Statement of Intent

Leeds College of Art BA (Hons) ILLUSTRATION	Level	06
OUIL603 Extended Practice	Credits	60
STUDIO PRACTICE Statement of Intent

Name	Alice Dear	Blog Address
Date	10/10/15	http://a-dear1316sp.blogspot.co.uk/
Rationale
Create work that imbues and evokes the raw emotion that is the driving force behind the brief; do this by the combination of carefully considered colour, pattern, detail and media! E.g. Ugandan Maternal Healthcare Picture Book would be all about the raw emotion of love from caregivers to a child/newborn, family bonds and the caring healthcare workers; I will use traditional African patterns and colours and carefully consider the details such as expressions that I focus on to portray these emotions! About my practice; Colour, Pattern, Detail, Emotion, The natural world. I want my portfolio to include; Broad range of media, Mixed media, Visual research/experiments, Colour palettes, Work finished to a professional standard, Simple/symbolism, Good drawing ability.
Themes / Subjects
Themes in my work… Colour, pattern, people, creativity, culture, biology, emotion, psychology. Subjects in my work… Promotion, branding, reportage, human relationships e.g. parent and child, culture e.g. Africa, festival culture etc, fashion.
Products / Methods of Distribution
To produce; Promotional material – canvas bags/leaflets/stickers/posters (L.R) Editorial material – picture book/magazine/editorial illustrations (Uganda maternal/VD mag) Analogue prints – (ADAD Collab) Range of 3D products (SUND.I.Y) Paintings (portraits)
Practical Skills / Media / Formats
Practical Skills: Collage, Print – lino/screen/canvas bags/stickers, Sewing & embroidery, 3-D making, Experimenting with paint. Non-Practical Skills; Communication – presenting in front of groups, networking, Documenting Evaluating Organisation – Fail to prepare, prepare to fail! / Arriving early!

Brief 1:	Deadline
Rationale:
Brief 2: Lone.Rascal Promo Products	Deadline
Rationale: Produce promotional material for the Lone.Rascal clothing brand. This should include a design that interacts with the logo/name of brand that can be used on a canvas bag, leaflet, sticker etc could propose some ideas, such as a fun fluffy keyring etc but should definitely produce the canvas bag! Fun, free spirited, festival vibe, boho, hippy, emotion, happy, creative, colourful, vibrant, young, retro, musical!
Brief 3: Q&A Saturdays	Deadline
Rationale: To post on blog (Tumblr and embed to Blogger) weekly, every Saturday, a short Q&A featuring someone that has inspired me that week. Mostly no more than ten questions; best at about 5 key questions in order to keep it short and sweet, as interviewees are more likely to answer the questions and the audience is more likely to read it. I will be providing my own illustrations for each either a portrait of the interviewee or an illustration of something that symbolises them. I will also be providing examples of their work or links. The tone of voice will depend on the interviewee and what they stand for. I am assuming that I will be able to get hold of a photograph reference of their face so it should be a portrait alongside other key elements in their working life/passions. I want to use a limited colour scheme for these and lots of negative space as the background as this will create a clean and simple look to the blog post and will allow the illustration to merge with the blog background, with the text underneath.
Brief 4: SunD.I.Y	Deadline
Rationale: In order to expand my use of media and 3-D materials I have set myself the task of spending 1-2 hours on a Sunday creating a small creative D.I.Y project. I will be uploading this as a blog post every Sunday onto my A Wasp in a Wig Tumblr under the page SunD.I.Y. I am not expecting the results to be perfect but the aim is more so to investigate and explore other materials and practice not being so preoccupied with perfection in my work. The tone of voice will be fun and not too serious. I want to be experimental and carefree with this brief and not worry about how the work looks, it is all about the process of making and trying out techniques and creating 3-D products I would admire, on Pinterest for example, but never usually actually set aside the time to make myself. I was thinking of focussing on simple designs such as Anthropologie style flower and pattern surface designs to decorate them, with perhaps a letter to symbolise someones name etc. This will be helpful to my creative practice as I want to start thinking about simple surface pattern more which will allow me to focus on the role of shape and colour in media more.
Brief 5: ADAD Analogue Print Collaboration	Deadline
Rationale: Create illustrations based on the themes of animals in folk law. These will then be passed on to Aggie Davies, an Illustration student at Portsmouth. She will apply her working practice to these illustrations. She works in a more print based medium and is really interested in that process. I love her work and I think it will work great with my own illustrations to add depth, visual interest and atmosphere to the work. Yet to be confirmed. However I really like the tone of voice of the artist’s work I am collaborating with so it would be cool to follow in that and it would work really well with the content of our project looking at animals in folk law. Slightly disturbing/magical.
Additional Project Proposals Studio Brief 6: Vagina Dentata Magazine Editorial Illustration To draw a couple of well known Sci-Fi characters. More details yet to be confirmed. Studio Brief 7: The Houlder's Christmas Portraits Deadline: Christmas 4 Paintings as part of a set for a Christmas present. In the same style/media (acrylic paint) that I used for a previous painting. Studio Brief 8: Run the World Create an illustration that celebrates the project 'Run the World', including symbols of the countries, continents, number of miles etc. Studio Brief 9: India Brief Deadline: Start in November. Patterns! People! Colour! Sketchbook of work investigating into the role of colour, patterns and people in India. Sketchbook of work investigating into the landscape and environment there. Sketchbook of work investigating into the presence of animals in their culture such as animal deities. Studio Brief 10: Arthritis (JIA and other illnesses that Arthritis Research UK fund research for) Awareness Campaign. Yet to be made specific. In order to do this I will have to talk to people campaigning/working for this cause already and find out what my illustrations can do to help most effectively. Be it an animation, a character design e.g. in wheelchairs etc, posters or canvas bags to raise money etc. I will also contact people dealing with it such as the communities on social media platforms like Instagram. How do charities such as Arthritis Research UK fund research that affects young people… YOUNG PEOPLE ORIENTATED. Studio Brief 11: Featherhead People Promotional Material This brief is purely if I have time, a very short brief I can just do a few illustrations! Can do this after Christmas. Studio Brief 12: Guardian Editorial Brief Create 3 illustrations depicting Leeds College of Art for three separate but linked articles.

