The New Year!

(The images in the blog post are from over the Winter period, I`ll be uploading my studio work over the next few posts instead)!

Hello, once again I`ve let my poor time management get the best of me and I haven`t updated any of my blogs, deviantart, or redbubble since last year!

I`m finally getting back round to it all now, well I hope so; There`s a lot going on at University at the moment and it`s making it a bit difficult to get back around to everything I used to do in my spare time.
For example, all I managed to do over Christmas

was journal work and only a few small sample pieces of work that I pulled together for some inspiration.

In the last blog post that I uploaded, I did upload a few pictures of the wasteful items that I had begun to collect together, I managed to fill two large boxes with man made waste; and when I say man made, I don`t mean feaces, I mean things that have been fly tipped and thrown away in hope that no one will find what they`ve thrown

away. I`m rambling now.

SO, if I didn`t quite discuss my newest project fully yet.
I`ve decided to go down the route of recreating scenes/landscapes by using man made materials and organic materials that I`ve discovered. It`s quite an experimental project, but at the same time it`s going to be quite fun to get back into the habit of creating pastes and using them for creating textures and painting with crushed

seeds and plants.
The main reason I want a project that`s experimental and messy is purely because I went all summer without producing any large scale pieces of work, then when we got to University it was very prescribed and straight forward for us. Mainly because they needed us to attend all of the workshops, and go back to basics with drawings and small sculptures. So it was very, you have to experiment with this, and this and then we want you to attend this

workshop and afterwards you can do this.

So, this second semester is very strange compared to what we did during the last semester.
For starts, as soon as we got back we had our normal Monday meeting where they just go over what we`re doing for the week and they make sure we know what we`re going to do for the next week or so. We basically spent the first week just doing research to back

up our ideas and our plans for our project, and then on the Friday of that first week we had our class split in two and we basically had to talk about our project and present any work we had produced or any additional ideas that we had. Then the rest of the group had to ask questions and discuss your ideas with you, before Carl butts in and adds his thoughts and opinions and opens up an even bigger discussion with the class and you.

This ended up going on for 5 hours on the Friday, and another 6 hours on Monday since there where so many people to get around. Carl does like my idea and the plans that I have at the moment.
We`re actually three weeks into this semester you see, that`s just how behind I am on updating all of my blogs and social media accounts!!!

Altogether, he was okay with my initial concept of not knowing whatever the hell I was going to do..
Yeah, I just kind of babbled my way through my journal and my ideas since it was hard to explain where I got the idea from and what I had collected together; but I wasn`t quite sure as to what direction I wanted my work to go down so I was most probably just

confusing everyone in my group. A few people liked the fact that I`d been out and had collected source material to begin working with, and the fact that I`d already made sample pieces of work that I can then gain extra initial ideas from. But I think Carl wanted me to have a solid idea as to what I was going to be doing with these items and what direction I wanted to go in.

But seeing as we are three weeks into producing work within the
All of the pieces I`ve made vary in size and there are quite a few small pieces that I`ve just kind of produced in order to get some practice in. It`s an awkward topic I think, simply because I`m trying to stay in the guidelines of making work out of these man made materials.
studios, because now we`re just left to be independent, I have produced bigger pieces of work and have began to cover my walls in work that I`ve produced over the time I`ve spent inside of the

studios.

After looking at various artist though and the way that they work and produce their art work, I feel like I need to be more spontaneous with the way that I`m producing my pieces of work and I want them too feel like I`m using a variety of materials instead of just organic and wasteful items.


You`ll hopefully get what I mean within the next few updates that I post, I need to get back round to showing all of the work that I`ve produced and anymore ideas that I have.
Watch this space! I`m finally getting round to blogging again!


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