Week 4 - Visit from the Hay Festival

Today we had the leaders of the Hay Festival visit, to come and look at our designs and choose which one with their favourite illustration out of the illustrations we took further and perfected, then pinned them to foam board to present them.
My foam board consisted of the swirly trees, the overprinting trees, and the patterned backgrounds with cut out trees in front of them. After a small talk with my tutor, a leader and a former tutor (who now works for Hay Festival) they gave me feedback on my illustrations.
 They took a liking to my overprinted trees and they particularly liked the patterns on trunk I created, using dots and lines for an almost tribal style. The leader of Hay (Becky) said that I should stick to my overprinting, and to use colours to represent a whole day across the banner (from dusk till dawn.) She wanted me to use naturalistic colours that are relevant to spring.

Original Illustration

Overprinted Illustration

I feel the overprinting for this didn't work because I used watercolour rather than coloured pencils, making the trees a little denser. I also didn't turn down the density enough making the image look solid rather than delicate.