Freya Welchs EPQ Blogz

 I am using half term to catch up and develop my skills and research further, as when we go back, we will be starting on our final pieces. So I am preparing! i have also been gathering a range of secondary and primary sources and photos to further inform and fuel my current EPQ project! i have been looking at the primary sources that i do have to further fuel my final pieces for swansea open and the derwent prize, and seeing what could work best and what could have effcet and really connect to me and my theme. 

                                                        About Me - Freya Welch  My name is Freya Welch, I am currently studying Art and Design, Level 3, year 2. I am super passionate about Art and design and the concepts behind it all, I am 17 and i love to draw. I focus mainly on illustration and fine art. However i do like and enjoy other things as well. I am currently on my second year of my extended diploma that i am doing, and then after this course i plan to do foundation, then i plan to go to University, and study Illustration, complete that degree and then hopefully do a degree in fine art. I hope to do illustration as a job in the future. I am very driven and motivated and i hope to be successful in life.                                   ...

  Here i did a charcoal drawing of little me. this links to my EPQ project as my theme is "Childhood and Nostalgia".  It is a picture of little me holding some sticks, out on a family walk, I really like this picture of me, so i decided for the lesson i would draw it as my charcoal drawing.  Here down below, is the picture of little me, holding the sticks, i really like this picture, it reminds me of the walks that id go on as a kid and the adventures id love and still look back on to this day.  I really liked drawing this picture.  While i drew this picture, i kept in my mind about the tone and form behind it all, and how shading can really bring the picture almost to life.  i think that charcoal takes patience and i believe that that's a good skill to have, but it takes awhile to learn it.  I find started by getting an easel out, and a board and prepping it, and then i began by masking of the edges of my A2 paper, and sticking it to my easel, all wit...

  Recently, i have been working on and using charcoal. I have done a charcoal picture of younger me, and now a landscape of an old campsite that i used to go to as a kid, i think that working with charcoal so much is definitely helping me increase my current skillset with charcoal, and how well i can carry out the technique at this current time.  While drawing these, i saw my skill improving from what it was not that long ago, i still think i can definitely improve with this subject, but i know that i am getting better at it, so i will keep working on it. 

 Yesterday, I finished yet another charcoal drawing. I first began by masking off the edges of a A2 piece of paper. I then followed that up by getting my easle, and sticking my paper onto the easle. I then began the artwork, I shaded the whole background in, full of grey, then I began with using a piece of paper like a stencil and shading on the edge of that to create my horrizion. I kept in mind the rule of thirds- which states to always split your paper into thirds and then use the third half and usually dont do your horrizion in the middle, and not to put your main object in the centre of the picture, as the eye won't know where to look or focus. Its better for aesthetics in some times. I then began mapping out my drawing, referring back and forth to my primary source reference I took. My primary source is a picture of a campsite that ive been going to since I was a kid. Some bad memories but also good memories too, this links to my current epq theme of "Childhood and Nosta...

Week 4, The starting and everything that i have done so far on my EPQ.  In week 1 i did many mind-maps, exploring what i could do for my EPQ theme, i did research into different pathways and areas that i could explore for my EPQ, i thought of a range of different things and ideas making sure that i am positive and decided in what i will be doing.  For the second week of my EPQ journey, i began yet more mind-maps and mood-boards, making sure that i can really portray all of my ideas down on to paper, noting it down. i filled the pieces of A3 paper really heavily, making sure to use as much paper as needed / possible as well as getting any ideas i could thinking of at the time down and noted.  On week 3, i took part in a lesson where we covered the entire classroom floor in paper, and some lied down while some did the drawing on the floor, week 3 was inspired by Tony Orrico, we tried his way / technique of drawing, where you lie on the ground and wave your arms around and d...

 for the past few weeks i have been researching and i have came to the decision that i will be doing childhood for my EPQ theme, i will start updating photos, articles, words, and even video sand my work about this theme, and i will get my ideas all across. (Primary) Photo of my classroom   

 Hi this is my EPQ blog! i am Freya Welch, i am 17 years old,  i am studying art and design and i am currently doing an extended project qualificatrion an di will be sharing it here! i will be updating all of my research onto here and things that i have been up to in my EPQ!