This week I've been preparing my work for assessments which start on Monday and have created new new works based on the larger composition in the last post of my work. I invested in a couple of primed boards to make sure that my work lasts and won't degrade over time and here are photo's of my two newest work:

Art works for sale!

Just a quick post to say that I'm looking to sell some of my sculptures! I've uploaded images of them onto Flickr to make it easier to view them:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolaspencer/

Paint/Print/Collage

This is my latest piece that I've been working on, and it's a combination of all the different side projects that my work has comprised of so far. I'm trying to find a conclusion within my work, and putting everything together into one piece is my first way of doing so! I think I've been a bit over-enthusiastic with all the detail and mark-making, but i'm pleased in a way that it encompasses everything that I've been working on.

I've taken photographs of close-up sections of the piece and feel that these are more successful compositionally. I think my next step could be to try more simpler works, maybe on a large scale but which have one focus point?

We have our final hand ins next week for assessment so I'm aiming to try out as many different things as possible. I want to start that summer/ 4th year to be a fresh start and not thinking about how I'd wished I'd done this or that to the project.

Artist Book!

I've been working on a lot of ink drawings for the past couple of weeks and my desk has been overflowing with scraps of paper!

To try and reach some kind of conclusion for one set of the drawings, I made them into an artist's book (or a booklet to be more exact. It was surprisingly easier than I expected, as all I needed to do was scan the images in order to order to convert them in jpegs and then resize them according to what size I wanted my book.I decided on 20 x 20cm as I wasn't sure of what the final thing would look like, and also how much it was cost (a concern that governs the majority of my work!).

Altogether the books cost under £4 each to make (with a student discount), they are stapled and i'm really pleased with the overall result. I'm going to experiment more with sizes and materials etc, and want to try making a hand-made book so see the comparison.

Black and white developments

I've just created a new Flickr account after wanting to do so for a while, and I didn't realise it was so easy to upload images! I'm going to try and keep it updated and post up all the images from the films I get developed to keep some kind of record. It can be like a scrapbook. Here are some of the images that I've just uploaded:

Lace Printing

This week I've been feeling a bit lost as to how to progress with my subject matter. I've been working with wood and assemblage for quite a while and wanted to move onto a other materials in order to help represent my thoughts and ideas. Playing around with different materials I've returned to printing with fabric and here is my current work:

Photographs from my new camera

Having been longing for a new Pentax K1000 SLR camera for a couple of years, I was lucky enough to have been bought one for my birthday this year! My last Pentax succumbed to the age-old problem of the wind-on mechanism breaking, and having dismantled the camera and losing a few of the crucial bits, it got resigned to the bin. I found a couple of old films that had long since expired in the back of one of my drawers and thought I'd get back into swing of things and re-introduce myself into film photography, with surprisingly pleasing results!