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Project Proposal 

Over the course of my time at college I have learned a lot. Since my first year I have learned how to create a pencil vs camera piece, how to monoprint, how to cross stitch and also how to create cut paper designs as I could never do these before.  

For the Final Major Project on memories, I have decided to create artworks that best display my skills and show what I am best at creating with pencil drawings and some photoshop. I have also decided to challenge myself to make this project interesting by drawing anatomy and body parts as well as abstract geometric shapes and patterns the combination of these two styles reflects the idea of memory itself the classical ways of drawing represents the past and the modern abstract shapes with bright colours represent modern times.  

Together both styles simulate the idea of memory with the “past” being slightly changed and altered by the “present” as memory is never the same to how something actually happened. I am confident in my ability to create a great pencil drawing as I have a solid eye for detail. 

My concept is of People of the Past this means I will be pencil drawing many celebrated people who are now no longer with us that I find very interesting, each drawing will be visually distinct from one another in subtle ways with different colours and techniques for each drawing as well as each piece including many geometric shapes and patterns to spice up and modernize the pencil drawings there will also be important and prominent areas of the drawings being detailed differently, my current ideas for famous people to choose from may include. 

Famous Actors such as Marlin Brando or Audrey Hepburn 

Famous Musicians for example Nina Samone and Marvin Gaye  

Famous Leaders like Napoleon Bonaparte or the infamous Adolf Hitler 

Famous Artists: Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali  

Famous Royals such as Queen Elizabeth the first or King Charles the Second 

Famous Authors like the authors such as Jules Verne, Harper Lee 

Famous Inventors like La Marcus Thompson or the great Sir Isaac Newton 

Once I have decided on the portrait images of famous people, I will select 6 images for my major final project. I am planning to use materials such as pencils, photoshop, coloured pens and coloured pencils. I will use all of these to create my pieces. 

I will be taking pieces by artists that I find inspiring and recreating them in order to better understand how they were made, I will also be using PowerPoint to visually store all of the information that I have collected and to annotate my work as well as the artist’s work and show how this all leads to the development of my finished piece. I will also create primary research by testing drawing anatomy to improve on my drawing skills as well recording my sketches in PowerPoint and annotating them to see where I went wrong so that I can improve them and the more practice I have at drawing the more skilled and confident I will become. 

For this project I proposed to explore the theme of 1960s psychedelic music culture. I wanted to create a 60’s style psychedelic vinyl album cover that was vibrant.​

 I used a mind map as my proposal. I looked at different types of culture such as video games, food, fashion and religion as a starting point for my ideas.​

After this I wrote down all my initial ideas of what I wanted to create as well as ideas that I thought would be interesting. I looked at different artists for some more inspiration.​

At the start of the project, I particularly liked Alex Grey`s work using vibrant colours, the eyes used in his imagery and it’s very spiritual effect. The other artist that I was inspired by was Bridget Riley, her use of hypnotic lines to create optical illusions was interesting and eye catching. This was the type of artwork I first wanted to attempt to create.​

I then decided for my final piece to use the style of Warren Dayton, putting different images together and to assemble one whole piece of art. I also created my own Alice in wonderland piece like Mark McClouds work. I documented my ideas in my sketch book as they developed and changed.​

I think I have succeeded in this project as I believe that the work I have created is of a high standard and I am proud of my work, I feel that I have been successful in developing my ideas. I have had some good inspirational ideas and have also been able to complete my work without any complications and things have worked out the way I have planned.

I do not believe that my kaleidoscope artwork, my spinning ring wheel piece and rabbit hole piece were as successful as I originally believed they would be. They were ideas that did not develop well and turn out as well as I believed they would. The kaleidoscope idea was too complicated to develop, The spinning wheel didn’t inspire me, and the rabbit hole ideas could have been amazing. But it seemed to need too much time to develop it the way I wanted.​

I feel I was great at making decisions early on, I lost a bit of my creative energy halfway through but managed to complete my work on time. I used paper to draw my images and ideas, Then I used the computer app Photoshop to adapt my images to how I needed them to appear.​

The concept was related to album music and their vinyl covers, specifically inspired by the 60s with vibrant eye catching and strange imagery. Sometimes inspired by drugs taken at the time because of the hippy movement.​

I researched Alice in wonderland, listened to music of the 60s for inspiration, I researched the psychedelic movement, the history of LSD and Albert Hofmann, I examined optical illusions and album covers. This gave me a good understanding to help to develop my final piece.​

I wish for my final major project to be much simpler but more effective. I would like to try to work on a much more calmer relaxing and barren piece of work.

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