This cannot possibly be snow because, well, "It never snows in Blackpool".

Any suggestions of what it might be if it is not snow?

Maybe we have a serious case of a cotton factory explosion.

Love Rachel xx

We are nought but plasticine.

Chris Elliot Sarah Katy Rachel Tim Lee Kevin

These are plasticine models of me and my

original flat mates, they are about 2cm tall.

This is a... Building?

This weeks sculpture project is almost over all that is left is to spray paint the final pieces.

Our challenge was to collect rubbish and put it all together to make a scrap heap city.

I found a bike wheel and went from there.

Here is my bike wheel. With some modification.

Its base is to large vinyls.

I also made a smaller piece. With some lead tape and an old perfume bottle.

'What looks good on a Rizzla?'

This week I decided to put my Kleptomania to good use and actually do something with the things I pick up.In the time I have been at Uni I have picked up a bike wheel, a pack of Rizzla's, a used box of matches with used matches inside it (bonus!), a dead moth I found on the stair well,a thing that looked like a CD but it wasn't (I'm still not sure what it is but here with me it sits and a shiny screw.

The photos don't look as good.

I have used the bike wheel in my sculpture proje

ct, which there will be pictures off soon, and I have drawn the moth several times. I have used the Rizzla's to draw on which my drawing teacher got every excited about.

I have also draw a match.

Small, smaller, smallest...

In art at university we have 3 2 hour workshops a week. One 2 hour drawing class on a friday where we practice methods of drawing such as looking at negative space, scale and tone. One bleak Friday morning we sat in the main square in the campus and drew what we could see.

This is an A3 charcoal and emulsion drawing of the end of a piece of string and a tiny postage stamp sized drawing of the same.

Here we are practicing scale and size.

This is a grafite and rubber drawing of the circuit board on the inside of a disposable camera. The actual one looks much better than this photo. Here we were trying to show texture.

Our Monday and Wednesday workshops change every 3 weeks.

The first one we did was looking at surface on paper that we could create using dry materials.

We then did a photography project working in groups and individually.

We are currently working on a sculpture project that will end a christmas.

This is the final piece in my photography project. It is suppose to show movement. I'm not all that skilled on photoshop.

Art at uni

SO far in art

It took me a few days but I think I may have just about got to grips with the way things roll in Fine art at university. It petty simple really...

Your on your own.

I like it.

This week we have been asked to focus on Mapping, lan

dscaping and the body.

I am looking at the marks people leave behind. Not in an environmental sen

se, non of that business, in the sen

se of old house that are empty, the writing behind the wallpaper the people before you left, the stains on the kitchen floor, the heights of their children up the side of the door frame, where the front steps have a grove in them from years of use or finger prints on the glass or walls. The things that other people left, secrets in a sense. On the right you should be able to see names and a mark next to them. With this I tryed to achi

ve the image of pealed bacl wall paper with names and heights of two children, a boy and a girl. I wanted to create a personal sense to the he

ights you can see as the children get older the boy become taller then his sister.

This lower piece on the right is the final progression in a motif that shows aging floor boards.

I

also drew a picture of some string which I an quiet pleased with.