Duncan's Journal Pages

Here are my lovely beehives.

Then we all drew a seated long pose for the rest of the session.

The skeleton and model combined. Great work with Conte crayon and coloured pencils.

Great work - with conte crayon and coloured pencil.

Plinth moving action as we prepare for the End of Year assessments.

Clearing the E-Block Top floor - Moving all of the work spaces - A busy Monday morning with everyone mucking-in as we prepare the spaces for FMP Assessment week, starting on Monday for the Year 2 Extended Diploma Students. (* Level 4 Art Foundation the week after...) Also raiding the treasures in the shipping containers and getting all of the plinths and mannequins out. The artwork is looking great and this is what we have all been working towards after a challenging term.

‘Denim Day’ - 28th April 2021 - and the art team pulled out all the stops here at Strode College in Somerset to wear denim and to discuss the issues. This started after a conversation instigated by one of our terrific Art Foundation students back in a pathway assessment in November. She, @anniepugsley, made a pair of anti-rape jeans and everyone in the assessment group was asked to leave hand prints on them, playful, performative and very thought provoking. I hadn’t heard of denim day before this conversation and it was great to raise awareness yesterday and to show solidarity with victims of sexual violence. Great photo shoot session in the afternoon recording the many terrific outfits and here are some of the art teaching team and students at the end of the day. #denimday #DenimDay2021 #FurtherEducation #FE #strodecollege @StrodeCollege #issueledpractice #education - great post and pictures here also @d_u_s_t_a @strodecollegeart #artmatters

'Light' Artists 303 group exhibition at the Ilminster Arts Centre - 4 of my sculptural pieces in the show. Opens on Monday for a month. #artist #artwork #artworks #sculpture #fineart #exhibition #duncancameron #somerset #uk #duncantheartist #collection #taxidermy #naturalhistory

Sandcastle building at Frinton on Sea - various passers by identified my creation as an aardvark, a tortoise, an armadillo and a buried pig - for the record it was supposed to be a mole and a mole hill. #duncancameron #sandcastle #sandcastles #mole #sculpture #beach #uk #summerholidays #seaside #frinton #frintononsea #frintonbeach #summer (at Frinton-on-Sea)

Working back into a previous sketchbook illustration from Madrid, to add colour or not, less is more I think. #anatomy #bones #skulls #skull #skeletonscientist #art #artist #journal #uk #duncancameron #illustrator #illustration #naturalhistory #dinosaur #fossil

A pickled axolotl on my studio shelves. A specimen that was donated to me by the biology department when it sadly died a few years ago. A Wonderful strange creature. #pickle #axolotl #specimen #jar #museum #studio #duncancameron #somerset #uk #naturalhistory

Studio shelves. Where am I going to fit new things ? #art #artist #skull #skulls #specimen #specimens #wetspecimen #sculpture #naturalhistory #duncancameron #uk #drawing #sculptor #studio #collector #collection #museum

Sorting out my studio so that there is enough space to actually make some new sculpture and resolve long standing projects. #sketchbook #art #artist #studio #taxidermy #skull #skulls #workshop #sculpture #duncancameron #somerset #uk #nature #naturalhistory #naturalhistoryillustration #specimen #specimens #hoarding #collecting

Working outside constructing a rather eccentric cabinet tower sculpture, or as my wife called it 'a bonkers thing' - cold on the hands so now moving into the shed as I loose the light. #duncancameron #art #naturalhistory #sculpture #uk

and onto my pinterest boards: https://uk.pinterest.com/brokensharkcage/

Exciting to see the Chinese Relaunch version of Shipwreck Detective 10 years after its publication in the UK.