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.

new directions

We have an art studio running every Wed after school. Today we did blockprinting, experimenting to see what is possible, how colours react, surprises. Adigraf is so user friendly, soft yet strong enough to withstand pressure.

The kids have to be patient as good ideas don't come right away, but they do try! See the results!

I now have a dedicated art studio within the school, where I'm putting up colourful work, some of it even by me.
There's an after school session every Wednesday, for those who are keen. Cool materials to create with.
Staff can come along too :)

red nose day

those turquoise cars keep popping up!

more images in March

The S2 classes are really getting to grips with this now, some interesting images evolving.