Textiles and surface pattern: designing with collage

Beginners
- Understand the basic techniques of composing a collage and how to create layout ideas.
- Explore simple effective ways to create your own papers to use within collage.
- Understand creative ways to develop simple collages that could be used in developing ideas for your own textile and surface pattern application.
- Gain confidence through the opportunity to build a small body of personal work of new creative ideas, techniques and processes
- Initiate possibilities to build upon within your sketchbooks for further textile and surface pattern application.

More advanced
- Develop your creative experimentation.

- Basic materials are included.
- You may wish to bring a further selection of drawing media that you like to work with..
- You may wish to bring a selection of papers/card which you would like to experiment with. Consideration of colour, texture and pattern would give you great variety. For example: old magazines and books which you don’t mind cutting up, shopping/junk mail catalogues, plain, patterned and textured papers, corrugated card/brown boxes, tissue paper, baking parchment, brown packing paper, cellophane ll also need to bring a selection of 4-6 images which you find inspiring...

This is a creative course with the emphasis on hands on application. There will be teaching materials such as basic information sheets provided to you as well as examples of the techniques and processes that you will be exploring. There will be discussion, support and feedback throughout the course.