Friday 10 January 2014

Outline welcomes the Lord-Lieutenant of Birmingham.


Programme manager Ian Andrews and Director of Schools and Corporate Events  Bridget Byrne were proud to welcome representatives of the Lord lieutenant's office.



Martin Tunstall and Denise Lewis reviewed the work produced as part of the live brief run with the Lord lieutenants office for the production of artwork to be displayed in the refurbished offices in Solihull.













Mandy purchase, Freya Rily, Catherine Suen, Suzie Bramich, Toni Simmons, Helen Johnson and Kelly Martin, students on the Foundation  Diploma in Art and Design, gave formal presentations e explaining the ideas behind their  constructed textile pieces.







The students are looking forward to a visit to the offices in Solihull to meet the Lord Lietenant himself and discuss the siting of the work and appropriate display methods.

Foundation Art and Design -drawing session.




In addition to the experimental drawing workshops all courses have timetabled drawing sessions. Here foundation students are experimenting with radically increasing the scale of an object.






Students are using a reductive tonal technique of working into a dark ground with an eraser.