Drawing and painting Map exploration

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You are creative. You have unique ideas that matter. You, are an artist.  You will be selecting, interpreting & developing your own chosen theme relating to map and mapping. Narrowing a theme helps strengthen, focus and unify work. This is a demanding and personally rewarding experience that will require dedication, time management, commitment and personal drive. You will brainstorm, research, investigate and develop your ideas . When complete, you will also submit a final self-reflection. Good luck!

 Creative process

How you develop an idea is an essential skill in all areas of the Visual Arts and it can be improved like any other skill. This skill is essential for those students who wish to pursue the visual arts at diploma level, as well as college level and in industry.

Themes

You will choose and develop your own themes to work from.

Preparation work

The development of your ideas is called the preparation work. This is simply all the research, drawings and sketches you do of your ideas, before your final piece of work. You therefore have to justify and explain how you arrived at your answer thoroughly by recording and documenting your thoughts, investigations and your process work.

What should your preparation work include?

• a series of drawings/paintings and work in more than one medium
• some should be in colour
• research, as well as notes explaining your ideas
• rough plans of the composition for the final piece 

Primary Sources includes:

• your own photos (and why they are included)
• your own objects
• sketching from observation
• interviews that you make

Don't spend hours looking for the perfect photo of something on the internet, if you could actually take the photo yourself. Of course, this is not always possible. You should useprimary sources whenever possible.

Secondary Sources includes:

• the internet
• books
• magazines
• the work of other artists/designers 

Most students over rely on secondary sources, usually only using pictures from the internet. This is very limiting for a student and often prevents them from developing deeper thought.

A good brainstorm includes:

• nouns
• verbs
• adjectives (incl. colours)
• phrases
• quotations from songs/poems
• senses
• possible artists/art movements
• geography
• current news
• cultural references
• personal connections

At this stage, you are NOT thinking of a final painting or drawing, but are trying to deal with general ideas and concepts. Keep your mind open.
Begin brainstorming topic 1.
 

Try the brainstorm-association game. Thinking of your theme and research, write down the first three words that come to mind. Select one, and then write the next word that comes to mind. Keep going until you have a long list of words. Select 2 words randomly. How could you connect them to create a composition?

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