Project Proposal for FMP

Section 1: 

From the past few projects I have completed within the second year of the course, I feel that I could have done better. The elements which I could improve from is my amount of research, as I seem to work from very little information such as research and then I begin to get stuck when I try to develop my ideas further and also explain them with detail as I have nothing to back them up with as I have not researched in enough depth. My artistic skills have developed steadily but greatly and I have managed to learn new methods and different media which I hadn't used in the previous year such as Gouache, and again most of the mothods I have used have been completely different to what I knew prior to the course in High School. I have learned how to use mixed media and how it can make my art more interesting and unique. Looking at my previous pieces of art in the different workshops, I feel like my strengths are within fine art and textiles, so I decided to choose multi-diciplinary, so I can show my work with a wider range of media and methods to help my work become closer to my design. I hope that my choice of pathways will help me want to be more involved with the project, but at the same time I want to think out side the box hence why I have chosen two to include into my work.

Section 2: 

For my project I will be looking at pin up art and illustration, for my primary research I will be taking photgraphs of a chosen model to recreate the poses of the pin up models and also gather an idea of how much effort it would have taken women in the 50s to get ready. I will be looking at books which I have found from the V&A to help my development for my secondary research and the internet where I believe a lot of pin up art is stored due to its rare apprearance and its delicate, original form and not remakes of art inspired by the artists in the pin up period. To help me create original images I may also use magazines like glamour to create new faces of the illustrations I do and produce them in the style of pin up. My title helps explain what element of pin up I shall be developing in my work, 'Pin Ups: The Classic Beauty of Women'. I want to show the beauty of women in my art but through illustration and I have been very inspired by the fashion and life style of the early 20th century period. Mixing these two ideas I believe pin ups is a great way to get closer to my project and feel more inspired to complete it to a high standard. I may also include ICT and try photoshop to edit the photos I will take for my primary research to create my own art from an individual model that will be unique to other artists. I'd like to be able to give the art my touch and give myself a chance to create a beautiful project I can be proud of. Through out the project I will keep my blog up to date to ensure I know what I have done and where I need to develop next, I will also write down ideas that could help with my project and also words that could help me annotate my work in my notebook. All of this will help support my art work and keep everything documented. For my Final major project, which may change as my ideas develop, I may form a collage of pin ups and faces in the style, or I may develop original and several long canvas/boards of pin ups which may link together or could be as unique as the next.

Section 3: 

Through out the project I will update my blog and evaluate how well I believe I've done and what I could have done better, I can also include my problems I have solved though out my project in the blog. Other ways I will evaluate will be through my annotation of each piece of art work, this will be found maily on the back of my work explaining what media I have done, methods I have used, why I had chosen to do it, what went well and what went wrong. This I believe will be useful for me in the future to improve my work by reviewing the things that went wrong and what went well to make my art better each time. I will at the end of my project describe overall how I believe I did and the things I have learnt from the project and how freedom has been for me personally.

Proposed Research: 

My proposed research will be shown through my bibliography that will more than likely be attatched by a seperate pieces of paper as I will be referancing as much of the information I find as possible. I may use magazines also which again will be put down on my bibliography, harvard referanced, and also photographs of some family back in the period which I am looking at ( early 1900s).