Happy new year

It feels like it's been months since my last post, but that's just because I got so used to almost posting everyday. Since it is vacation now I havn't been doing so much so I have been enjoying my don't have to do anything time.
I however have a good reason to make a new post (besides wishing you all the best for the new year), because I have renewed my official website. Thats right go and take a look on SanderSchoonbeek.com, and make sure you check out my all new Webstore. There's not to much in the store at the moment but I am working on getting more stuff out there (got to try right?).

I wanted to leave you all with again the best wishes for the comming year and I hope to see you soon. For now please enjoy some of the fireworks I saw earlier tonight at the Edinburgh Castle.

Portfolio

I just finished my end of semester portfolio setup an astonishing hour before the deadline. I feel pretty good aout it at this moment let's hope it will be reviewed in a positive way.

Print stand

Since I finaly finished me essay and I'm pretty much done with the studio work, I decided to make a stand to show some of the screenprints I have made. I would put them on the wall but since my billboard is taking up pretty much all of my wall space I thought this was a good idea. I only hope that my tutors will understand it's a display stand and not a sculpture :p. I'm also wondering if I should include my prints from last year. I didn't make them this semester but I feel that they help in showing the progress I've made. Choices choices. Well anyway picture time:

GRTS

Maybe this doesn't have to do so much with my work but I'll mention it anyway. Today my wife put her first items on her Etsy webshop. She has been making lot's of handmade products which we also sold during the christmass market at ECA. For now she's only shipping within the UK through Etsy but if anyone from outside the UK wants to order something just let me know ;). So make sure you check out her webshop on:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/GRTS

Panoramic Billboard

The end of the semester is getting close an I'm starting to rap things up. I do need to do some layout work on my essay but other than that it's pretty much done.
Since I got into college pretty early this morning I was in time to get my second take on the billboard printed.
After that we had a little meeting about the second (and last) semester and some info about how the degree show might go (exciting).

So here is the first sneak peak into my new billboard:

Last week

It's the last week before the deadline, and everything is due this friday. It didn't start that well since I tried to go and get my new billboard printed (since the shop closed early on friday). Today they didn't take in any new printing orders due to deadlines and being busy and all. So they basicly told me to come back tomorrow morning and try again (what??? I have a deadline too and you want me to rely on let's see if we have more time tomorrw???).

When I walked back to my studio I bumped into the head of the glass department and she told me there was a talk going on in the afternoon by a glass artist, and I was welcome to come along. So since I couldn't work on my billboard and some of my glass work was drying I decided it would be good to go.
It was a very interesting talk by Minako Shirakura (www.minakoshirakura.com), and besides showing her work she talked about residencies and studying abroad. I thought it was very interesting and enjoyed it very much.
She gave me her card and when I go to Japan in March I might meet up with her if she happens to be there aswell.

So let's hope tomorrow will be better and more productive.

Coloured Billboard

I went into the college today to make a better picture of the coloured billboard. Since I am making another one this week this would be one of the last chances to document it.

Colour

I havn't made a post with my phone since the original test so I thought I'd give it another try.
Besides having seminars and a crit today I managed to get a little work done. Ok not realy something new ?ore of a tryout on something I already had. I wanted to reprint the billbboard in a wider more panoramic way to fill the space in my studio better, but since the printshop and all the workshops closed early today (probably cause of the amzingly bad wheater...... not) I couldn't do so. So instead of printing a new billboard I decided to follow Kenny's advice and put some colour (not too much) on my old one. I'm not to sure about the result so any coments are more than welcome (I have to present my finished portfolio next week and am not sure if I should show the new billboard with or without colour).
So here it goes, thanks for reading.

Christmass Fair

It was a weird day at the college today. I had planned to make a shop with my wife at the Christmass fair (which went great). But due to the wheater we had to close down a bit earlier. The selling went better than expected (we went there thinking we might not sell anything at all), but becausse of the closing down of the college (due to "bad wheater") I couldn't do any studio work that I had planned afterwards. Ok it did lead to some extra time which I could spend on the reading assesement and my essay but still, I need to finish my studio work too.
Anywhay it was a fun day so let's leave it with some nice pictures of our table at the fair.

Triads take 2

I had another set of triads today, and despite the fact that we have our deadline next week and I need all the time I can find to work on my essay/portfolio assesements, I cannot deny that it went great and the input was very helpfull. This time the triads were led by my tutor Kenny Hunter and consisted of me and 2 first year MFA students. Kate Bowe O'Brien who specializes in photography and Niall Webb (burpsandkisses.wordpress.com). I think the fact that I actually had alot of new stuff to show helped alot during these triads, since it just makes it that much easier to explain what I am trying to do (it gets kind of annoying to keep explaining everyone that I want to cast stuff in glass and print stuff in billboard size, without giving some real examples). It was also nice to hear that my 10 minute presentation came across very well (they didn't notice that I was quite nervous when talking). Also Kenny gave us feedback right after every triad which was very helpfull (it works best when it's still fresh to the mind). So I was very happy with today, especially since I didn't really looked forward to it. My gratitude goes out to Kenny, Kate and Niall.

Jason Waterhouse

I'm a bit late with posting this but it doesn't make it less relevant. After talking to Kenny over a week ago he showed me an image of a work by Jason Waterhouse. It shows a car trying to climb onto a padestool (or whatever those things are called in normal English). I think it symbolises what I am trying to do and will help me in my writing.

oh and thank Dr. Marcus Bunyan since I linked these pictures from his blog (Art Blart https://artblart.wordpress.com/tag/jason-waterhouse-glory-days/)

Friday again

It's been a busy week and the pressure of the essay that is due in 2 weeks is starting to come into play. I had a good talk with Neil Mulholland today (the head of the program), and he explained me a bit more plainly what is exactly expected of us at the end of the semester. We also talked about my blog and some of the side stuff that I have been doing (like the Bronze head bust). He give me the tip to add my Lightbox picture diary into this blog, and though I'm not sure how to exactly incorporate it I managed to make a pictured link to the right on this website ( it doesn't show if you just read this by e-mail, you have to go to my blog website by clicking on the title link). I update the diary whenever I come across a classic car or a nice shot of my own car while travelling, the shots are taken with my mobile and thus not the best quality but it's a little extra thing I like to do on the side.

Sorry no pics this time.