Tour de France Report

Beginning of this project, i began my research with primary and secondary. My primary research came from photographs taken from the Civic at the Bike show. I took plenty of photographs, from bikes to photographs of the previous age when Tour de France began. My secondary research came from the internet, with many photographs and information about Tour de France. Unfornatly, i didn't do any observational drawings. Because i wasn't really interested in the project we was set. At the Civic, there was a couple of things that inspired me. Such as; Bikes and tyres. Because it was intresting to learn how bikes were back in the day and made into what they're today. Also, was great to learn about tyres and how many shapes and sizes of the wheels made. What i didn't like about the exhibition, was that the place was set out boring. In my opinion, everything was basic and boring to look at. And again i wasn't really interested in the project Tour de France, so i didn't really enjoy going to the exbition. For my artist research, I'd only had a collagraph graph artist and a printing artist based on the project. Which were; Elenor Grosch and Bonnie Murphy. Eleanor Grosch's work is based on posters and printing work. Her work is something a lot more different, compared to looking at a painting. But instead a crazy, colourful piece of work, which makes you ask and look at it in a different way. In my work i took whole lot of her ideas such as; sunflower fields, Alpe D'Huez, Mont Ventoux and the Arc De Triomphe. Bonnie Murray's work is really impressive, with her skills and talent when using collagraph. In some pieces of her, she only uses Black and White collagraph. Which really brings out the image on what Bonnie is wanting to create. It's neat and very simple, sometimes she adds colour into her collagraphs. But in my opinion i perfer Black and White, with them being bold and light colours which blend with the image. Which makes the image effective. Techniques i have covered during this project is, screen printing, etching, lino printing, tracing and collagraph printing. With all these techinques i'd created many prints. The experimention i did we these techinques were applying different paint or ink onto our created design, then placing our wet design onto a roller machine with damp paper on the other side to create a print. During the experimention i tried many different colours and patterns. But there was some occasions, were the colours i'd chose mixed together and created a dark and horrible colour. To decide on our final pieces, we all were seperated into different groups of three. From there we all had to show our pieces of work to one another and explain our reasons why we created these pieces. Once we explained our reasons also ideas about our work, afterwards two of us had to decided which were the person's good pieces and bad pieces so that they had a idea on there finally design. During this project, i would say my time management went good. There were some points during the project were i lost track of time and began to complete stuff slowly. Because we had many other things happening and what we had to do, whether we liked it or not. I did get quite annoyed too, with being so focused on one thing then being told to start another. I do think my time management could work a little bit more. Because there is still a thew pieces of work that needs completing. I would say the only thing that went wrong was my chosen colours, when printing with etching, lino and collagraph. Because the colours i'd chosen went horrible when being mixed. And most of the colours i experimented with was dark. The thing that went well for me was my ideas, they went exactly how i wanted them to go. I would change some of my ideas and try to expand them a little further, so that i can create some great experimentations and pieces of work. Overall, i am okay with the project. I mean this project went on for too long and i got really tired and bored of the topic, especially when it was first mentioned. Also i do think i could have done more for this project and tried a little harder.