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.