This morning we have had our first tutorials with Fiona to discuss our ideas for the live and personal briefs. Baring in mind it's been less than 24 hours since we heard about them, as a group we all seem clueless as to what we are wanting to do. We also have the run up to our Contextualising Practice essay hand in deadline, so my main focus is on that at the moment.
With this said however, I had gathered ideas regrading my strengths/ where I could see myself working and tried to base ideas for my brief around these points... I am MASSIVELY influenced by;
- embellishments
- hand embroidery
- obviously french knots (I am now known as the queen of knots thanks to tutorials)
- looking at textures and colour schemes
One of the main points that was mentioned in my Intentions Unit feedback was that the colour scheme was unclear, so I am wanting to start off with a colour scheme and work from that to achieve a brief. Also similar feedback to textures, playing with weights of fabrics and scale using materials. It was indicated that my strengths lay in stitch research, and so I shall definitely continue to play around with stitching both hand and machine.
The feedback given by Fiona was extremely helpful as always- for my brief guidelines I need to think about my interests, not only in methods of working, but in general life too. After last unit I feel that I really need to up my game, have a set idea from the start and one that contains literal, not expressive starting points, as I found it very hard to begin without any solid research. For this week's plan I have decided that it will be best to look at library research, magazine collections/ journals (for example Elle Decoration) and begin to think about brand matching, colour schemes and mood boards that are going to represent my ideas and interests clearly.