Psychogeography – Week 1 – Merthyr Trip

I attended a trip to Merthyr Tydfil to gather some inspiration for this project. Whilst on the trip I obtained new information and learned many interesting facts about Merthyr and the industries that it created. We started by driving up to the valley’s in Merthyr and walking up to Gelligaer Common where we […]

Psychogeography – Week 1

Our first task was to follow a route around Llandaff. We had to observe what we saw and write it down on the map that was given. The interesting thing about this task was that every person’s map would look different because even though we were seeing the same things, we would write completely different […]

Painting 101 Reflection

When I started this course I hope that I would obtain new skills that I could refer back to my practice of illustration. At first I was out of my comfort zone, by not being able to mark things down first and having to paint onto an empty space. I can now say that […]

Painting/Colour theory workshop

We were first instructed to make our own black, this was obtained by using the three primary colours of red, blue and yellow. White was then added to create different shades. I was then required to pick a scene, I chose to work through the window of the studio, looking out onto the university. […]

Canvas Stretching – Workshop

As part of the painting 101 project, we were required to learn how to stretch our own canvas. We started off with measured pieces of timber, with angled edges. This type of joint is called mitered butt joint , however the bigger the canvas a half lap joint is commonly used. The first step […]

Field/Collaboration Week 3 – Animation

Our animation brief was given next. We were asked to construct a small animation based on our part of the city. After our being given our brief we joined up in our group to discuss what we would like the content of the animation to be. We spilt ourselves into our disciplines and gave each […]

Field/Collaboration Week 2 – Illustration

The illustration brief was given to us for the second week. We were asked to create characters for Arcadia. Some of the group decided to create people who had lived there for their entire lives. Then there were others who created characters who were going to move there. We had a vision of Arcadia as […]

Field/Collaboration week 1 – Graphic Communication

Our brief was to create a small part of a city and then combine them together at the end of field to make a whole city. We were given categories to chose from such as history, civics, retail etc. I chose aesthetics, through choosing this a group was formed and we were asked to come […]

Shadow Puppetry

Before our Christmas break we were asked to create a shadow puppet show based on the past, present or future. I thought that the future would be interesting to look into, for some reason it made me think of space and aliens. In our groups we came up with various ideas such as Christmas […]