Contextual References

RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Go to India	Deadline	December
Details Go to India and investigate the colours, patterns and media of India and its cultures! Investigate into animals role in Indian society; e.g. animal deities etc.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Find out about African dress.	Deadline	November
Details Research into Ugandan dress, such as headgear and dress; could look on social media like Instagram for dress makers/designers over there. (Not high end just casual/tribal)
RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Find out about animals in folk law	Deadline
Details Find out about animals in folklaw so that I can choose an appropriate story to focus on and propose to AD illustrations for our analogue print collaboration.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Interview guests for Q&A Saturdays	Deadline	weekly
Details Create a set of questions – individually focussed and email them.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY: Research into different media for D.I.Y activities.	Deadline	weekly
Details Keep a Pinterest, notes, and possible media such as empty egg boxes, in order to be prepared in advance for my weekly blog post.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOKS / TEXTS  - (Harvard Refernced)

MAGAZINES / JOURNALS / ARTICLES – (include publication date and details)

ON LINE REFERENCES  / WEBSITES / ARTICLES (include specific urls)

OTHER REFERENCE MATERIAL (Films, events, exhibitions, conferences)

ACTION PLAN – use this section to identify specific tasks that you need to complete in order to resolve the brief.
Brief	What do you need to do?	Deadline
1	Studio Brief 1: Uganda Maternal Healthcare Picture Book Illustrations as these must be done by the end of October. Pencil illustrations leaving clothing and background plain/negative space. Then use Photoshop to add colour and pattern to clothing and garments.	End of Oct
2	Studio Brief 3: Q&A Saturdays   Prepare questions Create illustration Create blog post	weekly
3	Studio Brief 4: SunD.I.Y Prepare and make weekly Create blog post (document and evaluate)	weekly
4	Studio Brief 9: India Brief, initial research and preparation must be done as I will be leaving for India at the end of October. Research into the culture and arts there. Also research into reportage illustrations.	End of Oct
5	Studio Brief 6: Vagina Dentata Magazine Editorial Illustrations can be started as soon as I know what I'm drawing, to be done to her deadline… still to be confirmed.
6	Studio Brief 7: The Houlders Christmas Portraits, can be done consistently throughout the next few months until Christmas, best to start ASAP but need to find out size and get paper, and have reference images.	Christmas
7	Studio Brief 5: ADAD Print Collaboration, this can be done ASAP as it is a small project, just need to find out what content aka which animal stories from folk law you are focussing on for the illustrations.
8	Studio Brief 8: Run the World, as this is only one image I can get this done in about a day I just need to find time to fit it in, luckily no urgent deadline as the run is currently in progress however would be good to get ticked off the list!
9	Studio Brief 2: Lone.Rascal Promotional Material, no deadline as of yet, get other stuff sorted first, can look at this properly at a later date. However if I want to do a bit of sketchbook work for this I can get it started earlier than later which is always good.
10	Studio Brief 10: Arthritis Awareness Campaign, no rush to do a lot of work for this, if I have any ideas I can do a bit but mainly to focus on over Christmas!	May ’16?

