intentions - inspirations workshop

Todays task of presenting and reflecting on our summer work has helped me to understand a direction that I seemed to be progressing towards subconsciously. My feedback in general was fairly positive with some helpful insight to moving forward.

Strengths of the work-  One of my group memebers identified that one of my strengths is the contrast between some of my more abstract watercolour sketches, and my detailed ink pen drawings and how they work well together to create depth.

Relationship to specialism- One member of my group commented on my leaf prints, saying that an abstract repeat pattern like that would work well when specialising this year in print. They also suggested that my work looks like the work of a future printer, based on my drawings and style.

Overall concept-  Another strength identified was my overall concept. After starting the summer exploring many nature related areas, such as plants, trees, flowers, insects, animals etc; I then developed into literally combining them (for example in these images)

Areas that need improvement- After my group had decided that the concept behind combining the animals and plants etc together was sucessful, they all agreed that an area to develop would be those style drawings. Making more combinations and experimenting more with the creations I make.

Colour- Whilst I thought I hadnt really refined my colours yet, the members of my group said that they saw a reoccurring theme behind my colours and that I was starting to be selective. With this in mind I think I will look back through my work and pick out drawings that inspire me based on colour and develop a colour palette to keep me coordinated.

Other inspirations- I had a few suggestions from my group on other practitioners or areas I could look into for inspiration. One girl suggested looking into hollographic cards, where one image changes into another, playing on the idea behind my concept, similar to my drawing combining the two tigers. Another girl suggested looking at William Morris to look at the way he turned his floral drawings into print designs. I have looked and found a couple of pieces which I found interesting, and I will now use him as one of my artist inspirations.