Glenshee - A snapshot of wintery Scotland

During the Christmas break I took a trip to explore the Scottish landscape as part of my research for my graduate collection which focuses on the topic of "Sense of Place".

I began in the Alford countryside, Aboyne and moved through into the Cairngorms National Park, Braemar.

I took these photographs at Glenshee Ski Resort, Scotland's largest ski resort, although not much snow has reached the slopes...yet.

I feel these photographs portray an harsh and honest vision of the Scottish landscape and the stormy climate which embraces it for the majority of the year.

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Photogram Life Drawing Designs - ARTnTHAT

Photogram of Leaves and Lightbulbs

A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey. 

Photogram of Scissors

Essentially anything can be placed onto the photographic paper to create a different effect.
I decided to combine my life drawings with semi transparent objects such as light bulbs, acetate, leaves, jewellery and feathers - it is then up to me to how many seconds of Light I give the paper with the object on top which gives the end result a different effect.

My life drawings were then converted to acetate and then layered onto the photographic paper along with some leaves, lightbulbs and text I had written.

 

The layering of all these transparent objects and drawings created a real effect of depth which could be used in not only as nice images but I plan on using it as repeat image for digitally printed fabric....

Keep your eyes pealed for some photogram inspired fabric....

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Blairs College, St Mary's - Aberdeen

My Grandparents visited me in Aberdeen the other week and we took a trip to Blair's College, a museum for an college closed in the 80's.
  
It was Scotland's only junior seminary for boys and young men 
studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood.


Up a country lane, along a dirt track you are led up to the "Hogwarts" 
of Aberdeenshire.
The most impressive building hidden within the trees and 
surrounding countryside.

Inside there was also St Mary's Church, which the boys would have attended.
This however still runs as the local parish. I took a photosyth, a 3D panorama
 of the church allowing you to see it in depth, in my previous post.

There was a wonderful archive of religious textiles dating back to the 15th Century,
 embroidery and rich colours like you couldn't imagine.

A trip with the grandparents wouldn't be right without a trip to the tea room.

Blairs college and St Mary's Chapel is well worth the visit if your interested in seeing a rather unknown tourist destination in Aberdeen. You can find out more by clicking here.

南京 My time in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

During the following blog posts I plan to inform you of the time I spent studying in China.
 Nanjing ( 南京) was where I was studying, however I travelled to Suzhou and Shanghai during my time, the following pictures are of the city of Nanjing which is in the Jiangsu province, the city's name translates as Southern Capital as it was the capital of China until 1949.

I found Nanjing 南京 a beautiful city to stay in, although it has to be one of China's less cosmopolitan of Cities, you would definitely find difficulty finding any sort of western style food and there was a large element of shock in our presence (partly due to myself having blonde hair and blue eyes) so you found difficulty in exploring without a swarm of Chinese around you asking for photos. I will reveal my eating and travelling experiences in the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes peeled.

Below is a photograph of a Nanjing Taxi with the most fantastic colour of green.

The above video captures the view from my hotel bedroom, a street cleaner and a short journey by taxi. 

There will sure to be more videos to follow with my next posts.

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Steptoes Junk Yard!

Visited Steptoes Junk Yard with the textiles department as part of our drawing project.

During the visit we took various drawings and rubbbings discovering the wonders and hidden corners or the yard and house which was filled with more little tresures.

Part of our project was to take photos recording colours, textures and patterns....I was in my glory! haha

These are just a few of the photos I have chosen to use...

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Notre Dame Cathedral Paris

 Notre Dame Cathedral Paris has to be one of the most breathtaking places I've ever been.

I have always found Churches as places of wonder but I was in shock when I saw the size and scale of the stained glass windows it was beyond belief.