The last couple of weeks has seen the AS Art & Design students start to explore a range of colour media (AO2). All of these students must demonstrate that they can experiment with & manage materials & techniques effectively, in order that they can explore, develop & refine their ideas. They need to develop an understanding of the potential & limitations of different materials (this is particularly relevant to AO2). So much of the this initial work is centred on students being offered the opportunity to explore a wide range of media & techniques from straight forward coloured pencil crayons through to depicting the human form using cut/slashed/torn fabrics & the sewing machine. The latter encourages a very expressive outcome to their studies & can be quite a liberating change from the control that can be achieved through traditional drawing materials.
As you can probably see these students have worked particularly hard all week producing these samples & their initial fears of whether they could switch between such contrasting techniques/media were unfounded - there was soon smiling faces & students racing towards the sewing machines to extend their samples into further samples including net & coloured thread samples etc... (they may appear in a future posting - too many at this stage to include/mention).
This next week will see the students start to experiment with paint (I love paint) - they will be starting by exploring acrylic on small scale in their sketchbooks, producing studies inspired by the fabulous work of M.R.Taylor (example below), before expanding into observations of a wide range of contemporary based portrait painters (AO1 & AO3). This work is vital for students to demonstrate that they can observe the work of others & to inform their own work from their visual observations/investigations.
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