2nd Year suitcase Project

A couple of examples of the latest work being produced within the 2nd year visual studies. The students brought in suitcases with a collection of personal objects. Later the students explore the potential of their objects through a series of large scale mixed media work extending the drawing and ideas as they unpack their suitcases. These narrative pieces of work help the students think more intensively about what these objects mean to them and nurture a more independent and conceptual way of thinking. The suitcase project will link in to the next project after half term whereby the students will look at an autobiographical theme and produce a range of outcomes specific to their chosen specialism. Please look out for more images.

2nd year Visual Studies

This is the current selection of work being produced by 2nd year Art & design Students within Visual Studies. The students have been intensively drawing for 3 hour sessions to produce outcomes for portfolio. These particular set of drawings focused heavily on the tonal properties of still life objects and were patiently built up with a series of continous mark making to interpret the shape and form of the objects. Students used no line to create these drawings only tone.

Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design Yellow Day 1

To kick start the Yellow Week project Art students joined Sports students in creating images based upon the London 2012 Olympics that will later be developed to create promotional material for the Sports Department.

Level 2 Art and Design Botanical Gardens Visit

As part of the 4 week induction project, Level 2 Diploma in Art and Design students were taken on a visit to the Botanical Gardens in Edgbaston to gather primary research.

Millennium Point Drawing event

A selected group of students from the Outline Drawing Centre, based at Sutton Coldfield, worked down in the centre of Birmingham at the Fashion Lab Studios. These external events are a way of spreading the outline ethos across Birmingham.

"That drawing drives rich experimentation and pushes the boundaries of the visual arts."

The students Alexandra Parry, Lilith Dhillon Parkin, Usman Javed and Anthony White worked on a sequence of large drawings based on images of our performing arts students.

This was one of a series of workshops and events planned for this year, the next one takes place during our open evening on Thursday, 13th October. Where a group of students will be involved in a workshop called "Project in a Night", where students produce a sequence of drawings developing an idea in an extremely short space of time.

"Who are you?" - Induction weeks project

Expressive Self-portraits; the group of illustration students was asked to express an emotion using several illustrative ways to emphasis the expression visually.

Inspired by the work of Michael Craig-Martin students created alternative portraits of themselves using personalised objects and colour combinations

Induction day for our first-year Level 3 Art & Design students

And the winner is.... the letter designs, which showed the most creativity, effort and imagination were awarded prices.

"Pull a stupid face" - Our new group of first year art & design students; welcome to the BMet experience!

One of the winning designs.

Task: Use the letters to form a sentence, which describes how we (the students) feel.

Different observational drawing challenges were set during the afternoon session, here the students are recording negative space.

Charcoal-stick drawings - Loose control!

The focus here was to record the texture and patterns of the letter forms.

Focused learners.

Colin Young, Associate Director for the Art & Design department, introducing himself to the group and awarding prices.