Evening Workshops Continued

  In today’s workshop I felt more at ease as the group has started to get used to be taking part and perhaps feel more comfortable asking me questions. However, they all mainly know the basics now so don’t need as much guidance and most questions are directed at Susan. However, the older students are…

Evening Workshops

  I have started attending Susan’s evening classes on Thursdays from 5.30-8pm. This class usually has a maximum of 7 people but today it was only 4 – the students are a range of ages and are all beginners who had been doing the workshops for a few weeks before I started. Like the majority…

Mixed Media

I am beginning to think about what materials I would like to work in – I have been enjoying working in ceramics at my placement with Baseart so may continue to use this combined with the mixed media models I have also been making as experiments for 2.2 and to be used for my photography…

Ideas so far…

My ideas for this project so far is to continue with figurative sculpture, this time going back to my roots and focusing on the heads/portraits. I would also like to look into combining sculpture with what I will be doing in painting and photography, perhaps by painting onto materials such as clay and wood and…

Continuing my Masks

I’ve finished making one mask which I am waiting to dry out before bisque firing. I am then going to speak to Susan about glazes as they have a range here including some I haven’t used before so it will be interesting to experiment. I have also started working on a more 3d piece still…

Promotion and Advertising

Baseart advertise and promote the business and the work of their artists in several ways: facebook and social media pages leaflets business cards posters flyers banners open days wordpress blog/website to document updates and students work etc as well as important information such as prices blogs for individual artists which are linked on the baseart…

Workshops

Baseart run several classes throughout the week and occasionally a few over holidays/half terms specifically for children. This week I went to Susan’s evening class on thursday (6-8pm) where she had 4 students show up (usually it’s about 7). Susan has said that she prefers running classes of no more than 10 as it is…