Chapter 12:
Study of three artists:
Cas Holmes:
She is a very famous artist. She works with different materials. She uses objects, which were recycled by her. I met her at a workshop in Irsee. She gave a course for recycling paper. It was fantastic to see the results after one week workshop. Her collections are exhibited in famous galleries and she has published a lot of articles about her art.

Lois Walpole:
She is also a very famous mixed media artist and she works also with waste materials. She is an artist making functional objects especially baskets in many kinds of forms and dispositions.
The surfaces are very decorative and colorfull. On the following link: "LoisWalpole.com" you can have a look on her work.
Her work has been discussed in many books and articles.

My artist is Tracy Bautista:
I like her combination of fabric and paper using sketching, doodeling, painting, printing, spraying to create richful surfaces. In her book "Collage Unleased" she shows also different binding technics.
All these three artists have a relationship to module 4.
To beware the cfopyright of the artists I did not use pictures on my blog.

By searching for artists I found an interesting website about "Carving Books into Art Sculpture Techniques".

Evaluation:

The completed embroidered assessment for module four is a booklet from origami envelopes-signatures- with cover based on the design of pictures  57 and 58.

How do I feel about the resulting conclusion?
I am content with the result. It was not so easy, because the techniques paper making and binding books was a very new experience for me.

Is it fit for purpose- give reasons?
I think it is o.K. because I hope I fullfilled  the asked duties.

If I am asked to make it again, what changes would I make to the way I designed it and the way I made it?
I used Procion for dying my fabrics. I am not content with the result of dying. It is too dark or washed-out. This problem I have not solved, I have no solution till now. The design increased during the work chapter by chapter.

The download of module was at the end of march 2013, I started with the work in October 2013, and now (025.02.2014) I have finished it.

The working time was 90 hours (without the time I needed for reading, preparing the fabrics, withdrawing the threads, making papers, to do the uploading on my blog and to make pictures.


To keep my work save I put all the stitchery works in tissue paper in a big paper box.

I observed the rules for health and safety carefully. I have always worn rubber gloves, masks and if it was possible or necessary I did the work outside the house in the fresh air.