Can you begin to see the relationship between stitching and drawing?
The relationship between stitching and drawing is slowly becoming more apparent, the way different stitches can be used to create different tone, shading and textures, similar to that that can be created with a pencil.
Were you able to choose stitches which expressed the marks and lines of your drawings?
I'd like to think the stitches i chose were a good expression of the marks i made. I tried to vary the stitches i used in each drawing, and use stitches that worked well with the threads/materials i was using whilst still trying to get the best expression of the mark i could.
Did you choose the right source material to work from?
I don't think there is such thing as the wrong source material, its simply down to how well it is interpreted. Everything in your surroundings can be drawn as a mark and everybody will express that mark differently. I tried to use drawings from my sketchbook that had the most variation within them, that would work best in stitches. Where i didn't feel i had the best suitable marks in my sketchbook, i looked at others artists to interpret.
Do you think your sample works well irrespective of the drawing? or is your sample merely a good interpretation of your drawing?
No i think without referring to the original drawing, my sample looks a little lost. It does not work as a piece of art on its own, merely a representation of what i had drawn. I was concentrating more on the stitching i was using than creating a piece of art. Perhaps this is something i will keep in mind when creating future samples.
Which did you prefer, working with stitch to create textures or working with yarns to make textures? Which worked best for you?
I enjoyed using both stitch and yarns however i do prefer stitching. I feel that with stitching, you have a lot more freedom and can use a lot more techniques than you could with yarns due to them being too big/thick
Make some comments on individual techniques and sample pieces. Did you experiment enough? Did you feel inhibited in any way?
I tried to experiment with different stitches. I have a love/ hate relationship with the satin stitch, i love the way it looks, but i hate doing it as its quite time consuming and tedious so i did push myself to try and use this stitch more. I used a lot of this in my sample at stage 3 . I quite enjoyed making my sample at stage 3, i found it enjoyable and felt a lot of freedom in what i was doing and am pleased with the way it turned out. I didn't really give much thought to what i was doing, i just did it. I found the sample i made at stage 6 a lot harder. I knew what i was going to do, and how i would express it, but once the piece came together i was not as pleased with the outcome, i don't know whether the design was too simple or because i was working from a piece of my own work as opposed to somebody else's.
Do you prefer to work from a drawing or by playing with materials and yarns to create effects? Which method produced the most interesting work?I prefer to just play around, there's a lot more freedom in just making it up as you go along, seeing what works well together and what doesn't than trying to get a decent interpretation from paper to material.
Are there any other techniques you would like to try? Are there any samples you would like to do in a different way?At stated previously, i am not too happy with my sample from stage 6 perhaps if i created it purely from stitch as opposed to using bits of material i might be happier with the outcome.
I haven't used any chain stitching in my work so far so perhaps this is a technique i can try in the future.
Is there anything you would like to change in your work? If so make notes for future referenceI wouldn't say there is really anything i would like to change in my work thus far, I view the work i have done so far merely as experimental, trying out different techniques, stitches, the way different threads/ fabrics work etc as opposed to individual works of art. It is a gradual build up of skills and references for the future.Although if inspiration struck me in the future and i felt i could do a much better / different interpretation of stage 6 i would not be opposed to doing so.
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