Evaluation of origins unit.

Looking back on the work which I have developed and completed for my "origins" unit, I think that this unit of work has overall been successful. I have developed my work and ideas through research and practice from my initial photographs and chance card drawings to my knit and weave sampling. These photographs and chance cards have been the main aspect of this projects work, taking inspiration from the line and composition found in these along with colour and marks. I edited and selected pieces from certain photographs and drawings to focus on in my knit and weave development, such as certain marks, lines and space. 

 

Importantly, through this project I have learnt so many knew things about working at this level. For example, the colour palettes which I created from my mood board inspired by the colour wheel and shoes/tones completed in the Friday drawing day, is something which I have never done previously at A Level or Art Foundation level. Although getting an idea of the colours I was going to use within my knit and weave samples from these colour palettes was something unusual to me, I found it extremely useful and informative to my development within this project. Another lesson I have learnt in this first project is that I need to stop over thinking my sketchbook work and let it flow with my thoughts, to represent my thought process much more and display the relationships I make in my head between research, my drawings and photographs and samples. I think that as my sketchbook work went on I did show these thought processes better than the beginning but I think in my next sketchbook I will try to be much less precious over the presentation and focus more on the ideas. 

 

Something I believe that I've achieved through this project which was unknown to me before is simply the actual process of knit and weave. Although I've used a knitting machine briefly in Art Foundation I had never been taught any of the techniques I've been taught in my three weeks on knit. I've never had any previous experience of weave at all, so to get the chance to learn so many things and create a range of different samples using different structures I believe is an achievement. 

Having a wide range of contextual references throughout my sketchbook from artists to fashion designers has definitely helped me in my development of this project. They gave me lots of different ideas for sampling alongside my drawings and photographs in terms of colour, texture, form and line.

 

In terms of time management and use of my independent study time I think that I am using it well, but there is probably some improvements that I could make. For example, planning the week ahead and booking into workshops or onto machines if needed at the start of the week to ensure a space will be available for me at that date. Also, I could probably be generally more organised with my work with everything like keeping my sketchbook up to date alongside my sampling and thoughts or keeping a journal to take down notes or plan things that need to be done in the week ahead.