Presentations

Well this week hasn't been that great with some family issues cropping up meaning I've had virtually no time for college work and have been quite demotivated. 

On a more positive note I had my presentation and I think it went well all things considered. I was a bit nervous and under prepared and I think this showed however I think I saved myself a bit when answering questions. I've always been better at the answering questions bit of presentation so hopefully this pushes my grade up a bit. 

Anyways

Until next time,

Róisín -x

Protest is over!!

So I know that I haven't blogged in a while but life has been quite stressful these past few weeks plus I'm currently ill at the moment, so fun times. I have managed to stay on track so far and completed everything for my protest hand in. My essay is also pretty much done, I just need to look over a couple things then it's just a case of printing it, binding it and submitting it, which can be done tomorrow worse comes to worse, but that's fine. I have also got an extension for my integrated project, so my new submission date is Monday the 8th. I'm glad that this is the date that I got, as it gives me two full weekends to blitz it.

Anyway the main point of this post is to show off my protest final. The title of this series is 'V is for Victory'

The main point of this piece is to show that in war there are no victors. As even on the 'winning' side, there is still death and destruction. I used the 'V is for Victory' stamp, as with war the victors often stamp that war as 'won' and that is it, case closed. We forget the pain and death that comes with war and focus on what we gained from atrocities. The wars that I focused on were WW I, WWII, Iraq and Afghanistan as I have lived through both Afghanistan and Iraq  and grew up with images of these wars on the news. And WWI and II are obviously the most infamous and are taught in school and had the biggest effect on the world, so these are the main four wars that have had some sort of effect on my life, and are the wars that have spawned my anti- war protest. I am really pleased with how this final piece turned out, I just wish that I had a little more time to work on the drawings, but I think that they are still good.  I also like how this is a series that I can continue, as this 'V is for Victory' Stamp can be applied to any war.

One of the main things that I learned from this process was problems that can arise from a stencil. Because I decided to put the writing on my drawings one after the other, the last couple look pretty grubby. So I think if I was to use a stencil for something else in future, I would either give myself enough time between painting for the paint to dry, or get a stencil that I can clean.


So that's all for now, I will keep you updated on how my integrated project is going over the next few days.
Byyeee!
Until next time -
Róisín -x

Updating again

Okay then this is just an update on where I have been for the past couple of weeks, I got back from holiday on the 4th of May, I hadn't done much over the weekend, which was fine because I was planning on doing some stuff before I went back to college. However I then had a family emergency which has taken up the bulk of my time until now and probably will do for the next few days. So now I am panicking slightly because there are only  couple of weeks left now, and I was planning to at least be half way through my final pieces now, and I haven't even started them. I am planning on finishing my essay and my Protest brief by next week and I can work on my Integrated project from then on and hopefully I will get and extension for this so I have time to finish my final piece.

Anyway that's all I have for now, I will hopefully have more for next week,
But until then, bye

Róisín -x

Sketchbooks

So I thought that I would do a blog post before I went on my weekend away so that there was something on my blog for this week.

We found out today that next week that we are going to be getting a mid module tutorial so that our lecturers can see where we are. I am kind of glad that I get to have a formal discussion with my lecturer about all my stuff so far, however it does seem to be happening a bit late in the game, what with there only being a month left. :/

Anywho this week I did some sketchbook stuff, so I thought that I would show all my sketchbook pages (except for the first one because I don't have that with me, but maybe next time ;)  ) :

I was also coming up with some final ideas for my protest work in class and thought about repeating the word "Again" over and over again to give the idea of scale and also show hoe nothing changes when it comes to war or conflict.

I did it twice to see how it looked on white and on other colours. I think the white works best, however i think having the contrasting pages side by side works well. I'm not sure how far I will take this, but I thought it was a cool idea and wanted to get it down into my sketchbook. 

So with being on holiday this weekend, I have a to do list to get through by the Monday I get back, and I will also have some time on the Tuesday to get through some stuff. I seem to be making my way through it, I wanted this done before now, but things kind of got in the way, but I still have time.

So that's all I've got for you now, but I shall talk to you again when I get back and my to do list is done it will be good to have a bit of a relxing break and get some things done, then when I get back, I shall be on to the final pieces aaaahhhhh!

Anyway, until next time
Róisín -x

Pause button please

So when looking at my work rota for next week, I realised I was on holiday, which may seem like a good thing. But that means that next week is the start of May which for some reason I failed to realise and so now the panic is setting in with such vengeance.

So I'm still sticking to my plan of action so far, and I hope to actually get started on my finals in the next few days. So there's nothing too exciting as I have just been planning out what is actually going on my finals.

This is just a quick update so I can get my stuff gutted completely, I'll keep you posted on where my stuff s at next week.

Until next time -
Róisín -x

Planning ahead

So like I said last week, the Easter holidays weren't as productive as I had hoped they would be affter getting some pretty bad news in the first week. So my enthusiasm for my art wok took a bit of a hit but I think I'm more of a positive mood now so I think I can get back on track (hopefully).
 Because of this, and because I had an essay due I haen't got much practical work done, but I do have some ideas brewing in the back of my head.

 I managed to get my essay done and submitted, I'm a little under the word limit but I think I can manage to get some more done to it for the final submission.

I have also got up a new plan for the rest of the year with a space for each day (btdubbs this terrified me to see just how little time I have left arrrrrghghg) so I am going to try and stick to it and get stuff done ahead of time. Fingers crossed.

So that's all I've got for you right now, but I think I'm in a better place than I have been the past couple of weeks so I think I can manage to get stuff done.

Until next time-
 Róisín -x

Update

So I've got through some of the stuff that I wanted to this week, but not all of it. I've got a big chunk of my essay out of the way and have managed to get some of my sketchbook work done, and came up with some ideas to develop for my protest work.

It's not been a great week and I've not had much of a chance to do stuff cause I'm kinda going through a rough time with my family right now, and I don't really want to talk about on here. Hopefully I can manage to keep on top of things while we get through it.

Sorry for the short and wordy update, it's just been hard to do things at the moment.

see you next time
Róisín -x