Week Eighteen Evaluation

Overall I think I've accomplished everything I set out to do in my learning agreement in terms of aims throughout the unit. Some ideas have took different turns than I thought they would and certain mistakes have lead to inspiration for positive change.

Experimenting with new fabrics I've never worked with before such as the moleskin cotton and linen and testing out designing for new surfaces is what I want to drive in Unit X. I think the addition of ceramics and glass has had a positive impact on my work and finishes off the fabric collections.

Although I like Collection One and think it works well together some of the fabrics sampled on could have been a heavier weight to be more suited to an interior. It was very much concept based thinking about the bleaching of the coral reefs throughout.

Collection Two to me is more exciting, the addition of colour in my work after working purely in whites I enjoyed. I was much more experimental with art work in this collection and think it definitely paid off. I was a bit unsure at first where I would place ombres and dip dyes in a home at first other than in panels however contextual research and inspiration lead to the addition of surface print for accessories too that works well with my contemporary designs.

In Unit X I hope to continue painting, dying and fabric sampling to create artwork for designs. I want to take Collection Two further and continue combining the textures and mark making with ombres in different ways. At this moment in time the outcome will be an interior surface print collection that can be applied to fabrics, wallpapers, ceramics and glass.

In an addition to the live projects I've carried out I've also been networking for the last six months on Facebook and Twitter. It started off with me uploading an image of a piece of artwork I did and people responding asking for orders. Money was transferred via Paypal and in total I've posted out over twenty canvas'.  Like my ceramic transfer commission I carried out as one of my life projects it's taught me a lot about costings and timings but also that you can use social media sites as a way of getting extra work.