By using an abundance of differently coloured card paper and soft/delicate materials that of which would be found in a School setting for younger patrons, I hoped to create a double entendre. Showing both a physical school while using materials that would be found within an art classroom. This kind of art would be suitable and aimed at a younger audience due to the bright flashy colours and child-like setting reminiscent of a play-house.

My diorama does contain loose objects which could become a trip hazard if they fall out beside the box onto the floor - so for everyone's safety it would be best if it weren't moved around constantly. However if I wanted to and had access to a hot glue gun I could fix this issue by securing those assets to the diorama itself.

I feel by conducting, the experiment in the 3D aspect I performed this quite well. I had a vision for what I wanted to create and it came out almost as I had exactly imagined it would have. So I am very pleased with the outcome of this process.

My journey begins with researching and collecting a myriad of images synonymous with the idea and presentation of Matilda, in particular the setting - 'school' to be exact. Whilst looking at how different artists portray and explore the theme of 'school' this should give me the push I need to decide where I should begin my development of ideas.

Then I will move onto my experimentation side of the project including different ideas and techniques for me to self evaluate to see where I am strong and where I can improve. Once I have identified my strongest suites, I can fuse my best works into one big vison for my final piece.

I hope to influence my audience by conveying a feeling of uproar or inspiration in my image, I believe that this would be most effective with an older teen/ young adult audience, but I wouldn't lock other audiences out of this feeling , because it's never to late to find some inspiration in the world.

However with this experiment I have to keep in mind the health and safety precautions whilst and before conducting my illustrations. Such as PPE like an apron so my clothes don't get smothered in ink or Tucking in my lanyard/ my hair otherwise it could get in the way or even worse get covered in ink. Obviously there are others that take into consideration safety as a priority like storing belongings under desks.

I feel one of my strengths with this visual would have to be the shading, although it was difficult to do finer details on images that small - the shading came out better than I expected compared to the last time I did monoprinting in secondary school. If I want to improve on finer details, I would have to scale my image size up to give me the room needed to improve.

This was probably my most time consuming project, taking round about three days to get done, mostly due to the time taken to construct a new backdrop entirely as I was recommended a new technique half way through that I thought would make my work more expressive.

However, once again I would need to evaluate my safety precautions for this piece of art, as I used a spray gun to effectively distribute my background colours like a splash. If used incorrectly these guns can be quite dangerous. For example I could get sick if the high pressured aim was shot into my bloodstream so to counter this I would have to keep the barrel of the gun away from me at all times. In addition to that, I could wear PPE like gloves and goggles to protect myself from high speed free flying paint.

By using brightly coloured text I'd hoped to relate to a younger audience by making my text pop! Or stand out compared to the background it resides on.

"Strong, Smart, Brave, Tall - Enough to..."

"I won't care, cause I'll be all grown up..."

"We can SPL how we like..."

"2L84U..."

"We are revolting children..."

"Thought we would break, but you're wrong..."

"Never again..."

With the simple shapes and bright colours, this illustration would have an intended audience of younger persons like children or young teens. The contrast of the yellow against the dark and splattered black at the tip of the pencil really makes an eye catching effect. Especially with the strokes of "graphite" at the top of the page, I think that the illusion of the pencil actually leaving marks on this page had come out better than I had suspected it would and as a result I am very pleased with the product.

Now obviously there is room for improvement, like using different utensils to make the piercings to make different sized or perhaps shaped holes to experiment with tone and texture.

In addition I decided on a target audience, then moved onto annotating a small sketch of the hand and book separate to show my initial ideas of what could be done to make these models as productive as possible.

After that, we mixed up some alginate and cold water, specifically cold water so it would set slower and give us time to make a strong and detailed mould. I say "We" because I had to have assistance with the process, because obviously I was unable to use one of my hands so I would be half as productive if compared to my regular self. Alginate was dolloped over my hand in a thick and vast quantity and we had to keep quiet the collection of alginate over my hand so the mould would be thick and stronger against breaking apart or leaving any holes for our casting mix to fall out of.

Once settled, the alginate had a silicone like texture, we strengthened it by wrapping mod rock around its surface area, this time with warm water so the mod rock would set faster. No it was a waiting game as once it had finally set I could remove my hand carefully from the contraption so the Scola-cast mixture could be poured down it. Then it was a waiting game of around 24 hours for it to settle enough to remove from the cast.

I am incredibly satisfied with the product of the hand cast, even if it had broken at the index finger and I lost some of the finger tips due to so trapped air in the cast. The texture is super smooth and life like, and the fine lines of detail like the creases is so pleasing to the eyes. Even with it's flaws I am pleased with the result and would be up for doing the process again perhaps with another finger pose or perhaps even another part of my body.

I started by dying the pages with tea much like I was supposed to before, but I wasn't aware that we had tea bags. So therefore, I am improving my old designs by doing as I originally intended before I had to compromise - I did four water colour pages in A3 format and allowed them a day to dry in the sun. While it was drying I began working on the book cover and casing. I used a purple casing, with a gold border all created from scraps of coloured card paper, gluing and stapling them in format that resembles an enlarged book. Once, that was over I designed the front cover taking inspiration from the image below. Cutting out the letter for "Roald Dahl" and "Matilda" From scraps of coloured paper I had used back in the 3D diorama with a tiny illustrated Matilda to top it all off. The book presents warm and bright tones with the colour palette I have selected.

Back to the innards of the book once the pages were dry and secured, the texture was very crispy and crinkly to the touch which made the aged idea feel more authentic. I decided to use the same extract back from my performance based art to pay homage to the original as it was an extract from the Matilda book itself. I followed a line guide to make sure my text was uniform in size and position. I tried to imitate Quentin Blake's style with my line, to pay respect to his original portrayal of the little hero and Quentin's style itself since it's so unique.

