HND TEXTILES Summer Project
‘The Creative Journey’ From concept to final design, always begins with a process of researching and gathering ideas. Artists and designers gather ideas and record them in creative journals, diaries, and sketchbooks. The sketchbook becomes a way of visually recording the world around them, and provides clarity of vision. Working in a sketchbook gives an artist a place to draw from first hand and experiment with techniques and materials. It offers a place to analyse and reflect on ideas, and make judgements to help progress ideas towards a final design. Your summer HND project is to begin working in a sketchbook; Drawing, sketching, collaging images, adding fabrics, experimenting with materials and techniques. Textile sketchbooks are typically tactile and gorgeous with fabrics, threads, interesting textures, and patterns and stitched samples. You may decide to, add interesting papers and pages in, add envelopes, create pockets, work in an existing book, be as creative as possible and enjoy the process. Your starting point for your sketchbook is
‘journey’ Meaning: 1. a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert. 2. a distance, course, or area travelled or suitable for traveling: a desert journey. 3. a period of travel: a week's journey. 4. passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey to success. 5. to make a journey; travel.
Possible ways of starting… You may take a series of journeys collecting items and visually recording your journey. You could collect tickets, maps, flyers, and use these to draw over whilst you are on your journey or at home using different materials, you may take photographs working over these with patterns from architecture, or pavements, from your journey/s Alternatively you may wish to base your sketchbook on a personal journey. A journey you have taken for example through childhood looking at memories of family, objects, places, photographs, draw from old jewellery, go to Tynemouth Station market and draw nostalgic items from your childhood whatever inspires you. Research list (most are on Amazon and available to ‘look inside’)
Creating Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and Textile Artists: Exploring the Embroiderers' Sketchbook by Kay Greenlees Drawn to Stitch by Gwen Hedley Artists' Journal and Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages by Lynne Perrella The Sketchbook Project Journal: More Than 200 Ways to Fill a Page: More than 300 Ways to Fill a Page by Steven Peterman and Shane Zucker
Video explanation online
Artists and ideas: sketchbooks and journals Duration: 04:33 http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/art ists-and-ideas-sketchbooks-andjournals/6828.html
Artists Sketchbooks that might inspire you:
Mandy Pattullo Lynne Butt Gwen Hedley
Things you could try: Using emulsion paint to create interesting surfaces to draw on, use wallpapers to print from and draw over, and collage,try different inks, paints, wax resists and pens, Draw with food colouring, emulsion paint pages and sand down draw and re-paint, Collage different papers into your sketchbook, make interesting marks and textures using- polyfilli, cling film, glues, toothbrushes, bleach, add extra pages in, change the shape of some pages, Add stitch and fabric into your sketchbook, Try mono printing, cut up a page weave it together and re add it, cut windows in pages, the possibilities are endless………………………… Submission in your first session in college you must have:
Completed a minimum of 20 pages in your sketchbook, do not end your sketchbook, or draw to any conclusion, just explore the theme visually. Produce a typed reflective account about the work you have produced, what techniques you have explored and their success. What inspired you. How do other artists use sketchbooks to inspire them and are they important in creativity? (A few paragraphs, not an essay! )
Good luck, see you in September. Linda Lightley