On Fridays, I am given the opportunity to try out different workshops and ways of working.

So far, I have had Lino printing, Mono printing, book arts and life drawing however in the weeks to come hopefully I will get to try out and learn some new techniques, where I have also signed up for a photoshop tutorial to learn more skills of where I can manipulate my work.

Because I have come straight from A levels, and have not had the experience of an art foundation unlike a lot of the students, I find these workshops valuable as some of these things I have not even had the chance to try before. This was also daunting at first because I was worried I may be rubbish, or have no idea how to work the processes but the staff are extremely helpful and have guided me.

I had done life drawing previously, several times at A level in fine art and it is something I have always enjoyed doing as a workshop. I love the volume of work that can be produced in such a small time, and working with different materials and colours can look really successful when drawing the human form. I do also find it difficult, where some of my work comes out less successful but the life drawing rotation is very frequent and so it allows me to learn from my mistakes and hopefully over the weeks I can see an improvement in my work.

Before my Lino printing workshop, I had not used such a process since KS3 in school, so it felt new to me but was also exciting to use it again. It made me consider the types of things I can start to use in my own work/project work to make it less restricted. I decided to use a simple image to get started as I was slightly nervous and apprehensive, but also an image that tied in with the theme of my drawing project – structures and architectural shapes.