Level 4 origins unit evaluation

I feel my development throughout this project has been constant and steady I feel that I have shown clear links and connections in my development from my own photographs, drawings and samples as well as artist influences .I took elements from my drawings into stitch and then improved the initial samples as I went on.

I looked carefully through my photographs and drawing and took only certain parts which jumped out and interested me and translated them into stitch, throughout this process I have edited down my work to come out with drawings and samples that have a better quality them those I first did.

Throughout the project, I have made several self-discoveries about my work for example, I learnt about my hand stamp as an artist and how my drawing style is much more about mark making and creating a surface rather than realistic observational drawing. I also learnt to think more about the bigger factor and picture for example with my samples I initially took them one by one as separate piece but learnt to think how they would work in correlation with on another this is something I will defiantly take forward into my further practice.

I feel that I have achieve a lot throughout this process in a personal way as I didn’t think I was capable to create 15 samples of quality within just one week. I have also learnt to not put my drawing and work down as this will only slow me down, I now look for the positive in my work and how it can be improved this was a big breakthrough for me and help me gain more confidence in my work.

My contextual referencing greatly helped me throughout this process. My artist influences; the Boyle family along with my photographs were the starting point for all my development. They related to and gave me the colour scheme for my work and the implied textures in my photographs inspired me to use certain techniques in ways which could be easily be connected back to my photos, for example the idea of gravel to me is implied with the textural quality of French knots.

Overall I have used my independent and studio time wisely, I have come in on independent study days to complete or catch up on work however I had a slight panic when as I was ill and missed an important hand embroidery lesson this knocked my confidence but I feel I have made up for this. I have slightly struggled with time management in regards to the blog and did it in chunks rather them just doing it as I go along this is something I will definitely change in future.

I have thought laterally about my work and contextual references,  I have always been able to make a link between them whether it is as obvious as the colour scheme or lateral as the shape of a line or a process such as the use of repeat.