Fantasia Initial Development

For my next project, called fantasia, I have to creat a model for celebrity I decide. I chose Paul McCartney as my celebrity because I am a big fan of his music having listened to a huge number of his songs and albums. To begin I listed key infomation about mccartney including his favourite colour, music and place as well has his personal philosophy. The I created a mind map to brainstorm ideas I can develop in addition to themes I can explore based on his life and his work.

From here I started to sketch my initial ideas for the potential sculpture. At first i thought about making a bird flying, however I quickly changed to the idea of using arrows, like the ones on the back of his famous psychedelic piano. The arrows pointing into the sky to represent the escapism from reality you can get from listening to his music. However, I also wanted combine some of the most prominent themes of his songs, love and happiness. From this I thought the arrow could be pointing towards a love heart and that the bright colours of the arrow could show happiness.

Sequential Journey Sketching and Poster

After walking around Cheltenham, i had a large collection of images to choose from. I had to narrow these down to just 7 or 8. I chose the images of spaces that showed a specific quality or were a certain kind of space such as green space or an urban area. With the 7 images I chose I then printed them of to trace the main structure of the trace in pen, missing out the detail and focusing on the key strucural elements.

I also created a map showing the route I took. On the map I put numbered markers as to where the photos were taken as well as the direction they were pointing.

To finish Project B2 I made a poster of the sequential journey, compiling my sketches along with the photos and the map, to present my work.