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.

Pictures of trip to New York

Download pictures from the trip to New York here:

Times Square

View from the Empire State Building at night

Central Park

Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem

Goodbye New York!

AS Taster day, Wed 13 July

Prospective AS Fine Art students were responding to the theme of 'Summer'.