Some things to take into consideration would be the health and safety of the whole process as I was using a lot of sharp objects to make the book. Like scissors and a guillotine, if used improperly it could cause harm to myself to combat this potential hazard I had to be extremely careful with how I cut and trimmed my work apart. As well as, the tea. Ads it was drying, it dripped onto the floor, if it so happens someone could walk over that and slip, causing damage to themselves and possibly others. Therefore, I have to put my work aside away from people to dry and clean up any excess drip age.

The light becoming more prominent in areas of excessive holes is quite the effective illusion of shades and tone. This worked out pretty well in my favour which was a nice happy middle considering I was torn up about the mistaken paint on the backside of the paper. I really enjoy how the markings created by the tip start out thick then progress into a more sparse and diffused orientation.

Perhaps next time if I performed this process again, I would like to spend more time if possible on my image to add more detail and holes. Much like I said in the previous inclusion of the Demi Overton work I would like to experiment with new and various utensils.

In the workshop I selected a circular wooden base with a hole in the centre, a sort of wheel shape if you will. I attempted to hot glue the hand to the base, but it didn't stick as I had hoped. So I tried again.. again.. and once more. After the third or so attempts that had let me down and I had to scrap the glue off my base I knew that this idea wouldn't work, so I had a brain wave - with the hole through the centre of my base, I could cut a wooden pole down to size, drill in the arm of my hand and slot the pole through the hole of the base and the hand.

Using a saw I trimmed the wooden stick I had selected down to the correct length, just enough to hold the hand and base together. I had assistance drilling the hole. Now obviously, when it come to equipment like saws and drills there is a lot of precaution to take in my actions, one wrong move could cause devastation. So I had to keep in mind that my area was clear of trip/slip hazards. No water was near any sockets that where in use and fingers were away from operational ends of devices/equipment.

In this image above you can see a wire frame, this is what the tie will slot over in the final piece. I had forgotten the tie on the day this was taken.

Or the two pages of student gossip, One about the girl in the extract who talks about grasshoppers and one about the incident in Matilda where the little girl is thrown over the gate. I wanted to show student opinions and student voices by exploring what they would say and think about certain topics in their school.

Finally my last page, tries to continue the extract from the book, but cuts off. Presumably the student who was writing it go tired and wanted to do their own thing (Totally not meta.) Exclaiming that "No more riting. Only revolting."

I myself feel that the product is a good representation of the influenced image made at the beginning of the theme. Aside from the obvious proportion changes and changes to the colour. I do feel that this is a worthy reflection of my earlier work. It was almost like bringing my ideas to life. As such I hope to influence my audience by making them feel empowered with the finger pointing up, almost like it's indicating to "keep moving up" or "reach for the stars."

While this project may be complete, the book and hand can still fall over if put off balance so to keep in mind some health and safety if these items are to fall over, they should be propped back up- and in the unfortunate case that the hand falls over and breaks it should be cleaned up with smaller fragments binned with the bigger fragments are saved for reconstruction or a potential new product. Linking back to my original idea behind the inspiration "It's never too late to find inspiration in this world."

There was many illustrations that I found myself content with creating, like the Diorama and my Headshot piece as they were progressively more fun and challenging to conduct allow my to think on my feet, but without the feeling of pressure. Unlike my Final Idea, which although was challenging as I had hoped and preferred - but the added pressure made me fumble and worry more than I should have - However I guess that's just how things go when doing a final piece.

There was works that took a lot of time like my previously mentioned Final Piece and my Demi Overton inspired work, but I find that pretty art isn't easily rushed. Speaking of pretty, I used quite an amount of bright colours in my art for this theme to simulate the wonder and imaginations of a child to correlate with our theme of "Matilda." As, children have potential. Potential, is key for a bright future in whatever aspiration tickles their minds.

Overall, I am very pleased with the theme we were given and how I as a writer and as an artist responded to the theme. If given the opportunity to do this theme again I would take it, especially now that I'm getting more used to college life and know where specific equipment is kept that I know would definitely improve my work. I think some of my art is a little shaken, because I was very nervous with being a new student around new people and my hands/ breathing gets very uneasy in new and unfamiliar environments. Regardless, the theme was fun, and I am excited to see what our next theme is.

Similarly to what I would change next time, I had to adapt some of my projects as I was going along. Such as my final project and my headshot, where my hand wouldn't stick to the baseplate with hot glue, hence I resorted to drilling a hole in the hand to stick a pole through for support - or changing me previous background for one that used a paint spray for a more prominent effect. Furthermore aspects of my projects like the painting, could be improved mainly because our supply of paints/paint colours aren't that great.

My main successes with our theme would have to be getting my hand cast to mostly stay intact whilst nost breaking the mould. Being able to produce a model from my initial idea. Working independently with new equipment. With that, I believe I gave infact responded to the best of my ability to the brief, I have provided what I can in the given period of time. Producing arts of various forms and techniques. Arranging them in this padlet and using my language to give my interpretations, thoughts and analysis. Therefore going into detail about how and why certain processes were conducted in specific manners, keeping in mind our health and safety as well as what is right and morally just to do in my work. Giving credit where it's due.

My time management overall was pretty good, I wouldn't say it was impeccable because some projects delayed me with problems like my hand cast. Something not effect by my time management was my research into the theme and things synonymous with our theme. My research was utilised to develop my initial ideas as it gave me direction and inspiration to work with. I suppose for next time I could research into how my art is intended for specific audiences, as that was something that only became coherent during the construction of my illustrations, dependant on colour, tone and line work.