Project Outline - Before Christmas

http://www.confessionsofateachingjunkie.com/2015/01/positive-thinking-and-thematic-thursday.html

Picture Book title or theme

Humanity within War.

Idea: What is your picture book about?

Individual personal experiences of within war - ordinary people (including my own family stories), make more relatable.

Intent: What are you trying to achieve with the tone and atmosphere of the artwork?

Emotive - Highlighting the brutality of war, humanity and how war affects people's lives. Aim to make it personal to everyone, their own families/relationships/lives. Innocence.

Structure: How might this book function in terms of format, layout and sequence

Depending on final narrative, concertina made available to be read as a saddle stitch book also. Will know more about sequence and layout when a final narrative has been decided.

These ideas are based on my research into...

World War II, impacts of war in general and the way people feel after their experiences.

In order to develop these ideas, my research over Christmas will be...

Contacting different members of my family - find out what my great-grandparents did in the war as well as my Nana's (child) perspective. Talking to my Nana and listening to her father on tape - talking about personal experiences. Secondary research - What things looked like at that time, atmosphere.

Self Evaluation

What have you discovered about research over the last 2 weeks?

Ideas are produced from initial research - mixture of imagination (with narrative) and facts.

Which approaches to research did you struggle with? And why?

Producing work that reflects a feeling/reaction to what I experienced during my research trip.

Which approaches to research did you find beneficial? And why?

Talking to a range of people I wouldn't have normally spoken to. Secondary - drawing from film, helps to create an atmosphere of an event/time period. Drawing through ideas - Such as roughing.

What could you have done differently during your research period?

Maybe visited a few more relevant places - aim to do this over Christmas. More reflective drawing and observation. Having said that I was happy with the research I gained during the first two weeks and feel I have a good starting point to develop further.

What kind of media, skills, tools and processes are you going to explore?

Try more watercolour and textured gouache - works well to create an atmosphere. Black gouache and pencil details/texture. More mixed media such as collage and maybe try stitching into drawings.