My final Outcome..

When I looked back on my embroidery samples, I realised that my work appeared dull and not quiet following the theme that I had in mind, my embroidery samples were full of bright colours and not following any particular theme or pattern, my ideas were all over the place and I think it was clearly indicating that I was feeling very lost within my work, after having a tutorial, I felt it was vital that I needed to make these changes so that it became much clearer to both me and my tutors who would be marking my work. In weave, I was keen to make these changes so that I could see a clear difference on where I was going wrong, that way I was able to fix these problems. 

Although I worked individually, it was very useful to have group tutorials on my work because it enabled me to look and explore various processes and visualize other students ideas and there personal outcomes of the same brief. I found my group tutorials had a big affect on the progress of my work. From my tutorials I was advised to make a number of changes that were going to help the development of my work such as, colours, thread, yarn and material choice. 

My contextual practice research was vital to my understanding of the uses and variety in passimentrie. I looked across the art platforms to inform my visual research. Margo Selby's style of weaving was a great inspiration to me, as her work is a great proportion guide for me, I was able to learn how to create blocks and stripes of colour and pattern that were not only plain and simple but had a great amount of pattern amongst another pattern, an example of this is circles amongst stripes which I found particularly useful for my woven passimentrie. 

My new visual research had movements of vivid colour being revealed from a darker shade. I found that darker yarns with sections of vibrant ones lift the whole sample and give it a completely different look. I placed these vibrant colours in carefully so that my samples were showing a link to my drawings, the work then as a whole was showing movement and tones through out the whole of my project. 

Ray Warren Fairground photography

Ray Warren's photography is a lot different to the other kind of art work that I researched for my project, his work had not one kind of textured media involved at all, but was just a simple bunch of photographs, that had been worked on top of on Photoshop to really focus on the movement and atmosphere of a fairground.
The main element I liked from his work was the amazing movement the images have, they come alive and look unbelievably realistic, when I look at his images I feel like I am able to jump right into the fairground or amusement park itself by the amazing quality of the images.
A great advantage that I like about his work is the fact that the shots he had taken and the outcomes that he is left with have beautiful and unique qualities that I can take and develop further, I was able to zoom in on my favorite areas of his work and draw my own style of marks inspired by Ray Warren himself, this is shown very clearly in my drawing work, as similar lines and tones have been made.

Katie Black

Katie Black was another artist the same as David Rogers that has inspired my drawing work. The above picture was my favorite image by Katie herself, the reason for this is because I admire the way she has included both thick dark lines with much more delicate and light ones and done it in such a professional looking way, I have tried to really focus on this myself in both my drawing and sample work as you can tell in both my embroidery and weaving samples, I have sometimes used thick yarns along side much thinner dainty threads this creates a great link with Katie Black's practical work. 

David Rogers Fairground artwork

David Rogers was a big inspiration to me because of his colour pallet, the exact match to my own, this piece of work by Roger was my favorite because of the loose marks he had created, this whole image is full of movement just like my own drawings, the key quality to this piece of work that inspired me for my own was the movement of the lines, movement is a big aspect of what I have looked into throughout this project because that is exactly what fairground rides are all about, fast movement and adrenaline. 

Margo Selby

Margo Selby is a well known weaver, her work is truly unique and she has inspired me a lot through out my Unit X project.
Her weaves follow the same kind of pattern throughout all of her designs, this is what makes her style unique and how people recognize the work that she does, this is definitely something that I would inspire to be like, if i was ever lucky to follow in her kind of footsteps.  
I love the way she creates strips of weave, within a thick banding frame, that follows the same trend through out her work yet the designs looks so different as you look through the weave, when I look at Selbys work I find different qualities every time they catch my eye, this is exactly the kind of thing I have tried to get my own samples to look like, for an example, in my weave samples, I have threaded in so many different components such as jewels, sequins, ribbons, threads, bands and cords, just in the same style as Margo, this is how I wanted to make my own work that slightly bit unique as no one else was going all out with the jewels and shiny bling. 

Sketch book and drawing work..

Drawing and sketch book work is very important to indicate the link of sample work to ideas that are expressed in a flat 2D form, after exploring my first hand research of internet and books, the images that I found for my inspiration were following the same kind of pattern, without me even realising, a midnight black was taking over my pictures, but with splashes of luminous colour here and there. For this reason to link all of my work I decided to follow this same pattern. my tutorials really helped me to finalise this decision, it was a clear mistake that I was making at the start of my project. The above pictures are just a few of my media work, you can see a clear link to my work and the picture below (which is an image from my internet research that I had been working from) i would like to feel I no the direction that I am going in now. 

Weaving..

      

The above pictures are my intake of drawing and mark making, my way of expressing the drawing side of weave, these drawings are my way to link the whole weave process together, the colours and vibrant lashes of pattern are the perfect reality of weaving, the reason that I chose the blood red, shocking pink, electric blue, the dashes of a multicolour rainbow and the sparkle of gold and silver, amongst the deathly black shadows was so that my samples are linking to my drawing and research work. 

My first initial idea was to focus on fairgrounds as a whole but as time has gone on, and my work has continued to develop, I have been more focused on the structures of fairgrounds and there landscape view at night, this is being shown through both my sampling and drawing. 

The weave that I have created is one large media piece, that's full off embellishment, threads, yarns, jewels, sequins, ribbons, cords, binds, bands, pompoms and a range of material is all what makes up my structured piece of work. 

The reason that I decided to set up my warp and continue my weft with a striped pattern base was because I wanted to create a look of tracks and structure, a sort of journey that you can follow, just like the tracks of a fairground ride, this is the reason why I also thought about colours, media and texture, I wanted to make sure that I chose materials that are going to give the right idea for my unit of work, this theme follows throughout my whole project.