End of year exhibition

We had a very good crowd this year at a very good venue - being the new 'B Building' level 2 in Timor Street Warrnambool.

End of Year Exhibition

In December we held our end of year exhibition for the Media and Design courses:
Diploma of Multimedia - 2nd Year
Diploma of Interactive Media - 1st Year
Diploma of Graphic Design - 1st Year
The students did a great job organising the exhibtion and the work look fantastic on the walls and computer screens.

The pictures from Drawing class up at Deakin, Graphic Desiners and Multimedia.

NOvember - New Theme "Heads"

Hi Everyone,
This post is somewhat late...

This months theme is "Heads". Any sort of head - human, animal - realistic, caricature etc

As this is our last theme for this year try to have fun with it!

(Next month we will post pictures from our exhibtions held in November at Sherward Park, The Art Gallery and B Building in Timor Street at SWTAFE.)

Alien Mech

Artist: Rowan Drake
Size: 992 kb
Medium: Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
Date: 6/11/09
Title: Alien Mech
Course: Illustration

The Feared One

Artist: Stacey Knowles
Size: 80 x 100 (canvas size only)
Medium: Papier-mache
Date: 22nd September
Title: The Feared One
Course: Diploma Graphic Design

I have done a themed art piece from the list given, from the Supernatrual area.

I liked the idea of the painting coming out of the canvas.

Then seeing the wings thought why not make it more

Zombie boy-Carolyn Reed- no excuse month

Artist:Carolyn Reed
Size: around a 1m
Medium:a little of every thing
Date: 3/10/09
Title: Zombie boy
Course:Diploma of Graphic Design
I made this for a finale pieace. Its made up of junk to make up the clothes.

Dragon

Artist: Sharon Falkiner
Size: 70cm x 50 cm
Medium: paper mache
Date: 13.10.2009
Title: Dragon
Course:Graphic Design Dip

Artist: Laurise Owen
Size: Digital Image
Medium: Digital image, photoshop
Date: 30 Aug 09
Title: Glow effects
Course: Diploma of Graphic Design

I had some fun playing with 'text as image' concepts over the break.

Artist: Andrea Radley
Size: Vector Illustration - no size constraints
Medium: Adobe Illustrator
Date: 1/10/09
Title: Fox and Dog
Course: Coordinator Diploma of Graphic Design

September - No excuse month

September - No excuse month
The theme for this month is open. You can put up any work you have created this year. So there are no excuses for not posting. If you have not already posted and are wondering how just ring or email Nathan Pye or Andrea Radley and we are more than happy to help.
We look forward to seeing your work and please write a brief statement about the piece to go with the picture.Get creative!

August - Recycled - Nathan Pye

Found a piece of driftwood a while ago and have been saving it to paint on. Weird surface to work on.

Artist: Nathan Pye
Size: 30cm x 15cm
Medium: Marker and ink and spray paint on wood
Date: 03/10/09
Title: City Worm in orange
Teaching robot #3

August - Recycled - Tracey Head

Artist: Tracey Head
Size: 40x50cm
Medium: Sand, Ink, Acrylic, impasto & Pastel
Date: 3/9/09
Title: Mother Earth
Course: Graphic Design Diploma
This was an asignment for our Illustration class. Using sand pattern and texture, dribbling ink and acrylic paint.

August-Recycled-Carolyn Reed

Artist: Carolyn Reed
Size: around 18x25cm
Medium: Collage
Date: 19/8/09
Title: untitled
Course:Diploma of Graphic Design

This was made for my illustration class.

I have recycled old newspapers and magazines.

August - Recycled - Phoebe Adams

Artist: Phoebe Adams
Size: 649 x 480 pixels of light
Medium: Digital Image
Date: 17th August 2009
Title: What exactly are we recyling?
Course: Teacher Media

August - Recycled - Ilona Koehnlechner

Artist: Ilona Koehnlechner
Size: 640x480
Medium: Digial Image
Date: 17th August 2009
Title: Recycle!!!
Course: Cert III Media Portland

August - Recycled - Roy Rogers

Artist: Roy Rogers
Size: 640x480
Medium: 7 recycled digital images
Date: 17th August 2009
Title: Digital Origami
Course: Cert III Media Portland

July-Open influence-Carolyn Reed

Artist: Carolyn Reed
Medium: pastels on paper
Date: 14/07/09
Title: untitled
Course: Diploma of Graphic Design

I remade a African tribal marks with bits of other marks.

This is for last month.

August - Recycled

Wow! What happened last month. Not a post....

Lets hope this month is more productive.

The theme is 'recycled' - make something from something. Stick things on your artwork, paint on found materials, sculpt with recycled materials...

Have a go! Have fun! Share your joy!

July - Open influence - Nathan Pye

Bit of a Hockney style image of my study. About 75 images in total. Really made me want to make more of them.

Artist: Nathan Pye
Medium: Digital image
Date: 04/08/09
Title: Hackney
Teaching robot #3

Open influence - July

We are all influenced by what has happened in the past. Sometimes it is obvious in our work and sometimes it is more subtle. Some "creatives" directly try to put their own "new" meaning to an iconic image or story.

For example, when John Brack painted "The Bar" he had Edouard Manet's "A bar at the Folies-Bergere" in mind. (Both pictures are below)

Their is a whole blog dedicated to illustrators who are doing their own version of Maurice Sendak's "Where the wild things are". http://www.terribleyelloweyes.com/ (Examples below)

For this month you can create your own version of an iconic image with a "new meaning" (remember to write in the post your new meaning/intention) or post some of your recent work that you have created and discuss the influences apparent in the work.

