My first 2 days of the First Term..

So Monday was the start of my stay at college doing a Diploma in Art & Design, for nine months!

I was incredibly nervous, but everyone seems really lovely so far. Team exercises, getting to know each other and everything Art at OCVC for the first two days. Tiring, but good!

Friday brings the start of the First Project "Window of Opportunities", which incorporates the units; Introduction to Drawing, Introduction to 3D and Media Development. What this all means, who knows, but I think I'll really enjoy this. Our bit of homework to bring in on Friday is a clear jam jar filled with objects, be that things you find in your house, sweets, small toys, buttons, photos/news clippings, textiles etc, we will also receive our brief and some explanation on what to actually do!

We also got our timetables today, my Monday mornings will be in Ceramics with the afternoons full of Visual Studies in Metal. What a way to start the week! Mess, dirty clothes and hands, banging hot metal. I win! Tuesday afternoon brings something new to me in Life Drawing (I have never done this before!), now any practicing artist or someone who has been to Art college or University will be old pro's with this. I am really looking forward to this, we are all old enough on my course to not snigger at the naked man, but to concentrate on learning, practicing and discovering new ways to draw the Human Body. I think there will be an enormous amount of Charcoal used so I should get used to being covered in it!

Martin showed us a Portfolio and some old students sketchbooks today which was really interesting if not a little daunting. These sketchbooks were not like anything I have ever owned, tatty edges, bits of fabric, feathers, cardboard, wool, string, paintings, sketches. I had never even thought you could use it like a scrapbook!

I decided to experiment with some threading, I have a habit of doing this pattern that looks like fabric I guess, thought Id thread it! Obviously not finished yet.