Now lets begin with ... 1 inch, 1 foot ..... ahh whats wrong with metriC

So I am almost at the end of week one of classes. Only technical drawing and life drawing to go. Monday started with a lighting class. We spent the morning looking at pictures and the way lights where angled etc. We have been asked to recreate a photographs lighting for our homework. This exercise is very similar one which was done in my first term at the RSAMD.

Second on the list was model making and another big new list of things I need to buy. But really excited to see what we come up with. Tuesday was a quiet day starting with a 3d sculpting class. Which brought up the question, what is art? Is there a difference between art and design? Wednesday was a really good relaxing day of singing. A hobby i have not delved into in forever so it was great fun.

Thursday was the day I was really looking forward to. Scenic Art and Carpentry. Although the Scenic Art class i feel for the first 5 weeks will be nothing new to me. Scaling up on a small scale, marble effect, wood effect, distressing. Later on the we will be doing translucent painting and cartoon layout ( hopefully with spray guns) I hope  to use this class as an opportunity to gain portfolio items. Although I like the ideal of working project by project I felt as i had already covered a lot of what we would be doing back home i went to speak to my mentor and ask about being put into more production work. He told me not to worry and in a few weeks time i would be flung in full pelt to shows. So hopefully i will learn a lot more in that. Nathan one of the lighting designers took me and alex arounf the set of the up coming show wounded and i have to say the floor for the show was spectacular. Carpentry was fairly boring health and safety  but it clear to me already .. I miss metric! Im not sure how I am going to manage a scale ruler in inches!

Really nice thought today looking round my classes. I can name all the students in this room and everyone has a different major. Its really really nice! So after a lovely dinner with actors, singers, producers, stage mangers and designers, it was off to the shops to finish buying the rest of tomorrows supplies. Saturday bring the next road trip! San fran for Dakotas gig on sunday night. Good times .. anyway here is my normal photo dump :)

Scenic department

Gridding lesson 20 min boat

Poise and her flower

me and my boat

scenic

wounded floor ( taaa nate)

stencils they used

A day with a spark.

I love it when you have one of those days and the world seem to be coming together. Today brought another portfolio class but this time web based. Looking through my work always reminds me of the progression I have made and the things i will be able to do in the future. Cant wait for next weeks class where with my fully functioning domain name I will create my wonderful web portfolio.  Its got me totally geared up to get started on my proper classes in 1 weeks time.

Tomorrow is a class on getting to now people and discovering the different  food and cultures available in L.A. Going to be riding the metro line through the red and gold lines stoping and hidden gem food stops on the way. God its a hard life. Saying that tho 1 weeks time and its going to get Crazy!!

 So feeling inspired but with no Calarts projects to do i decided to do some more work on my RSAMD trompe l'oeil  project and to be 100% at the moment im very proud of the progression im making.

 Still got a lot to do but well on the way to completing the first pice out for 3 for my project.

So basically the world is good. I feel sparky and passionate about what I do. Really missing my little scenic bubble. Miss all the girls a lot scenic and AA2. Its only been 2 weeks!!!

getting there