FMP Evaluation

Evaluation

The Final Major Project is founded on a biographical subject, based on the story of a person, place, art movement or a historical event. I thought about the things I am interested in and the things that make me who I am, after making a list of all of these things, I decided that the best thing for me would to base my FMP around Greek mythology.

I have had a huge interest in Greek mythology since I was very young, I find the stories and art extremely fascinating, and throughout my childhood I have read the stories and have been engrossed by the statues built to exalt the deities and the people who have inspired the arts which have echoed through the centuries.

 From the small vases to the giant statues built to worship the gods with precise and intricate details, so I will be exploring the stories and recreating them and the structures through my art work.

I built up a huge collection of images and materials to create a series of collages, using printed images, book pages, magazines and other things, I then researched a selection of different collage artist and created my own style of collaging technique, I didn't really use collage in most of my work, although I found it interesting, I prefer to put detail into my work myself and rely on myself to create an image.

I used several different mediums in my work.

Photography

Although only used the photographs as a visual reference, photography has been extremely useful during my project, being able to capture an image and recreate it as my own, such as I have done in my final piece, I used the images of a tutor to create a reference point and paint him as a the God of War Ares.

Graphics

I only did one piece of work regarding to graphics in my project, using one of my photographs of Matt I have edited the image using several effects on both Photoshop and illustrator. I have cropped the image to give it an intriguing composition, darkened certain sections to emphasize them and give the image an effect of a painting to give it a very dark and serious painting. I don’t exactly respond well to the graphic side of art as I prefer to create an image in a more traditional way otherwise I may have continued to create more digital images.

3D

I attempted to recreate a statue of Zeus using a drawing I did of a one of his statues, the piece didn’t turn out exactly how I had imagined it, the quality of the piece was poor, I feel if I had more time to practice or create a series of structures I could possibly have made a very successful piece, unfortunately the duration wasn't quite long enough and I had been concentrating on my painting.

Drawing and painting

My strongest point of my artist abilities are my drawings and paintings, I find it easy to structure an image and capture the tonal and line qualities, specifically more with portraiture, I find it interesting how a person’s body language and facial expressions can capture the emotion of a subject, for instance, the slightest movement in someone’s eyebrow or cheek can change the expression of happy to sad or angry to surprised, it intrigues me to attempt to capture this. This is why I chose to do my final piece as a large portrait of Matt representing the God of war, Ares, using acrylic paints on canvas. The image was fairly successful, I feel I have captured the emotion of anger I had tried to, I have also avoided cluttering the image with a background to keep the attention on the main subject, and I believe the composition of the piece allows the subject to seem ‘mighty’ and ‘godlike’. Although I have only had good reviews and appraisals from my peers and tutors, I feel the image could improve, in no specific section, I just feel I could have done better.