Evaluation

Throughout this project i feel i have gained a stronger knowledge of the history of collage and realised i can use it to create more professional outcomes. Just because its a simplistic technique doesn't mean it is restricted or has limits and using scans and adding a third dimension can help provide refined outcomes.
In terms of material experimentation, i feel i have used the correct medias to represent my ideas. This is because i have been influenced by the way my chosen artists use their art to portray a message and i feel this may be where there is room for improvement and progression with my art. I will take this forward in future projects and especially on the remainder of the course as we head towards the final major project.
As i have worked my way through the project i feel my blog has worked as an evaluative source, here i have been able to reflect on each of my experimental collages and paintings and seen how they develop with my influences, research and feedback from peers and tutors. As a response to feedback, i have developed my materials and processes to move my work from one stage to the next and been able to have a clear structure to the way i have worked.
In terms of meeting my project deadline i have worked with a lot more precision and time management to complete my works in time. I have alongside my outcomes produced my portfolio for my course interview for next year, including a digital portfolio and this has completed unit 4 of my body of work. This is something i have always struggled to manage to i am please with the progress i have taken from my previous project.
On the other hand, i see room for improvement on the quality of some of my experimentation and i feel my blog has worked well, but it means my sketch book has become a lot rougher and some of the sketches and observational drawings in particular haven't been presented as well as they should have done. I need to find a way to make my sketch book and blog work alongside one another.
I have really been inspired by the work of Linder in particular in this project, and i'd like to find out a lot more about her work and see if i could go and see some of it or find out more about the history of her influences and discover artists more similar. I have gained more ideas from looking at her work and it has led me to experiment with images of the female body naked or for pornographic use. I could take this a lot further. This has been how my visual research has progressed and although my project started with my family members they weren't the correct type of visual sources to be part of my outcomes and experimentations. They did not give enough of a strong message for what i wanted to portray.
I am still hoping to use my portfolio of work to gain a place onto my chosen course which is a foundation degree in Arts and Wellbeing at city college.