During the first group critique back from summer. Discussing each others work I found was very exciting to see what everyone had chosen to start with and also very useful in terms of being able to continue with new ideas.
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| Acrylic of St Ives |
Other students during the critique suggested to establish a colour pallet, though there is one continuing through my work, just to really pull out colours from my imagery. As some of the colours of really beautiful and rich. It was also suggested to continue doing more paintings in the style I have using Acrylic, though shall do that but will also try this style with Goache to see how that works too.
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| Watercolour of Rivington |
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| Layered fabric on above |
What I found most useful was that they noticed that to translate these paintings into Knit it may be difficult as they aren't very textured, so to make a start on getting my mind into knit, I feel I need to capture some textured quality from my paintings and imagery, so that this process will become easier and more affective. This I think will be really interesting as there is a lot of textures in my imagery and paintings that with a view finder could work really nicely. I am thinking that my work will good in knit as I will be able to create big chunky constructions with knit to recreate the wave affect. I feel that the style I want to achieve will look best slightly larger, as artists that I have been researching have all be work on large scale for example paintings being bigger brush strokes.
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| Layers of plastics and fabrics |
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| Close up of above |
An example of what I was told was working well was the acrylic paintings and recently had started trying to recreate some textures a little more three dimensional using plastics and layer up materials. This other students had said was working well and had potential. I was experimenting with this idea as I'm wanting to create very textural work for this topic as focusing on water/ waves etc.
