Week ONE (after Christmas duh)

So after all this time off I found it extremely difficult to wake up and function for the first day back at college. I eventually did.

PS got my grades for my Multiples brief and I got a 2A - a very good. Well pleased.


Wednesday morning began with our first integrated project class, which was all about the brief we had (kinda) already been handed out - Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? - the title of a painting by Paul Gauguin. I had a few ideas to begin with but when Dot went round the class and we got to hear everyone else's ideas it gave me so many more. However this overflow of ideas made it so much harder to get to grips with just the one.

Next up we had a whole two hour 'directed study' class, in which I carried out some more research into my integrated project brief but also lacked any sort of motivation due to the creative block from all the ideas I now had. Finally after lunch we had a lecturer again, Catherine for Creative Practice, in which we got our SECOND (Did not think we would have two) brief and it was Protest. We began by working as three teams and creating mind maps of things we could passionately protest about but this confused me and made me even more angry (due to the subject being mentioned).

Thursday began with feedback on our PDP folders from Paul which was an easy class and then we had 'directed study' again that afternoon.

Friday consisted of more research into our integrated project and then the final presentations in Davids class as well as those who had already performed had their feedback. I was told my presentation was good, I stumbled a bit and he thinks that is I was to condense my facts down the it would be fab! So not much to re-mediate in that area at least.

Over the weekend and the days we weren't at college I spent more time researching all my ideas and trying to get them down to at least two or three if not THE ONE. I used newspapers as part of my research for a change, as I was bored of web articles and I found this very beneficial as I found relevant and up to date articles on topics I had discussed for both briefs.

Block One Complete.

EVENING.

I have some very exciting news to share with y'all, I have finished my block one final piece for the multiples brief. Here is photo of the work (INDIVIDUALLY STUCK ON) below. 

I am over the moon that I have finished this piece of work ahead of schedule which has lifted a great weight from my shoulders. I am also over the moon with how the final piece of work actually looks as it is better than I expected! I am happy with the quality of the images and I measured to the best of my ability to give it a professional finish on the wall.

This project has been a challenge both physically and mentally, I know this is hard to believe as many of those who are not creative or artistic refuse to believe that 'art' is anything but an easy pisstake subject.

How wrong are they - I have compiled lots of research and carried out many site visits and this costs time and money which I am satisfied to have had to have done as the outcome was worth it. I wont even get started on the process on how to come up with a relevant and unique idea, as that was pain staking. But what I will say is that this final piece took me almost a week to prepare, a day to organise and then another day to mount on the wall.

I have learned a lot throughout this process such as my lack of time keeping (except when it came to my final piece - completed two days early) and also my extreme lack of confidence. I feel that I would have been less stressed had I found confidence in my idea and the work I had done for it earlier on in the process but I can proudly say that I am happy with what I have finished with and I cannot believe I had ever doubted myself.

I hope that my next project is as fun as this one was as I really did love taking the photos and then seeing the outcome and I will genuinely miss my weekly trips through to take about 200 photos at a time then come home and hate them all. Honestly I have so many photos left over I could make another collage, which I may as my work has generated some interest and a few people have even asked for prints. This is something I didn't even think would happen when I'd graduated never-mind after completing the first half of second year and I feel truly blessed.

I am looking forward to a week to chill - 'reading week' - and then a busy, productive and exciting term ahead.



Over and out xo

Final preparations for my final piece.

Just a blurb about my final piece and its concept.

New Year. New Adventures.

Hello 2015! 

This year began with some of my most treasured friends and family! I am paying for the insane amount of fairy juice I consumed but I managed to start the year off by completing my project for college (it just needs hung on the wall).

Here are some images of what it should look like when finished on the wall! 

I'm not usually one for doing this at the end of a project but I genuinely wouldn't have completed this without my amazing boyfriends encouragement who gave me the kick up the arse I needed to finish what I started even when I lost all hope and faith in my idea. 

Let's hope the rest of the year is as successful as 2014 x

Closing of a fabulous year and the beginning of an even better one.

BONJOUR.

Not been very active on this over the holidays cause I've been leaving jobs, working, doing project stuff and spending time with my family!

As 2014 draws to a close I would like to take this opportunity to say how wonderful it has been and how grateful I am for everyone who's been involved! I have done a lot of things this year that I didn't think I could do - I have achieve so much and cannot wait for the adventure ahead! There has been a few bumps along the way but I have had the support and encouragement from my family, boyfriend, friends, college loves and work colleagues which has pulled me through.

This blog is meant to be about my college work but I feel that being more personal makes for a more interesting read. I am pleased to say that my Multiples project is almost complete with the last few photos to be mounted and then a final arrangement of the order in which they will be displayed. And to finalise the whole thing I still need to do my statement for assessment.

Although I am the worlds worst at keeping to schedules when it comes to college work I feel that I always pull through in the end (unusually not the day before this time). My New Years resolution should really be to get that sorted and plan and schedule life a lot better in order to avoid any more breakdowns, fainting spells, chronic headaches and sleepless nights.

I will finish on this note;

I would like to wish all of those reading my blog the best for 2015, I hope it is filled with love and joy - CHEERS

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. TICK TOCK TICK TOCK.

Right, I can hear the clock ticking..and I am beginning to panic uncontrollably.

At least I am up to date and all sorted for Paul and David's class so I can focus on pathways, but I have only just came up with a new idea for displaying my photos and it involves making around 30-40 casts of a camera!!!! YIKES. I have worked it out that I will be able to make them all within a week IF I get moulds made.. which isn't cheap to do!

Currently, whilst I write this I am waiting to re-coat my latex mould (It needs around 15 coats)... it stinks and is taking for ever! I have also made three alginate moulds but each can only produced MAYBE three casts!!! Disaster!...I cant believe I have only just thought of this idea...


SO, I will attempt to pursue this idea BUT I will also be sticking with my original idea - as I only need 100 more photos then! which sounds a lot but within the time frame I should be able to get them all! I never realised how much time this project would take up..

I'm skint, exhausted and SO close to giving up but I shall carry on and hope for the best!...

Clocks Ticking

AHHHHHHHHH. (now breathe)


It's getting closer and closer to all my deadlines and I cannot stop panicking. Although my investigative report for Pauls class is DONE and my first draft of my 10slide Presentation is also DONE I am beginning to worry about my Pathways project. Again and again my confidence is shattered and I want to completely change my mind, I realise this is because I am thinking far to much into the concept - which is confusing enough already. I honestly want to burst into tear whenever I realise just how much I still have to do.

However, I have eventually taken the plunge and sorted out my routine and will have so much more time and energy to focus on things that mean the most to me. I have also worked out a plan for my next few trips through to Edinburgh as I need about 300 MORE photos to create my final piece (which may cost a small fortune).

Sadly I've no pictures to upload this week.

Cheerio for now, wish me luck,

xoxo