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OCA Textiles Learning Logs
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MMT3 feedback and reflection - *MMT3 feedback and reflection* Summary of tutorial discussion Demonstration of technical and visual skills, quality of outcome, demonstration of creativ...4 years ago
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Formative feedback: Ideas and Processes Assignment number 5 - Student name Penelope Day Student number 515242 Course/Unit Tex 1: Ideas and Processes...4 years ago
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MMT 5- Tutor feedback - Formative feedback Student name Samantha Gilliam Scott Student number 517228 Course/Unit Mixed Media Assignment number ...4 years ago
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Assessment submission, Textiles 2 Creative Practice - At last I have completed my submission for the assessment of this course. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak the OCA have made it a digital only submission this ...4 years ago
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A Textile Vocabulary Influences Beyond the Coursework Submission - Not long after I packed up my coursework and posted it for final assessment I had the following exchange with textile artist Susie Freeman: I felt it impor...5 years ago
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Part five Synthesis and Refinement Stage 5 Sorting Stage 6 Prototype/maquette-making - Stage 5 Sorting Sample 4.2 I have selected the three samples above with the idea of upscaling them and creating a group of three large pods connected throu...5 years ago
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MMT reflection - Overall I have thoroughly the course . It has challenged me to think of textiles in another way . I have tried many techniques that I had not used before ...5 years ago
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MMT Coursework – Part 2- Joining and Wrapping - Detailed notes to this part are available in my physical learning log as I find it easier to access when recording outcomes than online. Stage 1 – Research...5 years ago
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Written Reflection – Revised Assignment Five - Following my Tutor’s advice and my own reflection I have produced a Revised Assignment Five underpinned by further Sample-Making in the area of Joining. I ...5 years ago
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Final Assignment: Preparations - The coursework binder encourages us to reflect on our strengths, first by reviewing our works so far. So I took the time to display all of my works (from e...
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Self-assessment - Demonstration of technical and visual skills Some exercises were more successful than others, and for me the outcomes I was happiest with were the ones whe...5 years ago
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Assignment 6 Tutor feedback and response - Please note my responses are in italics and bold. *This is again a digital submission therefore; I cannot fully appreciate scale, tactility, finish and pre...5 years ago
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Assignment Five; Your Capsule Collection - I have actually quite enjoyed Part Five as I have been able to go back over work I really enjoyed & push it further (free machine embroidery, hand embroide...5 years ago
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ATV Part 5- Building a collection Tutor feedback and review - Apologies, Sami. I should have included the following box on your assignment 4 feedback: Assignment 4 Assessment potential I understand your aim is to go f...5 years ago
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Assignment 5 – Tutor feedback & my reflection - I have attached my tutor feedback, some of which I agree with some I don’t. I will add explanations and give my thoughts below. With regards to my colour p...6 years ago
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Critical Essay – Exterior Influences - Title: Exterior Influences: What lessons and influences have I gained from the study of other practitioners and how have I implemented these into my own wo...
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Reflection on Tutor Feedback - My feelings on my final pieces were that they were perhaps a bit simplistic. I had struggled to engage fully in the process of playing, experimenting and d...6 years ago
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Materials – food for thought - I sat on the step by the shed space staring at this in horror and fascination. Sorting my beach combed stash because I needed some material to add texture ...6 years ago
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assignment 5: capsule collection - A quick tot-up indicates that I made around 50 experiments/concepts from my drawings, but even so it felt like the tip of the iceberg and that I was nowher...6 years ago
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Final warm-up exercise …. - For my final warm-up exercise, I used A2 size paper (by taping together 4 sheets of A4) and used each quarter to mark using different techniques. I starte...6 years ago
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Textiles 1: A Textiles Vocabulary Part five Building a collection Project 3 Experimenting and taking risks - In this project I focused on deconstructing and distressing sleeves of children’s garments to make them appear worn and aged while representing the marks f...6 years ago
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Exercise 5.2: Written statement - The samples in this final body of work have all been produced in various types and qualities of yarn utilising traditional craft processes – knit, crochet ...6 years ago
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Evaluation and reflection against assessment criteria - Evaluation I revisited Part 2 heavily in the end – going back to the dissolvable film and sought to refine my use and application of it. I did feel overwhe...6 years ago
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Part 5 reflection - Following my feedback at the end of part 4 I was told to ” get out of my comfort zone and stay out ” I have tried to keep this in mind whilst working thr...6 years ago
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Review of assessment criteria - Demonstration of technical and visual skills (20%): Materials, techniques, observational skills, visual awareness, design and compositional skills I think ...6 years ago
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The Journey Continues - My third level one course in textiles. I’m madly behind in level one, through one reason or another and I’ve had to request to borrow a small amount of ti...6 years ago
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Paris - Sheila Hicks at the Pompidou Centre - Well, what can one say other that when you hear that a major exhibition of Sheila Hicks' work is on show you have to go! I just adore Hicks' work, and as ...
