In conversation with: Beth Dawson
Posted: 12/07/18 09:42 | 3 Comments
Watch OCA tutor Beth Dawson below in our latest Creative Conversations video.
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Study visit review: London group study day
Posted: 07/05/18 09:57 | 1 Comments
Our practical session was centred on ideas generation and how to generate multiple visual experiments from a single starting point. Taking a crumpled piece of A4 paper as our subject, we first drew its form, then experimented with scale and composition.
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Developing sketchbooks with Karen Stamper
Posted: 15/11/17 03:23 | 6 Comments
Join OCA students for a two day workshop in Ipswich.
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Susan Oakley
Posted: 28/11/16 09:25 | 2 Comments
It has often been commented upon and especially by assessors looking at student submissions that too often the best work is to be found in the sketchbook. At a time when students should be pulling out all the stops and presenting work that is filled with experimentation and confident resolutions their most successful work is buried deep inside their sketchbooks in danger of being lost or overlooked at this most crucial of times.
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What Should My Sketchbook Contain?
Posted: 22/04/15 03:49 | 7 Comments
Several of my OCA students have asked me what should be in their sketchbook and so this blog post is a summary of my personal views on student sketchbooks. Please feel free to leave feedback and turn this into a live debate!
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The art of keeping a sketchbook
Posted: 23/08/10 10:42 | 9 Comments
An insight into a student-led collaboration between Music and Fine Art Over the last half year I’ve had the pleasure of visiting exhibitions of two artists local to the North East of Scotland. I was taken by surprise to find – among the seascapes of Frances Walker and Kate Downie – a similar little gem, […]
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The Herbal Notebook
Posted: 04/05/10 06:32 | 5 Comments
Following the very positive feedback from students for Labelled Like Luggage we thought we would ask one of our Textiles tutors, Pat Hodson, to talk about her project, The Herbal Notebook and the influence of Elizabeth Blackwell
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