Natural History Museum Sat 28th June 10.00am Year One Research Project

Roll call: City Lit Fine Art Course Year One Final Research Project

Title                 The Mineral Variations

Site visit            Natural History Museum

Thursday Group  Sat 28^th    June 10.00am    Cromwell Rd entrance

Should be fairly easy to spot Tony in the queue.  For any late comers the first port of call will be coffee in the Blue Zone Cafe, at the left of the central hall and past the Diplodocus skeleton.

Bring just pencils and notebook.

Lunch proposal: Morris, Gamble and Poynter Rooms at V&A? :D

Dear all:

Info from Tony regarding next week's drawing as research project.

Hi everyone,

I'll be working with you again next week. The first session will take place in the studio.

The second session we will be drawing on site at the Natural History Museum:

Thursday Group  Sat 28^thJune/Tuesday Group  Tues 1st July 10.00am (Cromwell Rd entrance)

Below is the brief,

looking forward to working with you again

Best

Tony

You may find this short on archaeological illustrations video helpful (plus cool hat!) - Wei

Full brief as follows:

Google Art Project and Google Street Art

(This post contains no images as we don't want to be sued by Google, even though they should sponsor us for giving them blog inches...)

Firstly, Google brought you access to incredible close-up images of millions works held in collections of the world's best museums, via their online gallery Google Art Project. You can search by artist, collection, or type. Or there are certain areas in museums that have been mapped, so you can navigate your way around just liek Googlemaps. It's almost like being there (but of course nothing beats being there). .

Eg click here for a tour of the ground floor of  Musée d'Orsay

And here to see how close you can get to one of my favourite portraits (scroll for closeup).

Tattoo Art

'Jake and Dinos Chapman plan tattoo parlour show in home town of Hastings...'

Story here .

It raises questions:

Why are they crowd funding it? Are they short on cash?

Hastings... One for the summer road trip, maybe?  and

If you could choose any artist to tattoo you, who would you choose?

Theory session CLFA 1 Thursday 19th June

From Ed on Moodle

On Thursday 19^th June we will be going to see the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize at the Photographers Gallery (16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW). This will be followed by a discussion afterwards. We will meet outside the Gallery at 6.00pm, and we will be finished by 8.00pm. See link below for details.

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/deutsche-b-rse-prize-2014
Any questions please email me at edjeavons@hotmail.com any problems on the day you can reach me at 07572 549826

Thanks, Ed

BA/FA Art/Design Degree Shows Summer 2014

Hi All:

It's that time of year again when we're free to gawk at works from BA/MA courses up and down the country. Here's a list that might interest you:

Best of the shows so far according to the Guardian (no not Jonathan Jones):

http://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2014/jun/16/a-z-student-graduate-art-shows-2014#/?picture=439312264&index=0  

Free Range Art and Design Show 2014

·          Sun Jun 8 - Mon Jul 14

·         Private Views: Thursdays 6pm-10pm
(Design Week 2) Friday 6th June
Open to the Public: Fridays – Sundays 10am-7pm + Monday 10am-4pm

DESIGN Week 1 + 2	30th May - 2nd June + 6th - 9th June
FASHION Shows	5th - 9th June (invitation only, request tickets)
PHOTOGRAPHY Week 1 + 2	13th - 16th June + 20th - 23rd June
ART + DESIGN Week 1 + 2	27th - 30th June + 4th - 7th July
INTERIORS + ARCHITECTURE Week	11th - 14th July

Now in its fourteenth year, this seven-week showcase of work by 3000 arts graduates from around the UK features art, architecture, design, fashion, interiors and photography. The institutions exhibiting change each week – see the website if you're interested in a particular college.

Old Truman Brewery Brick Lane, E1 6QL

http://www.trumanbrewery.com/cgi-bin/comingup.pl

Studio Printmaking Thursday Year 1, 12th + 14th June

From Brian on Moodle

 

Dear Thursday Year 1 group,
I am looking forward to working with you again on Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th June.
We will be revisiting Studio-based Printmaking with a strong emphasis on your own self-generated personal practice, something you must be increasingly thinking about at this stage in your course. you need to come to the sessions having given some thought to where your particular areas of interest lie and what printmaking may bring to an exploration any of these ideas.
For some of you who wish to continue printmaking next year these two sessions should provide a valuable chance to re-cap on the basic processes. We can also discuss longer more complex print projects you may have in mind so come prepared to work in the sessions and also to talk about future print plans if this is relevant to you. For others who are not as drawn to print the sessions could still be useful as a way of looking at an idea from another angle, for instance you may have ideas you want to explore in painting that could benifit from the immediacy of monoprinting.
We will have the same equipment and materials as earlier this year. It would be a good idea to bring anything you may wish to refer to ie current sketchbooks.
Best regards
Brian