Sketching for Textiles ONLINE
This is a recorded version of this course (originally released 2022). Lessons have been activated and are ready to be enjoyed at your own pace. Once you purchase the course, you will need to wait for the access email to be sent manually to you. Depending on the time of day and your time zone, there may be a few hours between purchase and email. Please type your email address carefully and check your junk folder.
Continued access period: LIFETIME.
SYLLABUS: This course has been specifically designed for makers working with fabric and stitch (though the methods apply equally to any design process) who would like to improve their skills and confidence in sketching.
Students, professionals, and pleasure-seeking free-time stitchers will benefit from Tansy’s textile-oriented exercises in mark making, observational drawing (indoors and out), making visual notes during research and ideation, story boarding construction processes, exploring options for colour palettes, and presenting proposals to clients and collaborators (or simply as a record of intent for yourself).
FORMAT: a new session (ten in total) was uploaded to a course page on my website every weekday during the live run of this course. Each daily session includes a learning objective, topic overview, contextual description, and video tutorial. In addition, two short bonus films, with briefs for weekend activities, were shared on the two Friday afternoons during the run. Content will remain accessible for the "lifetime" of the course. When I eventually observe that the course is no longer being accessed by students, I will email and give you four months notice of its retirement.
MATERIALS:
- Large sketchbook – any size or shape, from 20cm/8” square upward, with white or off-white cartridge paper.
- Small (roughly hand-sized) sketchbook.
- Black and brown paper – a couple of sheets of each, either from sketchbooks or purchased loose from an art shop.
- Ruler, scissors, pencil sharpener, two foldback or bulldog clips, low tack masking tape, glue stick, and double-sided sticky tape.
- Black pens in at least two nib widths, such as a fineliner and a marker.
- White pen with opaque ink and a fine nib.
- Graphite pencils or sticks (2B or softer).
- A selection of coloured art media. This should include watercolour pencils, watercolour paint (pans or tubes), soft pastels, chalk markers, and gouache paint – at least 3 of each item, in what ever colours please you. There will be scope to use whatever else you enjoy using or have available.
- Paint brushes (fine to medium size with soft bristles for ink and watercolour).
- Dip pen (metal or bamboo).
- Black (or another dark colour) acrylic ink (like those made by Daler Rowney or Amsterdam…I’m sure many brands are available).
- Bleed-proof white paint (google it and you’ll probably find two brands – either are fine). If you can’t get hold of any, white gouache paint will be fine.
- Printed collage papers, such as scraps from old maps and book pages, used paper bags, envelopes, and tickets etc. In a range of sheens and opacities.
- An assortment of objects for printing with (bottle tops, corks, lolly sticks, small wooden blocks etc)
- Used cardboard boxes – a couple of smallish ones, the sort tea bags or stock cubes come in, and a medium-sized one made of brown corrugated card.
- Tracing paper or greaseproof/baking paper.
- Biro/ballpoint pen.
CONCESSIONS
The lower price is provided on an honesty box basis for people on a genuinely low income. It is funded via a private grant for widening participation in art education. The discount is not funded by customers paying the full price. Please access it only if you are in actual need.
COPYRIGHT
All content is copyright Tansy Hargan. By signing up for this course you agree not to share, distribute or monetise its content in any way. Videos are not to be replayed in classrooms and studios. If you are a teacher and would like to see me (in person or online) in your school or studio please get in touch [email protected]
