1 AS TEXTILES INDUCTION LESSONAS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016
2 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 IntroductionItinerary for Today’s Taster Textiles Lesson Teacher Introduction – course, requirements, expectations Self Introduction – over to you, Equipment and materials requirements for the course. Taster Lesson Task. Reviewing previous AS Textiles and A2 Textiles students sketchbooks, textile experimental sample pieces, responses and outcomes. Setting Summer Holiday Assignment – description, explanation and showing examples of work. To get you off to a flying start with your A Level Textiles course in September. Questions and Answers.
3 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 IntroductionWelcome: Mrs Dean – Textile Course Leader, 2i/c Art, KS3 Co-ordinator, Ms McKenna – Head of Art Course Outline: Year 12: 50% Coursework, 50% Exam. Year 13: 60% Coursework, 40% Exam. Year 12 Textiles – 1 Coursework unit, occurring September 2015 – February 2016. Exam paper issued just before Feb Half Term. Examination – 8 hours over 2 consecutive days (4 hours each day). Early – Mid May. Year 13: 1 Coursework unit, occurring Sept 2015 – February 2016. Examination – 12 hours over 2 consecutive days (6 hours each day). Early – Mid May. Lessons: 9 lessons a fortnight. Break Down – approximately 7/8 with me and 1 – 2 with Ms McKenna. Free Periods Expected and encouraged to attend Art Department and work in rooms independently to continue developing, enhancing producing coursework or exam units At least 2 free periods per week.
4 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 IntroductionNecessary Materials and Equipment for the A Level Textiles Course to be Successful to use a school and at home. Art Equipment: A set of sketching pencils – B – 6B at least, Black biro, ink pen, fine liners. A set of colour pencils and oil pastels, A set of water colour paints and/or acrylic paints, Rubber and ruler Textiles Equipment: A set of sewing threads, about 8 – 10 colours including black and white. A set of embroidery threads, about 8 – 10 colours and black and white. Sewing and embroidery needles, Fabric scissors, A selection of fabric off cuts, A selection of beads – sead beads, glass beads. Bonda web – for quick and easy applique, A basic set of fabric paints, about 6 – 8 colours including black and white. Paintbrushes – about 4 different sizes very fine, small, medium and large.
5 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 IntroductionSelf Introduction You Name, What school you attended? (if not a Hayes student). What other A Level subjects you have opted to study at Hayes? What Art related subjects did you study at GCSE level? i.e. Have you studied Fine Art Textiles, Textiles Technology, Fine Art, Graphics or Photography at GCSE? Favourite art or textiles artist, method, technique or process from your experiences of GCSE Textiles, Art, Graphics etc. Something you are looking forward to working on, learning, exploring and experimenting with in A Level Textiles? Any worries, concerns for starting Sixth form or the A Level Textiles Course? Any plans for the summer break? Any questions for me?
6 AS TEXTILES 2016 – 2017 Theme: ‘Habitat’Summer Holiday Assignment July – August 2016
7 AS Textiles Summer Holiday Assignment 2016 ‘Habitat’Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!! You must work on and complete the following tasks over the summer holiday to get you off to a flying start in September. All that you produce now for this taster lesson as well as the summer holiday assignment will contribute towards your AS Textiles grade, so do the best you can and produce the high quality work I know you are capable of. You must buy an A4 sketchbook – we sell the A4 black cover Pink Pig sketchbooks at Hayes for £3.00 you can buy one today or another day. Further develop and enhance at least one of your sun prints by embellishing them to decorate them by including a combination of free machining, hand embroidery stitching, couching and beading to embellish and enhance your designs. The finished collection of completed sun print textile responses must be presented in your new A4 sketchbook and annotated with analysing and evaluating comments including: describing and explaining what you did and how you achieved and created your sun prints – the step-by-step process. How the sun prints link and tie into the ‘Habitat’ AS Textiles theme. how you feel about your sun prints including WWW (What went well) and EBI (even better if)
