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Student log of the week

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here are some pages from the exemplary learning log of OCA watercolour student Margaret O’Brien. We don’t normally highlight student’s learning logs (as opposed to blogs) since they are more difficult to convey in digital form, […]

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Student work uncovered: painting prize winner Stephen Powell

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here’s a peep into the painting world of Stephen Powell, dedicated OCA student, with a tremendously strong focus on his work. He won OCA’s painting prize last year, for outstanding work, demonstrating a huge amount of […]

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Student blog of the week

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is a great student blog by Aylish Giamei. She is a student on Drawing 1, and has just got to her first assignment submission, studying alongside working as a vet and travelling between Leeds and […]

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Observing and moving on: student work uncovered

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA tutor and assessor David Winning talks about OCA printmaking student Christine Bruce’s submission for assessment, and what he liked about it. Christine has been a student with OCA since 2009.

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Ayla Morten's Superbulb

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Ayla Morten has just sent her first assignment in for Exploring Concepts which included this beautiful drawing of a garlic bulb which I wanted to share with the wider student body. The assignment is an exploration […]

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Edith Jungslager

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is the final photography slideshow from the November assessment event. Jesse Alexander talks about some of Edith Jungslager’s work from her level 2 landscape course.

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Lesley Dulwich

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Finally catching up on the student work I recorded at the last assessment event. Here is Jose talking about Lesley Dulwich’s work for Digital Photographic Practice.

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Threads entwined

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Earlier this month, OCA creative writing student Matthew J. Fisher’s short story Ma’s Kit made it to the shortlist in the Wordhut.com 7th Short Story Competition.  The story is published on his website, which, along with his blog, went […]

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Student work uncovered: the challenge of capturing movement

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…  

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Preoccupied

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Jose finds much to like in Karl Barron’s Art of Photography submission. You can read more about the thinking behind Karl’s lighting project on his learning blog here.

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