Clothes Show Live Birmingham NEC

Fabulous day out!

Art Gallery Task Dec 2015

Winning outfit!

fabulous morning of music & wearable sculpture! Well done the teams from AS! you've got it going on ;)!!!

Access to shared drive photos

Wearable Sculpture

        Working in a team, your task is to use the materials and equipment available to construct a wearable sculpture . This can be interpreted through head wear, body armour etc.

·      Use your sketchbooks as a tool to record your thoughts, findings & sketch your ideas to illustrate your designs as you go along.

·      Have a least 4 design ideas of your own and a group design on a page of it’s own. All design work needs to be well illustrated and be supported with instructional annotation; as well as notes on where you got your ideas from? Explain what impact or mood you wish to evoke with your piece.

·      Remember to photograph your work at various stages. (Step by steps). Mounting these up and annotating them. Explain how you may have made sections and why you may have made changes as you progressed.

·      The Final piece will be presented in a catwalk show to the group and photographed as a team. It must be wearable!?

Finally you present and evaluate your outcome

Wearable Sculpture Artist Analysis

Please complete 2 full artist analysis pages for homework. If you are aiming for a higher grade you may want to extend your research, you could repeat the process for more artists.

Begin to design & sketch ideas for your Wearable Sculpture and bring them to your first fashion & textiles lesson next week.

Wearable Sculpture

Where Art meets Fashion
Please complete a mood board of what you interpret as "Wearable Sculpture". 
Use apps such a as Pinterest (allows you to collate images on virtual mood board) and PinCo (assembles the mood board from Pinterest and allows you to print it.)

AS Textiles

Super Stitcher Sketchbook Pages

·       Brief

·       Louise Gardiner Research 4/6 Images, annotation & drawing

·       Applique Sample/s

·       Embroidery Samples, (Reference Harriot Popham)

·       Drawing in monochrome medias, annotation

·       Colour Wheel/ tints/shades, annotation

·       Collage page, complimentary colours, annotation

·       Alissa Burke Research 4/6 Images, annotation & drawing

·       Photographic work/ own drawing fine liner or pen

·       Design Ideas 5-6 instructional & reflective annotation

·       Experiments

·       Final Outcome: Super Stitcher Sampler (Approx A4)

Complete a colour wheel, mix your own colours from the primary colours! Start with the central section of primary colours… then move on to secondary and then Tertiary… & wash your brush in between colours! 

HW: Collage magazine pages and images using contrasting colours...Use different shades and amounts of colour to create interesting visual effects...

Choose from Red & Green, Orange and blue, yellow and purple...

You can identify trends, patterns and prints which are currently in fashion...if doing a garment based project or alternatively just explore pattern and the balance of colour if working towards a fine art outcome....

Please complete the presentation of the colour wheel work. Make sure you annotate this work...explaining the different groups of colours, complimentary and harmonious palettes etc...

AS Textiles Homework 30/9/2015

(1) take a series of photo's which reflect you, these can be from your object bag. You need a minimum of 20.

(2) print off your photo's on a contact sheet (in colour) and put a cross through any that are poor quality and circle your 6 favourites. Then print these 6 images at A6 and print off in colour. Choose 1 of the six and print it A4.

(3) select an area of your final image and use this as a focal point for an extended drawing using a fineliner or a biro. Similar to the image below, but with shading, use crosshatch, directional lines or pointillism techniques. (Remember to include all shades on the tonal scale)

Photo's must be printed off for lesson and your drawing will be due in Monday 5th October

A2 Work Monday 14/9/15

All work must be up to date for Thursday 17th September

Equipment List Fashion & Textiles

Essential Equipment:

Sketchbook
2b Pencil
Black Fine Liner Pen
Colour Pencils (soft art pencils)
Watercolour Paint Palette
Watercolour brushes
Skin colour marker pen (Pantone/Kure)
Pritt Stick
Paper Scissors
Ruler
Dressmakers pins
Sewing threads for final pieces etc
A3 plastic carry folder

Most of this equipment is available at the college shop at a discounted price. Alternatively show your student card in most art shops to recieve a discount

Desirable Equipment:
A set of marker pens in a range of colours
Dress makers scissors

AS Textiles pre class task

Who is your favourite Artist or Designer?

 

Your first independent study task/ home work, is to produce a piece of hand written work based on your favourite designer or artist.

•  If you don’t have a favourite, research some one new, whose work you like.
• The written piece needs to be approximately 250 words and hand written. (Roughly a side of A4 file paper)
• You need to include images of the artists work to support what you have written and to help you describe what it is you admire about their work.
• You may include some factual information about the artist such as dates and where they work etc… but this must be minimal!
• In your own words, concentrate on why you like/admire their work and describe the effect the work has upon the audience.

• Below is an example…
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  A  designer who I admire, is called Jean Paul Gaultier. He is a French fashion designer who has been at the top of his industry  for approximately 20 years. What I specifically like about Gaultier, is his ability to constantly keep changing his ideas. He reinvents himself each season, giving his clothes a unique identity. He is known for cross dressing his models and promoting a unique form of sexuality to his outfits. This may be described as androgynous, neither clearly a male or a female look. He has this amazing ability to draw on different cultures and feed those ideas into his work all at the same time, creating a fantastic hybrid of ideas. And all of this is done in such a way that the outfits look amazing!

 

Who do you admire?  Want to be like?  Want to work in the style of? Wish you had thought of that?  Want to work with? Would love to have their job?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9ra4XvTv1ZmfkJ3dy1jd2JSU2JfZjlncVVvWDR1T0NiYTNwV0lObXBnS0JraDBFR3BRb28

Huddersfield University Visit

We had a great day at huddersfield university! The costume show at the Lawrence Batley Theatre ended the visit off nicely :)