Overarching Rationale

I want to…

Create work full of emotion.

Create work that uses a colour palette, pattern and media, 

(and details where appropriate as well as carefully thought out use of negative space),

 specifically and selectively to convey the message of the piece 

-from the client to the target audience. 

Because…

This will give context to my work.

It will help to target my working practice to the brief and client

so that my work is as professional as possible,

but still full of my passions/key themes in my work;

C O L O U R 

P A T T E R N 

E M O T I O N 

D E T A I L 

N A T U R E 

(In my opinion this^ includes people and animals - basically the opposite of technology/sci-fi)

This will…

Create a portfolio that has a concurrent theme of work; 

reflecting my passions and key themes, 

Create a portfolio full of experimentation throughout, 

yet still clearly specific and targeted to my briefs;

client and audience. 

And as a result…

 Clients will be able to see the type of work I create as a practitioner,

and how I can tailor my work, 

keeping my tone of voice,

to be specific to their brief and intent.

Themes in my work…
Colour, pattern, people, creativity, culture, biology, psychology

Subjects in my work…
Promotion, branding, reportage, human relationships, Africa, fashion

OUIL603: Bibliography

Books/Texts (Harvard Referenced)



Magazines/Journals/Articles (Include publication date and details)



Online References/Websites/Articles (Include specific URLs)



Other Reference Material (Films, events, exhibitions, conferences)


Contextual References



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Giselle Family Portrait Commission

This project so far:

Size: A3
Content: Family portrait based in Cornwall: holiday home

http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/130540109415

Notes: Do acrylic layer!

SunD.I.Y: 04/10/15

"Attempt" 1:

http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/130507003215/first-attempt-at-sundiy-could-have-gone-better

August Art for Arthritis Research UK Project: Continued

I really enjoyed raising money for this charity over summer and it is definitely a commitment I will keep in mind for future projects. This project is documented on my Personal and Professional Practice blog:

http://a-dear1316ppp.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/AugustArtforArthritis

... and also on my A Wasp in a Wig Tumblr on the page entitled August Art for Arthritis Project:

I was listening to a podcast from BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and they had Jaqueline Wilson as guest editor, one of my favorite authors when I was younger, and she was talking about her new book out; Katy. Randomly enough it is based on Nicola Miles-Wildin's experiences of chronic illness with JIA, juvenile arthritis thats onset occurs before the age of 16, and her experiences using a wheelchair growing up and day to day life etc. I found this really cool as I had been thinking about how little disability is represented in arts and in character design etc, so I am so happy that Jaqueline Wilson is continuing to write books for young people to relate to and learn and understand more about other people different from them!

In the podcast Nicola talks about how people still will speak to her helper instead of her, even when she is the one checking into the hotel etc, just an idea: doing a short couple of second long animation really simple, where there is just someone speaking to the helper (perhaps above shot) and the wheelchair user is in shot just sat there left out. It doesn't matter what they are saying... just the left out and ignored feeling. Then perhaps someone comes into shot, or a child, and starts speaking to the person in the wheelchair, and suddenly the scene starts coming to life, into colour, the flowers bloom, birds sing and the sun comes out etc... symbolising how much difference the small things can make!

It is something that will influence my future projects I suspect and I will be keeping the topic in mind when thinking for new projects to take up as part of this extended practice module!

- just 1/10 young people have been on a date with someone disabled bbc radio one news -

For the Woman's Hour podcast follow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069z8f7

For Nicola's website:
http://nicolamiles-wildin.com/index.htm

Links to charities:
http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/Home

Scroll down on...
http://www.nras.org.uk/have-you-got-the-s-factor-
...and it gives charities and organisations and contact details.

