FMP Evaluation

For my final major project, I have completed my 63 pieces of squared paper related to the Magna Carta and the key word freedom. I presented these pieces in a sketchbook and in the sketch book I put them in a sequence of 3 transforming either into losing freedom or gaining freedom. I believed this was a good idea because it opens to the idea that there is freedom and it can be taken and given to an individual in different ways. I believe my 63 pieces represent well the difference between freedom and the opposite to freedom. I did have a problem as to how I was going to present these pieces and I was considering doing them individually but then I realised they would have no structure or clear link and would be harder for me to set out in my presentation. Therefore I came to the conclusion to do a set structure of three for each and then add them to a sketch book like the project was initially planned to have.

I enjoyed doing this part of the project as it was very me and each individual piece is unique to everyone else’s work. It gives us all a chance to show creativeness and our own interpretations of certain key words, also showing how we can link ideas together all to one word, freedom. I managed to use various kinds of media and expand my skills through this, by using a wet-on-wet with Brusho inks and chiaroscuro effect with white and black acrylic.

I have also done another piece of art which is to do with a free mind, this is done acrylic. This is shown as a grey woman wearing colourful psychedelic glasses on a colourful blue and orange background. I used this idea to incorporate that your mind is the key to your freedom and the mind being free is represented in wild and mixed colours. The water in the background also represents a type of freedom such as being easy flowing and moves wherever it wants without anyone really being able to control it. The grey scale of the woman’s face is to gather the idea that there’s more to someone that what you can see in their image, to look into their eyes and their soul is where you see the real side of the person and what makes them unique.

I also painted in acrylic my final piece; I took this idea from researching artists who look at the human figure, William T. Ayton. I used his ideas to develop a head shape in a 3D design on a black background with a star effect; the star effect is to show outer space so that the idea that the mind is free and there are no limits and it is past the boundary of “sky is the limit”. I also added a tentacle like substance emerging from the head, this is the heads ideas coming to life and taking place, much like the idea of freedom it is beginning to become free and free from the cage which is the mind and putting it to a solid for and something more developed. I have also done an extra piece of his work to show I have looked into the

In ceramics I’ve done a clay head with tally numbers in its eyes and the Star of David carved in the back of its head. This is linked to the holocaust and the idea that many Jews were captured and made slaves to the Nazis and looked down on and made to suffer by the Germans. I believe I slightly captured the hurt, pain and suffering in my ceramic piece. I also used very basic colours to add a dirt effect which the many sufferers of the holocaust would have faced. Using these colours also added a dark and depressing effect. I gathered the idea of the time in history being strong like a rock on history and to put it into art would be to turn it into something more everlasting and can be held in your hands, placed on a shelf and made to catch the eye.

I believe I have given a wide range of ideas in Freedom in my sketchbook and annotated them well, I have found some very useful sites along the way to help me with this project which are also noted down in my sketch book.

I managed my time well with the 63 pieces and managed my way around having 4 days less than the deadline, due to a holiday planned before any deadline was made. I have shown completion of my work on my SMART targets for the days I have been present, however, I have not for the days I haven’t been present and managed to do my work at home. Throughout the time I have been working on the project I have updated my Blog with Overviews and annotations of my work.

All together I enjoyed this project and the work I have done to complete it. My management of time went well however, it caused me a lot of stress due to being under pressure to ensure I have completed everything possible. My research was easy and a lot of my influence were not hard to find.