Evaluation arts and crafts
For my arts and crafts project I had to first research the
two historical artists, William Morris and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. As far as
my research goes I could only get secondary research which was from google from
which I used websites such as Wikipedia and the official William Morris website
alongside the official MADart blog. In the project I chose William Morris as my
historical artist as I liked the different patterns and the defining detail
that he would put into his floral patterned wallpaper as well as my strong
point in the project being floral patterns. I put my mood boards together by
choosing the work of Morris I thought was most interesting and imaginative that
I could get different ideas from as well as come up with new ones. I decided on
my contemporary artist by looking through new and experimental contemporary
artists and chose Megan Aroon Duncanson or MADart as she is also known, I chose
MADart as her work also used a sort of floral patterns and bright vibrant
colours that I thought would bring some of Morris’s work to life a little more
when I would mix them together. Throughout the project we did different experiments
with different techniques such as mark making where we used different tools
such as straws, sponges and forks to make different marks in our work with
different paints. We also used a technique called Batik where we used heated
Parrafin wax from a wax pot to draw on our paper with and when the wax had
cooled it raised a little and acted as a barrier so the paint wouldn’t be able
to go over the wax on the paper making a pattern of sorts. Another technique we
used was puff binding where we used puff binder to draw a pattern on the paper
and when dried by the heat gun it would raise and stand out making it visible.
We also used peg looms and cardboard looms where we would make a pattern using
wool to weave a pattern and we used hand sewing to add detail to our work by
making a pattern in the drawing/painting with a different colour of wool.
Through the experimentation we had to sing in and out each time we entered and
left the room in case of a fire to show where we were in case anyone would need
to find us. We also had to be careful as we were dealing with boiling hot wax
that could burn us as well as having to wear an apron to protect our clothing
from being stained. I did not action any feedback from my peer assessment as I
was absent when the peer assessment took place. Within my designs my strengths
were the drawing of the pattern and the colouring of the pattern with pencil.
If I were to do the project again I would manage my time a lot more efficiently
and complete my homework on time to make sure the project was of a good
standard to add to my portfolio. In the project the designing of the work went
well but the completion of the work was not as good as it should have been on
my behalf. In my opinion my time
management was a little poor but I hope to improve that over the course and the
next project as much as I can.