8 Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!!AS Textiles Summer Holiday Assignment ‘Habitat’ Gallery/Exhibition Visit Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!! Visit ONE OR MORE galleries, museums or exhibitions over the summer holidays and search for TWO different pieces of art/textiles/sculpture work which you really admire and appreciate. THE WORK MUST LINK & TIE IN WITH THE ‘HABITAT THEME’. Take a photograph of the work (if possible - or if not possible buy the post card) You can visit more than one gallery or exhibition and it doesn't have to be in London, maybe try and venture else where. You could go to a gallery, museum or exhibition abroad if you are going away on holiday. In your A4 sketchbook you must dedicate one double page (2 pages in total) per piece of art/textiles work. Present your photograph or postcard and write in our own words – your own thoughts & ideas expressing why you chose this particular piece of work. ALL PAGES MUST BE DECORATED to make them exciting, vibrant, bold ad eye catching. INCLUDE WITH YOUR OWN DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS, TEXTILE SAMPLE PICES, TEXTILE RESPONSES. Who is the artist & when was the piece made? What is the title of the piece? (if applicable). What art media, textile materials etc. has the artist used to make the piece? Is there an overall theme for the piece & what is the piece about and what does it focus on? Why does the piece interest and appeal to you? What you like and enjoy about the piece? Anything you dislike about the piece? Give your own personal views and opinions about the piece to thoroughly analyse and evaluate it. Make textile study/copy of the art work by using and applying a wide varied range of textile materials, methods and techniques. Present your textile study/copy on the other A4 page in your sketchbook opposite. Analyse and evaluate your final textile copy which detailed and descriptive personal comments, views and opinions. Aim to continue working into one of your sun prints of natural form objects using a combination of different textile methods and techniques, i.e. hand embroidery stitching, free hand machining, couching, beading.
9 Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!!AS Textiles Summer Holiday Assignment ‘Habitat’ Gallery/Exhibition Visit Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!! Examples of AS & A2 Textiles Gallery & Exhibition sketchbook pages featuring artists work & their textile responses.
10 Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 weeks to complete!!AS Textiles Summer Holiday Assignment ‘Habitat’ Textile Artist Pages Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 weeks to complete!! Select ONE or TWO natural form/nature inspired textile artist from the following list and complete the following tasks: Cas Holmes, Lesley Richmond, Anne Brooke, Mandy Pattullo, Maggie Ayres, Meredith Woolnough, Kirsten Chursinoff, Sandy Kephart, Wendy Ann Stranger, Susan Hotckis, Eugène Séguy, Nicky Perryman, Jo Wood, Mrs Bertimus. Research into your chosen textile artist. Find image examples of your chosen artist’s different nature inspired textile work. Find as many examples of their work as possible but aim for between 5 – 6 different examples. Print these out and present them in your A4 sketchbook as follows: Present & annotate with analysis in your A4 sketchbook – dedicate two double pages (4 pages in total) to your chosen textile artists work. Present your chosen image examples of their nature inspired textile work and annotate the images examples with your own analysing and evaluating comments, include your own views and opinions as well as your thoughts & ideas expressing why you chose this particular textile artists work. You must answer the following questions: Which nature inspired textile artist’s work have you chosen? Why were you attracted to this textile artist’s work? What interests you and appeals to you about their work? What textile materials, methods, techniques and processes has the textile artist used and applied to make their work? Apart from being inspired by nature Is there an specific theme for their work? What does the artists mainly include and show in their work? What you especially like and enjoy about the Anything you dislike about the piece? Give your own personal views and opinions about the piece to thoroughly analyse and evaluate it. Produce your own textile response by either producing an observational textile study/copy of your chosen artist’s textile art work or creating your own unique version inspired by your chosen textile artist’s work. In your textile response you may use any textile materials of your choice and apply them using a varied range of textile materials, methods and techniques similar to those which you can see in your chosen textile artists work. Present and analyse your textile response on another A4 page in your sketchbook opposite. Analyse and evaluate including detailed and descriptive personal comments, views and opinions.
