John Umney
Posted: 18/10/16 09:32 | 8 Comments
OCA tutor and assessor looks at the work of Level 3 student John Umney. John’s body of work and written project weave together to tell a story.
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Fiona Tracey
Posted: 05/10/16 09:55 | 3 Comments
OCA tutor and assessor Bryan Eccleshall looks at the work of Fiona Tracey. He examines how she uses mindmaps of images drawn and collated to relate things together.
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Students are doing it for themselves
Posted: 28/09/16 09:04 | 5 Comments
Sketchbooks. Context. Presentation of work. Articulation of ideas. Peer-group feedback. What do these topics have in common? They all come high on the list of absolute nail-biters for students of the creative arts – and they were all addressed in some way at the most recent meeting of the OCASA Thames Valley (Photography) Group.
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Using thumbnails and drawings to visualise ideas
Posted: 27/09/16 09:01 | 4 Comments
OCA tutors and assessors Christian Lloyd and Beth Dawson look at the work of OCA students who use thumbnail sketches and drawings as a way to figure out composition and communicate specific ideas.
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On winning second place in the 2016 Yeovil Literary Prize
Posted: 22/09/16 12:36 | 13 Comments
The moment I gave my character a name (it flew unbidden into my head) he became a widower working at Arrivals and Departures in a busy airport. I made him a curmudgeonly old boy who couldn’t get used to his rebranded title of Facilities Engineer. He’d never had a decent conversation in all the 40 years he’d worked at the airport. As the story opens, he’s five days away from retirement, and about to clean the disabled toilets.
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swan-down-white-neck
Posted: 31/08/16 09:46 | 0 Comments
OCA Creative Arts student Jane Moore shares her poem swan-down-white-neck.
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