Fine Art: 'Transform' Brief: Day two

For Day 2 of the brief, we set out to produce 6 pieces of work in the first 2 hours, then 4 in the next, and then 2 final pieces in the last 2 hours (All working from our objects.) I started off mind mapping, reflecting on what had/n't worked in my work from yesterday, and also generally in the past. My main focus points going into this task were:

• Use less bold materials (collage), keep material colours minimal. 
• Use thread, looks good with tape.
• Use wash sparingly, for negative space?
• Take more risks, layer work up, work over whole pages. 
• Structure drawing works well.

Below are a few of what I created in the first 2hrs. 

After this, we were given feedback on our work. I was told my lines and collage were good, but I should experiment with more colour, and work a bit smaller. After the feedback, we moved on to working into our pieces, and creating four more. I started by cutting the above piece in half, to create two better pieces. I used wash and more colour. 

I'll add that I changed my object to the bottle top for the second 2hrs. 

I then created 2 further pieces (total: 4) 

I am happier with the above two. I think the choices of colour and materials were much better. The thread, wash and brown paper have a good balance together. 

For the final 2 pieces, I took a piece I didn't like and quartered it. I used 2/4 for working into and used the other 2/4 for collage material. I did some testing in my sketchbook, and then used printing and stencilling on the pieces.

Overall I was happy with what I produced for my last two pieces, I experimented with media and took risks with colour and material. Over the two days I experienced transforming objects and experimental drawing which I hadn't really tackled before. I made some mistakes, on pieces and in my sketchbook. However I tried to rectify them by cutting and changing the pieces.