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	<title>We are OCA &#187; Fine Art</title>
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		<title>Gendering the gaze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of activity recently in the OCA photography students&#8217; flickr group under the heading &#8216;Male Domination of Photography&#8216; Questions being asked about why so many big name photographers are male, the make up of OCA students and tutors. Of course the representation of women has long been a subject of interest, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feedback on studies and finished work</title>
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Two OCA tutors, Emma Drye and David Winning were recently in the office and we filmed them talking about one of David&#8217;s students (Iwona Barltrop) who had just finished her Painting 1 course. I think the video really helps explain how important it is to retain vitality in your work for it to be successful. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog of the Week: pain and the pastoral</title>
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For blog of the week this month we look to Gesa Helms&#8217; pain and the pastoral. This is not so much a OCA learning log as an artist&#8217;s reflective notebook and it is fascinating for it. Rather than polished mini-articles we get snippets of thoughts and associations. Many of these thoughts turn to colour, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MA in Fine Art coming soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The OCA is working hard on designing an MA and hopes to launch it in January 2011.  This is an exciting new venture for OCA and we anticipate significant interest in it, judging on the feedback we have had from the students we have asked.  The programme will be different from existing OCA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Designers in the making</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Business Design Centre in Islington is a great venue for designers to show their flair, with 65,000 square feet, a graceful iron arch originally designed as the Royal Agricultural Hall, opened in 1862. Now a thriving conference centre, the venue has, for the last couple of weeks, been jammed with creative young people, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First impressions of the iPad for Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just had my first iPhone art exhibition, and squeezed in a couple of iPad images because, yes, I was one of those sad-os that got an iPad on the day it came out in the UK. The iPad is even better than I expected.  The resolution of images created on it is loads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawing: the joys and challenges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few observations as both an OCA director and a student on Drawing 1…..
First, as a student: My first observation would be – drawing is hard work!  I guess it’s not surprising – looking, seeing, selecting and translating what is out there (3D and, disconcertingly, sometimes moving) into static 2D requires a great deal of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weareoca.com/fine_art/drawing-the-joys-and-challenges/</link>
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		<title>Mark Lomas on photographing your work</title>
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OCA photographer Mark Lomas demonstrates how to get the best results when photographing artwork. Starting with the set up used at the OCA, Mark explains the basic principles and how these can be applied whatever camera and facilities you have at home. The work pictured is by student Tracy Roberts.
Three times a year after assessment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weareoca.com/photography/mark-lomas-on-photographing-your-work/</link>
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		<title>Video showing large scale exhibit being made</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new exhibition shortly on at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, close to OCA HQ (29 May 2010 &#8211; 27 February 2011) of work by David Nash, tracing the evolution of the artist&#8217;s 40 year career and offering a vivid statement of his life&#8217;s work.  David Nash has created Black Steps, an ambitious landscape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Life Drawing Video</title>
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The latest addition to OCA Elements website is this demonstration by tutor Jane Lazenby of figure drawing using geometrical shapes to establish an outline.



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