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HND TEXTILES

Summer Project

‘The Creative Journey’

From concept to final design, always begins with a

process of researching and gathering ideas. Artists

and designers gather ideas and record them in

creative journals, diaries, and sketchbooks. The

sketchbook becomes a way of visually recording the

world around them, and provides clarity of vision.

Working in a sketchbook gives an artist a place to

draw from first hand and experiment with techniques

and materials. It offers a place to analyse and

reflect on ideas, and make judgements to help

progress ideas towards a final design.

Your summer HND project is to begin working in a

sketchbook; Drawing, sketching, collaging images,

adding fabrics, experimenting with materials and

techniques. Textile sketchbooks are typically tactile

and gorgeous with fabrics, threads, interesting

textures, and patterns and stitched samples. You may

decide to, add interesting papers and pages in, add

envelopes, create pockets, work in an existing book,

be as creative as possible and enjoy the process.

Your starting point for your sketchbook is

‘journey’

Meaning:

1. a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a

rather long time; trip: a six-day journey across the desert.

2. a distance, course, or area travelled or suitable for

traveling: a desert journey.

3. a period of travel: a week's journey.

4. passage or progress from one stage to another: the journey

to success.

5. to make a journey; travel.

Possible ways of starting…

You may take a series of journeys collecting

items and visually recording your journey. You

could collect tickets, maps, flyers, and use

these to draw over whilst you are on your

journey or at home using different materials,

you may take photographs working over these with

patterns from architecture, or pavements, from

your journey/s

Alternatively you may wish to base your

sketchbook on a personal journey. A journey you

have taken for example through childhood looking

at memories of family, objects, places,

photographs, draw from old jewellery, go to

Tynemouth Station market and draw nostalgic

items from your childhood whatever inspires you.

Research list (most are on Amazon and available

to ‘look inside’)

Creating Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and

Textile Artists: Exploring the

Embroiderers' Sketchbook by Kay Greenlees

Drawn to Stitch by Gwen Hedley

Artists' Journal and Sketchbooks: Exploring

and Creating Personal Pages by Lynne

Perrella

The Sketchbook Project Journal: More Than

200 Ways to Fill a Page: More than 300 Ways

to Fill a Page by Steven Peterman and Shane

Zucker

Video explanation online

Artists and ideas: sketchbooks and journals

Duration: 04:33

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/art

ists-and-ideas-sketchbooks-and-

journals/6828.html

Artists Sketchbooks that might inspire you:

Mandy Pattullo

Lynne Butt

Gwen Hedley

Things you could try:

Using emulsion paint to create interesting

surfaces to draw on, use wallpapers to print

from and draw over, and collage,try different

inks, paints, wax resists and pens, Draw with

food colouring, emulsion paint pages and sand

down draw and re-paint, Collage different papers

into your sketchbook, make interesting marks and

textures using- polyfilli, cling film, glues,

toothbrushes, bleach, add extra pages in, change

the shape of some pages, Add stitch and fabric

into your sketchbook, Try mono printing, cut up

a page weave it together and re add it, cut

windows in pages, the possibilities are

endless…………………………

Submission in your first session in college you

must have:

Completed a minimum of 20 pages in your

sketchbook, do not end your sketchbook, or

draw to any conclusion, just explore the

theme visually.

Produce a typed reflective account about

the work you have produced, what techniques

you have explored and their success. What

inspired you. How do other artists use

sketchbooks to inspire them and are they

important in creativity? (A few paragraphs, not an essay! )

Good luck, see you in September.

Linda Lightley