Reflection on feedback – Part 2
Again another pleasing tutor feedback – and yes I do, so far, enjoy Printmaking.
It is very easy to underestimate the skill required to make good quality lino prints. You have made multiple tests and explority prints that have resulted in well cut and well executed experiments with a variety of line and mark.
For me it’s important to test and explore, but I do realise that it can lead me in too many directions and create more work than I probably need to do.
I’m so pleased you have moved on from obvious and illustrative representational imagery.
I do think the image could have been more abstracted or developed further if you had spent some more time expanding and drawing from your shapes at the development stage before committing to print.
I do worry though that on these points that I will slip backwards, my head says move away from representational imagery, become more abstract but I am struggling to find a permanent way forward.
Sketchbook – Use this book as an experimental document that can then feed into your more formal refection in the log. Keep asking yourself why, by this I mean questioning what your work is about and what you are trying to explore visually.
I can only keep trying, as I’ve mentioned before, Sketchbooks are my ‘achilles heel’ and I know I have always struggled with the ‘why’ question. 🙂
The log is the academic document that underpins your practical work with research, gallery visits and critical thinking. The log does not have to be huge and can be fed by your sketchbook. You may find some of the descriptive text such as how something is made could be best served in a sketchbook.
I will try and bear this is mind as I work through the next part of the course and try to include more of the descriptive comment in the sketchbook.
Below are listed some pointers for me to work towards over the coming weeks.
- Try easy cut lino.
- Reflect more and question work in sketchbook.
- Give thought to how I develop & collect initial imagery
- Continue trying to think about pushing the one idea
- Suggested reading / viewing – Dale Devereux, Jeanette Barnes & Antony Gormley
- Mind Maps
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