Monday 9 September 2013

Diploma with honours - Term 6 End block week


Colour immersion week-find yourself-Sarah Brock

I made a big mistake, I thought that I could do this week and still be a volunteer reader/writer for NZCEA mocks the following week unfortunately the weeks clashed so I had 2 days to do 5 days work in. Spoke to Sarah about what was expected for the week and did some prep work in the weekend. Had fun using crayons and acrylic, my only issue was I had a crack at putting gesso on 110gm paper front and back to apply acrylic paint to. Sketched on my design and it was a disaster! The gesso was like plastic, it deadened the paint, no spread ability!, no blend ability! I chucked it and admitted to myself that I need to buy canvas paper! I finally settled on gesso covered calico to try and not the gesso I used before!








Every term there is an end of term exhibition. It is student run. You can have three pieces displayed as long as they are suitably prepared for the wall. I have put something in every exhibition since I started, mainly because it’s great to see your art up amongst other pieces and you do get feedback from fellow students and members of the public with favourite choice award (not that I’ve won that myself) which has been positive. What I don’t like is because the whole exhibit is run on volunteers and students who have not done one before your work is sometimes not displayed as well as it could be. 

Of course if you want to ensure that it is you help out, although that has at times not been a guarantee either.  I should have rethought my triptych of this term, although I was very proud of it, because of the different size and weights of the canvases I should have hung them myself and compensated for those differences as they were not presented at their best.