11 Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 weeks to complete!!AS Textiles Summer Holiday Assignment ‘Habitat’ Textile Artist Pages Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 weeks to complete!! Cas Homes Lesley Richmond Anne Brooke Mandy Pattullo One example of each textile artist’s nature inspired textile work. Study further examples of their work online Kirsten Chursinoff Sandy Kephart Meredith Woolnough Maggie Ayres
12 Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!!AS Textiles Summer Holiday Assignment ‘Habitat’ Textile Artist Pages Due In: 2nd Week in Sept – 10 week to complete!! Eugène Séguy Susan Hotchkis Wendy Ann Stranger One or Two examples of each textile artist’s nature inspired textile work. Study further examples of their work online Nicky Perryman Mrs Berimus Jo Wood
13 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints!Learning Objective: Am I able to gain an awareness and understanding of how to use light sensitive photographic fabric? Can I explore & experiment with creating different nature inspired designs and patterns on light sensitive photographic fabric Lesson Task: You will be creating your own unique sun exposed nature textile designs on special fabric. To produce your textile deigns and responses You will us the materials listed opposite to create your textile responses. After creating the nature designs you will then develop and embellish some of them to decorate and enhance them by including a combination of free machining, hand embroidery stitching, couching and beading to embellish and enhance your designs. The finished collection of completed textile responses must be presented in your new A4 sketchbook and annotated with analysing and evaluating comments. Materials Required: A collection of different natural form objects i.e. flowers, leaves, Light sensitive photographic fabric, Glass or Acrylic plate, Water
14 fun and interesting objects to printAS Textiles Induction Lesson July Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints! How is it done? Step by Step Guide Step 1: What you need Sunprint paper acrylic sheet cardboard a tub full of water fun and interesting objects to print
15 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints!How is it done? Step by Step Guide Step 2: Arrange your objects on a piece of Sunprint fabric out of the reach of the sun. The blue molecules embedded in the paper are sensitive to ultra-violet light. For best results, prepare your print in a place where the sun’s light cannot reach the paper as you arrange objects on top of it. Direct sunlight will expose the paper quickly, but even ambient light in the shade, or in a room with a big window will cause slow exposure of the paper
16 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints!How is it done? Step by Step Guide Step 3: Place the glass/acrylic pressing sheet on top to flatten and hold your items to the Sunprint fabric Use the acrylic pressing sheet when taking prints of flat or almost-flat objects to help sharpen the edges between blue and white in your final print. The ambient sunlight outdoors will find its way underneath the edges of your objects if they are not pressed firmly to the paper, and you will get Sunprints with blended contrasts.
17 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints!How is it done? Step by Step Guide Step 4: Take your Sunprint outside and lay it in direct sunlight for 8-12 minutes. The areas of the paper exposed to the sun will fade from blue to white. When you see most of the color disappear from the paper, your print has been fully exposed. If no direct sunlight is available, don’t worry–just expose your print a little longer and wait for the same fading effect. Under cloud cover, the process will take 5-20 minutes depending on the thickness of the clouds. What is happening in this step? Two crucial molecules in the paper are interacting, forming a new molecule. Their interaction is initiated by specific wavelengths of ultra-violet light. The new molecule is colorless so that as the blue molecules are converted, the white of the paper base begins to show through. Areas of the paper covered by your objects still contain the original blue molecule, so they remain blue.
18 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints!How is it done? Step by Step Guide Step 5: Rinse your Sunprint in water. Watch the white turn into blue and the blue turn into white. To get the deepest blue that the paper can give, leave it in the water for a while: 1-5 minutes. There are two exciting things happening to the paper while it is underwater. First, the original blue compound is water soluble, so that when you immerse it in the bath, the water carries it away, leaving only the white paper base in those areas. Second, the colorless compound whose formation was caused by the sun’s energy is not water soluble, so it cannot wash away in the water bath. It is sensitive to the water in another way. Just as the Sun’s light stimulated a chemical change in the previous step, the water stimulates another chemical change in this one. The water causes an oxidation reaction that turns the colorless compound into the deep blue of a finished Sunprint.
19 AS Textiles Induction Lesson July 2016 Taster Task: Creating Nature Sun Prints!How is it done? Step by Step Guide Step 6: Lay your Sunprint flat on an absorbent surface and allow it to dry. You can use a paper towel or a piece of cardboard as a bed for your Sunprint while it dries. Putting it on something absorbent will help to avoid the formation of water spots by drawing the water away from the Sunprint paper. When you take your paper out of the water, the active chemical will not have finished oxidizing. The water remaining in the paper will do the job before it evaporates. By the time it is all gone you will have a beautiful, deep blue Sunprint!