ASFC Fashion and Textiles

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

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

Monday, 14 September 2015

A2 Work Monday 14/9/15

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

Tuesday, 25 August 2015

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

Thursday, 20 August 2015

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…
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!