In my last tutorial, we discussed the more practical sides of my project – thinking about the funding, processes and materials that I need to complete the project, as well as the issues that I have had with my current drawing.
The most helpful points we discussed were:
- Contacting a local gallery about sourcing paper, rather than sourcing it online.
- Speaking to the print technician about creating editions of my drawings in order to help fund my project – and the sort of papers that they have available – such as their Fine Art papers. Additionally see if he could do a test one for me as well.
- Write about more than just the details of the project on this blog – explore my other thoughts and feelings around the climate crisis and biodiversity degradation in it as well, helping to ground the project.
- Think carefully about the paper types that I am using – the issues I had with my current drawing means that I am not drawing it on the watercolour paper that I had originally intended to. Does this matter – if I have a range of papers, no, but if I consistently use the same paper type, will the difference ruin the collectivity of the series?
Additionally, from looking through my blog, one thing that they felt was particularly successful was the annotations that I had written around the images in my design for the botanical labels, and they wanted to see more of this. My re-reflections were also successful – I just need to keep it up.
