Evaluation.

When looking back at where my work started to how my final samples came out you can hardly see a relationship but when I look back through my work as whole I can see a strong path of where my work has gone. At the beginning I felt I didn't know what way I was going which did panic me. But what it allowed me to do was have a back log of images to work from when trying to create a concept. I didn't restrict my self with what I was drawing the way I was drawing and the media I was using, I allowed my self to be as free as I could. I went to several archive visit's which I also did many drawings from the photos that's I took there. From the drawings I then went on to develop those further I became stuck for new ways to create images so I began photocopying some of my old drawings and using the photo copies to create paper to collage with. It was through this I really found my feet and went full steam ahead into my work. I soon found myself always relating back to key images that I did from the beginning which is where I soon found my concept for this work. I wanted to take on the idea of old traditional patterns like the works of William Morris for instant and create a new modernized version with brighter colours and a more abstract design. I thought about where I could see my work going and what it could be for because my main inspiration came from William Morris I wanted to look at the idea it being for interior design. near the end of my project I created some images of what in interior design it could be for, I created a couple sample that I would want to have as a trimming of a lamp shade and i think that this is where I could see my work going as a collection of bespoke lampshades. I don't think my work would appeal to everyone but I could see it sitting nicely in a modern shabby chic sort of home with lots of nick nacks and trinkets. I think the old hand made feel would appeal to them and the vintage with a twist designs. I pushed myself within this project to try out things I hadn't done before like learning the ethos and using the embellish I combined the new techniques I learned with ones I have always used like hand and machine embroidery. When sampling I had a few things that I felt didn't quite work my first embelished sample I didn't like it had thick black outlines and I felt it looked basic but I learned from this and went on to just using the embellisher to create backgrounds for other samples. If I had the chance I would have loved to have taken this further and created some lampshade using the samples I am proud of the work that I have developed through out this whole process.