Your IB investigation workbook is not a scrapbook, nor a diary nor a sketchbook not just a journal but a record of:

• 2 years of your personal journey in the study of a visual art,
• your experimentation with media and ideas,
• your reactions to art exhibits galleries, festivals any other expression of visual art
• your analysis of art works
• your study of art movements and artists

In discussing artists and their work you should first include the:

• WHO
• WHEN
• WHERE

Then look at the:

• WHY the work was created the way it was created
• HOW the work has impact on you and on society
• WHAT the social situation was at the time that made this work important

In so doing you must:

• Use vocabulary related to the study of art, your medium’s vocabulary and art in general
• Discuss the principles of design, rhythm, balance focus, movement etc
• Discuss the elements of art, Line, shape, color, texture, space
• Include images that are discussed as either thumbnail sketches and/or printed images
• Have text and images and ideas on each page...do not separate these aspects of analysis

It is important:

• to use ink to make the pages legible, any method that will Xerox is OK
• to coordinate the studio work with the journal work
• to include practice with media and sketches for big projects
• to include ideas for works for future
• to include information on other culture’s influences on your art