IMAGES FROM BUCKFAST ABBEY. 1. an alter with sunshine through a stained glass window. 2. Prayer after lighting a prayer candle, a moment of peace. 3. Peering through an open window into the monks settlement.

FINAL MAJOR PROJECT: a sense of place.

My chosen muse being the South West of England, my birth place and constant settlement, what I call home. I want to express not only the beauty of the scenic landscapes and coastlines, but to delve deeper into the way people live, local businesses, the uprisings of thriving cities and the impact they have on the traditional way previous generations have created their livelihoods. Investigating further into the concept of how people live, I want to explore different personalities, how the wealthy and the poor live, the different “classes” within our society and the struggles and the joys families and individuals living in the South West. I want to exhibit the beauty of the area, but I also want to create a thorough and balanced investigation and expose the reality of a vast lack of wealth and economy in the region and how some of the population struggle and strive to make their living. For the course of my exploration of life in the South West I don’t want to simply scratch the surface and depict a superficial response, but a project that will reveal in great depth the gritty, graphic and authentic experiences the diverse population perceive as a way of life.

                The reason behind my inspiration links strongly with identity. Not only do I want to gather a collection of images to inform others of our part of the world and country, but I would also like to use this project as a way of furthering my knowledge of the region that I call my home. I want to dive into uncovering things, places, injustice, hidden beauty and personalities I’ve never understood or seen before.

HARVARD REFERENCING SYSTEM:

BOOKS:

1. Rush, M, (2005) new edition. New Media in Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

2. Freeland, C, (2003). Art Theory A Very Short Introduction. Hampshire: Oxford University Press.

WEBSITES:

1. Parker, S (2010) Still and not so still life. Available at: http://oliviaparker.com/blog/?page_id=9 (Accessed: 30 January 2014)

2. Pyke, S, (2013) Jack Pyke- Bruce Exhibition in Bexhill. Available at: http://stevepyke.blogspot.co.uk/ (Accessed: 30 January 2014)

JOURNALS:

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DIGITAL PORTFOLIO RESEARCH.

The advantages & disadvantages of free online portfolio websites. 

ADVANTAGES: 

1. The website is free to set-up.

2. The web hosting is free.

3. Easy to set-up and load art to.

4. Able to market from that platform to social media.

5. The web host promotes their site to attract visitors.

DISADVANTAGES: 

1. Part of a community of other artists.

2. Difficult to find your website/art portfolio.

3. The art is commingled with ads and other artist’s art.

4. In most cases Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not possible.

5. Being free usually means that there are limitations on design and size.

EVALUATING EXAMPLES OF ONLINE PORTFOLIOS:

Below, is a portfolio i find particularly eye-catching and efficient. It is a very sleek design, and the transitions between clicking on different things is very smooth. the background colours have been selected to tie in with their designs and it works really well. The content in particular is specifically impressive to me, I really like the images and ideas behind them. It is very simple and easy to use and explore and well titled and created. They've included a very easy way of contacting them through email and there are also very easy and simple ways of linking to their facebook and flickr pages. Overall, it's extremely user friendly, not over-complicated and simple to access and it looks very sleek and professional.

http://www.esteralazowska.com/

Below, is a online portfolio that i don't particularly like. It's mainly due to the content. i don't find any of the images or the work interesting or eyecatching. And because the images and the illustrations are very child orientated and this narrows the target audience down the way it is presented and the colours are made to link with this. It's very basic and the ways to contact are easy to find although I just don't like what they are presenting. 

http://www.camartinart.com/#!illustration/c1t44

My slideshow of portfolio images.

http://slide.ly/view/85354383d27e7f7b371c05bb404d478e

What is a PDF file?

Portable Document Format (PDF): is a file format used to represent documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating system. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. In 1991, Adobe Systems co-founder John Warnock outlined a system called "Camelot" that evolved into PDF.

While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1993, PDF remained a proprietary format, controlled by Adobe, until it was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008. In 2008, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe that are necessary to make, use, sell and distribute PDF compliant implementations. However, there are still some technologies used in PDF files that are defined only by Adobe and remain proprietary (e.g. Adobe XML Forms Architecture, Adobe JavaScript).

information from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

BLACK AND WHITE STUDIO PORTRAIT OF NORA.