Well done all who have been getting the ideas and images flowing out of the forest! The best thing to do now is to start making drawings in your sketchbook in response to all the stuff you have collated so far... don't over-think it! Just take a line for a walk, as Paul Klee once said. This will be useful as the first bits of work you'll do on the course will be mainly drawing based. Drawing is a primary tool for any artist or designer, the roughest of sketches can lead to unexpected places. A few things caught my eye over the summer...mainly 3-D and architecture. For instance, the fantastic new 'canopy' at the new entrance to the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh made me think of the relation between this and the canopy of a forest. Inside this building, another 3-D structure revealed itself to me. Also, a forest canopy type structure of concrete and wood is the basis of the Scottish Parliament building. So, after all these structure encounters I was having a coffee in the Botanic Gardens and used some coffee sticks and sugar paper to make my own little wooden structure, which revealed a figure in its shadow. Like I say, the smallest doodle can lead to unexpected places......
One last thing- remember first day of term is Tuesday 31st August for Full-time students. We have a study trip planned for Dublin galleries and museums on Friday 3rd September- please bring £10 to cover the coach when we meet you on Tuesday.
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