Sampling Breif- Evaluation

The second part of this brief has been exciting and interesting, writing your own brief is much more enjoyable than being forced into something you have to base your work around. Choosing what you want to do and exploring things that interest you has proved to be exhilarating. I have enjoyed looking at patterns within natural forms and explored colours and textures throughout.

I have also explored using leaves and twigs to use as drawing tools; this helped me be expressive in my drawings. After the first half of this project I felt pretty confident in writing my own brief, having an idea of how I wanted to move on with the project exploring colours and textures helped the development of my work. 

I really enjoyed the dye workshop, using the resistant techniques created some brilliant textures and patterns which relate really well to natural forms. Binding the fabrics created circular patterns which I found very interesting. The dyes almost brought out a mystery in them with the colour combinations created which most of the time was not purposeful, that’s why I enjoyed the workshop so much. With the dip dyes you could never be certain how the samples would turn out which made it exciting. 

 

 I combined some machine work into these samples to make them more interesting and to add textures to help interpret my project. I feel some of the dye samples have a real textural quality relating to the earthy and natural textures I have been exploring. 

Some samples are quiet robust which I found interesting as I feel this has a relation to the natural forms I have been looking at. I have thought a lot about colour within the samples and found it hard at times to get the correct colours. To overcome this I decided to choose a more varied colour palette so I wasn’t stuck with just a few colours. 

I haven’t really focused much on the opposing words in this half of the project however I feel chaos still relates in the mark makings and drawings done. I was more focused on the textures and patterns I could create. I feel I have shown my interpretations much better in this second half than the first half.  I think this is because I felt a bit stuck at the start of the first and couldn’t decide which way to go, however I felt more confident about the second half as I wrote it myself and had a plan of what I wanted to do before starting it, it also followed on from the previous work done so that helped develop my work.