Final Major Project

To end our BTEC art work we have to individually create a final piece. now one of my favorite subjects is sociology and i love researching how people are bound into stereotypes in the home and workforce. when thinking of ideas for my final project i took this love of society into account and have devised a plan for a visual representation of these social stereotyping. I've described the situation as being placed under certain umbrellas; suggesting that people are grouped by certain characteristics. I've decided to create three of these umbrellas; one depicting Ethnicity, one showing feminism, and the final one representing class. each umbrella will consist of a selection of photos i have taken and edited, paintings, stencils and word art that will create an atmosphere of the feelings of each group identified in each umbrella. it is also important that i keep the three umbrellas separate as to truly rein act the boundaries in society. secondly i had the creative idea to cut holes into the op of each umbrella showing how we can easily see people being restricted by social ideas and no matter how much effort we put into attempting equality these restrains will unfortunately exist. my work will then go on display to be exhibited at the schools open day in July.

here are some images i have created using photoshop to illistrate social boundaries.

St Mary's comunity project evaluation.

for our Art BTEC, part of the course consisted of creating an outcome for a client. After emails to a year six teacher at the local primary school we arranged our first meeting in February.

The client suggested that the year six playground was desperately in need of a colour injection, indeed she was right, the playground was bleak, dull and in desperate need of brightening up.

we were told that every year the students plant tomatoes which once have grown are picked and used to make pizza. this is where our first spark of inspiration came from. when the tomato patch was empty it was grim. Pip took this project on and crafted tomatoes and vines out of exterior ply wood to be attached to the wall. this really added colour to the surrounding area and with Siobhan's winding acrylic fruit and leaves there is now a constant sparkle that would surely add a more joyful atmosphere to the playground.

our second inspiration came in the form of a drinking fountain, situated in a shady corner. we were told that the children were currently learning the Water Cycle and perhaps we could incorporate this idea into the final design. I chose to take this project on, and after numerous ideas consisting of under water designs, Mosaic water explosions and latex fish i decided that the Water Cycle would be the most fitting. the whole thing was crafted out of Exterior ply wood, which was then painted with acrylic and sealed with Yacht varnish. unfortunately we hit a blip with the yacht paint as it had turned the clouds in my design an off yellow colour. to solve this disaster i used a few layers of emulsion paint and we were soon back on track to a bright final outcome. i included numbers and arrows to represent the stages of the Water Cycle, the children could perhaps use the site to revise what they have learnt in there lessons. each piece is individual as i felt that a whole board of exterior ply would be too overwhelming for the small area. the art work we have produced ties in with future events at the school as the Head mistress informed us that in future years they plan to have other subjects linking to areas of the playground. for example she mentioned that they plan to

have sport themes painted around the football and netball

court. the final outcome was a success as it achieved our main goal of providing colour and excitement. we also learnt how to organise events with clients and how to face up and admit to mistakes. one major problem we faced was the weather. we often had to change the final date as it was raining. we wouldn't of been able to assemble the pieces in the rain as we were using electrical equipment to piece together.