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The Campaign for Drawing does a lot to bring art into the public eye. The web based international group Urban Sketchers does a lot for those of us who love to go out and about sketching but sometimes feel a bit inhibited being out there on our own. Through this group regional and local sketching […]
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I recently visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park – click here for a link to YSP – (just off the M1 near Wakefield), where there is a permanent sculpture collection set in a glorious landscape. YSP also have an ambitious temporary exhibition every year, with site specific sculptures created, usually huge in scale, that often look […]
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Blog of the week this month is Diana Hudson’s OCA Blog. This caught the attention because of its focus on documenting process, the frequent use of the question ‘what have you achieved? and the evidence of research informing her work. The ‘what have you achieved?’ or ‘what have I achieved?’ is a great reflective question, […]
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On “M”ness As announced recently on this blog, the OCA is developing an MA in Fine Art in conjunction with the University of the Creative Arts – see here. Last week we were invited to their Epsom campus in Surrey for an “M”-ness workshop, the task of the day being to define what it is […]
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Blog of the week this month is Rob’s Learning Blog. It is one of the first illustration learning logs I have seen – the course was only introduced this year, but has has exceeded expectations in terms of enrolments. I was struck not just by the quality of the drawing but also by the effort […]
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We were really pleased with the response to last week’s video by Lynne Chapman on keeping a sketchbook. Paul is pretty busy right now, so we have suspended work on OCA Elements. I have uploaded here a pair of lengthier videos by Lynne on the process of illustrating a book so you can see them […]
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Lynne Chapman has been a successful children’s author and illustrator for 25 years and we were delighted when she agreed to be interviewed by the OCA. Jane and Mark went to interview her. Here she is talking about sketchbooks, but she will feature in further videos on illustration in OCA Elements shortly.
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There’s been a lot of activity recently in the OCA photography students’ flickr group under the heading ‘Male Domination of Photography‘ Questions being asked about why so many big name photographers are male, the make up of OCA students and tutors. Of course the representation of women has long been a subject of interest, the […]
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Two OCA tutors, Emma Drye and David Winning were recently in the office and we filmed them talking about one of David’s students (Iwona Barltrop) who had just finished her Painting 1 course. I think the video really helps explain how important it is to retain vitality in your work for it to be successful. […]
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For blog of the week this month we look to Gesa Helms’ pain and the pastoral. This is not so much a OCA learning log as an artist’s reflective notebook and it is fascinating for it. Rather than polished mini-articles we get snippets of thoughts and associations. Many of these thoughts turn to colour, but […]
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