Dan Woodward
Visual Exploration - Assignment Two: Presenting Your Work
I am used to sharing my work, having produced videos of my work for Illustration Sketchbooks, so this was not really outside of my...
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Dan Woodward
Feb 21, 20225 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 2.7: Collage Approaches
The essay referenced in the course text was interesting. The first artistic movement it referred to was one that I was not familiar with...
Dan Woodward
Feb 20, 20222 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.7: Composing Pictures
For this exercise, given that the text allowed for the possibility of creating digital collages, I thought it would be fruitless to find...
Dan Woodward
Feb 17, 20222 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.6: 'Cut-Ups'
This was a surprisingly fun exercise. I had bought two popular tabloid papers on the previous weekend and started as the exercise...
Dan Woodward
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.5: Word Processing
This exercise seemed to be very similar in structure to Exercise 2.3, so I decided to take a similar approach in my execution. I followed...
Dan Woodward
Feb 13, 20226 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 2.4: Process Artists
Agnes Martin After researching the work and process of Agnes Martin, what I take away most from the experience is the way her work...
Dan Woodward
Feb 12, 202210 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.4: Word Associations
Introduction This exercise was incredibly frustrating. It was like kryptonite to my ADHD brain. At first, it seems simple and derivative...
Dan Woodward
Feb 12, 20222 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.3: Words to Pictures
It's taken me months to write up this experiment. While I started it in December, much disruption took hold over the new year, and I...
Dan Woodward
Jan 3, 20224 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 2.2: Visual Dynamics
"A line is a dot that went for a walk." - Paul Klee This is one of my favourite quotes and one I often draw on when people remark on...
Dan Woodward
Dec 15, 20214 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.2: Multi-Dimensional Thinking
For this exercise, the task was to use random dots on a page to develop shapes and then volumes by using the shapes as vertices. I...
Dan Woodward
Dec 8, 20214 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 2.1: Getting Into ‘The Zones
To start this section looking into visual approaches, the coursebook introduced the idea of the comfort zone. This exercise tasked me to...
Dan Woodward
Dec 8, 20213 min read
Visual Exploration: Making Mistakes on Purpose
Last week I took advantage of my student AOI membership and decided to attend a workshop called “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose”. This...
Dan Woodward
Nov 26, 20212 min read
Visual Exploration - Assignment 1: Flowing & Playing
For this first assignment, the brief asked me to pick from one of three different approaches. I decided to take the Illustration option....
Dan Woodward
Nov 23, 202110 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 1.3: Flow and Play
Some Definitions For this research task, I will be basing my reading and assumptions on these definitions for the states described in the...
Dan Woodward
Nov 16, 20219 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 1.2: Good Working Habits
For this exercise, after reflecting on the coursework content on documenting & reflecting on work, and creating good work habits, I was...
Dan Woodward
Nov 15, 20215 min read
Visual Exploration - Research 1.2: 365 projects
I found this research task a little confusing. It was hard to understand if the learning objective was about using a project to instil a...
Dan Woodward
Nov 11, 20219 min read
Visual Exploration - Exercise 1.1: Thinking about your Workspace
When I started my OCA degree in 2018, I was using a desk in our spare bedroom, normally allocated for my PC. As I started to build up...
Dan Woodward
Nov 7, 20215 min read
Visual Exploration - Research Task 1.1: Where do good ideas come from?
For this initial research task, there were a number of quotes from other OCA students as well as a video called ‘Where Good Ideas Come...
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