Week 20

In Monday's lesson I plan to continue working onto the blue and green fabric in the style of Kulkov. I am also going to sew into this.
-I found that I prefer hand sewing marks even though it takes longer to do. This is because the marks are thicker and more noticeable.

In Tuesday's lesson I am going to work over the blue fabric again and start looking at ways to represent the medals earned for service in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. I am going to use the yellow fabric that I inked and sew over this.
-As I dyed the fabric using bright yellow ink, this incorporates Andy Warhol's bright selection of colour in his piece "camouflage" that I looked at early on in the year. I chose this colour as it is the nearest to the sand colour that is on the Iraq/Afghanistan medals. I have began stitching a sky blue thread into the fabric in a vertical line, whilst using both horizontal and vertical stitches. I chose not to stitch at other angles as this can come to look messy as it would be in a small space. Furthermore, the stitches are all different and this represents how each soldier, although trained to do the same thing, they are all slightly different in terms of physical capabilities and personality.