Evaluation

Name: Fozia Iqbal

Personal ID: 32882                                                  Learner ID: 42990

Centre Name: Blackburn College               Centre Number: 47107

Class Name: Blackburncol FAD 2012-13              Class ID: 458

Start Date: 03.09.2012                                       End Date: 27.07.2013

Fozia Iqbal FMP Evaluation

My starting point was my FMP was to continue with my symbolism project I started at the beginning of the course. This was because I loved learning about all the symbols and found that creating work from them would be intriguing. That project was inspired by a necklace I saw in Blackburn Museum that inspired me to look into my jewelry and symbolism. The fact that I had jewelry that is quite symbolic it made it easier to associate with the symbols and was a good chance to show my collection as primary research.

Also my passion for buildings and wanting to restore of building as an Architect in the future I researched the old Blackburn Cotton Exchange building and wanted to restore it from a design and artistic bases. What I found made it easier to restore my building as there was so much inspiration and ideas to work with. I decided to merge these two concepts because they were too of my favorite subjects of interest and I was sure it would create an amazing project. As well as this I thought to develop the building using my symbols and ink and outline style I had created in my pathway experiments. Thinking this would be interesting and create an amazing final piece for the exhibition. I then researched my building in depth and found out loads about its colourful history as well as looking into symbols and artists who use inks in such an expressive way as I do.

Researching helped me develop my ideas and inspire my work to become what it is today. So I continued to develop my sketchbook in the way I previously did and started experimenting with colour. I changed my proposal realiseing I didn’t want to continue with sculpting but wanted to look into Fine art and illustration so started to research artists in such fields. Therefore changing the style of my work and being inspired by creative people with the same artistic principles.

I found the original designs for the Cotton Exchange building during my research into its history and found the architect; so used his original designs and ideas to develop my final building design. This made it easier for me to develop the building design and in turn restore it to its former glory.  I feel this shows understanding of how the building is unfinished and therefore it should be restored to the original state it was intended to be created in. I researched my symbols and developed larger scale ideas and concepts due to the inspiration from researching their potent meanings. The more I found out about the symbols and their messages it made it easier to create work associating with that concept.

I have found artist who have used similar ink techniques and found their use of colour contrasting inspiring and helpful. From developing my ink style and researching many amazing artists, I have come to realise my style of work is illustrative and this helped edit my proposal so it suited my work. I have continued to use my theme of symbols to power my inspiration and the need to restore the building. Whilst doing this I have learnt from my findings and used m research to inspire my work.

I have experimented with colour in my sketchbook; this helped me develop my colour use and use colours successfully to compliment my work. This helped me realise what colours I should use for my final piece and how intense the pigment of the colour should be, which is important if colour is what makes your work. I have experimented vastly with symbol placement using lino/mono/dry point prints, acetate, pencil and tracing paper. To help me place symbols an experiment with incorporating symbols into my buildings. I have used canvas and paint to decide whether to create a painting for my final piece

and pencil to help me work out how to add substance to my building. Throughout my work I have learnt from bad experiments, studied carefully the use of colour in work and techniques to transfer images. I realised the best way to transfer images for my final piece was not prints, tracing paper or carbon paper, but acetate and projectors. 

I had a dilemma with wanting more frames by then I realised less in more and my four frames are a set I  themselves with complimentary colours and features. My sketchbook helped me realised also that less is more with ink and colours and that sometimes if you tone the intensity of colour and use of materials, the piece will look less busy and more effective as well as more professional. 

 I booked cameras and frames to take pictures for research and to exhibit my final piece. The quality cameras helped me take high resolution pictures and in turn help me use them in many ways copying and transferring them into my work. The frames made my final pieces an exhibit look more professional and helped my work feature amazingly. I had borrowed materials from college and used college equipment to help me with my work. This helped me save money and made my experimenting possible, due to the resources in college.

I planned my blog posts so that every week that went by I could right up what I had done and tried to reflect upon it to help with improving my work. Blogging every week helped me develop my ideas and made it easier to see that I was moving forward. I worked with tutors to help me chose which pieces to exhibit and have framed. Asking for advice during such an important decision really paid off because the experience of the tutors helped my exhibit look professional and grand.

Despite having insufficient supplies of paint brushes and rollers I still managed to help paint and build the exhibit spaces and clean up my board ready to exhibit. My whole class worked as a team and produces and beautiful exhibition space and profession exhibits. 

Since the start of my FMP I have kept a timetable so I could plan my work and stay on top of my blog. This helped me organize my work into manageable pieces and spread my work out evenly and effectively so I was making the most of my FMP project time.

In conclusion I feel I have worked hard all year n especially for this FMP. I have managed to stay on top of my work load, produce many experiments, a blog, a final piece and an exhibit. I feel my exhibit looks professional and interesting; my work is systematic and organized as well as easy to follow and understand. My blog is reflective, informative and evaluative and explains my FMP project development from the start to end.