Student Visit to Bulgaria

The Outline Department has a thriving overseas exchange programme and overseas links organised by lecturer Graham Burquest. This year over 30 students have taken advantage of the various programmes of Leonardo Exchange and Comenius to travel abroad and meet with students from other countries across the world. A special part of the blog is in development to highlight this aspect of the student experience here at Outline.

Iron sculptures in Sozopol

How to avoid the rain in Burgas

Collecting local advertisments

Tasting food served to the elderly and infirm by a charity in Burgas

Traditional Bulgarian choir

Ruins in Nessebar

Beautiful sea gardens in Burgas

Testing out the Black Sea in Burgas

Creating culinary masterpieces 

Traditional textiles in the Ethnographic Museum in Burgas

Picking teams for the treasure hunt

Thracian Tomb in Pomorie

Traditional wedding cockerel in the Ethnographic Museum in Burgas

Cradle in the Ethnographic Museum in Burgas

Meeting all the students in the town hall in Burgas

Traditional Bulgarian food

Collecting our certificates

Repertory Theatre Master Class

The Theatre Arts students from the Subsidiary Diploma Course  attended a three-day masterclass at the Repertory Theatre in Birmingham.

Kayleigh is learning how to create a prosthetic wound using illustrator paints. The Head of Wigs and make-up, Andy Whiteoak, demonstrated the technique and gave valuable advice.

The end result, including fake blood.

Andy demonstrates adding a single human hair to a wig block.(looks a lot easier than it is!!)

A wig made for a production where the character is hit with a hammer and her brain is exposed. An example of Andy's work.

Ageing effect using a paint-on paste.(Difficult to remove!)

Visiting speaker Darren Nevin, an artist based in Birmingham, showed examples of his previous  work, including Doctor Who and the new Star Wars movie.