I look forward to some interesting reading this month.

:)

June - No excuse month - Andrea Radley

I have been playing with cutouts and texta. After seeing a Miso documentary on the ABC. I like the extra challenge with the positive and negative space and thinking about how to do so it is all connected. These are some fun images to decorate the walls at home for the kids.

Artist: Andrea Radley
Size: 1m and 1.5ms
Medium: Thick brown wrapping paper and texta
Date: April and June
Title: Dreaming and Wild Thing
Course: Design Coordinator

June - No Excuse Month - Jodie Broomby

This drawing was done in class for my end of semester folio.

Artist: Jodie Broomby
Size: A3
Medium: Ink on Paper
Date: 31/03/09
Course: Diploma of Graphic Design

Tracey Head - June - No excuse

Artist: Tracey Head
Size: 92 x 61 cm
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas/Photoshop
Date: 8th June 2009
Title: Dragons and Gold
Course: Graphic Design Diploma

This is an Acrylic painting I have done this year while studying the Graphics Diploma and I find the need to continue in my other mediums to keep it alive. Studying these other formats and programs to create have stiffled but enriched my perceptions also. I feel i have done a 360 and now design, position, texture and many other influences have freed my imagination but i was cursing them for a while there. This dragon symbolises air and fortune. The upside down triangle is fire along with the cresent moon - water. I like to incorporate all elements fire, water, earth, air and spirit and i like to work the picture to the point where i feel it comes alive, it may lay flat for weeks until a dream creates the energy of life i look and try to accomplish in my paintings..........

June - No excuse month - Chisako Ishikawa

Artist: Chisako Ishikawa
Size: 800 x 640 pixels
Medium: Colour Pencil, Paper, Photoshop 
Date: 07/06/09
Title: Happy Wedding Portrait
Course: Diploma of Multimedia

June - No excuse month - Chisako Ishikawa

Artist:     

Chisako Ishikawa

Size:     

640 x 880 pixels 

Medium: 

Ink, Water colour Paper, 

Photoshop

Date:

07/06/09

Title:

Pebble

Course:   

Diploma of Multimedia

June - No excuse month - Ross Irving

Artist:ross irving
Size: 950 x 400
Medium:digital photos, paint, debris (for texture), illustrator
Date:03 june 2009
Title:the happy robot's playground
Course: we were required to create a panoramic background for a fictional character, i had created "the happy robot" for a kids story book and decided he needed a playground. i took photos at a local wreckers yard, bleached the images and glued them together. texture was added by glueing various materials,(i.e. gravel, broken glass, berries, sticks etc.) and then painting the entire scene in acrylic, i then imported the image of the happy robot onto the scene and "walla!", here it is...

Daniel McKenna-june-open

Artist:Daniel McKenna
Size:
Medium:Airbrushed with 2pak paint
Date:10\3\09
Title: blue flame with skull
Course:Dip graphic design
This was a job i did for a class mates son back in May of this year, i was pleased with how it turned out. This kind of stuff is what i love to do. Big thanks to meggsie for giving me the opportunity.

June - No excuse month

Hi everyone,
Thanks to a suggestion from a student, Daniel McKenna, the theme for this month is open. You can put up any work you have created this year. So there are no excuses for not posting. If you have not already posted and are wondering how just ring or email Nathan Pye or Andrea Radley and we are more than happy to help.
Well done Daniel for the great idea. If anybody else has an idea for subsequant months let us know.
Also another exciting development this year is that there will be awards at the end of the year. Posters are being put up around the campuses this week and I will post more information about the awards soon.
More reason to post your work this month.
We look forward to seeing your work and please write a brief statement about the piece to go with the picture.
Get creative!

Daniel McKenna-may-text

Artist: Daniel McKenna
Size:
Medium: photo
Date: 29/5/09
Title: communication
Course:Dip graphic design

typography in the environment, i used the phone book to represent communication in the environment.

May - Text - Carolyn Reed

Artist: Carolyn Reed
Size: A4
Medium: photography
Date: 22/5/09
Title: untitled
Course:Graphic Design

I took this photo for a project about Communication.

I took the photo of the Monkey spray painting and then added the word communication in front, and for this the Monkey is communication through art.

May - Text - Stacey Knowles

Artist: Stacey Knowles
Size: A4
Medium: Photo
Date: 28/5/09
Title: Communication
Course:Diploma of Graphic Design

A project on communication with a diffrence!

I liked the two images so i've included them both, as i believe that these are the best two forms of communication - Time & over meals.

Black and white photos with filters - ran through photoshop

May - Text - Sharon Falkiner

Artist: sharon falkiner
Size: 8 by 6
Medium: photography
Date: 26 may 2009
Title: communication 2
Course: graphic design

May - Text - Sharon Falkiner

Artist: sharon falkiner
Size: 8 by 6
Medium: photography
Date: 26th may 2009
Title: communication
Course: graphic design

fiona howland may text

Artist:Fiona Howland
Size: A3
Medium:Photograph
Date:29 5 09
Title:Communication
Course:Graphic design

Brigid Walsh - May - text

Artist:Brigid Walsh
Size: 2mb, A4
Medium: Materials-Ink, dress patterns, wax crayon and fine liner
Date: May 2009
Title: Untitled
Course: Cert 4 Visual arts and Contemporary Craft