New Brief intro and my ideas!

Hey guys I know it's been a while since I did anything regarding a brief but here is the outline of my brief!

This brief is all about doing our own thing, deciding a theme and taking it in which ever direction we feel, so I chose Collections, this already made me think 'Museums' which I could then related to bones/skeletons which I could loop back to my last project. But I wanted to evolve, to play a new ball game!

So I thought more about skeletons in museums and thought about excavation/Archaeology. So this is currently the direction of my project!

Here are some quick experiments I have done of excavation, I took Plaster-of-Paris and poured it on some dirt, once it set I pulled it out and the dirt/rocks/twigs etc was stuck to the bottom, I quickly made a skull and tried out a few small experiments! They are below, let me know what you think and have fun!

Mock Interview - How I felt it went

So today I had to do a Mock Interview as part of my course but also for preparation of my actual interview.

So here is how I felt it went!

• I turned up 5 minutes early which is a good start, and shows I am good at time-keeping and am punctual.
• When my interviewer came to greet me, I smiled, was social and polite which shows I'm happy and enthusiastic.
• When I was led into the interviewing room, I was polite, waited for my interviewer to offer me a seat and sat up straight and kept eye contact.
• At first I was a bit stutter-y but I quickly realized and turn my confidence on and was fine with answering questions without feeling stuck on my answer.
• She asked me about wanting to do a Tattoo Apprenticeship and I answered her honestly saying I did but right now I don't have the time to do it but I have found a Tattoo Studio willing to let me get work experience and planned to take the offer up in the Summer.
• She then asked me about influential artists and so I answered her with an artist I enjoy his work which was London landscapes done in Black Shellac and Resin which is painted quite loosely and left to drip and run down the canvas which gives it a dark, creepy, 'Jack the Ripper/1800's' atomosphere to the piece.
• She asked me to show her my 'Strongest' piece so I picked my 'Famine' skull from my Four Horse series, I explained to her what it was made of, how I got the idea, how I felt making it, the technique and tried to cover all aspects of the piece.
• She then asked me what one piece would I do better on if I had the chance, so I told her about my sculpture and how I would like to have mounted it differently looking back at the project.
• She finally asked if I had any questions so I asked what she did after standard education and she mentioned University so I asked if it was worth it in the modern age and with our current economic climate and she said definitely as you develop your techniques, meet like-minded people, get contacts etc.

My dress-code could probably have been better but due to personal reasons I have been unable to get access to my wardrobe (it sucks!) so I turned up in a leather jacket, leather jeans and cowboy boots however I look at it as showing who I really am.

So after all of it I feel I did pretty well and I will get feedback soon!

What is a PDF file, and what does it do?

Hey so my task in class was to find out what a PDF file was so I decided to go to the Adobe site and take a look and here is just a brief overview from what I read on the site :)

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a standard in electrical document exchange. When you convert documents, graphics, forms, and webpages to a PDF file, they look how they would if printed but PDF has clickable links and buttons, forms fields, videos and audio, as well as logic to help automate routine business processes.

Hey everyone!

So I have finally got an online portfolio going on Carbonmade! Heaad on over there and check it out, let me know what I could do better!

Link: http://ashleyhollingsworth.carbonmade.com/