Friday 23rd January, 2015

Today I designed an idea I had in mind while collecting more research ready to hit the workshops for Monday.

Wednesday 21st January 2015

Today I carried on drawing pine cones and thinking of ideas and concepts I could pursue.

I carried on with research and pinning things to a pinterest board to collect images and inspiration.

Monday 19th January 2015

After having a think about what I seen last Thursday I had some ideas of the things I could start experimenting with, I found some bits I collected from the grounds of Erddig to draw and began my sketchbook.

I first started with drawing a spider diagram/s to branch off ideas and concepts.

Next I started drawing some pine cones I found on the grounds near the trees.

I also found the trees had small metal numbers nailed to them, I assume this indicates the specimen of tree or maybe how old it is.

I found this interesting and it sparked my imagination.

Thursday 6th November, 2014

Today I had a go at using the milling machine, I cut a piece of wood to attach my metal to using masking tape then changing the machine to adjust to my angle I wanted to achieve.

I marked the metal both sides as accurate as possible and then began the process, I found it very difficult to keep the measurements accurate and this lead to difficulty when it came to folding the scores after anealing the piece.

I found the shape interesting in the end because when i flipped the piece of changed it's position the appearance would change completely.

Wednesday 29th October, 2014

Today I dedicated my time to writing up any technical notes and carrying on with sketchbook development. I printed work off in the library and stuck photos in my sketchbook with annotations.

I researched more into Monarch butterflies and collected images.

Monday 22nd October, 2014

Sketchbook Day.                                                                                                                                                                        

Today I had some brain waves so I decided to draw them out in my sketchbook and write some notes and then have a play with painting. I feel like I need to speak to Julie about my ideas and see which one I should concentrate on!                                                                                                                                        

                                   

Wednesday 14th October, 2014

Today I carried on writing technical notes up and drawing ideas into my sketchbook