FMP

Front cover

Finally my kids activity pack has been printed, it took a long while to get there. I spent weeks tweeking all the pages after having proof reads from tutors as well a myself. The first time I saw a coloured printed copy was the printers first run (there were a few things that hadn't seemed to have printed right that needed fixing) and it jumped out with vibrant colour. I was really pleased with the final pack, it flowed well, it was bright and eye catching, I just had to wait for the biggest verdict of all which was to find out what the children thought of it.

With the pack out of the way and getting printed, I had to prepare the next stage which was the activities the children would do on their visit to the show. My original ideas were:-

• Headbands
• Finger puppets
• and bookmarks

Discussing the activities with my tutor, she disclosed that last year hand printing had been a huge success and that this year she could get some large canvas's made as well as some small ones. I then had to come up with an idea how I could in corperate hand prints into a fruit and veg theme, in the end I decided a scene with a tree that the children could fill in with hand and finger prints, as well as putting fruit on the tree and vegetables growing on the ground. With the list of schools attending and the ages of the children we divided up the canvas's accordingly and with the help of my friend Robyn we drew a simple outline of a tree to use as a starting point. With the canvas's sorted I went through the kids activity box from last year and took note of how much paint was left, if there wasn't enough i would have had to go to the Early Learning Centre to buy more NON-TOXIC paint, luckily there seemed to be enough. Now organising the headbands was a lot harder, firstly I had to go with Babs to buy some big A1 sheets of coloured paper from the shop at college and cut it into strips about 6cm wide. That was the easiest part. The part was printing off sheets and sheets of the different fruit and vegetables onto coloured paper, which I then spent the weekend cutting out ready, this would have been a lot harder had it not been for Steph Rowden who helped with the printing and the cutting, as well as Robyn Hills and Emily Stephens. The very last activity I had to organise was the colouring competition.

FMP

I was asked for my FMP to produce the children's activity pack for Canterbury College's End of Year Art Show. The first thing I had to do was choose a theme and have Mark Howland ok it. I had several options for example Pirates, Carnival, Transport or the Beach, however both Babs and Mark preferred one of my other ideas which was a Fruit and Veg theme. With this theme I could make it very educational as well as fun and interesting.


Ideas I have to include in the pack:

• Arcimboldo colouring exercise
• Where was food originally from - world map
• How do they grow - underground, on the ground, on a bush or in a tree
• Wordsearch
• Draw their own character - perhaps a competition

Ideas I have for activities:

• Creating a Arcimboldo inspired face - group exercise with cut out fruit and veg
• Cress heads - decorate yoghurt pot then add soil and cress seeds
• Make a garden - shoe box, dirt, lollypop sticks for flower beds, beads for flowers???

Any suggestions would be grateful.

Interviews

After having my interview for HND be delayed for a couple of weeks, it is finally TODAY!! I am nervous which is understandable because I always get edgy when I have to go and talk to people I don't know, however my portfolio has been finished for a couple of weeks i keep tweaking it and I now just want to get the interview out the way, and hopefully if I get offered a place I will need to start thinking about finances.

Moving out next year

I am really excited, my friend Emily and I have been looking into student accommodation for the last couple of months and found a house with two rooms available as two are already occupied for a reasonable price. However we are still uncertain as to go for it or not, which is why we have set up a viewing for Saturday evening, allowing us to see the house as well as ask the lady any questions about rent and contracts.  

My Web designs so far......

Home Page

I have drawn each image, and each one refers to a different

page. The rose will lead to the Gallery, the World will go to the 

Contact page and the 'G' monogram will go to my About page.

 The About page

For this page I drew a bounding box for my text to go into, put a yellow outline

on it as well as a purple drop shadow. The Photographs are my own, and I found it extremely 

hard to place them, in the end I am happy how they turned out with a drop shadow on all of them which helps them stand out. I have also created symbol buttons to connect each page together.

 Contact page

For my contact page I have the hanging world large as it's the main focus, three tabs at the bottom 

for the various information I want to display.

Now all I have to do is create my Gallery page, and finish preparing all my work to put onto my website.

Further artist research

Tricia Tusa

             She has several techniques but my favourite is her pen and ink illustrations.

All her illustrations have lots of texture

and her shading and tone work is subtle

enough for it to look as if it is natural.

Narrative Image - research into artist

For my Narrative Image project I would like to do pencil illustration as i feel that is my strongest style. During my research I found an artist and illustrator called Maya Wild based in London.

I think this could be the final style I choose, because I like the blend of collage and pencil drawing, as it creates a unique look that I believe will transfer to the passages from Alice in Wonderland I have chosen.