Visual Communication Project

For the past few weeks I have been working very hard on my project and I have finally finished. From the last time I blogged I have completed my sketchbook, final piece, statement and evaluation. I firstly worked on my sketchbook exploring and experimenting with all aspects of nature and oriental art. I have completed numerous pages of annotation, sketches, paintings and photographs, all linking to my sense of place. In the sketchbook I also included an Artist named Lucy Arnold. She has had a big influence on my interests in nature. Throughout school I studied Lucy Arnold and I love her work. So I thought it was important to include her. My interests in oriental art hasn't been influenced by artist but by the beauty and colour of the images.
As I worked through my sketchbook, I tried to think of a final piece and how I could link oriental art with nature. I researched many different images on the internet and finally came up with the idea of painting an oriental blind. I thought this was a great idea as I could link nature and oriental art like I wanted. I decided to paint three different flowers on the wooden stick blind. When I finished my final piece I was really pleased. I thought it looked really effective and was a great final part to my project. I feel like it has pulled the whole project together. It symbolises what I feel is my sense of place 'happiness'.
I decided to present my statement on a PowerPoint Presentation. The reason I wanted to do this was because I thought it would have been easier for someone looking in to understand. A PowerPoint Presentation enabled me to seperate the writing up into short sentences on different slides.
My statement consisted of my ideas, intentions, materials, media, sources and ICT programs that I planned to use in my sketchbook. I feel like I successfully used all the things I intended to.
This then led me on to my evaluation where I pulled everything together. I explained how I my ideas and intentions were realised, how the media and ICT I chose was appropriate and how I thought the project ultimately came together.

Visual Communication and ICT

I started my project for this course over two weeks ago and I feel that I am doing well. I am really enjoying this project as I am doing it on something that I enjoy and that is personal to me. We were given the term ' A Sense of Place' to complete our project on. So from this term I took what this actually ment to me and I went from there. I thought of a 'place' where I felt happy, secure, comfortable, safe and a sense of enjoyment. I took all of these into consideration and thought up a few things. For example, when I am with friends and family, uni life and Art. I chose to go into depth on Art. The reason for this was that I always feel a sense of happiness and enjoyment when I am being creative. I also felt that I could really go into a lot of depth on this subject.
In my project I have focused on oriental art and nature. I chose these because I feel these are my strenghts and I find them really interesting. I have found artists that have influenced my drawing and painting and have showed some of their work in my scrap book. I also know what I am going to do for my final piece.

Assignments

Up to now I have completed a few different assignment. This includes presentations, academic writing and reflection. I have enjoyed doing these assignment even though they have been difficult. I feel that I am now starting to get the 'swing' of things. I am starting to understand the amount of effort and research you have to do in order to get a good percentage and pass. I am also getting the grasp of referencing I think? Hopefully anyway.
We have been set many other assignments that are to be completed in May. These consist of a visual communication and ICT project, making a toy, a piece of academis writing, critique an artical and blog about lectures. I have made a start on all of these assignments and I feel that I am doing well. I have started to do them now so that I can make the best of my time off to get them sorted. I have not completed any of them yet but I am nearly there with a few. I have set myself goals and targets to achieve so that I can do these assignments to the best of my ability.
I have worked really hard on these assignments, even though I am not sure on parts of each, I have tried my best to make of them what I can.

Session for Suzie Pugh

During this session, we were asked to pick an emotion and take images that relate to and show this emotion. The emotion I chose was happiness. Whilst taking my images I found it really difficult to take images of happiness. Fortunately I was able to get a few of people having fun. Here are the images I took to portray happiness.

This was my favourite image. I love how I captured them laughing and smilling.  

Tagxedo

Above I have created a tagxedo, using the the tagxedo website. To create a tagxedo you have to load up words that you would like have have in it. I chose words about love, friendship and family. Then you develop it further by changing the shape colour and font.

Wordle

I have just created this bundle of words all about me. I used a website called wordle to create this. The website is really straight forward to used, I simple copied and pasted a paragraph about me into the box provided and I changed the words around into different positions and different colours and this is how it turned out. I think it looks really effective.

Graffiti

Above I have created my name in Graffiti, I used a website called the Graffiti Creator.The graffiti maker is really easy to use, you just enter a word of your choice and use all different colours and bubbles and stripes etc to decorate your word.