Lecture; Fine Art.

The mystery of being an artist how do you get established and how do you sell and make a living? 

alison was talking about how artists make money and projects that you can do to get started and have 'Free' exhibitions. including large artist events and sharing studeo space. It was a really intresting talk but one i have many a time by my parents who are both in the art world and who insist on me knowing what i get my self into before i become an artist so i have heard all of theses methods and ideas and many more from my dad, so i found this talk slightly tedious just because i already knew this. the hardest bit for an artist in my eyes and my dads eyes is the cash flow knowing that you can have no money and have to find money to pay for suplies then having alot or some money once you sell a peice. But i did like to see other artists ideas on the topic. 

Friday Evaluation for the first week. 

The week has been one of the best weeks of my life just to be able to find people who i can connect artisticly with and who talk and work the same way as i do in a completly lateral way comperd to the general public who think up and down. the social has been my favourate part so far but to be honist we have barley done any art so i'm sure as the course continues art will become more and more intresting and just being around arty people is making me get out of the house and do some quick drawings. This week we were just learning what we would learn over the year meeting the tuters and just getting introuduced to student life. which has made me extremly excited for the year to come! But made me quite fustracted because all i really wanted to do was start the course! and get onto some PROPER ART!

My favourate day so far was thursday becuase of the partner activity which i have never done before so i found it really intresing how other people work and to have other peoples honist opinions and i think this is something i could hapily do again just becuase it was so easy. we did a layering and mark mkaing task which was rubbing out are work which really helped me get over my presurness of my art work and tought me very quickly to not get to close to what i make.

So for my first week i have done everything possible and really enjoyed every momment of it and know its only going to get better as the year continues. i can't wait untill the course starts just so i can get my self out of a school method of art and just ferget everything i have been tought before i came here and too teach me to SEE AGAIN! because i have lost my eyyes and want to learn and gain my eyes this year so i'm prepared for the next step! 

A Great First Week One Of Many!