Melissa's Melting Pot

Our second 'field trip' last week was on the Friday to St Ives! And it was BEAUTIFUL weather!!! Which for those of you in the South West of England will be a surprise! We went to the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Gallery first which was really lovely. I will be honest, I wasn't quite sure whether it would be any good or if it would be dull but the education officer there is absolutely lovely and so informative!  You can see into what would have been her studio and see pieces that she was working on before she died. Here are some pictures from the Garden: After that we went to the studios attached to the Tate St Ives and thought about what we might use in a medium term plan linking the subjects with activities you could do at the gallery, we also looked at potential challenges and possibilities when planning trips. This was the view from the window! We then had some free time in St Ives, so it was off to the beach!

Last week on the course we had two art trips, one was to visit the Plymouth College of Art and Design (PCAD) to see an artist's exhibit and work with her, then we visited her studio to continue working on a collaberative piece of artwork. The amazing artist we worked with was Sarah Downham Lotto who works with mixed media and collage to create amazing pieces of work. Have a mooch at her work, her website is www.sarastudio.net  An example of her work We started out with a HUGE sheet of paper and with black marker pens we added shapes, lines and doodles inspired by her work (which featured a lot of circles as you'll see in the pictures below. Then we added colour using coloured inks. And then added detail with coloured tissue paper and crepe paper. I will be honest, I didn't like certain aspects when completing this work, but actually when reflecting on it all of the different aspects work well together and I did enjoy making it and liked

I haven't uploaded anything to this blog in ages recently... Need to start doing this slowly again, my aim will be to write a blog post once a week from now :) fingers crossed it works! I've been a busy bee this year, there have been two placements this year, I'm moving in with different people for next academic year (which I am very much looking forwards to!), I've had what feels like a gazillion assignments (although the actual number may have been closer to five..), been diagnosed as dyslexic and am now writing this on my (new!!) laptop through the DSA, competed in cheerleading at a national competition, bought a pet (I wasn't too sure about this to begin with, but am now more convinced that it was a good idea :) ) and may have also bough a car!! So it's been a bit of a busy year to say the least! I'll keep going with this now and make sure I keep up to date a little more! Plus expand on some of the things that have happened this year :)