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More design development, this week was pretty much given over to consolidating and reflecting on work achieved so far.   This has allowed me to identify the gaps, the designs I don't think work and those I really like and which ones I am going to develop..
Original blind drawing, hand coloured using various media, including collage, oils, promarkers - scanned and digitally placed on geometric background.

I'm experimenting a lot with scale and different backgrounds, and next week will be taking the chosen designs forward for further development, varying sizes of patterns, different lay outs and also defining some colour palettes.  I have a lot of work on the go and now is the time to make decisions and start to refine the designs.  

I had a lovely afternoon playing in the sewing room with different embroidery and embellishment techniques and I want to apply them some where among my final pieces.  Then we had a very inspiring seminar with Claire Baker whose work is stunning and very innovative, I took a lot of ideas away and also the extremely pressing need for a rhinestone applicator wand... fortunately the internet was able to deliver literally almost the next day and now I'm heading into bling heaven - watch this space. 

collaged and digitally coloured  line drawn image on black and white back ground

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