphite rubbings and then back at the ranch we scanned them in and experimented with different layering and transparencies to make  interesting montages... I don't think Hartlepool Tourist Board are going to berushing to use this one to advertise the town!!!!

I have several beautifully  (though I say it myself) mounted A1 work sheets, a bulging (slightly monochrome) sketch book, a mood board, two resource supporting files and all the accompanying paperwork just about all ready to go so maybe I can relax and add a couple more worksheets just for fun!


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