Drawing for Textiles: 1

Description

ONLINE COURSE

FEES: FULL COURSE £55 (+ Cademy Fees)

NB This course is available to anyone at any time.

Join Textile Artist NICOLA PERREN for a Creative Exploration of Drawing for Textiles
No need to be a confident drawer—just bring your curiosity for art, textiles, and creative expression!

This inspiring course uses drawing as a playful, hands-on process, blending traditional materials with textile techniques to spark experimentation and design thinking. You’ll explore DIY tools, unconventional materials, and reflect on how drawing can be a powerful, personal tool in your creative practice.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR:

This course is suitable for anyone, from those new to textiles, through to experienced makers who want to explore or refresh ways of thinking. You may be a teacher or lecturer looking to recharge your creative batteries, a student who wants to further your current knowledge, or maybe outside of formal education and fancy trying something outside of your usual remit.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

This approach to creativity focuses on a playful and ‘what if’ method of developing ideas for future designs or art directions through drawing. Mark-making, form creation, repetition and colour trials will be used as a basis to explore drawing through patchwork, weaving and hand stitched quilting. While you may choose to develop ideas onto ‘finished’ artefacts, drawings or designs, the series focuses on ideas generation as a part of the whole creative process.

We spend so much time thinking through ideas to completion, often before we even put pen to paper. What might happen if we think through such things while actually engaging in making, playfulness and ‘just doing stuff’ so, that we build an engaging and rich resource of research? Drawing can also be a challenge that brings anxiety, but a free approach to what might constitute drawing can often release those super exciting but unexpected ideas – that frequently never surface when we are rigid in our thinking.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

While we may have a host of glorious materials and tools available to us, this course will focus on using more every day and accessible materials with extensions suggested as to how ideas may evolve with a broader range of medium etc. In terms of fabrics and threads, it can be with scraps that you have available, old items of clothing or cloth and yarn that has been bought specifically for this.

Key items may include the following: (detailed list will be supplied once you sign up)

General drawing materials: 

Tools: 

Grounds: 

Other: 

Good additional options: 

PROGRAMME:

Once you have signed up to the full course, you will have access to a full materials list and a video to help you prepare before you join a session, this will include information about colour and potential subject choices which you can take as a starting point or, ignore and focus on a subject / colour story of your own choosing.

PRE-COURSE MATERIALS:

A] Confined drawing video.

B] Pre-session planning. This video should be watched before you start the course to help you prepare and gather the things you will need. 

SERIES PROGRAMME:

Session 1] Mark-Making & Colour Thinking.

Session 2] Repetition of Form; but not repeats.

Session 3] Forms through Patchwork; DIY EPP.

Session 4] Tapestry as Textural Play.

Session 5] Quilting as Line & Surface Exploration.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Each session will have a core focus that can be explored in isolation or as part of an overall series of activities.