Outline Seminar with Colin Smith & Ian Jones

The Outline Seminar was held in the department's workshop area.


Colin Smith taking questions from the audience.

Ian Jones (left) and Ian Andrews (right).

After the presentation the artists stayed to answer questions regarding their work. Here Ian Jones discusses his work with a student.

Colin Smith (left) and Dagmara Milosz (right) in front of Dagmara's oil painting which has been inspired by the work of Colin Smith.

Many thanks to Ian Jones and Colin Smith who took the time to make the Outline Seminar such an interesting and memorable evening. Many thanks also to all students and members of staff who helped to make the event a success.

Outline wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a good start into the year 2012!

FEED Seminar at Outline - Ian Jones & Colin Smith

On Thursday 15th December between 6.30pm & 8.30pm Colin Smith & Ian Jones will give a talk at Outline, Sutton Coldfield Campus. The event is open to anybody interested. Please click the image above for further details.

Colin Smith and Ian Jones are British Artists who have their work in the permanent collections of many museums and important private collections around the world including; the Saatchi Gallery,Tate Modern, British Airways, Guiness, EMI, Scottish Equitable, the Nat West Group and The Duke and Duchess of Westminsters’ private collection. Colin Smith is an art critic and has been a Harkness fellow to Yale University. Ian Jones is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and has been a lecturer in painting at Kent Institute of Art and Design and Brighton University.

Tickets for the seminar are £4 for BMETC students and £5 for everybody else. Tickets for the event can be booked by calling 0121 355 7671 ext. 5113 or ext. 5110 or by sending an e-mail to: ian.andrews@bmetc.ac.uk or yvonne.vickers@bmetc.ac.uk

Yellow week at Outline - Exhibition of work

Sculptures made from card and paper inspired by the theme of evolution.

Throughout Yellow Week students worked on projects together with students from different departments within the college, all work was showcased at the end of the week in a final exhibition and performance event.

Images taken during the performance of the shadow theater.

Set design inspired by famous films, in this case Harry Potter.

Hand-printed and saw cotton bags inspired by a trip to Birmingham city centre.

Sculpture billed from household objects based on a jaguar.

Close up shot of a dress made from paper.

Showcasing a week of truly inspirational and fantastic work!

Yellow week at Outline - Development of projects

Dresses made from paper

These images were taking during last week's Yellow Week. During the course of the week students worked on one-week-long assignments in different subject areas and across different departments at the college. The students are purposefully taken of their timetabled session to give them a good impression of what working in the industry would be like, where they are likely to work with a great range of creative from backgrounds in different specialist subject areas. Our arts students worked in groups comprised of students from the performing arts, music, game and sports department. There was a great buzz, energy and excitement throughout Yellow Week as the students took very well to the different skills and challenges, while working and learning confidently alongside each other in groups.

Frame by frame animations

Sculptures made from everyday objects

Flip book animations

Shadow theater

Hand-printed and sawn cotton bags

Sculptural project using paper and corrugated board to recreate animals

Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design Yellow Week

Using photographs gathered from the two previous yellow days, Level 2 Art and Level 1 and 2 Sports students created posters to promote the Sports Department based upon the theme of the 2012 Olympics.

Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design Yellow Day 2

In preparation for yellow week students visited Alexander Stadium to take photographs which were used to create a wall of artwork.

"Big boots to fill" - Graphic design Project

Ashley L

The students had to design a poster which was selling a personalised pair of trainers to one of their fellow students. First the students had to investigate their interests, likes and dislikes. This information was used afterwords to help inform each student to develop first a hand-rendered version and later a digital version of a poster, which had their partner (audience) in mind. Fantastic work, well done!

Edward

Daniel

Sophie

Satwinder

Research trip to museums in Oxford

Students from AS and A2 Level in Graphic Communication, as well as students from the Subsidiary Diploma in Illustration on a recent research trip to museums in Oxford. The students visited the Ashmolean, the MoMA and the Pitt Rivers Museum. All students used the trip to gather visual research and inspiration for their current projects, with the Pitt Rivers Museum being of particular interest and inspiration due to it's quirkiness and the shear overwhelming amount of pieces of 'everyday usage' that are on show.

The group attentively listening to a brief introduction to the Pitt Rivers Museum given by a member of staff from the educational team.

The group of illustration students was asked to gather research and inspiration for their own character developments, of which there was plenty in the many showcases of the Pitt Rivers Museum.

1, 2, 3....say spaghetti!

POP-UP exhibitions

The student work produced in the recent Millennium Point Drawing Event was exhibited by Programme Manager Ian Andrews at the Outline Drawing Centre during the week of 17^th of October .

The exhibition was one of a series of “pop-up” exhibitions that Outline organises to encourage the students to see their work in a professional setting, where away from the clutter of production a true picture emerges of the quality of the work. The students involved were provided with photographs taken during the event itself and photographs of their work in the exhibition providing valuable evidence for their degree application portfolios.

Outline Drawing Event

The images show the latest Outline Drawing Event which took place to coincide with the College Open Evening and not only provided an opportunity for students to participate in what we call...

“Project in a night”

The Event also gave visitors to the Open Event a chance to join in and make some drawings themselves. The main purpose of the event, led by programme manager Ian Andrews, was to show students and visitors not only how to improve their basic drawing skills but also to demonstrate how drawing can be used as a medium for the development of ideas.

The students were asked to produce five A1 drawings starting from observation but which showed certain qualities/visual characteristics/ideas being emphasised and expressed across the sequence of work produced. The pressure was on because the workshop was only 2 hours long and the participants responded wonderfully to the pressure and an amazing number of quality drawings were produced which did indeed show the development of ideas across the sequence of studies.