Drawing And Painting For Textile Design Short Course
Course description
Course overview
A practical course working on paper, students learn core drawing and painting skills essential to achieve good results in textile design.
Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, you'll explore a variety of techniques and strategies that you can use to refine and develop your ideas. You'll work with a range of media and discover how to create and design a textile print from scratch.
By the end of the course, you'll have a body of work on paper that can be included in a design portfolio. You will have a series of designs that you can take to print.
This course is available both on campus or online.
Who this course is for
This course is ideal for anyone with an interest in textiles, including beginners, those who wish to refresh and develop their skills further and students thinking of applying for further studies who need to improve their skills and portfolio.
Key information
Topics covered
- How to research for a textile project
- Designing patterns from a blank piece of paper to a finished design
- Constructing your own patterns
- Designing repeats
- Stencilling and creating your own stamps
- How to use different types of ink
- Exploring textile and fashion trends and using them as inspiration for your ideas
On this course you will be given a project brief to design a textile collection for a specific purpose.
To fulfil the brief in the time given it is essential that you conduct some preliminary visual research beforehand. So, the most important part is to decide a theme which may be simple ie. flowers, fruit, or more abstract ie. time, space, movement, or an ethnic theme ie. Indian or African art, etc. Primarily the subject needs to be something that you find interesting. When you have decided upon your theme, gather together drawings, images from magazines or postcards, colours, small pieces of fabric, packaging etc - anything that you feel will inspire you and keep your interest during the course. These materials will be used to make a 'storyboard' which will form the basis of your design collection.
Learning outcomes
- Practice a variety of paint and drawing techniques on paper
- Develop your designs from initial idea through to finished concept
- Use visual research as a source of inspiration for your designs
- Learn how to present your work
- Build a body of work that can be used for supporting applications and interviews
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
On campus
- A4 sketchbook
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Apron
- Palette
- Water jar
- Windsor & Newton Gouache Starter Pack or acrylics
- Selection of painting brushes
- Selection of coloured pencils
- Selection of coloured felt tips
- HB pencil
Online
- Pro Arte flat synthetic brush 4 cm wide or similar
- Pro Arte Polar 31 size 14 white nylon or similar
- Palette for mixing colours
- Acrylic paint or Dr Martens concentrated watercolour ink/Ecoline ink
- A3 Sketchbook
- Good quality cartridge paper that can take watercolour/ink
- Household wax candle
- Scissors
- Scalpel or craft knife
- Pentel brush pen - product code XGFKP/FP10
- Glue stick
Photoshop and other digital editing tools are not required (although students are welcome to experiment)
If you are taking this course online, please see our Guide to taking online short courses.
Tutor
Dominique L'Olive
Dominique graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA hons degree in Fashion and initially worked for Timney Fowler where she created textile print designs for the UK and Japanese fashion markets. She established her own company in 1999, developing and designing primarily for the US apparel market but also collaborating on special design projects with Nigel Coates [architect], the Jigsaw merchandising team and Marks & Spencers. From 2002-2007 Dominique was an associate lecturer at LCF on an elective programme teaching students from a diverse range of design disciplines Textile Print. She currently teaches for UAL Short Courses online textile design courses.
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