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Student work uncovered: the challenge of capturing movement

Posted: 25/02/13 10:06 | 4 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Caroline Mason’s work was up for assessment a few months ago, and OCA tutor and assessor Michele Whiting felt the debate the student had with herself about creating movement in images was worth sharing…

Student work uncovered: Carole Yerbury

Posted: 19/02/13 09:55 | 7 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Jim Unsworth, art tutor and assessor, gives us an insight into some preliminary sketches in black and white and colour.

Kitaj and Hepworth gems on show in a great study visit opportunity

Posted: 12/02/13 12:45 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA is running a visit to the RB Kitaj Exhibition and Barbara Hepworth’s Hospital Drawings’ at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Saturday 23 March 2013. We’ll meet at 11 am at the reception and ticket office […]

Appropriation: photography into tapestry

Posted: 11/02/13 03:37 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Artist Marc Quinn has appropriated a powerful image, indeed one of the defining images of the London riots, and turned it into a tapestry. He acquired the rights of the iconic image of a masked and […]

Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour – a London study visit

Posted: 11/02/13 12:16 | 2 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This is a wonderful opportunity for textile students to see the work of this prolific, practitioner of contemporary craft. The study visit will be on Friday 3 May and start at 11.00. Tutors Pat Moloney and […]

Logging and blogging

Posted: 11/02/13 12:17 | 5 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA encourages its students to keep learning blogs, rather than or as well as paper based learning logs. Blogs are a great way to share your learning with others, get feedback and make tentative steps towards […]

The risk of taking photos outside… and drawing?!

Posted: 07/02/13 10:03 | 27 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. An OCA student has documented her battles with attempting to draw and take reference photos outside. It’s an interesting point, so I asked if I could reproduce what she wrote of her experience, and she agreed, though […]

Discipline and daily focus

Posted: 04/02/13 09:48 | 22 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor Bryan Eccleshall has been doing a drawing a day since the start of the year and posting the results online. As January ends, he reflects on the motivations and results of the activity. “I […]

A lovely sketchbook assessed

Posted: 30/01/13 09:07 | 14 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Reiterating the words of the assessors, I reviewed OCA student David Hazlett’s work. A short video, a beautiful sketchbook, well worth taking the time to view.

Portfolio reviews gain top marks

Posted: 29/01/13 11:40 | 7 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Linda Khatir, course leader for OCA’s Painting degree pathway reports back from OCA’s first Fine Art Portfolio Review Day in which she joined OCA tutor Michele Whiting and OCA students studying on the Painting degree pathway, in a […]