The kids' own culture is shining through in all their work, strong influences of music and colourful imagery.
Here is something a little different................one of our stars created a lovely felted piece then scanned it into PhotoShop. Wonder what he'll do with it now?

new work this week

The after school art studio is going well. Here's some of the resulting artwork.

19th May interesting day

Yesterday I had a really interesting day.

The Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT) at the Glasgow School of Art have printed out our 5 very large panels.................they look fab! At the moment they are lying out on my studio floor in all their glorious colour. I'm taking them into school today to show the kids! Then they go off for lining and finishing.............ready to install in the school.

And................I met the printer who can do our commissioned wall panel for outside the school.
Similar technology to that of CAT, but obviously not on fabric! It's on aluminium composite. His turnround time is good too. It's all go in the art studio.

All we need to do now is get designing :)

13 May request

Today, the new Head Teacher at Carrick, Mr Webster, asked me if we could create something vibrant for the entrance to the school. It's currently rather uninteresting...............plain brick :(

An exciting challenge! Let's see what we can do to jazz up this dull area. It will be a real design brief, with real clients.............................the school itself.

I'm now researching possible companies who might print our final design, so keep watching.

Remember, next Wed is an in-service day but I'll be in school from 2pm onwards so S2 folk, come along to the art studio if you like.

Alison

our follower

The follower we have on our blog is a BA student I met while in North Uist, installing my exhibition at Taigh Chearsabhagh. I gave an artist's talk, some of the students came along. We met up the next day for soup and talk. They made me feel very welcome.

Our follower is developing her own online project. Have a look at this site and see if it appeals, as a project you might follow yourself. For fun, for creative play, for whatever reason.

Had I more hours in a day and not need sleep, I might do it too :)

http://photojojo.com/content/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/

happy photos..........................................................

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moving forwards

The Residency will be finished soon, sadly. It's been an interesting year for all concerned.
I'm working with new pupils now where we're doing hands-on artwork, creating exciting textures and surfaces which we'll scan into PhotoShop. These will be worked on using digital tools, printed onto cotton, then enhanced with mixed media. The plan is to have our exhibition in late June! The after school art studio is going strong.............the room is almost full. Can't be bad!
Here are the pimages which I've prepared of the pupils artwork so far. These are being printed by the Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art. The use a wide format digital printer..................printing straight onto cotton. (Bit more expensive than my A4 printer.) The results will be wonderful. Final size of each image will be approx. 48ins long.