How are the A4 panels looking...?

Today, our group met up to see how we had been getting on over the weekend. Last week we decided to go away and produce two A4 panels each so we could see what our final piece could possibly look like. It was a bit disappointing, as only a few of us had brought our work along to show each other  The meeting would have been more useful if we could have seen all of our work next to each other, as we would have been able to spot things that were working  and aspects that were not. Nevertheless, with what we had, we discussed how we could continue further with our work.

I had focused on working on top of my images; placing motifs and working into them with colour. I used one colour palette, as I feel it is important for a collection to look similar in a way, and colour is  the key aspect to do this. Looking at our work together, I wasn't sure at first if it could work; the black and white images next to my colour palette looked effective, however the top left  colour, didn't quite go. We therefore decided to stick with my colour palette; some of us may use it more than others, but we made it clear to each other that it was important that, if you decide to use colour, to stick to those. I was quite pleased for the group to choose to use my colour palette, as I had spent a lot of time experimenting with the use of colour. When doing my research I had found an inspirational image; the subject within the image didn't have anything to do with our theme, nevertheless I found the colours very inspiring.

I came across this image on one of my favorite blogs; http://www.patternity.co.uk/. It's an archive of inspirational images and I found the colours engaging somehow. I don't usually use boldly contrasting colours together, however when I saw how well they looked next to each other, I wanted to use them! 

In this meeting we also discussed where to exhibit our work. We decided we would quite like to use one of the windows in Fred Aldous in the Northern Quarter. Seen as we hadn't spoken to any of the members of staff there and it was getting late, we decided to ring them. Sophie spoke to Paul; a manager in Fred Aldous and he said that they had quite a few Unit X groups exhibiting there, however he could possibly move things around. Hoping that this could work out, Sophie thanked him and said she would see him tomorrow to discuss possibilities. It finally feels like we're going to have a place for our work!!!!