'A Sense of Place'

 Over the past couple of weeks I have gradually been developing my ideas for my final Vis Com project. Admittedly, to begin with I didn't have a clue where to start. However, after some of the sessions with Susie and using what I remembered from the sessions with Mandy I began to brain storm some ideas. In one of the sessions with Susie we made a collage from cut-outs from magazines of things of importance to us, and in another session we made a 'window' in a group of 4 with 5 things that mean something to us. I then used these as inspiration for my sketch book and final project, along with ICT skills we had used in the previous months with Mandy.

As mentioned in my sketch book, I am admittedly not the most artistically talented person by any means, although I do enjoy painting and attempting to make things. I tried to include a mixture of digital photographs, ICT (including photograph effect changes), paintings and my clay final piece. I used 'Wordle' to brainstorm some ideas for what I could use for my final piece which I found useful as I could go back to that to remind myself of ideas.
Once I had started my sketch book I found my ideas kept flowing then and found the task easier than I had first imagined.
I had many different ideas for my final piece and wanted it to be as imaginative as possible, although restricted by my artistic/ICT abilities. However, during the Easter holidays I visited an arts/crafts centre in Mid Wales with my family, so thought I would take the opportunity to use their facilities which I was unable to have at home. There were choices of paints, crafts, wood working and clays. I thought the clay would be the best option as it was something not many people would have the option to make for their final piece, due to needing a clay oven. I enjoyed making the piece as it involved messy clay and painting. I used the inspiration from the photograph by Lionel Playlard which I have included in my sketch book. I decided to show points of importance, mainly childhood for example my school and my home on my clay piece. However, it did break when taking it out of the clay oven as it may have been in there too long, but you can still see the images clearly so it doesn't really affect it.