Category: Campus Notodden

New week at Campus Notodden, new course  – fun course!

We started our new spring semester the 5th (of January). A new course (7,5 university points) in graphic letterpress (Google translation) which means that we learn about linoleum and the process to make a pattern, lazer cutting with a inkscape program – really funny to work in!

Linoleum cutting
Linoleum print.
Drawing  – for linoleum.
Linoleum cutting.

Lazer cutting in pdf has been fun, interesting learning and a new area for me to get to know as a becoming art and (craft) design teacher!

Here are my lazer cutting patterns. The first try, which I liked, but it’s a bit hard to see the mushroom roots 😕 in the lower part  = the soil.

Testing on different types of paper and how the colour worked.

The second lazer cutting pattern;

Here on the second pattern the roots are more visible 😊. And works with many different colours.

The whole process of learning this is so we as becoming teachers can use this in teaching.  I thought that mushroom is something I can bring into art and design through other subjects too. And it is so many way’s to learn about mushroom for whatever age group I teach.

Didn’t have time to try the negative pattern before we were done for the day on Friday.
Negative pattern, linoleum.
A test of mushroom like forest. 2 colours.

From Monday morning until Friday including the travelling home. We got more and more snow 🌨🌨🌨, here’s a mix of the snowy view this week.

Early Monday morning, 04.55 ish, switching bus in the middle of nowhere.
Campus Notodden 07.25am.
Tuesday 4.30 pm ish.
View from Høgås Notodden.
Wednesday.
Thursday around 6pm.
Friday 16th,walking down to campus. 8 am
Bus to Kongsberg. 4 pm.
Yay I will travel by train home
The picture say’s it all. Could been worse.
Ice on the pond next to the bus and train hub, wet streets and snow free grass like it’s spring… 😥 10 pm ish.
From Winter wonderland to wet streets and grass and Spring feeling 😆😆. The life when you traveling from one side of the country to the other side 😅😅.

Exams week,  Notodden,  8th to 12th of December… Day one – 8th.

It’s here already 🤪🙈. This fall has past so fast (which in the long run is a good thing, because then five years will run fast too), almost scary fast.  We have been working on and with wood assignments the past seven weeks. 

Yesterday the 8th of December, we met up at Campus Notodden and got to work on our clay assignment we did between August and October this fall. The teacher has burned our clay assignment for the past few weeks, and we started on to choose what type of glaze we wanted on our products we made.

Glaze day at Campus Notodden.

This is my product’s and glaze before 2nd burning. The turtle is just an experiment off colours. Main colour is black, the colour that looks like light blue on the picture, the light purple will hopefully become grey and the green colour is a under glaze and I hope it ” pop’s ” through the black. 

The lighthouse is painted in oxide black  with  a red roof.  And the ” bee🐝 vase ” is painted with a brown-ish colour with yellow columns on the top, so it looks like honey dripping.