Unit Evaluation

From the brief I came up with creating a educational book that explains to you about an objects but also the inside workings of it. I came up with the idea of using farms as a subject for my piece I then decided that I would make it as a book aimed for children of a very young age. I then began to brainstorm ideas for how the book would look and what will be in it. This was a little difficult as they couldn't be too complicated that children would not understand what was happening but they also had to be educational and informative not boring.

An area that I refined during making my final piece was the form of which I was going to use. I wanted to use a technique that I had not used before although there was the risk that it could go wrong as I wasn't that familiar with it. To do this I did a range of experiments that I thought would work for my book. Printing and mixed media pieces were the experiments that really stood out to me as a process that could work for my book. I then refined the idea by working more closely with the processes and eventually linking them together as prints over a mixed media background. 

An artist that influenced my work was Julia Rothman who has created an educational book about farms that is aimed at adults, 'Farm Anatomy'. This helped me to see how educational book differ from normal books in the way the information is presented as well as how you interact with the book. This then allowed me to come up with me own page layouts and story that would both appeal to children but also have an educational purpose. Another aspect of Julia Rothman's work that influenced me was the hand drawn images that were coloured with water colours as I really liked the way that each drawing was small and simple but yet had so much detail in them. As a result this lead me to include hand drawn images in my final piece as well as printing and mixed media techniques.

My final piece was really successful as it turned out exactly as I wanted it to perhaps even a little better and if I were to do the piece again I wouldn't change anything.