Inspirations workshop_ Reflection

Today we started the new year with a group critique session of our summer work in which we each made a small presentation of our sketchbooks and then gave feedback to one another. I found the session helpful and got some positive feedback which was encouraging as I wasn't completely confident about the work I had done over summer.

My mark making and more detailed studies were particularly successful. I was really taken with the variety and delicateness of wild grasses and experimented with a range of media to capture their qualities.

(Ink on scratchboard)

(mark making with grasses, ink)

My sketchbook was mostly inspired by the natural environment but with quite a bright and vibrant colour palette, the group picked up on this contrast (which I hadn't previously given much thought to) and suggested it as something to run with and develop.

(Ink on watercolour paper)

Areas to improve on are to use a wider range of media and consider the surfaces I am working on to. The group also suggested to research more creative practitioners that work in a similar way to how I do.

                        

(oil bar and chalk)

This is one of my less successful drawings, the media I chose didn't allow for the detailed marks I was trying to capture; a bit more consideration of materials is needed. 

I can take these ideas and reflections into the visual research for the new unit, intentions.