SunD.I.Y

So as part of a weekly project I have decided to create a page on my Tumblr blog called SunD.I.Y

This page will be updated weekly (on a Sunday) with quick D.I.Y arts and crafts projects. I have decided to dedicate an hour every Sunday to this as I think my practice is really 2-D and I often stick to the same media... this project will force me to be more experimental and stick to a strict time schedule. Uploading it to my blog will ensure I feel enough pressure to do it weekly however as it is only taking up an hour of my time on a Sunday it is also just a really fun and relaxed way to get experimental and hands on with my creative practice!

http://awaspinawig.tumblr.com/post/130465184465/sundiy

I have decided to also keep a Pinterest board alongside the project in order to research and record inspiration and ideas.

India Brief: Hindu Ideas of Creation

In this BBC Radio 4 program they cover the Hindu religions ideas of creation which is something I wanted to research into as part of my India Brief for my time there next month. I want to look into how animals are embedded in their culture and religion as part of my COP3 research but also to investigate and document my experience there through reportage illustration and I think it is essential to get as much of a basic knowledge of the people/area as possible before I go!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03k289f

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Hindu ideas about Creation. According to most Western religious traditions, a deity was the original creator of the Universe. Hinduism, on the other hand, has no single creation story. For thousands of years, Hindu thinkers have taken a variety of approaches to the question of where we come from, with some making the case for divine intervention and others asking whether it is even possible for humans to comprehend the nature of creation. The origin of our existence, and the nature of the Universe we live in, is one of the richest strands of Hindu thought.

With:

Jessica Frazier
Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at the University of Oxford

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University

Gavin Flood
Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford.

Producer: Thomas Morris.

I also found some more information on some of the symbols used in Indian culture in my book:

THE BOOK OF SYMBOLS

REFLECTIONS ON ARCHETYPAL IMAGES

TASCHEN

The EGG

'The Indian image of a cosmic egg goes back to the Vedas. Brahmanda, the egg of Brahma the Creator, contains the phenomenal world. Hiranyagarbha is the golden womb, germ or embryo, luminous incubator. The egg's shell bifurcates, like two bowls, into earth and sky; the yolk is the sun. It is a primal scene: an ovum in a sea of sperm; the daily birth of the sun out of eastern waters massaged by wind; breath/spirit moving with the waters of life,, and light emerging, making form visible; the opening of an eye.'

Ganesha

'A study in contradictions and conjunctions, as the large elephant's head on his pot-bellied childish body instantly makes clear. There are, says Paul Courtright, "more than seventy myths" (p.20) of his origins and history, which, in the Indian way, include many contradictions, but the conjunction of animal and human, of wise, mature, elephant head and dwarf or toddler's human stockiness in eleventh-century reliefs are characteristic. Bells on his feet indicate that he is a dancer. His vehicle is the rat.

 In one common myth of Ganesha's origins, he is the offspring of Shiva and Parvati, but in an unusual way. Shiva, the powerful deity of both destruction and restoration, the ascetic and yet also actively erotic god whose consort is Parvati, has refused to give her the son she desires. When he is absent in ascetic retreat, Parvati makes her own son from the dirt of the earth rubbed off her body, and loves him passionately, for he is solely hers. As the boy grows up, she appoints him guardian of her private and sacred bath, and instructs him to keep out all visitors. When Shiva suddenly returns and desires to join his consort, Ganesha opposes him, angering him until in fury he beheads the youth with his sword. Parvati is so distressed that Shiva is compelled to seek the first head he can find to restore the youth to life, and thus Ganesha owes the elephant half of his being to Shiva. But his human body is so young he is no sexual threat, despite Parvati's ambiguous attraction to him; suggested in many sculptures both by the curved rather than erect shape of his elephant trunk and by the broken left tusk whose end the figure holds. 

Uganda Maternal Health Project: Allocated Chapters

FIRST MONTH- Alice

1. DIZZINESS

A woman standing in the garden holding a hoe with circles showing dizziness around her head. Her eyes are squinted, her hand on the head and the other holding the hoe.  Two older women can be seen in the background one digging and the other collecting grass. A baby sits in the tiled land playing in it.

2. FOOD AVERSIONS

A woman sitting on a mat with her face frowned while looking at a plate of food she has been offered by another woman. A group of three people can be seen seated nearby happily eating the same food.

