Tuesday 4th November

Today I laid all my work out ready for Assessment with Cerys and Jenny, I was very nervous about talking them through my work as this was my first assessment for this project and I'd only been speaking to Julie about my work. I was excited to show them what I had been making and my thought process so far. Both Jenny and Cerys gave me brilliant advice which I was very pleased with.
They suggested instead of focusing on pattern and texture I should focus on the structure and pops of colour, Jenny also mentioned looking into introducing pops of colour into the structures and using wire to outline a skeleton of the butterfly.

After my assessment I looked around in the scrap boxes and found a piece of brass angled rod, it was shaped as a right angle and triggered my imagination, I cut pieces up and soldered wire to them before using pliers to shape a flying pattern inspired by the butterflies movement this created a contrast between block metal and wire that I found really interesting.

In my assessment Cerys advised me to use the milling machine to score my metal instead of doing it by hand which I agree'd would be faster once I had experimented. I shadowed Sarah on the milling machine and watched how she used it, it scared me less watching her use the dials and being careful not to go to deep into the metal straight away and instead make it gradual.

I have marked some metal out ready to experiment Thursday.