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Discipline and daily focus

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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 […]

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"Get on with it before you blow it"!

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Even with all the will in the world, getting started on anything major is easy to put off. No more clearly has this been illustrated than by Oswald “Ozzie” Henderson, who this week, submitted his first […]

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Who's Afraid of Appropriation?

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   The OCA’s Level 6 course on Professional Practice will, when its launched, have much to say about copyright. Ever since William Hogarth was instrumental in encouraging the formulation of the ‘Statute of Ann’(1710), writers, artists and […]

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'…a trace of what was real' thumb

'…a trace of what was real'

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is Sharon Broothroyd talking about the work of student Geoffrey Bradford.    

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A lovely sketchbook assessed

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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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.  

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8 Ways to Broaden Your Musical Horizons

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   It’s probably far enough into the New Year now for some of our good intentions and resolutions to have fallen by the wayside.  It is exactly at this point, then, that we should remember that we […]

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Portfolio reviews gain top marks

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 Information contained within it may now be out of date.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 […]

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Digital Matter

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Three-dimensional Digital Graphics is still in its infancy when we relate it to our vast Artistic History. As a culture we have continued to innovate the materials and technology that we employ to make our Art, […]

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Study visit to Leeds International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   On Saturday 9 March we will be running our first study visit to Leeds International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair at Leeds University. Now in it’s sixteenth year, the fair showcases the work of artists, bookmakers, students, […]

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100 Ideas that Changed Photography

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   I was keen to review this book as its format interested me. Is it a history, a primer or a reference book? It could have been produced as a ‘100 greatest hits’ of the history of […]

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