AS91627 - Texture and Pattern

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Today we started looking at design elements in response to our observational drawings.
We started with Texture and Pattern today.

I am also including the Year 12 students in these activities as they have reached the point in their work, AS91340, where they are looking at the design elements of their chosen design era.

We went outside with different weights and colours of paper and oil pastels and looked for textures to do rubbings from. These had to link back to what they had seen in their observational drawings.
This was a very busy activity. The students were moving in and out of the class, dropping off things they had done and picking up more supplies. I did not get any photos from this part as I was too busy joining in.
We then cut our rubbings into strips and stuck them onto backing paper. This was then placed at the left hand side of a coloured piece of A3 paper.


Next, we looked at our observational drawings again and picked out a flat shape from them. This was drawn onto press print and the shape cut out with scissors. Pattern / texture can be pushed into the surface using a pencil. Different colours of printing ink was painted onto the press print and then we printed these as a pattern going across the rubbings onto the main page. On my examples here, I used the drawings I did of poppy seed heads, The rubbing textures I chose was to reference the ribbed lines and the rounded shapes you can see. The press print shape was taken from the shape of the papery part at the top of the seed head. I did these with the students so they could see the process at the same time as they were working.
Here are some photographs of the point the students got to today. They need to continue with this activity in some cases and then we will move on to more work on pattern on the rest of the page. Only about half the class were there today, for a variety of reasons, so the rest will make a start on this on Monday and they will have the added bonus of the rest of the class knowing what we are doing.