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I started to mind map my ideas using milanote, it helped me to get down my ideas quickly

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I started to look at creating my theme, my reality; the beauty in everyday life. I want to look at the way that i see my personal world, day to day.

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I started to take photos for my primary research. i decided to use a polaroid camera as it adds a distorted look

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To help me get inspired before experimenting, i used found objects to create a collage based on my bedroom. My bedroom is my safe space and is a main part of my life as it is where i have been through the lowest points of my anxiety and where i had the happiest parts of my childhood.

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I started my initial research with Tilleke schwarz and Alan fletcher, this is my response inspired by both. i think this is very successful because of the whimsical typography and the free flowing stitch work. However i think that the pink is too colourful, bold and doesnt fit in with my colour scheme.

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I love the simplistic stitch that i completed on my sewing machine. I want to experiment with adding colour to this to create a look that better reflects my theme and the rest of my project.

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I completed lots of experimentation this week, inspired by Tilleke Schwarz, Alan Fletcher and Rachel Eardley. This has made me want to carry on experimenting with textiles as it gives a softer look because of all the different soft textures.

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This is one of my favourite pieces because of the compisition. the order of the typewriter text at the top and the hectic style of the linework drawing at the bottom. This has inspired me for possible layouts for my final piece.

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This Rachel Eardley inspired piece has inspired me to carry on experimenting with the contrast between the hectic linework and the realistic polaroid.

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I love the messy stitchwork of the flowers that hang from my ceiling. The messy stitchwork creates a more organic look that reflects how flowers are in real life. To me, flowers represent the beauty that i see in my reality and the colour scheme represents my struggle with anxiety. To continue this experimentation i want to try to use more colour to better represent the beauty than the anxiety in my life.

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Thoughout these first few weeks of experimentation i have found that i have focused on my safe space, my bedroom. My bedroom is where i spend most of my time and where i can fully express myself, as i have decorated my room in a way that expresses the things i like and what i find beautiful.

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After researching Jiri Kolar, i started experimenting by using photocopies of previous pieces of art that were successful.

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All of my Jiri Kolar inspired pieces are very successful at creating a distorted look that reflects my early ideas from this project. I wanted to complete these pieces to develop my earlier pieces of art in a completely different way. i want to further develop this style by experimenting with combining my love and passion for textiles.

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throughout week 6 i focused on experimenting with lino-printing. i focused on the idea of flowers, as my main visual, as to me they represent not only beauty but my bedroom, the place where i feel calm, my safe space in reality.

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i think that the black ink is successful as it shows the simplicity of the designs however i think the dark colour does not represent the happiness and joy i want represented.

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I want to experiment with monoprint to see what style of printmaking i think is more successful

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I experimented further by using pink ink, i think this is more successful at representing my theme and reminds me of the flowers that my mum painted on the walls of my childhood bedroom.

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I have not been in college this week due to my anxiety. Throughout the making of this project i have been dealing with a difficult bout of anxiety. However this has made my connection with this project even stronger. All of the art that ive been making has brought me so much joy and has helped me to see the beauty of reality in this trying time.

My art is made based on how i feel - the bright colours and beautiful flowers cantrast the stress and anxiety that i have been dealing with.

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i think this piece is successful as it combines my inspiration from Rachel Eardley and my love of textiles.
The polaroids represent the reality that is around me but the art surrounding them represents the way that i twist reality and focus on the beauty and joy, to being me joy.

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I love the materials that i used to create this as the loose threads add organic lines to the piece and the linoprint background adds a contrasting colour. The composition is not my favourite in this piece so to improve and develop this idea i want to use the composition from my yellow typewriter and illustartion piece. This further experimentation will be very important as it will help me decide the design and composition for my final piece.

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To further my Jiri Kolar inspired collage pieces i decided to create two linoprint pieces on fabric and then weave the two of them in the same design as my earlier pieces. i think this piece is very successful because of the blend of colours and the flower design that creates such a joyful looking piece. The loose threads add back in the organic look of flowers that was lost due to the lines created in the weaving.

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throughout this project i have been able to combine the skills that i have learnt through my graphics and textiles gcse's and the first year of this college course.
I have found my love for illustration and textiles work amazingly together, as these skills help me to create creative and unique pieces of art that are extremely personal to me.
Art has always helped me to represent these personal matters in a creative and healthy way. For example this project i have focused on my reality and the beauty in everyday life, i have done this by focusing on my bedroom, a very personal place where i spend most of my time and feel safe and calm.
My room is decorated and filled by everything that i find beautiful and brings me joy, i physical representation of me as a person.
Everything in this project has a meaning or purpose, the colours being my favourite colours, the flower being a personal symbol that me and my mum connect with (representing the bond we have and the love i have for her), finally, the textiles and illustration that are great passions for me and are my specialisms that i greatly enjoy working in.

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Following on from my previous pieces of stitch, lino and typewriter experimentation i combined the three different medias. This experimentation has helped me to decide that i like all of these medias and want to carry on experimenting with them in different ways and possibly incorperate them into my final piece because i like the contrast between the formal typewriter typography and the playful colours and images of the flowers.

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I experimented with monoprint, i used simple images of flowers and my polaroids. I do not think that these monoprints are successful because of how the prints turned out. However this has helped me decide that if i want to use printmaking in my final piece that i will be using linoprint because it was much more successful than these monoprints.

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To develop these prints more i used posca pens to draw on top, however this has not changed how i feel about these prints because the dark ink and marks that were left do not fit with any of my other pieces in my project, so i will not be continuing any more experimentation.

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As further experimentation i combined the two flower designs, this has helped me to compare the two different styles

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I wanted to experiment with the idea of polaroids, so i created an A5 size polaroid frame and used cellophane to add a colourful distorted look, inspired by the photos from polaroids. I think that the flower imagery is successful because of the contrast between the colourful and organic stitch compared to the dark monoprint behind it. I want to continue to experiment with the idea of oversized polaroids that i might incorparate into my final design to fit with the scale.

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trial and experimentation for my final piece plan

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trial and experimentation for my final piece plan

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making this A3 piece has helped me to see what is going to be successful and unsuccessful for my final piece.

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I filled out a plan for my final 5 weeks and the requirements I need to hand in so that nothing gets missed out and I am on top of my work.

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To better understand my plan i decided to draw it out so i could annotate the meaning behind parts and explain the materials i plan to use.

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I am extremely happy and proud of how my final piece has turned out. I think this piece is a good representative of my whole project and theme. Looking at this piece brings me so much joy and that is what I hoped would happen because that is what I hope my audience will also feel when looking at my work.