For the purposes’ of this unit I decided to look at Natural Forms, we have been asked to enter 2 external competitions 1 Bradford Textile Competition plus 1 other.
I wanted to try different mediums, I wanted to try machine knitting but was concerned that I would not know what to do as I had no machine knitting experience and wasn’t sure where start, I panicked didn’t know what to do so did not do anything. Was then ill for a couple of weeks which really didn’t help.
I visited the library collected books on subjects I was interested in, spent some time going through them trying to work out a direction. This didn’t help. I over complicated things.
Too much information …
Finally started to draw I decided to at least start with birds as I quite like drawing them, created images using sticky labels which worked well, I also started to experiment creating marks into acrylic paint, painted over candle wax to reveal colour beneath. I wanted to draw owls at last hurrah … Went to my tutorial discussed my choice it was felt that owls had been done before .. Oh dear …
Learning to take forward
1. I think too much …
2 . Need to just do something, just start drawing not and to worry about the process of making but to start with the drawing..