Busy weekend!

This weekend has been VERY busy. It's been made up of producing 15 A4 panels, 25 small acetates and non-stop group updates on Facebook  It's been good that we've been keeping each other updated on Facebook as it's meant that we can share ideas and also keep people positive through a hard weekend. I'm quite pleased with my panels; I've used both mine and   members of the groups images, included motifs and also made every one look slightly different.  I have made sure that each panel has included drawings of my own; whether that was motifs, exaggerated fine liner sketches or cut out typography. I got the idea of typography from a member of my group. Gabi had the idea of including feelings through words; she collected many different feelings, typed them out and used them within her work. When I was talking to her, we decided that the typography could work within my panels as well. I really enjoyed working with this idea; I printed the sheet of words out onto acetate and used them within my motifs and also as separate elements. A couple of members in my group used stitching within their work, therefore I decided to use the typography but cut them and use them as thin strips, to replicate stitching. I think that it's been really good that we've shared and used each others ideas; it truly shows that we have worked collaboratively. 

I used many different materials to create my work: watercolour paints, fine liner,  acetate, felt tip pen etc. I feel that the use of watercolour worked well as it meant that the face could be seen through the design and it also added texture as you can slightly see the brush strokes at times. The sketching using fine liner also added texture as well as a slightly graphical style; adding quirkiness to my work. I like my work to have a depth about it and I believe produced this; from texture  being created through the materials used, placement of acetates overlapping images and also the  mixture of different motifs/images used in one panel, my work is interesting and individualistic.

I'm pleased I've focused on developing motifs within this project as I made sure I linked everything with textiles. I didn't want to move away from print throughout this project, as that's what I've come to uni to do. Even though Unit X is all about collaboration; exploring different areas and seeing what it's like to work within a group, it would be silly to go in the opposite direction of what I want to do. Even though I don't think it's my best work, within our group and what we decided to do, I think it's worked well. I've worked well on my panels; using time consuming techniques and also not restricting my ideas too much.