Your Process Journal is a very important part of your Visual Arts course. It is a place for you to discover, develop and explore ideas, experiment with materials, problem solve, reflect on work and grow as an artist. All physical work will be photographed and uploaded on your "Digital Process Journal". You may wish to own a physical sketchbook if you so wish but this is not necessary.
Please check the following:
My entries are all dated
My pages are all numbered
My sections and headings are very clear
My workbook is relatively neat and organised and is interesting to look at
My photographed work has my signature located next to my work
My handwriting is legible
All information and images I used are properly cited
Annotations Sentence starters for good annotations Developing Ideas
When I started out I wanted to... and so I began by collecting ...
I chose to draw.... because they fitted in with my theme by....
As my collection grew my idea changed from.... to....
One idea I had was..... As I worked on it, another idea I had was... This in turn led me to think of.... Finally, I've put these ideas together and got.....
Inspiring artists
When I looked really closely at work by.... I discovered that...
The artist has used lines and shapes that are rhythmical and wavy. The picture is a flower, a natural object. The wavy lines remind me of water flowing in a river, which is also natural.
..... inspired me a lot. I particularly like the way she distorted people's faces, so I made a distorted picture of her.
I like the work of.... He used clouds to create a dreamy, floating feeling. I have drawn objects changing into other objects like in dreams.
Developing Skills
I think my observation skills have improved as I have work on this … because I have managed to create a better sense of 3D from than I have in the past.
At the start, I found it very hard to draw because… but, after I had practiced with <media> in this way, I managed to create the effect of a rough, and textured surface that goes well with my theme. I experimented by adding <another medium> but this was difficult to work with and the effect was lost.
Final product
I think my final piece is successful because…
I am pleased with the way my final piece came out because…
Some things I would do differently are...
What I learned most about doing this unit was...
As I worked on my final piece I discovered that… and so I used this to help me achieve a better effect.
Citations:
BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2014. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/art/>.