Dungeness 2

It feels like we haven't really done anything in the last week and a bit, but I think it was structured like that so that we could get our personal statements done. We started off with some observational drawings using different media (blabla), then later in the week the tutor from Southend came and had us drawing/painting with bamboo sticks (about a metre long), which basically meant that we had little to no control over what we were doing. I get the concept, and it was good fun, but the results didn't look particularly amazing.

Here's some photos of the things I remembered to take photos of:

Rope :/ Charcoal and ink.

The next photo is a super-zoomed in version of this rope.

A1, charcoal and chalk

Rusty bit of metal and a bit of net, fine liner and water

A bit of wood and..string? Got bored doing this one haha.

Drawing with a bamboo stick dipped in ink. It's supposed to be a bit of squashed can, I was not impressed.

You'd be surprised, but this actually looks like what I was drawing. It was a bit of coral/rock/something beachy. Done with a fine liner on the end of a bamboo stick.

What a mess! A bit of dead branch drawn with the bamboo stick again, this time dipped in watered down emulsion.

Err..I think this is also dead branch, but I can't remember.  Modern art, haha.

Another bit of branch, using a bamboo stick with a decorator's brush on the end.

Another version of that thing I scribbled further up. Beachy thing..

If you draw like a child they seem to like it...

I had my first day off on Monday as I barely slept at the weekend due to something happening on Friday night. I'm glad I didn't go in on that day of all days, because we apparently didn't do much at all, and I caught up within 2 hours the next morning.

Here's some monoprints I did on Tuesday. In case you don't know, monoprinting is where you can either spread thick, gloopy, oil-based paint gunky yuck onto a pane of glass, then scratch a pattern into it with a stick/pencil and then press paper onto it to make the print, or paint the pattern onto the glass then print (giving the reverse effect...if you're lucky). I only used the first method, because I was still tired and cleaning up the gloopy paint is a right pain.

I actually made about 9 prints but they were only these three designs so there's not much point posting the rest. The first is my favourite.

This is quite hard to see in a photo, should be better on full view. 

This one definitely is hard to see, it's rope, but view it bigger if you want to actually see it.

More rope patterns.

On Wednesday we were given the brief for what we'd already been doing (the head of department at college is worryingly disorganised), and it turned out that we were supposed to be digitally manipulating some of our drawings. I wanted something quick so I just used a couple of different filters on photoshop after fiddling with the levels, and apparently that's all I was supposed to do anyway.

Dungeness 1

So we went on a trip to Dungeness. It was err..strange. It's a pretty desolate place, looks like a nuclear bomb went off, and being there gives you that feeling that you're being watched. I'm surprised we all got home alive actually.
We had to take 24 photos (though I think I took around 100 on my digital camera and 50 on film), do 6 sketches, and find 5 things to bring back to college.

Here's some of my photos (I haven't developed the film ones yet):

Goodness me, what a pretty nuclear power station!

I like sepia.

A commode, in a box. Right.

Why would you want to live here??

Teeny tiny people.

And that's it so far! I've done loads of observational drawings in the last couple of days but I haven't taken photos and I don't know if I want to upload them anyway! My drawing has definitely taken a turn for the worse...