MOUNT EDGECOMBE

Today, we met at the Cremyll ferry port and then headed over to Mount Edgecombe, it was very pretty and I didn’t realise that it had a pebbled beach. Once we had all made it to the meeting point we had a ‘meeting’ about what our task was. The task was to get into groups of 4/5 and from our summer project pick a pattern that we could recreate with stones. I was in a group with Shelley, Kelly and Diana, we ended up picking one of Shelley’s Mandela patterns as we thought it would be easier to recreate with the pebbles. We started from the inside and went out, they didn’t specify a size so I think our pattern was roughly the size of an A1 piece of paper, we used a mix of different toned stones, as we were doing this our lecturer name dropped Andy Goldsworthy, his name rang a bell but I couldn’t think where from. I liked doing this because I like this kind of hands on piece of art and it was a good bonding experience with the other people. We then broke up for lunch and when we came back walked around the different groups piece of art whilst they gave a talk about what pattern it was anything they would have changed, once we had done that we went back to we started to draw our patterns, it was the worst drawing of my life, I hated it. We then released our stones back to the beach and headed back to the ferry whilst drawing a quick-fire drawing of how to draw different textures, for example, something soft, hard, rough, smooth etc. We then caught the ferry and went our separate ways.