I thought that it was be a positive and informative decision
to take part in a live brief with fellow students. The group was evenly matched
with two embroidery/ print students (including myself) and two sole print
students. I found it useful to see the different ways people worked. I found
this process to be more positive than other group projects I had taken part in
before because we all wanted the same outcome.
After researching possible competitions, we decided to enter
Feather's Make Wallpaper that's Art competition and decided to focus on a beach
/ seaside theme. We also decided to work from the same colour palette so that
out designs could be seen as a collection at the end.
I decided to base the idea for my designs on David
Attenborough's The Blue Planet documentary because I hadn't completed any
previous research regarding the sea to work from. I decided that I would focus
on my illustrative style of drawing, in order to incorporate a skill from my
current project. Below are the collection of motifs I developed through the
images of marine life displayed during a range of programs throughout the
series. Most are derived from jellyfish and shells. 
I found it interesting to work in repeat as this is what I am practising in my own project, having never done it before I found this a useful skill to acquire.
I enjoyed the fast pace of this project the most, because there were four of us in the group everything progressed faster than an individual project. I also enjoyed working will people who wanted to work and overall found this to be a positive process. I feel that this process has confirmed that I prefer working in collaboration with others. We kept up to date with each other via email so our work could still progress even when we weren’t together.My designs incorporated an illustrative effect and using motifs made by other members of the group enabled me to feel more free. I liked working in repeat, and I will apply this to my work during the Practice Unit.
I submitted three designs to feathr.com. Each of them displayed all over patterns, resembling a landscape effect we had discussed at one of the group meetings. I felt that the designs were the most commercial and fulfilled the brief by suitable for statement wallpaper, intended to be seen as art instead of decoration.
Under the Sea 1
