During this course, I have development an array of skills to use in my future work. I have pushed myself to be a more independent worker and you can see it through the period of the last 6 weeks. I have been trying to come up with many ideas of how to use materials in different ways and use as many types of media possible. I found the first 2 weeks of my Final Major Project very motivating mainly because I thought I had a lot of time to create experimental works and sketches to show ideas of progression. Although, as the weeks went on, I struggled to find a final idea to use and work with, and I found this to be quite demotivating towards the end. I did try to stay on track with my week planner, but personally I didn't find it as useful or helpful comparing to others.
Research came to me quite easily as I chose a broad subject to base my Final Major Project on. I found a lot of famous artists like Francis Bacon, Jennifer Mazza and Voka inspirational to my work. I also found a lot of inspiration around me, especially on Pinterest and Instagram, and these social media websites I found were most helpful developing my own way to creating portraits then the more well-known artist's styles and techniques.
My style of working somehow changed through these 6 weeks. I can see a change in how I sketch and observe people when I draw from still life which I found quite interesting. I used to be very detailed and neat with the way I sketch out someone or something, but now its much looser and more expressive which to me looks more visually interesting to view.
My initial idea of what I was thinking to do for my final pieces has changed massively as I tried to teach myself to go more in depth with concepts of art and how I can express a concept through artwork, not just a pretty picture with no meaning behind it, as I was doing beforehand. I chose an issue in today's society so most people could relate with what I was trying to get across in my artwork. Researching and thinking outside the box for a concept was really interesting and got me thinking about composition a bit more and how I can show it in a visual form.
Although, I feel like my final pieces didn't show my artistic skill to the max, but I feel it has shown a different style of my work; more of an expressionist style of working with colour and proportion, which I found a personal challenge. After saying this, I do think my experimentation drawings and paintings reflect to what I like the most and what I do best at.
I feel that I could have made this project easier, if I wanted to, but I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone and try to get to grips with concepts and ideas behind the piece of work, rather than concentrating on the visual details or what it looks like. I feel like this project has been a success although I could have spent a little bit longer on developing my concept for my final pieces.
