Creating ''Cool Britannia'' Piece

Unit 1, Assignment 1.1, Part B:

2) + 3) Review your Arts Challenge every week and write a 300 word report on how you have attempted to achieve your Arts Challenge.

 This week I began my final piece. I have planned it to be a detailed drawing surrounded by a collage of images to do with the theme. I will collect these images from the internet, newspapers, magazines leaflets and so on. I also want the images of the collage arranged in a Union Jack pattern behind the drawing. 

I decided that the drawing in the middle would be of one of the Queen Victoria memorial statues that are located in front of Buckingham Palace. After much deliberation I decided on the following statue:

I decided on this statue because I felt it is the best representation of a more traditional Britain. I think that the lion represents power while the olive branch represents peace and harmony. The woman could be a representation of the classical and cultural side of Britain. After deciding which angle of the statue I liked best, I began drawing it on a large scale in the center of a large piece of card: 

 

This is a photograph of me drawing the statue on a larger scale

 

This a photograph of the drawing of the statue

The drawing above was drawn free hand and I do not plan to take any of the images that will be included in the collage myself. 

I decided to add the Union Jack in the background of the drawing and painted it in. I then started to stick down ripped sections of newspaper to add to the collage effect. I plan to add images within the boarders of the Union Jack and place them in a way that they overlap each other.