Arts and Crafts Evaluation - 12/02/2015

For this project, I got secondary research from ‘www.google.co.uk’ and ‘en.wikipedia.org/’. I decided to focus on just William Morris because I preferred his artwork to Mackintosh’s and he has a basic theme which is flowers and animal patterns as he designs wallpaper. The contemporary artist I chose was Pablo Picasso because I’m very familiar with his work and it is quite interesting.

I did two mood boards, one for each artist. For Morris’ mood board I found pictures of his work on Pinterest & Tumblr and printed my favourite ones out. I got some pink watercolour paint and splatted it onto A2 cartridge paper using a paintbrush, for the background. I cut out and glued the pictures on the paper leaving a bit of pace in between each one so some of the background is showing. For the second mood board, I got images of Picasso’s work from Pinterest and ‘www.picasso.org/’ and printed out his most popular and most famous pieces. I stuck them on A2 cartridge paper like a collage; some photos were overlapping slightly and they filled up the page.

I used a variety of experimentation throughout the project. For the first design I used colour pencil, watercolour paint and acrylic paint. For the second one I used colour pencil, water colour paint, acrylic paint, pen and black felt tip.

In the final design I used colour pencil & watercolour paint. For the final piece I used 4 processes in the Textile workshop: sewing with blue yarn, puff binding, hot wax & brusho inks and gouache. Any blank/white places that I didn’t have time to sew or that were too dull etc. I painted after with water colour paint.

The health and safety covered in the workshops are to:

-careful with the hot wax so it doesn’t burn your skin

-wear and apron so that ink or gouache doesn’t get on clothes as it stains

-do not put hands or anything other than the work directly under the heat gun as it will burn

-be careful when sewing with the needle to not stab hands or fingers

-handle equipment and work gently; careful not to drop or break

My feedback from my peer assessment says it is ‘good, neat and well-presented but has no annotations and the gum-strip was left on some work’. I took the gum-strip off before the work was handed in though.

The 2 designs have accurate drawings and proportions; lots of different media was used and I got a lot of ideas for them. The final design contains ideas from both of the 2 design idea sheets and worked well in the final piece; it wasn’t complicated and didn’t take long.