The surround to my fireplace isn't fitted, but that doesn't stop me from lighting it. It's been properly backfilled with vermiculite and I've used a fire retardant seal round the edge of it to keep the smoke from seeping out. I'm really happy with the results. I know it looks rough, but the wooden surround will cover that..
I just need to reorder the room now!
Oh Baz that fire looks fab! Wish it was over here in my cold garret!!! And I really like your sketchbook, what a clever way of displaying it. I am impressed. At the mo I am working on my contextural notebook for my Art Appreciation module. It is so much fun :)
ReplyDeleteHi Dolly,
ReplyDeleteI made a rookie mistake on the fire surround, when I applied the sealant some of it bonded to the wallpaper. Without realising the hot air and smoke rose upwards and went behind the paper - pushing it out and cracking the seal. Which means I've had to chop out about 2 inches of paper all around the edge. Removing the paper inevitably meant that the sealant came lose too - so I've had to replace it all.
Re: Contextual notebook.
We called it a CATS folder, Critical and Theoretical Studies lol.. and yeah it's amazing part of the course, to examine the History of Art and the different movements. If I can give you any advice it would be to soak up as much info as you in those sessions. When I did my degree, I sailed through the first two years because of the Art History knowledge we'd been given on that course. A lot of people on my degree really struggled with the written side to the degree, but when you've had to write essays every fortnight and produce an illustrated art history book.. it seemed like a simple task.. Infact the only hard thing about the degree wasn't the work, it was managing the time to do it all.
Baz ta for the advice. It will be no hardship at all to soak up Art history. I have been doing this on my own for years, educating myself (one friend calls me "Joanna the Obscure" and compares me to Hardy's Jude!) visiting galleries and exhibitions and saving catalogues and leaflets and postcards. All those years running pubs I would still cut out scraps of magazines/newspapers, all sorts of images that caught my eye and have kept them in one huge shoe box :)
ReplyDeleteThe latest, is that I am going ahead and applying to UCC for the History of Art Honours BA...thanks so much for all your support and advice over this. X
oOo I'm very envious.. I'd love to do an Art History degree. I should really go back to uni and do an MA.. but money is tight.. once I'm all sorted in new job/house I might look back into it again.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on deciding what to do, it's a good subject and you have a love of the subject so you'll walk it.