{"id":29,"date":"2020-11-07T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2021-02-20T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T14:42:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Art, Ideas and Random Thoughts&#8230; from my 2020\/2021 studies on the Diploma Art  &amp; Design Foundation course at the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aub.ac.uk\/courses\/foundation-courses\/foundation-diploma\">https:\/\/aub.ac.uk\/courses\/foundation-courses\/foundation-diploma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In this blog you can read my course reflections and ruminations from an unexpected year of mainly Zoom lectures,  workshops and self motivated studies.  It&#8217;s not been quite the experience anybody would have anticipated but it&#8217;s been intense and creative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Art &amp; Design course covers our personal and professional creative development through: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Diagnostic Development into Creative Practice <br>(Stage 1)  <\/li><li>Developing Specialist Practice  (Stage 2)  <\/li><li> Consolidating Practice in an independent and personal project (Stage 3)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These stages explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Initiative<br>Independent inquiry<br>Creative thinking<br>Project management<br>Reflective learning<br>Team-working<br>Self-management<br>Effective participation<br>Social responsibility<br>Environmental awareness<br>Ethics and sustainability<br>Problem solving<br>Communication<br>Presentation<br>Research<br>Digital skills<br>Literacy<br>Numeracy&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Stage 2 onwards my specialism is <strong>Illustration<\/strong>, which investigates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Book and authorial illustration<\/li><li>Genre study<\/li><li>Experimental drawing workshops<\/li><li>Digital practice\/Illustrator<\/li><li>Life drawing ( not possible currently)<\/li><li>Printmaking (not possible currently -although I attended a  couple of printmaking induction workshops between lockdowns)<\/li><li>Theory and critical thinking<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, Ideas and Random Thoughts&#8230; from my 2020\/2021 studies on the Diploma Art &amp; Design Foundation course at the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) https:\/\/aub.ac.uk\/courses\/foundation-courses\/foundation-diploma In this blog you can read my course reflections and ruminations from an unexpected year of mainly Zoom lectures, workshops and self motivated studies. It&#8217;s not been quite the experience anybody &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandmade.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}