Using drawing to develop designs

 

This two day workshop (12 hours) includes the three hour introduction to drawing, or if there are confident drawers in the group, other drawing exercises are used to “warm up” the visual brain.

 

Students are asked to bring research images for a topic which interests them (or this can be supplied/developed in conjunction with the tutor), and these are used to start the development of a design which can be used for weaving, knitting or felting (whichever technique the student chooses) .

 

Various design exercises are explored over the time and all students should complete a useable design by the end.

 

 

 

Equipment Needed

 

• A working space for each student (about half a trestle table is fine)

• A3 pad of art paper

• B, 2B, 4B, 6B pencils

• Mouldable (putty) rubber

 

• Water and containers

• Scissors

• Glue stick

• Various paints e.g. watercolours, acrylics

• Crayons

• Pastels

• Indian Inks

• A range of paintbrushes, especially thicker ones

• Coloured paper, tissue paper, newspaper, magazines

• Cardboard strips

 

Note:  the second list of equipment can be collected as a group, and if the tutor is driving to the class, will be supplied by her.