Artist research within sketchbook

Double page on a a few artists that inspired me:

Miki De Goodaboom
&
George Hunter -
I thought that these would work within my sketchbook because they show a lot of child-like qualities and I thought that that would relate to the work that my cousins did for me.  

Research (Bibliography)

Tina Bruce was the first one I had a quick look at, I didn't manage to find anything that I could really use in my sketchbook or my work in general. But it was interesting:



Christopher Spence, this book really only helped with my understanding of the way in which children change in their environments as they grow up from babies > children > teens.

Initial Research

My first thought was to go to the Museum of Childhood and gather sketches, images, and anything else that inspired me. I was mainly looking for children's drawings and letters that were written by them. Whilst I was there I did come across lots of old letters that were written a long time ago and it really inspired me because of the way the were written and what they wrote about.

The Beginning

Before the this project really got started I had to think about a concept and I already knew I wanted to do a project involving children and development. So I got my little cousins to work, I gave them some paper each and as many materials as they wanted and set them lose. It was very messy, but also very educational, I learned that the really small ones (ages around 2-4) simply covered the paper in paint, whereas an older child of maybe 7/8 only  covered the paper in things they liked.

Also, I found that the younger ones didn't want to stop because it was probably something they hadn't done before and because it was messy. But the older ones did two drawings and then got a better offer (sweets mainly). When I asked to clean up only the smaller ones wanted to help the others "didn't want to get messy again" (Said the 7 year old).

I managed to get a bunch of work from them and I really enjoyed the experience:

7 years old

2 year old

4 year old

Final Major Project- Action Plan

Action plan for (student name): Victoria Johnson Tutor Group: Orion Title of project: Child Development
Timeline	What will you be doing?	How you are you going to achieve this? Materials, equipment used, research, edit,  etc.	complete
Week 1 10th February	Write project proposal, hand in to tutor for checking	Type up project on a word processor and print two copies. Gather drawings from young children Have a look at: BBC: though young teaching Visit local library Early learning centres?
Week 2 17th February	Project proposal complete and ready to sign off. Start research and learning journal.	Get signed off from tutor Go to museums and galleries to find work on this project Look through bibliography and start to depict some ideas Investigate MIRRORING (between child and adults, talk about my influences)s
Week 3 24th February	Reference artist work and books from bibliography Think about common themes with the research I have	Once I’ve referenced the books and artist, create some of my own ideas, using a few techniques from the artist Then change it a use some of the techniques I have learnt within LCC
Week 4 3rd  March	Bring a few strong ideas forward and develop	Push ideas forward by working through workshops and materials- drawings, photographs, prints etc. Evaluate work.
Week 5 10th March	Develop ideas	Gather some more information on the ideas brought forward (research) Experiment with ideas and try to come up with a final outcome
Week 6 17th March	Produce many finals and decide  on the strongest, one that creates the most impact.	Repeat the stages and enlarge work and come out of the sketchbook. Perhaps have many outcomes to exhibit.
Week 7 24th March	Finalise and produce idea and write up evaluation	Produce outcome(s) to a high standard, making sure that sketchbook is compete and evaluate; blog, journal and 1000 word essay.
Week 8 31st April	Students work at home finish work/research/sketchbook	End of term
Week 8 7th April	Hand-in date Curation of show
Week 9 14th April	EXHIBITION – students hang work
22nd April	Exhibition open Assessment Unit 7 Internal verification
28th April	Exhibition open External moderation
21st May	Re-submission of any referred /incomplete work

Final Major Project

For this project I think I may carry on from the last one; which was to do with my target audience of children. This was a decision my tutor and I discussed when UCAS came around, because I've decided not to go to university this year I wanted the last project to target my career choice for the next year. I'm thinking about teaching at my old school, in order to get more experience. In this next project I will look at child development and the ways in which children grow: physically and mentally.

I will need to think about an action plan, so that I can get start efficiently and know what I'm doing at each stage of the project.