Revising and moving forward.

I am finding it hard to move forward as quickly as I would like on module 2. Drawing takes me way out of my comfort zone (and takes me hours) so I am finding my tiny child free spaces twice a week are taken up with lengthy and disheartening sketches. In addition this module seems very long! This fact and my slow progress through it means it has been a long time since I have had any feedback. I wanted to give myself the opportunity to find a way of benefitting from some communicaton and informal feedback as I go along. For this reason I am posting up a lot of my work from the last few months today. After my Pat's helpful feedback from module one I wanted to have another go at the final piece of stitching. She suggested giving myself the freedom to work more selectively with my sketches and photgraphs so I returned to my original drawings and the photo that inspired them and stitched another sample. I was very drawn to the swooping lines of the seaweed in the photo and my sketch reflects that. My original stitched piece in module one was very static I felt and so my revised stitching aimed to capture the dynamic lines from my drawing. Looking back at this attempt now I think it does successfully do that . I think the colours of the piece work well (I like the fabric background which I tea-dyed to match the colours of my sketch) and I think its lines have a liveliness which was absent in my original. However at the time I felt I was still trying to render the shape rather than delving deeper into texture so I sketches an enlarged section and used this as the basis for a more detailed stitched piece. I like the variety of stitching I achieved and the piece is more richly textured. However I think I lost the dynamism and spontanaity of the first and if I was to attempt this again I woud try to loosen the lines of the second stitched piece a little.