Evaluation

For my final piece I designed and created a three panels which incorporated elements of my own personal family letters within it; I wanted to create panels that displayed important pieces of the letters. Some of the ideas are hidden and hard to notice unless you look closely at the piece; I like this idea, as one has to study my work to find the imagery and understand the piece. I experimented with a variety of colour schemes and chose to work with a different scheme on each panel to evoke a different sense of emotion. I used a variety a materials and techniques to make my final piece; I used acrylic transfer, stitch, sellotape transfers, bondaweb and collage. Incorporating quotes from the letters made the piece more personal. I think that using mixed media elements enhanced the quality of my work as a whole.

The outcome of my final piece was not as I expected, it was very difficult to stick to the exact ideas I had and colour schemes that I had planned, as it was hard to find materials that matched my plan. The outcomes are slightly messier than I anticipated, however I believe it still works as a selection of final outcomes. Even though my final piece is not what I had expected it to look like, I still like the final outcome due to the techniques I used and the way I attached the final piece together.

I believe that the most successful part of my project was my artists research. This is where I began to experiment with techniques that were used by the artists and I started to review and refine my own distinctive style. I began to use mixed media techniques that could be used in my final piece.  I experiment with a lot of ideas so that my final piece would be successful. I think that I was unsuccessful in the time it took for me to come up with a final outcome, I used a wide variety of artists, but lots of them repeated the same techniques I'd already used, I could've found a variety of new techniques that may of strengthened my outcomes.

If I had more time to improve my project, I would have done more research into stitch artists rather than mixed media artists, so that the stitch on my final piece was more thought out. I would also have experimented further techniques by making a smaller mock up of my final piece, I did not do this as it would have been very time consuming.

There were many small ideas and techniques that I used from all the artists that I researched which I used in my final piece, for example I took the idea of embroidery from Hens Teeth and Dottie Angel and the idea of deconstructing letters from Ines Seidel. Therefore many of the artists I researched played a role in the inspiration for my final piece.

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