Year 11 Art - 2

8 February 2017

This year in art, I am wanting to produce more work than last year. I also want to put a lot more effort into my work and I feel that I need to come up with more detailed ideas to gain a stronger idea of exactly I want to produce. Last year, I found myself not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, so I just added to my work as I went along. Doing my work that way, usually ended in me not really liking the finish as much as I had hoped. So, this year, I want to ensure that I have a stronger idea as to what I'm actually doing, and taking more care of the ideas I have by writing them down more often.

So far, I still haven't completely decided what I want my overall theme to be this year as I have come up with a few which I quite like. At the moment, I'm still looking through books on some artwork from different artists. I'm looking more in depth on the work which catches my eye and I'm trying to find out how they got the ideas shown in their work.

I'm leaning towards something along the lines of being an individual and showing strength in my own opinion. But, I am also considering going ahead with a topic which I personally am not involved in, but more to show my awareness of any crisis going on around the world. I am interested in making people more aware of things like refugees not being allowed into safer countries - in particular, the United States. Also, something which concerns me, is that there are supposed leaders who are trying to run the world to their preference rather than what they're actually meant to be doing - leading.

I have also considered basing my art on something which I enjoy in general, and that is softball. Although the sport is something which I am passionate about, I'm not really sure how I would develop artwork from that source.