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Photography and Nostalgia
Posted: 05/08/13 01:32 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. The two go hand in hand. As soon as a photograph is taken the moment becomes a thing of the past, frozen in time for us to ‘remember’. Looking back, sentimentalising a captured memory and the […]
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Joe Clark – Man of Action
Posted: 03/08/13 02:23 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I was entranced recently by a little book that came through as part of a final assignment for drawing. I‘ve blogged about Joe’s work before as we have had an interesting discussion over the course of […]
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The excellent sketchbooks of level one student Holly Norris
Posted: 30/07/13 11:32 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. On receiving the second assignment from OCA student Holly Norris, one of my Printmaking 1 students, I have decided to showcase her sketchbook as an example of outstanding sketchbook practice. Her sketchbook is small, a little […]
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Less is More!
Posted: 27/07/13 02:47 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Assessor Jim Unsworth shows us how to crop a painting to improve it. He mentions artist Milton Avery in his explanation, someone worth looking at, who said of his own work: ‘I always take something out […]
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The winner of our student writing competition is……
Posted: 25/07/13 10:41 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Chris Arthur reports on our recent creative writing competition. He set the task and judged the work that was submitted. The task was to use this image as a starting point for work. You can also […]
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The promise in Linda Beadle's work
Posted: 24/07/13 11:09 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Linda sent me a high standard of work in her portfolio for Print One, Assignment One. Already having completed Textiles One, Linda wrote, “ I have chosen to study An Introduction to Printmaking, as part of […]
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‘It’s Late’ brings early publishing success for poet Josephine Edge
Posted: 20/07/13 05:50 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA creative writing student Josephine Edge has enjoyed poetry all her life but until last October, had never seriously attempted to write it. She worked on two poems last year when she was studying the OCA […]
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Blog (Post) of the Week
Posted: 16/07/13 12:23 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OK let’s get the declarations of interest out of the way first. This is a blog post about John Umney’s learning blog and John as many people will know is President of the OCA Student Association. […]
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Sanae Dvorjetz
Posted: 03/07/13 03:36 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I just wanted to do a wee blogette about these lovely paintings submitted as part of a level one assignment by Sanae Dvorjetz. What struck me about them was that although they are ostensibly unpretentious and […]
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The giraffe in the room…
Posted: 24/06/13 01:13 |
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I am grateful to tutor Derek Trillo for drawing my attention to this great lighting assignment from Art of Photography student Tim Dunk. In addition to some fabulous images Tim shared some of the detail of […]
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