Tuesday, February 3
Yesterday at Swarthmore was much more enjoyable than the preceding week. We continued to draw geometric shapes, a cylinder this time. Well, it was actually a can of Baked Beans, but that's irrelevant really. We also had to add shadow and then colour it in using
pointillistic techniques. In the afternoon I constructed my
slab pot, it's a cube with a lid essentially. I was quite proud of it though, it was fun. Next week we're starting on using moulds.
Photography again today. I had an easy day, not much work was done. I went to a second hand CD shop and bought two copies of the NME, for later burning. They charged me £1 a copy! The original price was only £1.05, six years ago! I only bought two as a result, I was planning on getting three or four, to make sure I had enough material for the photographs, but I can't afford to spend four pounds on magazines I'm only going to burn. After lunch, Becca and Charity posed for me outside college as I attempted to recreate the line "lovers leave in the rain at 5am, never to be seen again." Unfortunately it had stopped raining by then, and I couldn't really get the shots I ideally wanted. I was envisaging something along the lines of
this shot, only with two people added. Hmm, I'll see what I can create in the darkroom first, before I write off all the shots as useless.
I also wanted to try and do the NME shots today, but the tutor didn't want me making fires in college, even if it was in the courtyard. However I then sat around for half an hour with nothing else to do, and he told me go off and burn things. The hypocrisy! Instead I went to Morrisons and then came home. It had started raining again. Typical.
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