Inspirations Workshop reflection

Today we started the new year with a group critique session of our summer work in which we each made a small presentation of our sketchbooks and then gave feedback to one another. I found the session helpful and got some positive feedback which was encouraging as I wasn't completely confident about the work I had done over summer.

My mark making and more detailed studies were particularly successful. I was really taken with the variety and detail of wild grasses and experimented with a range of media to capture their qualities. 

(Ink on scratchboard)

(mark making with grasses, ink)

My sketchbook was mostly inspired by the natural environment with quite a bright and vibrant colour palette, the group picked up on this contrast (which I hadn't previously given much thought to) and suggested it as something to run with and develop.

(Ink on watercolour paper)

An area to improve on is to use a wider range of media and consider the surfaces I am working on to give my drawings more depth. The group also suggested to research more creative practitioners that work in a similar way to how I do.