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Formal assessment - 16 April 2018 – so pleased to be able to say that I passed this module at formal assessment! At 50% it was an improvement on my mark for Watercolour Practi...6 years ago
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Farfield Mill – Quilt Exhibition - February 4th 2018 I am lucky enough to have a great exhibition space right on my doorstep, if you live in a city that’s to be expected but I live on the ed...
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Collatype collage - My first collatype was a landscape scene. I stuck bubblewrap, hessian, florists plastic, net and corduroy onto card with pva glue. I took prints on fa...7 years ago
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Part 5; Reflection on Tutorial - Firstly, I have to say that I pleased and extremely flattered by my tutor feedback. Cari has identified strengths in my work that I intend to use as I move...7 years ago
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Part five Textile solutions - "A stitch is a mark like any other mark. It is a dot, a line, a texture. One of my questions is how the mark made with a needle and thread is similar to o...7 years ago
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Natures Larder – A textile vocabulary - Of the four themes suggested I had decided to opt for Natures Larder. I liked the sound of all of them and my mind started racing with thoughts for each, T...7 years ago
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ATV 2 – Project 2 Drawing with Stitch - Exercise 2.3 Drawing with stitch I began this exercise by looking at my drawing of the net curtain and trying to find ways to represent the graphical quali...7 years ago
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Continuous line drawing - Having had a look at Claude Heath’s drawings I had another go at continuous line drawing. No rubbing out allowed.7 years ago
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Assignment 5 – response to tutor’s feedback - 18 September 2017 Assignment 5 – response to tutor feedback My tutor for this module was Cari Morton. A link to her feedback can be found here. Response to...7 years ago
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Tutor feedback and my response – Assignment Five - Tutor feedback (from my notes of our skype discussion) (note: formative written feedback sent via GoogleDrive upload) The tutor in her feedback identifie...7 years ago
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Response to research suggestion in tutor feedback for Assignment 4 - Reading through assignment 4 feedback my tutor suggested I read a blog post by Pere Brauch one of OCA’s own tutors and who also works as a freelance textil...7 years ago
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Pre-Assessment: Presenting work and using tutor feedback – Plans and subsequent reflections: - Before Assessment in a few weeks, I need to make sure all of my work has been presented professionally and to the best standard. My tutor has given me feed...7 years ago
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Part 5, Stage 3 – Sample Making. Sample using recycled knitwear. - Explanatory update September 2017. A late (and forgotten) addition to the blog Thinking about ideas around things that simultaneously pull-apart and join...7 years ago
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Revised New Capsule Collection – Part Five - Background Following feedback from my Tutor I have taken my underdeveloped Capsule Collection work and revised 5.3 samples and undertaken further work to p...7 years ago
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Formative Feedback IAP1 - On Thursday 22nd June,I had my formative feedback on IAP1 via video tutorial. I find this more helpful than a written report as it removes the potential f...7 years ago
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Part 4 Yarn and Linear exploration. - Research point 1… This research is looking at the design of yarn and sourcing yarn. This website by woolmark who are the global authority on wool and who...7 years ago
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Exercise 1.2 – Substance and Story - Aim of this Exercise This exercise is to find out more about your chosen textile pieces through observation and further research. Dress 1 – Poinsettia Ph...7 years ago
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Assignment 5 - Personal Project - The Final Design - *Making the Final Piece:* I started with mixing my colours. I am using Selestine pigments and solvent-free binder to prepare my printing pastes. I chose ...
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Warm up – revisited - Exercise 0.1 Mark making with conventional tools I approached this exercise in a rather regimented way before, working from an H pencil through to a 6B, cr...8 years ago
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Part Five ~ Textiles - Project 1 ~ The life cycle of textiles and materialsFiled under: RESEARCH8 years ago
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Tutor feedback and Response - Connie Kadey Tex 1 MM ass 5 Neil and I chatted again over Skype to discuss my Part 5 work. Unfortunately due to time constraints I was unable to forward m...8 years ago
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Sample - I thought the colours were dark enough until I checked them under the bright sunlight and found they are not dark enough.8 years ago
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Formal Assessment - Having completed Part 5 and enrolling on a new level 1 course in the summer, it has been very strange revisiting the work and preparing it for formal asses...8 years ago
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Tackling the ugly - In my reflection on my samples for Part 5, I use the word ‘ugly’ when discarding certain samples without fully reflecting on what this term means to me. A...8 years ago
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Project 5, Stage 7 – Reflection - I have enjoyed this part of the course. it was nice to take some of my ideas a little further. I felt that there was a lot of samples I would like to have ...8 years ago
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Sketchbook - 30 Day Sketchbook Challenge Here is my next two days of sketches. Day 14 – Favourite Fairytale As I like so many fairytales, it was difficult to decide whi...8 years ago
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Dyeing - I need to learn the names of the plants in my garden. On Sunday I was pruning a bush that manages to triple in size each year. In the late summer the new g...11 years ago