Lasting Impressions by AS Art & Design students.

AS Art & Design students leave a lasting impression with their Mono-prints:

week has seen the AS Art & Design students embrace the technique of mono-printing, & start to produce a body of beautiful prints based on portraits.  Mono-printing offers the students an opportunity to explore their ideas with such an expressive style.  They started off being quite tentative with their facial expressions, but seem to have loosened up now - maybe it's due to Halloween last week. 

 

Nothing ever replaces the magic when you peep at your print & realise it's working.  Printmaking relies upon you having the confidence to often start work without truly knowing whether you are controlling the process or the process is controlling you.  So the moment you peep, or even reveal the final print is truly a magical moment - when it works! (AO4).

I felt this week that many of the AS Art & Design students were lucky enough to start to appreciate the beauty of printmaking.  Confidence was high in the art studio as the students peeled & revealed their stunning prints.  They are hitting several assessment objectives 'square between the eyes' with these prints, whilst creating even more work for their sketchbooks & small mini-outcomes (AO1, AO2, AO3, AO4).

 



 

 

This week the students will further develop their prints by introducing colour & mono-printing onto calico, the latter will then be taken into stitch.  I will endeavour to post some of these images over the next few weeks.

 

AS Textiles:

The AS Textiles students have been very busy in the studio this week, they've been juggling a couple of creative ventures.  They started the week learning a new technique of exploring steaming organza (AO1, AO2).  The Textiles studio was like a sauna with all of the steam & drying organza samples.  They used a variety of beans/chick peas/marbles etc to tie into the organza & allow the steam to hold the objects form.  There are many stunning photographs of these samples, here are just a few below. 

 

 

 

Additionally they returned to their paper & net ruffle collar pieces which they'd started just prior to 1/2 term.  The contrast between shredded papers (magazine/old comics etc - often chosen & shredded specifically for a particular colour) & bright zingy nets is quite a feast for your eyes (AO1, AO2, AO3).  The layering of these collars is intense to say the least & causes the students quite a struggle to negotiate through the sewing machine - in true Textiles spirit they do this magnificently & surprisingly few needles have been broken.

 



 

 The net layers create an abundance of new colours, the vibrancy is truly wonderful & mixed with random typography from the shredded paper layers - it all makes for a perfect & creative mini-outcome (AO4).

 

 

This is a perfect use of my old Beano comics - it's amazing what you find in the window of your local LOROS bookshop - 'one person's waste, is another's amazing Textile outcome'.

 



 

 

As this work is still in progress I won't reveal any more, but when the students have finished their collars I will post their stunning work for you all to see.

 

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