Fact Pages

I decided to keep all of the fact pages black and white so the book looks like if follows the same format throughout.  I also decided to have a mixture of hand made and digital typography to keep the pages looking professional. 

Artists to consider for the book

As I wanted to include a collection of both male and female artists within this book I decided to compose a list of both male and female artists to consider including in the book. I found this quite difficult because there were a lot more male artists as in the past the artistic industry was very prejudice towards women and as a rule females were not artists, there are a few exceptions and women will have created art they just were not given the credit or recognition that they deserved. Despite this I have managed to find an equal amount of artists from both genders. After researching the artists separately I may revise the list and add or take away some of the people on it but this is what I have for now, as a starting point. I have done the lists as two separate ones so I know how many of each gender that I have. I aim to keep it as equal as possible (the lists are in no particular order, I just wrote them down in the order that I thought of them)

Males

• Salvador Dali
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Pablo Picasso
• Leonardo Da Vinci 
• Henri Matisse 
• Andy Warhol 
• Johannes Vermeer
• Michelangelo Buonarroti 

Females 

•  Frida Kahlo
• Georgia O' keeffe
• Artemisia Gentileschi
• Lavinia Fontana 
• Rosa Bonheur 
• Paula Rego 
• Giulia Lama 
• Hilma Af Klint 

Negotiated Module

Because the new project is negotiated, I can decide on whatever I want to do for this module. When I first thought about this brief it was pretty overwhelming as I could literally choose to create anything that I wanted as long as it could have some sort of commercial application. First of all I thought it would be good to create some sort of zine along with a few other illustrated products that could be sold online in a store such as Etsy, as lot of illustrators that I like do this and it seemed like a fun sort of project to do. I decided against this though because after a little chat with my tutor Amy I realised that I could use this opportunity to create something that could potentially lead to better opportunities for myself. She suggested creating a children's book because I love children's books and how beautiful that they can be. I agreed that this would be a good idea so I am planning on going down the route of creating some sort of book that would be suited to a younger audience.

As I like to come up with stories but am not too confident on wording a story correctly for a children's story/picture book I have decided to go down the route of creating factual, educational book about historical artists. I felt as though this was a good route to go down because I have been thinking about considering a career in education lately and this ties in with that as well. I think it will make the book really fun and quirky if I add strange and creepy facts about the artists, a bit like horrible history books. I have decided that this will appeal to children from the ages of about 10 all the way up to whatever age really, anyone who is interested in artists and interesting facts are  likely to be drawn to the book. I also plan to create the book using tasteful but interesting illustrations and colour palettes so that adults and children alike will be drawn to the book.

I will now start to research which artists I will include in the book, I want to attempt to have an equal amount of female to male artists although this may be challenging as in the past women weren't seen as equally as men within art and even if they did create something they often weren't credited for it. I also need to think of a title for the book but i feel like that will come with time and ill think of it whilst i am creating the images. I will also look at influences to help me decide on how I would like the book to look.