3. FATIGUE

A woman is seated bent on a chair. Her limbs are swaying without any sign of motion. (I would like an artists’ input on this because I cannot fully explain how to display fatigue.)

4. CONSTIPATION

A woman squatting on a pit latrine, its constructed from mud and is grass thatched, the door is open. Her face is frowned in pain. Her arms are folded in fists and a sweat can be seen dripping on the side of her face.  It is clear that she is having constipation.

5. SWOLLEN BREASTS

A woman is going to be drawn having different breast sizes. The breast sizes will be enlarging as she progresses through the nine months. The smallest will be in the first month and the biggest depicted in the ninth month.

6. VOMITING

A woman can be seen outside in the corner of a house vomiting uncontrollably. The clothes are still flying in motion because of the speed she used to rush out of the house. An elderly woman can be seen standing smiling in the door way at the young woman doing all the vomiting. Scenery includes flowers and grass in the compound, smoke coming out of the kitchen which is distant.

7. BLEEDING

A woman can be seen wearing clothes stained with blood. She is walking through the market while looking behind on her stained dress around the buttock with confusion on her face. One of her arms is stretching the dress for a clearer look while the other holds a bag with some groceries hanging out. People like women and men on their market stalls are seen continuing with their business. One of the women selling tomatoes looks at her while her neighbor selling cabbage attends to a customer. Other people can be seen faintly in the background.

8. INCREASED URINATION

A woman can be seen entering a pit latrine but with the word urinal multiple times. The same picture will be repeated four times but each having a clock showing intervals of 20 minutes. If the first clock is to show 12:15, the image that flows will be having 12:35, followed by 12:55 and so on. She can be seen rushing to the toilet with one of her hands holding her private parts as if trying to stop the urine from coming through. The clothes are swaying in the air as she rushes. The scenery is made up of trees and grass but with a clear path to the urinal.

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9. DRINKING WATER

A woman can be seen sitting outside of a kitchen sitting on a mat. She is taking a glass of water. A jug of water covered with a net seated on a plate is nearby. She is talking to a younger girls seated in the door way of the kitchen. Smoke is coming out of the kitchen. Ducks and chickens can be around picking and walking with chicks. A garden can be seen fading into the distance.

10. TAKING ICE

A woman can be seen sitting in the living room watching television. It has old furniture with a basket in one corner of the room. She is sucking on an ice cube taken from a plate she has placed on the table in front of her containing more ice cubes. A child is also sitting close by on the floor watching TV too.

11. FOODS CONTAINING GINGER

A woman can be seen preparing food with raw ginger being placed on a small plate, a spice bottle with the word ginger on it.  A young boy sits nearby drinking a cup of tea in a  mug while holding ginger in his hand.

THINGS TO AVOID

12. SMOKING

A man holds a holds one cigarette in his mouth, smoke can be seen coming from one side of his mouth. His other hand holds a packet of cigarettes. A pregnant woman sits kneading next to him and smoke from the cigarette can be seen going in her direction showing that she is smoking indirectly. They are sitting in the living room and some few objects like a table and faint wall paintings can be seen.  A big X can be put on this scene.

13. X-RAY

A pregnant woman can be seen opening the door to the x-ray room. The word X-RAY ROOM is seen on the door she is opening. Other patients can be seen seated waiting nearby to go into the x-ray room too.  A big X can be put below each this drawing.

14. ALCOHOL

A pregnant woman can be seen in a bar with some friends drinking a beer from a bottle. Her friends are sipping from glasses, the bar attendant can be seen looking at the pregnant woman from across the counter surprised. A big X can be put on this scene.

SECOND MONTH – Alice

15. DARK PATCHES/ SPOTS ON THE FACE

A pregnant woman’s face can be drawn having dark patches or spots on her face. The same woman can be drawn with a dark line on her face running from the forehead through the nose and mouth. Only the face needs to be drawn. This can be portrayed by a woman looking at her face in the mirror. It’s the mirror image that the dark features are shown. These should not be outstandingly darker.

16. STRETCH MARKS

Some stretch marks can be seen on the belly of the woman in this month. She is wearing a long skirt holding her blouse up to the level of her breasts which are thus covered and not showing. She is pointing out the stretch marks to her friend who is also pregnant. It is a bed room scene thus a bed which is unlaid can be seen in the background with a big basket with clothes toppling over can be seen in one corner.

