1.2.12. PE Task 2.

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 Emma McNally.

Pippa Jones 

The first artist I found interesting and looked at was the work of Emma Mcnally. I find her work inspiring in a way that comforted me in my work. Going into embroidery I felt rather bewildered, due to just using a basic square of fabric just didn't feel enough for me until I came across Emma's work. I felt her work showed me that even though the use of multiple layers her work was not messy or cluttered. Knowing if I took this step myself it could give me something of the same effect. Something of order and detail. The piece I have chosen to go with by Mcnally has led me to create four separate individual layers to which I have bondawebbed together to create my multiple layers within one individual sample. Through using multiple layers and not being able to distinguish the layers from one another allows you to view different details and delicate marks underneath and between the fabrics creating a unique and subtle transition through out the piece. These layers  I feel create order and detail within the piece which I feel replicates Mcnally's work whilst maintaining my individual style and representing my own personality. 

Teresa Barboza.

Pippa Jones

Pippa Jones.

Having had my first three weeks in hand stitch I wanted to combine what I had learnt in the rotation, I was in construct and I wanted to take what I learnt in knit into machine stitch but I wasn't quite sure how to go about it. I researched a few artists and I came across an artist called Teresa Barboza. In the pieces of work I have picked I admired the way she had joined the stitch and knit together and made it look like one piece of work. Using the knit as part of an extension of the picture she is projecting. This was a concept I thought wouldn't marry well and work as one, but having seen Barboza's work I have realised this technique works and the two compliment one another. A concept I wanted to attempt to bring together and make work well visually in my own work. In my piece I have used the knit as the base of my sample layering it on a black cotton background, working on top with a number of different sewing machine techniques to create my desired pattern.

The final piece of work was a separate piece by Teresa Barboza, however I wanted to look at her work from a different angle and perspective. Using how she made the knit seem as one with the piece of work, producing her detail within the knit as it flows to the frame. I wanted to create the base of knit to stitch into my piece as well as adding detail whilst I created the base with e-wrap. As well as this I made a long thin chain of knit to create more detail into the fabric. To finish my pattern I went in with some machine and hand stitch which creates more intricate detailing within the piece. 

In conclusion I feel that through research into other artists can provide inspiration and help to develop my work and growth in designing and creating pieces. This has in turn allowed me to realise that work from different contexts such as art/architecture/nature can help to take my work in many different and diverse directions I may have not originally have thought of. As a result of this I will continue to look at alternative ways that I can produce my work and portray these techniques to others.

1.2.11. Improving.

After tuesdays tutorial, I have spent the rest of the week finding ways to improve my samples and ideas.
The first sample was my best from last week, which is full of texture and pattern, which was agreed my best piece. The second sample, Was my could be improved, which I have spent the week taking bits of ideas from it and working on how I could broaden the idea. I looked at texture, tonal value, and size.
The last sample is the worst, and it is something I definitely don't want to do again. The pattern is all off, with colours clashing, and with the white in the middle and not used properly.
Things I have taken from it is that I need to really think about tone and colour, proportion, size  and  composition  before I take the sample to the sewing machine. Planning is key.

1.2.10. Combinations & Teresa Barboza.

Teresa Barboza Pinterest

In my sketchbook I wanted it to be full of ideas of what to do an where I am going with it, I started by  jotting down how I wanted to make the sample out from that technique to use to the fabric I wanted to use it on. I found this quite useful to refer back to and develop from.
When we switched from hand to machine stitch, of course we learnt more techniques on the sewing machines, but I also wanted to keep some of my hand stitch techniques with me and in my work flowing them my samples. So I did a few drawn up ideas for this to mentally see if it could work and it seem to get on well together with what and how I wanted to put them.
So throughout out this week I have been thinking about my last world and how I could involve that into my current work, I didn't want the to worlds to be a separate things and to see it they all worked well together. We have been told to integrate them in some way if we want to and I thing this is going to be a really good opportunity to see if they work well together.
I have been Looking at Teresa Barboza's work how she has combined knit and embroidery in a way that the piece looks like one. Like the picture has spilled out of the canvas and created something more than just a picture but is becoming 3dimentional. Her use of embroidery and knit this way has inspired me even more that I need to join all of what I have learnt as one and see what kind of outcome I can create as one.

1.2.9. Sneak Peak + Reflection.

In the tutorial we got to see what the Machine embroidery side had been doing and what we would be going in to, as well as looking back on how far we have come in Hand Embroidery.
Looking back on the first few samples I did, at the time, I was happy with them, but I knew it wasn't enough, and looking throughout my 3 weeks of work , seeing the progression of work and how things worked well and what didn't, how I have learnt from one sample to the next to make that one look twice as much more interesting because id learnt from previous is interesting.
Getting to see the Machine Embroidery samples was insightful, Looking at some of the techniques they have used and wondering how I could adapt them to help my in my designs.

Kate & Nigel got us to think about how we could layer and rethink the composition of our previous samples by folding, layering and working on compositions of samples together to see what we could get.

With my finish samples I had I felt like they were single stand alone pieces, I could quite find a quite happy medium with them but I gave it a go. I am not so keen on the idea of this, the only on I think has work is the last one, the texture that it bring out makes it look like bubble wrap. but was interesting to find to what work well with what. 

1.2.8. Objective and Subjective.

After the lecture on monday with Kate it made me think a lot about, how I viewed my own work and how I worked as a whole, what I thought about it. Understand that my sketchbook is personal to myself, but yet it shows my workings and understandings from one step to the next, it shows my personality to and my 'hand stamp' to textiles. Taking this away, I thought that I should re evaluate how I look at my blog and at my sketchbook and the way in which I work with them.
That what I put in my book is the workings from one step to the next and all that is in-between, so that when it comes to a tutorial and critiquing I can say what I thought went wrong and what went right and why.
With my blog is going to be totally different, putting the highlights, disasters and change of ideas on that and what I think of it and of course my sources of inspiration.
I found her lecture quite insightful, that things doing have to be so precious, and a little dirt or rip and tear in my pages of my sketch book cold bring personailty to it, its what I make of the pages inside the book that counts.