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My book is finished now and I am busy trying to complete all the assessment paperwork. This week we set up the studio for the end of year e...

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=40412 This is a link to an Etsy treasury that I am in . Many thanks to Liz Plummer of Dreaming...

On a programme we have in the UK called University Challenge there was a question last night about signs and symbols and I got them all righ...

I have decided to call my piece ,in the form of an artist’s book, Tribal Messages. It will juxtapose contemporary signs and symbols with tra...

Over Easter I did a four day workshop in printing; as usual it was exhausting but really interesting. Fortunately there were a range of diff...

For the final project I am going to be working with images from packaging. I started by scanning in lots of bits of packaging I had saved, ...

I did a number of pieces for the assessment for Part 2 of my course. I had to decide on a final piece and this was the one the other student...

In the library at University College for the Creative Arts there is a really interesting display of reconstructed books which have been made...

One of the ideas I had for the Space project was to work on the idea of a circle, a shape ‘which separates the space it surrounds from the s...

Last Sunday, quite by chance, I saw an exhibition of ‘Out of the Ordinary’ craft work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Anne Wil...

Amongst other things, i.e. learning how to use a SLR camera and a life drawing class, I have continued with the pieces related to the theme ...

Happy New Year to those of you who visit my blog. I hope that 2008 will go forward in a healthier way than over the last few days when I hav...

Here is a picture of the completed recycled bowl. I show it for you to see the beads rolled from colour supplement paper and coated with ac...

Mostly photos today as I am really tired after the assessment today. All went well though an exhausting process and I didn’t feel too asham...

Last week we had the chance of short workshops in the 3DD department. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so you have no chance of seeing me g...

Last week we had an exercise called drawing with colour. To be honest it took me the whole session to work out that what I was being asked t...

We have been encouraged to join in an exhibition which calls for artwork on a yellow post-it note. As it was small I thought I would make a...

Last week we had a day loosely based on three dimensional modelling. Really more about cardboard modelling. I wasn’t looking forward to it ...