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Etch a sketch project
Posted: 02/11/16 01:19 |
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One of my HE6 students is a keen ideas person who finds thinking through making very enjoyable and is always experimenting with new and unusual materials and processes. She is currently ‘toying’ (pun intended) with making work using the excellent etch a sketch as a medium and has asked me to forward this message from her to see if she can make a collaborative preliminary work that will then be mediated through a secondary process to create one very complex drawing.
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New music tutor: Introducing Ben Gaunt
Posted: 02/11/16 09:42 |
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Composing music is hard. Actually, I believe that if you start to find composition easy, it may be likely you are taking shortcuts, and missing opportunities to develop as an artist. Composing music should be hard. Over the last couple of years, however, I have found a way of making the process of writing music seem a little less intimidating.
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How to crack the reflective essay: Part 1
Posted: 28/10/16 09:20 |
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The reflective essay is one part of the assignments that generates a lot of discussion! Getting in touch with the creative part of ourselves and expressing that through engaging prose is a challenge of itself. But for the creative writer who is undertaking serious study though there is no getting away from cracking the reflective essay.
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Music study visit: The Chimera Ensemble
Posted: 21/10/16 09:13 |
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Join OCA tutor Desmond Clarke on the 18 November to see the Chimera Ensemble in concert at the University of York.
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Edgezine – issue 1 aftermath
Posted: 19/10/16 09:11 |
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Collaborating with other OCA students has been a real highlight these past few months. All the hard work has paid off and our first issue of Edge-zine is printed and winging it’s way to various destinations in the UK and overseas.
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In conversation with: Kid Acne
Posted: 14/10/16 09:24 |
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Last week I attended an illustrated talk by musician, illustrator and street artist Kid Acne. This event was part of the Off the Shelf festival in Sheffield and Kid Acne, real name Ed, designed the logo for this year’s festival. We got a snapshot of the last 20 years culmination of work which led to this design.
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