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Research Task: Collage Artists
Banksy Banksy is a street artist whose message is to show political and cultural art around the world; his identity is a mystery to many...

Abbie Vidler
Jan 17, 20247 min read


Assignment 2: Flowing and Playing
Brief This assignment will introduce you to thinking without making assumptions about the importance or value of outcomes or ‘finishing’...

Abbie Vidler
Jan 6, 20243 min read


Research task: Flow and Play
For this research, I had to take a look into the essay 'Memory, Instinct and Design: Beyond Paul Rand's "Play's Principle"', by Michael...

Abbie Vidler
Jan 1, 20244 min read


Research Task: Beer Street and Gin Lane
For this task, I will explore two images created by William Hogarth and devel deeper into what each image suggests on what you can see...

Abbie Vidler
Dec 22, 20232 min read


Exercise: Drawing Comparisons
Brief Select at least three metaphors and similes from the lists below (or find some of your own). Make some quick sketches which...

Abbie Vidler
Dec 16, 20232 min read


Assignment 1: Modes of Composition
Brief This assignment builds on the previous ‘Cut Ups’ exercise, but instead of using found material from newspapers or magazines, you...

Abbie Vidler
Nov 30, 20235 min read


Exercise: Cut-ups
Brief Take a recent copy of a newspaper. If you want to experiment with cut-up images then a daily tabloid with lots of photographs like...

Abbie Vidler
Nov 24, 20232 min read


Exercise: Word Processing
Brief For this exercise, I had to take a word (in this instance I chose bed) and look it up in the Thesaurus for alternative words. With...

Abbie Vidler
Nov 23, 20232 min read


Research Task: A Visual Diary (Revisited)
For my first task of this unit, I had to find a collection of imagery to use as a collection of work that inspire me, something I want to...

Abbie Vidler
Nov 21, 20234 min read


Updating an old character
Just a brief blog post, recently I've been studying off of YouTube videos to improve my art skills and expand my knowledge. With this...

Abbie Vidler
Jul 8, 20232 min read


A trip to Dungeness has an unexpected outcome...
In my previous post and exercise, I had to explore a journey taking an object and drawing each moment of that journey-- then ultimately...

Abbie Vidler
May 5, 20233 min read


Research Task: Bad Examples
Brief Here are a couple of examples of how not to organise different types of text like word balloons and captions. Take a look at them...

Abbie Vidler
Jul 8, 20223 min read
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