Tuesday 22nd March 2011:

Today I handed out more of my questionnaires and asked people to put them in a box when completed so that they would be kept anonymous. So far I have 17 completed questionnaires, but I am going to try and get 20 and I feel that this would be a good number to work with when collating the data and finding statistics and percentages. I also asked about the organisation name ideas so will have a look at what people’s views were on these and if they made any new suggestions.

I also experimented with lino printing today. I chose some words which were an answer to one of my questions on the questionnaire (from yesterday). The words included were ‘insecure, hurt, felt angry but didn’t fight back’. I then took this and wrote ‘I felt insecure, hurt, angry, but didn’t fight back…’ on my lino print using different styles of type for each few words to help them to stand out. It took a while to cut out but when printed it looked quite attractive.

I had intended to use black, red and blue ink, but I wanted them to all be quite dark, so the colours don’t stand out as much as I would have liked them to. Unfortunately the prints in my sketchbook didn’t turn out as well as the ones on scrap pieces of paper. I will probably take photos of the ones which worked well and stick these in my book and work into the ones which were printed in my sketchbook.

I think that the print on the brown paper turned out quite well and the contrast between the black and brown helps the words to stand out.

It was interesting how when printed onto newspaper, the word ‘insecure’ came out as more of an outline than a filled-in word – this is quite eye-catching.

I also decided to print onto tracing paper to see how this turned out. I think it works well and I could perhaps place this over something else which would then be able to be seen behind the print.

I have kept my lino print so that I have the opportunity to experiment with this particular composition again, perhaps using different colours and backgrounds.

I then wrote out what my organisation does and a few name/ tagline ideas. I still need to reflect on these to see which ones I think sound best. I wrote out ‘what my organisation does’ onto tracing paper as I wanted to write onto something which would be easy to write on using pen (unlike my prepped sketchbook pages). I also wanted the prepped page to still be able to be seen and so felt that tracing paper would work well for this. It also looks quite effective and I will consider using this method when needing to write in my sketchbook again.

Target for today: Give out more questionnaires. Start creating work in sketchbook using the process of lino printing. Write organisation name ideas, etc, in sketchbook and reflect on these ideas.

Target for tomorrow: Create typography using images and drawings of stereotypical teenage ‘objects’, eg: lipstick, makeup, football, technology, magazines, etc. Then go on to take photos of words created using the actual objects.