Instructions from the work book:

“You will now focus on developing your own practice, continuing working to strengthen, deepen and refine your ideas. It is vital that you continue to give project time to your own work as you dedicate yourself to developing your professional practice in whatever form is appropriate for you. In Part One and earlier in Part Two, the ‘keep making’ tasks have provided some structure for this and led you to reflect on how to negotiate the challenge to keep momentum and make your own work. The following exercises offer you a framework to scaffold your own practice process.”

This post is about the latest development for my “Garden” project.

Below is my most extensive size-wise work so far, 130*157 cm, consisting of three separate wooden boards. The boards will not be attached to each other, so anyone can play with them, arranging the composition they like horizontally and vertically.

This project is also significant for me from a technical skills and “what I can” discovery standpoint. I was harnessing my inks’ technique and exploring different mediums’ dialogue on a larger scale, the good example is evident on the tree’s stem.

I was loose about the compositional decision since this was the idea – NO rigid composition, since anyone can create their own, changing the order of the three parts. I tested this approach and found a lot of potential in myself. I like it because I’m always hesitant about compositional decisions; they don’t come naturally to me as my moves with colours.

Below is the demonstration of how I use the Smartist application which allow to create the image of your artwork in a chosen interior