KARYN EASTON
May 13
by Karyn in Hand Written, My Work, Unit 3 Blogs, Zentangles 0 comments tags: Hand Written, Handwriting, my work, Unit 3 Blogs

Pen Drawings

Original Drawings – I’ve never actually revealed any process behind the textural images that I used on the elements of the ‘Balance of Power Mobile’.  I feel that now might be a good time to show some of them.  As my drawings were actually always meant to be incidental to my work I tended to neglect this.  It was just idle doodling on my part – or was it?  I found that I really enjoyed the digitisation process of the drawings and particularly cleaning them up.  I found sitting quietly with ‘Photoshop Fix’  and its excellent spot healing brush was really quite cathartic. As I mentioned in earlier posts I gave myself strict rules for these designs. They had to be drawn freehand and if any mistakes were made the mistakes had to be woven into the design and not erased or covered up. I’m not entirely sure why I self imposed these rules other than to make the drawing process more interesting and challenging.  Below are a selection of images from my sketch books.     A Selection of Original Pen Drawings
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Nov 28
by Karyn in Crits, My Work, Videos, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Crits, my work, Videos, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 39

AI and (3 Minute Video) Affirmative Feedback – I cannot believe that this is the penultimate zoom session of this year! I was really excited today because my three minute video was used as a test for the start of the crit sessions.  I was really pleased with the comments because I can now use these to help inform my work going forward.  I was quite nervous at how my video would be received, but I think on the whole, judging by the comments, it wasn’t so bad 🙂 As an extra form of feedback called ‘Affirmative Feedback’, everyone was asked to respond to the sentence:  “What worked for me is…”  The other respondents were then invited to agree or disagree with this by giving a thumbs up on the recorded session from today.  I am including a link to this week’s video as peoples’ comments and reactions will again be useful in helping to inform my work going forward.   Please see below for the comments:   A Useful Graphic The following graphic posted by Bea, is useful when considering the critiquing process.       Playing with AI text to Image Generation For the rest of the session […]
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Mar 05
by Karyn in 3d, Abstract Art, Experimentation, My Work, Sculpture, Zentangles 0 comments tags: 3d, Abstract Art, Experimentation, my work, Sculpture, Zentangles

A Mental Derive

Taking a Mindful Wander – In our ‘Zoom Session 18’ Last week we talked about the concept of ‘Derive’ or ‘taking a derive’.  I hadn’t heard of this concept before and therefore I really wanted to explore it further.  I decided that I wanted to experience both a mental and physical derive, so I have produced 2 blogs on the work resulting from my wanderings.  The results from my physical wanderings, or should I say physical derive can be found here. Each week usually on a Tuesday evening and after the weekly zoom session I produce little drawings which reflect my mood.  I used to draw them during my the zoom session but I became increasingly anxious about missing important information so it’s now solely an evening pursuit.  However, although I hadn’t realised it at the time, my little drawings were actually a form of mental derive.  Therefore I decided to use these little ‘derive drawings’ as part of a larger mental derive.   For many weeks now I have wanted to move my work into a more physical 3d realm but I wasn’t too sure how to achieve this.  Last week I had a failed attempt to produce some […]
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Dec 21
by Karyn in Ai, Drawings, Experimentation, Food for Thought, My Learning, My Work, Videos, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: ai, Drawings, Experimentation, Food for Thought, My Learning, my work, Videos, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 10

Programming with Processing 😊 – This has to be one of my favourite sessions so far. I love all of my zoom sessions, but the chance to learn a little programming is always a positive for me. Until today I hadn’t come across the programming environment called ‘Processing’. I downloaded the software onto my computer and I attempted to play around with it a little. This was to familiarise myself with it a before the start of our session. I found the tutorials really informative and I very quickly got the ‘gist’ of it. We also had a guest speaker Matthew Edwards, who came in to give us a demonstration and work with us through some example code. It was a very good pace and pitched perfectly for a total beginner like myself. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the results of my little programs. I also thoroughly enjoyed the group conversation afterwards. Jonathan introduced us to GPT chat. This is an advanced algorithmic program that can write highly intuitive essays from user text prompts. It can also write code. This week I’ve had lots to think about and explore. I have updated my ‘Zentangle’ gallery to reflect all of my little […]
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Nov 17
by Karyn in Books, Drawings, Ideas, My Work, Patterns, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Books, Drawings, Ideas, my work, Patterns, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 7

A Little Confession – Before I begin to document our zoom session from this week I have a little confession to make.  I heard someone say that this was zoom session six.  I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that this week’s session was zoom session seven.  The reason I’m so sure is because each week I take the time to draw myself a little zentangle.  I counted up my zentangles and I have seven.  Therefore I think this week is week seven, but of course I may be wrong. As we were discussing ‘active listening’ I thought that now was probably a really good time to ‘fess’ up to my little ongoing drawing activity. I thoroughly enjoy our zoom sessions, I feel it’s a time for me to learn as opposed to teaching, which as a lecturer is a nice concept.  When I’m listening I enjoy drawing.  Since I seem to be mainly locked in a digital world at the moment, it brings just a small dose of the physical into my weekly meeting.  I also find it very relaxing and for some strange reason it seems to help me concentrate more.   I set myself a few […]
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