Wednesday 5 June 2013

Let the summer begin!

Today was my last day of college for this year (I still have one year to go) but it didn't really feel like it at all. The time has just flown by and I can scarcely believe that I've been doing this modelmaking course for two years now! O_O

I finished my door (complete with severed heads!)

 The Tree of the Dead

The Tree of the Dead

(with Ferdinand the Unicorn. :P)

...and finally got the hellish thing that was the graded unit over and done with. I somehow managed to get 87 ½% for it which works out as a high A - something I was NOT expecting as I couldn't get enthused with the subject at all. I didn't mention it on here as I was stressing over it too much but basically we had to design a piece of sculpture to go outside the Glasgow Riverside Museum with the theme of 'man's love affair with transport'.

I ended up designing a zoetrope which would show the evolution of a particular mode of transportation in the form of a wheel which would spin either by the wind or by visitors pushing it. My final model was awful but the photoshop job I did of inserting it outside the museum in clusters wasn't too bad. :P

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 I made a gif of what you'd see if the zoetrope part actually worked too. I drew all the frames from photos of old and new bicycles and motorbikes.

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Anyway, it's our end of year show on Tuesday where we can showcase everything we've made this year then I have a couple of months of holiday before I go back in August. :D

I want to do a lot of model horse stuff in the summer while I can as I feel I've been neglecting it recently and I think I've probably lost everyone's interest in this blog as a result. :(

I've been making a few props and things in any spare time I could muster recently though so I might have something to post in the next week. I have a new Julip to introduce but I can't until she tells me her name which might be a while as she's being less than forthcoming!


12 comments:

  1. I always enjoy reading about what you've been up to, model horse related or not! Your projects are always so cool. (LOVE how the door turned out!!)

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    1. Thanks! :D I just worry that because I get virtually no comments on my college stuff people have wandered off! (god that made me sound like such an attention seeker didn't it? XD)

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  2. I hardly get any comments on mine but I'd like to think people still read it!

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    1. I find that hard to believe - your work's fantastic!

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  3. Aw, but we all love to read about your projects! All kinds of projects, really. I totally enjoy creativity in all forms and you are one of the most versatile people that I know.
    Keep it coming! :D

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    1. Heh, I'll try to remember that the next time I can't work out how to do something: 'come on Christine, you're VERSATILE, remember!' XD

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  4. I don't have time to comment, but I take the time to read! I love hearing about your adventures in model making :)

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  5. Yours is one of the blogs I check almost daily! Your work is really inspiring so please keep posting!

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    1. D'awww, thank you so much! :D I promise I'll be more active over the summer!

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  6. You have definitely NOT lost my interest. I love these posts! Congrats on finishing up another year.

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