17. SNORING

A pregnant woman can be seen sleeping with her mouth open snoring. Her husband lays in bed awake holding a pillow to his ears. He is looking at her with eyes wide open in disbelief. It’s a bedroom scene. The windows with curtains half drawn can be scene and a clock showing 3:45 in the night. It’s dark outside.

18. NOSE BLEEDING

A pregnant woman can be seen with her nose bleeding. She is slightly bent to prevent the blood from falling on her clothes though some small stains of blood can be seen on her clothes in the chest areas. Her husband is seen rushing towards her with a cloth which he holds in one hand he stretches towards her. They are out on the road. Their house can be seen faintly in the back ground.

19. GUM BLEEDING

A pregnant woman can be seen brushing her teeth but with blood coming out of her gums. She is brushing from outside the house. Blood can be seen in her sputum too which is a mixture of blood and foam from the brushing. She holds a cup of water in one hand and the other holds the tooth brush which has long protruding tips, with some bent sideways away from the others.

20. BACKACHES

A pregnant woman can be seen holding her back in agony while trying to continue walking. Her face is frowned in pain a school girl can be seen standing opposite the road looking at her with emptiness on her face. It’s a road scene.

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21. BRA FOR SUPPORT

 A woman can be seen in the market holding a big bra which can accommodate her growing breasts. While she checks out the bra, her companion an elderly woman can be seen picking another bra from the stock while talking to the attendant. It’s an open market scene with other vendors going about their business.

22. SUNSCREEN

A pregnant woman can be seen walking with a group of women. She is wearing a large hat that protects her from direct sunlight. Another pregnant woman in the group holds an umbrella to protect herself from the sun. They are chatting and walking on the road side. It’s a road scene with cars approaching and a bicycle fading in the distance.

23. MASSAGE

A pregnant woman be seen lying on the bed with her husband massaging her shoulders. She is smiling and fully clothed. The husband is seen talking to her while holding the hand he is massaging up. It’s a bedroom scene with the bed and clothes in the basket showing.

24. WARM BATH

A pregnant woman can be seen in the in the bathroom wrapped in a towel with a basin containing warm water. Some steam is coming from the basin which is on the floor. A sponge and soap are held by the woman in the hands.

25. VISITING DOCTOR

A pregnant woman together with her husband can be seen walking towards a health center. The nurse is standing at the door holding a tray with some faintly seen materials. Some patients are sitting outside. The word HEALTH CENTER is seen on the building with the doctor’s office windows open. The woman is holding hands with her husband as they approach the building.

SIXTH MONTH – Alice

43. ABDOMINAL PAIN

A pregnant woman can be seen holding her belly in pain. Her face is irritated. Her husband is with her trying to hold her arm. Her knees are bent and he tries to support her. It’s a road scene.

44. ITCHY TUMMY

 A pregnant woman can be seen scratching away at her itching belly. She is wearing clothes but the scratching movements can be seen since she is using move arms to do so. Another woman is seated besides her sawing. They are seated outside the house, a goat can be seen fading away in the distance.

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45. PHYSIOTHERAPY

A pregnant woman can be seen doing different physiotherapy (kegel) exercises and some yoga. The same woman can be drawn showing different exercise positions.

46. VISIT TO THE DOCTOR

A husband and wife can be seen seated on chairs being addressed by the doctor. They are holding hands and smiling. The doctor in his lab coat and stethoscope around the neck, seats cross legged and talks to the happy couple.

SEVENTH MONTH – Alice

47. INCREASED SPITTING

A pregnant woman can be seen spitting in a bush while another sneezes into a hanky.  These can be drawn as independent pictures or together as one.

48. BLEEDING

A woman can be seen with a big blood stain on the back of her skirt in the bum area. Another woman is seen hurrying towards her with a wrapper while another tries to support her. The blood is much and also be seen on the ground. These women are all heading towards the health center which can be seen in the distance. The women are near a poster which shows that there is a health center having an arrow pointing in the direction of the center.

RECOMMENDATION

WHAT TO HAVE

49.  A packet of sanitary pads can be drawn here with one or two of the sanitary towels showing on the ground next to the packet.

A wrapper cloth in form of a bed sheet but smaller or large enough to  for woman to wrap around herself can be drawn here too to encourage woman carry an extra piece of clothe in case of bleeding.