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wrapping up

I'm trying to wrap up the Practice Enrichment module (even the title makes me shudder).... I've succeeded in completing the brief - tears and sweat have been shed, I've managed to contain the blood but I cannot deny I have felt like shedding it occasionally.  My final collection contains researched inspiration including Abigail Borg and Liberty prints plus many others, the research was fun but did also throw up the sad realisation that Osbourne and Little belongs to George Osbourne (in my opinion - a Tory no gooder) so I probably can never patronise them again but then again I'm a poor impoverished art student now so can't afford to... this research is complemented with collections of screen shots that no way document or evidence  the struggles I had making photoshop work for me but show I tried and in a minor way succeeded and finally a dozen or more rather indescript designs and two or three I'm rather proud of given the circumstances.

With considerable help from fellow students both materially and emotionally I have managed to put my designs into room settings and they are masquerading as wallpaper - I feel triumphant!!!!

 from a blind drawing of a flower, very simply, to a wallpaper design ... all my own work.




All that remains is to make the whole collection look tidy - finishing annotating, mount the final designs and then I can rejoice properly.  This post is the last mention for the time being of the dreaded digital experience!!!  But... not my last experience of digital design, I will carry on and I will conquer the basics, while this is a skill I don't think I will use often it is useful knowledge to have so it will be mine eventualy!!!

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