Eesti Prints

Today we had a talk from Adam Higton, which was really inspirational. The key things I took away from his work are:

- Try different media- it'll be a fun learning experience to try and make it work in different ways, and is the best way to achieve unique work
- Have FUN, there's no point in trying to be an illustrator if you're not enjoying what you're making
- Surround yourself with other creative, inspiring people
- I really like his confidence in creating work, he does it because he wants to, and having others like it is almost a bonus
- I like how he merges things he loves, such as music and illustration- I want to do that in a project I'm really passionate about

Adam then stayed to critique our work:

Campaign work

In order to carry on my work of small scale items from my president campaign but with more integral meaning, I made a set of 12 mini screenprints based on my grandma and her Estonian heritage.

POSITIVES:
- Good tactile size- Adam said it was a strong concept to have them as more 'items' than traditional prints
- The colours work really well to show the Estonian theme, and have loosened up my thoughts about colour usage
- The use of negative space helps to make the composition flow across the print, and ties the single images together

NEGATIVES:
- Is some of the imagery too ambiguous?
- I think the type one didn't work well as it doesn't fit with the rest, and is still obvious what it is

WHAT NEXT:
- Continue to research scale within works, and how this can be applied to real life situations
- Try and push these into a bigger project?
- Think about composition within the prints- could they be in a scene rather than floating?