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Final Piece Evaluation

I had many different ideas for my final piece however I had to narrow down my ideas , my first final piece is a large scale painting which consists of two A6 canvases. I had decided to have a painting of a transgender person which mainly because this was one of biggest problems within LGBT mainly because many people disagreed with the idea of transforming your gender to another gender, which I found this out mainly from the research that I had done. In the background of the left side of the painting the background is a mixture of yellow, blue , green and orange colours which I was inspired to use the colours in that style by Shin Kwangho work as it really hold and his paintings are really disfigured and deformed which I’ve used those colours because within toys for boys those would be the typical colours that you would see also I have included drugs which have been camouflaged within the painting because when people would transfer from one gender to another they don’t realised all of the drugs and procedures they will need to get , from mtf such as hormone pills to different surgeries to the body which can be a massive risk for some people .  At the bottom I have written a quote which I took from Daniel Arzola’s ‘I’m not a joke’ campaign because I thought that it was really powerful which was “ we will not be silenced”  I have also continued this quote on the other side of the painting.

On the left side of the painting for the background I have used mainly pink and purple because within the girls toys those are the typical colours that have been used as they are feminine colours which we have been set within a certain category since we were young depending on our gender which if your girl you automatically are supposed to pick the feminism colours such as pink and if you are a boy you have to pick blue and if you picked a blue colour and being a girl people would think weirdly of you. I have also added some 3D cardboard work in the corner with the different sexualities because I wanted to show that there’s more than just being straight such as gay , bisexual , lesbian etc.

The person that I have painted is a transgender which I have made half of their face white to represent that they’re their own canvas and they are painting them self and aren’t allowing someone else to paint them because of their gender which I was inspired by James Charles who he is a gay YouTuber and creates different looks for example this one called “ blank canvas look”.

My second final piece is a booklet which I have created inspired by Eketarina Panikonova I have created a booklet which includes pages from books that relate to love or LGBT. I have used these pages because I really enjoyed the books that I read as they have made me feel a variety of emotions from being happy about the characters to being sad and emotional. I have also used black ink and I was also inspired to use blue ink by Lisa Brice because when I read the reason why she used blue ink ink which was because of a cultural reasons that the they had a day where they would paint themselves in blue to represent the ‘Blue Devil’ which allow them to express them self as they were covered in blue and could hide behind the blue and just express their true selves. Which I used the blue ink to link it to LGBT in order to give right for LGBT people to express them self within their own skin. I had also then created a third final piece which I took 5 different book that related to LGBT or love and used ink to paint on pages using black and blue ink.

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Review:

Throughout the past 1-7 units I believe that I’ve made progress and more of an understanding in certain skills. At the begging of the course I had a good time management which really benefited my work and the way I worked but I didn’t really understand the type of standard of work that I should expect from myself. Half way through the course my time management started to become worse than what it was before mainly because I started to loose focus within lessons and outside of lessons to improve my time organization I had set myself notes on what work I need to get done and by what day I should get it done by. However within unit 8 I believe that the understanding of the type of work that I should be expecting from myself has became clear and I understood the standard and quality of work which I should be aiming for at all times.

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I had chosen LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) as my theme for unit 8 because I personally didn’t have great knowledge neither did I understand the topic very well, which by choosing this topic I beloved that it had helped me understand and greater my knowledge about legalisations of lgbt and the different countries which have and haven’t got lgbt legalised, I also understood why certain people don’t think that lgbt is right. The meaning behind it is that I wanted to show my audience that we all are human whether gay , bisexual, transgender, lesbian, straight , our sexuality shouldn’t define us but we should define it.

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I have collected my primary research from interviews which I had an interview with a friend of mine which I asked questions through a social media app (Instagram) ; I was asking him questions to get more of an understanding of what it's like to be within the LGBT community and how there are homophobic people who treat them differently. I also had an interview with another male friend who he is extremely homophobic and he stands strongly by what he believes is right withing his perspective and because of his perspective within religion.

I have collected secondary research from galleries which I have went to visit. I went to visit Tate Modern which I found really interesting artist such as Zanele Muholi which I really got inspired from and made an artist response to. I have also read a book which links to my theme called "the art of being normal"  which about these two transgender people who are facing hard challenges within being their true self and many more.
I have also found primary research from Tate Britain which I really liked Lisa Brice's artwork , Magada Cordell and I saw a screenprint on paper called "AIDS (wallpaper installation) 1988. I had also done general research through

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Through out unit 8 I had faced many different and difficult challenges. I have face challenges within working and managing my time as I found it hard sometimes to work and wasn’t able to stick to my timetable and the work that I had to get done was moved to a different day in order to catch up. Also I had issues with certain students in my class which made it hard for me to focus and work on my work. However , after some time I was able to get back to being focused onto my work by realising what I want to accomplish.

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At the start of the course I had many ideas for what I wanted to have as my final piece however not all of my ideas were able to be taken to further developments as I would constant be thinking of changing and doing something different as my final piece. The main help that I got for figuring out what I wanted my final pieces to be is from different artists such as Shin Kwang Ho and Ekaterina Panikanova which I really like and found their work fascinating which is where I had decided to look at book around LGBT and love.

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My project wasn’t mainly about evaluating at the end but also evaluating through out my project as I would be constantly getting feedback and advice from my teacher and students on what I can do to improve my work and make it better. Which is why I have decided to evaluate in my book and not only just at the end of the project this has also helped me understand that I have to talk about my ideas and work with other people so I don’t leave it at the end and think that I could’ve done better if I asked about more ideas.

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I had to set myself goals for each week and I tried to commit to my goals and accomplish them even though sometimes I would not accomplish everything within that week I had then made sure to get it complete at some point. Also I had set timers and alarms for how long I should be taking for a certain task example a 5 minute drawing I did this so that it doesn’t get too much of my time and making sure I could be organised and make time for everything else. After toturials with Hazel I would have a lot of feedback and work to get done which I had written on piece of paper and this helped me to organise myself instead of wasting time thinking what do next when I already knew.

Some examples of feedback the I received from students and teachers:

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At the begging I wanted to create a tshirt design which would have a design of the lgbt flag and it would be based around a lgbt pride. However I decided not to have it as my final piece because I didn’t have much experience with fabric and I was also confused on how I would lead to myself to that idea. Which is why instead I started to look at lgbt illustrations , books and ink drawings which this then lead me to bringing friends that I knew were lgbt and try to convey my audience that whether lesbian , gay , bisexual or transgender they are still human beings and shouldn’t be treated differently because they might like something different from a straight persons for example. With my final pieces I tried to aim it at certain audience , I wanted to aim my work at homophobics and anyone who didn’t believe that LGBT is right.