Category Archives: Part 5
New concepts – new samples inspired by tutor feedbacks
As I have prepared for assessment I have spent considerable time checking all my tutor feedbacks, watching recommended videos again and reviewing my samples along with re-working a couple in accordance with my tutor’s suggestions and adding a couple of … Continue reading
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Tagged ASSIGNMENT 5, Beauty from Decay
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Artist research – Jill Bliss
This is a photographer who has come to my attention quite unexpectedly through one of my fellow students in the OCA Textiles Facebook group who felt that my work on fungi reminded her of the work of the photographer Jill … Continue reading
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Tagged Colour, fungi, mushrooms, photography, textiles
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Reflection on tutor feedback – Assignment 5
Writing this reflection on this tutor report seems almost quite strange – I have worked through this course at a pace that has suited me as it has kept me focused and interested in the work and with my Asperger’s … Continue reading
Final reflection
I have come to realise these final reflections always feel slightly strange – you are finishing the course and preparing for assessment whilst also preparing to move on to the next course with the challenges that lie ahead but in … Continue reading
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Tagged criteria, Critical Reflection, critical review, learning outcomes
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Exercise 5.2 Written statement
For this body of work I have taken a mixed textile approach as it combines a series of techniques to produce a range of resolved pieces which take on the appearance of bracers, (arm protection), through the theme of Beauty … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabethan, Tudor, written statement
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Exterior influences: what lessons and influences have I gained from the study of other practitioners and how have I implemented these into my own work? What impact has doing this course had on my studies?
Throughout the duration of this course I have been encouraged to research a variety of practitioners with regards to their techniques, working practices and resulting works. Initially I was unsure as to what the reasons were behind this research or … Continue reading
Project 8 Review and refine: Exercise 5.1 Review – Final Critical Review amended
So finally a body of samples that have been developed from my theme of Beauty in Decay. It is almost daunting to write this and review this body of work as a collective and cohesive series – it is the … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty in decay, composition, crochet, Exercise 5.1, felting, materials, samples, techniques, textures, yarn
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Project 8 Review and refine: Exercise 5.1 Review part 5
The final part of my sketchbook work itself involved the simplicity of adding some further photographs taken of fungi at Ilam Hall …. this area proved to be a positive Aladdin’s Cave and fortunately my fiance has now got used … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty in decay, Exercise 5.1, fungi, photography, samples, Sketchbooks
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Project 8 Review and refine: Exercise 5.1 Review part 4
Before I progressed further I worked a smaller series of samples with a view to adding details or a further sample based on Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry’s Fibonacci quilts. The samples include a simple gathered frill, looking at whether I could … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, bracers, decay, Exercise 5.1, Exercise 5.1 part 3, fungi, gathers, Part 2, Part 4, samples
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Project 8 Review and refine: Exercise 5.1 Review part 3
Moving forward with the concept of working my samples as a series of bracers I decided to take the wrapped sample out and photograph in 3 differing locations: Wrapped around my washing line pole with foliage in the background – … Continue reading
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Tagged Exercise 5.1, Exercise 5.1 part 3, Part 1, Project 8
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