NAS Intensive Studio Practice (1 Viewer)

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Hey there, this is mainly directed towards current or past year 12 students who particpated in the National Art Schools Intensive Studio Practice....

I was wondering if any of you did Photography, or if you know someone who did it? I'm in year 11 at the moment and the applications are due back soon.... and I can't decide whether to pick Photography or Painting for my first preference.

Photography is my main area, although I mainly work in digital, because it's cheaper and I prefer colour photographs. I've just started using the darkroom at school, as we did Digital photography for the first half.... I'm fairly competent in the darkroom, but I was just wondering how much time you actually spend in there? How exactly does it work? Do you go out on small photo-trips or something?

And then there's Painting. I do do a lot of painting, but I tend to do a lot of Mixed Media works.... incorporating photographs, collage, found objects etc into my paintings.... I was wondering whether that type of thing is still cool to do if I pick (and if I get into!) Painting. Did those of you who did Painting see anyone doing that? Or was it strictly just oils, acryclis, watercolours etc....?

For a little help to see where I'm coming from, here's two examples of my mixed media work - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13623780/ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18376951/
And three examples of my Photography -
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18159907/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17530096/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17526474/

If it's only B+W darkroom stuff, do you think I'd probably better not chose it?

Sorry - I'm lost here. They just sent out the stuff yesterday and I haven't yet had the opportunity to talk to my teacher about it - so thought you guys would be a great source of information.

Anything you can tell me would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Collette

 

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Anyone?

 

[Cellie]

I did NAS but i chose painting

 

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Ahh cool! Were there people doing mixed media work there? Like a combination of painting/collage/found object that type of thing?

Because I really want to do Painting but don't know if you're allowed to incorporate mixed media.

 

[Cellie]

On the first module, we did stuff that our teacher wanted us to do - alot of painting and learning new techniques and stuff -

On the second module, we were left alone to do what we had in mind to do for a final artwork. So, we can paint anything we wanted and use anything providing that its ok to use. So we had to have everything planned out before this module start so you know what you wanted to paint and what techniques or mediums you are going to use for a weeks worth of work.

 

[Leah.Midd]

i did photography at NAS

Hey,
Im currently in yr 12 and i did the NAS photography course, a week last yr and a week over the chrissy holidays. It was great, i enjoyed every bit of it. I was a fan of photography before i went but the course gave me so much more experience, i learnt so many new things, most of which im using in my HSC body of work. I strongly recommend that you do photography.
During my time there we spent heaps of time in the darkroom. The very first week was mainly about learning how to use a camera properly, getting the best pictures you can. There was a little bit of theory associated with this but not much at all. We went on many 'shooting' outing, then came back developed our film and started developing photos. Their darkrooms are top quality. In between part one and part two of the course we had to develope ideas for our major work, taking the photos & if u were able to, actually developing them at school. That wasnt really necessary but. Although i did get my negatives developed which saved me lots of time. The second week was mainly about developing our photos to the highest possible quality we could. It was amazing the types of faults the tutor could pick out that u and i owuld never had noticed. The last couple of days were all about getting ur portfolio together and setting up the ehibition. It was really exciting to exhibit your photos.
If uve got any more questions just let me no

 

[rockhead]

i did the print making course