Setting myself a deadline for this project to be done by has really helped. It makes me call the project to a halt. I could have spent more time in this but having the earlier deadline takes a lot of the stress out of meeting the actual deadline, plus means I can keep on top of everything. Think about the colours in the final piece, the colour pallet is okay but I need to move away from red and blue. With the next brief/ short project, I will change this. Working with graphic, bolder shapes has worked well. It gives the image variation and breaks it up, rather than having an image with intense detail. The image is much more readable for the viewer. Predominantly aiming this image at children, I think the content, visual style and colours are appropriate. The amount of detail would be harder for younger children (example on black and white outline image below) but if the images were broken up into there motifs then these would be easier to draw. I struggled to decide the composition of the final image. I don't think it looks too crowded but the grass could have been aligned with the rest of the image better.
In the final stages of the image, I added techniques that I hadn't used before in order to speed things up. Cut paper scanned on for simple shapes works, also cut paper and gouache. The paint creates a different line texture ( used on the flowers.) For adding subtle details it's perfect. Overall I am happy with the colour image but feel that parts of the black and white outline are not as strong. Printing out digitally too was obviously quick and more accurate than screen printing but it does take away the human/personal element of it. But given it was printed this way to meet the brief requirements there was no need to screen print. But this debate between digital and the handmade is something I can investigate and discuss further in this module.
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