Posted by Agnes Iley , Monday, January 10, 2011 9:47 AM
Doubts and uncertainties…
Whilst working my way towards the end of this second assignment I started to wonder….
Even though I really enjoyed the drawing and design exercises for this assignment. This really made me focus on one small detail and exploring the design possibilities of it. I found myself back to my old ways when it came to most of the fabric painting exercises.
With my old ways I mean, that the whole picture is already developed in my mind. The design work I then do either on paper or digitally consists mostly of working out measurements and placement (for instance on the Shibori, crows on barbed wire, window and lino print samples). Does this mean I failed the objectives of this assignment? Of course I see the almost endless possibilities in the design techniques demonstrated in the exercises and I will certainly use them, especially when I can’t come up with any spontaneous ideas. But my brain is almost always overflowing with (nearly completed) images of things that need to be created and often creating them is a question of working out how to do this technically.
I also wondered about the amount of work I do. I do have a very hectic day job, so am trying to fit my course work in around it. I do see times that are given as a guideline for each exercise and I find that I spent much more time on most exercises. For instance the final fabric painting exercises calls for ten hours of work, I spent (very happily) at least 40 to 50 hours on the exercise (and I refuse to count the time spent on my little French knot sample). The time spent is not an issue, I love working on my samples. I mostly concentrated on techniques to transfer colour or images to fabric. Yet there is still so much more to explore different textures, patterned fabrics and as I really concentrated on creating finished images I would also like to do more work on creating background or “carrier” fabrics for stitching. Now I can imagine that a lot of these “things” that I still would like to try can be worked into samples for later assignments. But on a whole is the work I am showing for this assignment (varied) enough for assessment?
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