Evaluation
When I started with this project, I did my Project Proposal. Which includes information about my project, such as; rationale, project concept, evaluation, proposed resources and bibliography. It also shows what order I intend to do everything that is shown within my project.
Throughout this project I focused on Creatures of Mythology with Fine Art. When I started I did two mind maps which were Segmented and Mythology. I also highlighted some key points that link to my chosen topic. I also collected images for my mood board that relate to my mind map and project topic.
After that, I did some research on different creatures that were part animal, and then drew inspiration from them to do experimental drawings. While experimenting, I looked into some artists which were; Tom Wood, Sandra Duchiewics and Guillem H. Pongiloppi. While looking at these artists, I did further research on ancient Greek hybrids and choose three creatures to focus on. My chosen creatures are Dryad (female oak tree spirits), Drakaina (part woman, part dragon), Siren (half woman, half fish). I collected images and information on each chosen creature to look more into because these will go towards my final.
After choosing my creatures, I did some spray painting. Each spray paint links to each creature. With the spray paint experiments, I also did continuous line experiments to possibly combine with the spray paints. Once completing that, I started working on my sculpture designs that I took inspiration from my chosen creatures. I continued to develop them before moving on to making my clay sculptures. I also did some research on Jan Svankmajer who uses animal bones and skulls in his sculptures. I took inspiration from his work and used my 3D Pen to make my own animal skulls for my sculptures. I then collected some bones from a chicken (from local food shop) and created them ready for my future sculptures.
I then did some developed sculpture designs and made them before moving onto working on my final designs. Once I had made those I came back to sculpting with my 3D Pen by designing and making another animal skull but for my large sculpture.
Once I had all of my experiments complete and my animal skulls and bones, I designed my final three sculptures, sculpted and painted them and then slightly added to them by going over it with my 3D Pen once more.
In conclusion, I think my final piece was successful because even though I came across a lot of problems along the way, I found ways to fix them and bring everything together. I also think that the animal skulls were successful and having all of the details, textures and materials come together works as my final piece.
