Step by Step of Final Piece

Started off with a large piece of cardboard, the size was just bigger than A4 paper. Put the paint on the cardboard with a spong. Then print the cardboard on the material.
Cut out different sized circles and stick them down with masking tape. You can also do prints with the cardboard on top of the circles to block some areas out. Use different thickness of cardboard. I pressed down onto the cardboard while I was printing, so it gives some texture.

I put flowers onto a screen and printed them on the material.
The red patches are done with the rough side of a sponge. Put a little amount of paint on to the sponge and slide the sponge across gently.

Cut some flowers from the samples and stitched them onto the material using a embrodery machine (Zig-Zag stitch).

Draw the flower on the material lightly with a pencil, using the embroyery machine, stitch around the flower (Zig-Zag stitch).

Fill in the small circles by embroidering some lines close to each other. The lines stitched should make up a circle within the circle it self.

To fill some empty gaps cut out a smaller sized flower frome one of the samples and stitch it down using the same method as explained above.

Evaluation

     The project given had the theme of journey. I found this project easier to understand because I have done the same theme when I was in high school. I chose to do a journey from home to college because these are the places I mostly visit. I desided to look at textures because I thought of introducing something new into my work, something that I have not really touched on. My main focus was nature because I always get drawn to nature and I find it calm and relaxing.

     I have completed all the requirements to the best of my ability. My Final piece does show the type of journey I took for this project. The prints I did using the cardboard gave a woody effect and I think the cardboard print was the most common technique I used for creating textures. I should have investingated more techniques for creating textures to develope my work further.

     There was less time for completing this project so I managed my time by working faster. When I was doing the samples I used a larger piece of cardboard so that it fills the material more quick. I used another technique using the rough side of a sponge by scraping it across the material. This created the textures of wood. I made this process faster by using a larger sponge. 

     I planned my ideas by doing a mind map at start of the project. This gave me an idea leading myself towards a certain journey. 

     I have done enough sample for me to complete the final piece, because I developed the samples as I went. I did this by using different shapes and sizes of cardboard. I also looked at tree logs, this is how I started doing swirls and I changed the shape of swirls. Using the swirls I created some flowers and put those onto the screen. I enjoyed screen printing and cardboard printing because they were fast and easy to do.

     I looked at magazines and I found various wood shapes and textures. I also got my inspiration from my own photographs. What inspired me to look at wood was Andy Goldworthy because he uses wood or parts of a tree. I also researched Robert Smithson and Richard Long because some of their work connects with mine.

     I could have improved my work by working with an art movement Op Art, but I did not use the art movement because it would have taken really long to change the scale of the drawings and Op Art includes optical illusion drawings and this would have taken long to do.

Richard Long

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Long_(artist)
Website for artist research

Robert Smithsom

This is a primary photograph.
I found that it relates with swirls that Smithson has made within his work.
The brown colour on the curtain is one of the colours I am using for my project.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson
Website for artist research