Level 2 Town Junior School Collaboration

Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design students have been collaborating with year 5 pupils at Town Junior School to create animations. Here the pupils visited Outline to take part in a workshop learning how to create stop frame animations.

PRAGUE!!!

I'm not sure who needs that many potatoes. Ever. 

Cool installation piece in the National Gallery in Prague.

Ashley growing a snow hat.

Piece from the National Gallery in Prague

We went to the National Gallery specifically to see an exhibition of an artist called Theodor Pistek. He produces these incredible photorealistic paintings.

George doing his linocut print.

The Czech students doing figure drawings.

The librarian from the college.

View from Charles bridge.

George standing next to some creepy statues.

View from the Czech Eiffel Tower.

Sally and Tjark!

The Czech students used Mo for their figure drawing classes!

The Dalek-like insides of the Metro.

Yellow Week 2 - Comenius inspired activity

During the second yellow week the current group of Subsidiary Diploma students are producing work inspired by the theme of the Comenius exchange programme, which is 'food'. Over the next two years students from the department will have the opportunity to visit different countries and cities, with the aim to meet students and to sample the local cuisine. 

Today the students are working in three different groups. Each group is working on a set activity for either a morning or afternoon, before switching over to the next activity. The activities on offer are a large scale drawing, which encourages the students to work large-scale across walls and floors. A sculptural outcome, which encourages students to use wire to create a three-dimensional response. And a relief printing workshop, which requires of the students to first build and then print their own large-scale printing plate, which is made from paper and other found materials.

On Thursday all work produced during the yellow week activities will be showcase in a final exhibition, which will be held at Outline, Sutton Coldfield. 

 Above & below: Wire-sculpture workshop

Above: Students 'translating small-scale models into large scale wire sculptures

 Above & below: Students painting and printing their relief printing plates.

Above: Final group crit

Bologna!

From the 16th -20th January, students from different creative arts and language courses at the college had the opportunity to visit Bologna, Italy, as one of the Comenius project visits. This was a multi-national meeting, with over 50 students and 20 staff from Italy, Spain, Czech republic, Turkey, Bulgaria, Latvia and of course the UK, meeting to work on the project together.

We participated in many activities, including creative workshops, visits to museums, an evening invitation with food prepared by the Italian students, and also an opportunity to attend a renaissance dinner.

On the Saturday some of the students took a day visit to the beautiful city of Florence.

More images from the visit can be seen on the Comenius blog site: galauk.wordpress.com

Student exchange to Prague 2013

Images from the first two days in Prague during the student exchange with two colleges in Prague.

 Ashley making friends with the locals...

 Fashionable ladies

All that walking makes hungry...

 Attention!

 David during the guard's change.

 The group together with two students from Prague, who showed us the city for the day.

In the municipal house.

PRAGUE!!

The Astrological Clock Tower.

Czech Buddies :D

The Changing of the Guard at Prague Castle.

Wood Carving department at College.

Students working on sculpture restoration.

National Museum of the Kings of Bohemia.

Me and Takesi.

Me and Takesi doing some observational portrait sketches at the College.

Awesome buskers on the King Charles IV Bridge.