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Starting Point 3: The Coast

Explore coastal elements depicted in art and create textiles inspired by the coast. Research, map, and develop ideas using relevant techniques.

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Starting Point 3: The Coast

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  1. Starting Point 3: The Coast Task: Shipping, fishing, sailing and maritime activities are recorded in the paintings of Raoul Dufy and Alfred Wallis. Seascapes, driftwood, rock-pools, beach debris, pebbles and shells are all features associated with the coastal environment. These have inspired textiles artists such as Heather Collins, Helen Melvin and Margaret Ramsey as well as felt maker Sandra Adams. Research relevant sources and use appropriate techniques to create a textile inspired by The Coast.

  2. Look at: • Maps • Satellite images

  3. Look at: • Paignton Pier • Beach huts • Buildings • Hotels • Beach furniture (deck chairs, tables, wind-breaks, parasols)

  4. Look at: • Flotsam & jetsom. • Shells • Pebbles and rocks • Rockpools • Driftwood. • Seaweed. • Birds

  5. Look at: • The sea • Boats • Birds • Fish

  6. Kurt Jackson • Kurt Jackson is a British painter • He was born in 1961 and is still working today • He works on large canvases • His paintings are of landscapes and coastlines • He paints where he travels • He likes painting in Cornwall • Keywords; paint, natural, landscape, coastline, texture and environment.

  7. Alfred Wallis • English painter, fisherman and scrap merchant. • His paintings were ships at sea and shipwrecks, especially the ships that had disappeared during his lifetime. • He used cargo boxes and packaging from ships to paint onto. • He used very few colours: dark browns, shiny blacks, fierce greys, strange whites and a particularly Cornish green. • Wallis regarded his paintings as expressions of his experiences. • He was unaware of perspective but arranged the objects in terms of their importance.

  8. Contemporary textile artist. • Embroiderer. • Birds. • The birds are shown in groups (flying or standing). • Blurred images of birds (no detail). • This suggests movement. Nicola Henley • Rectangular wall hangings. • Rectangle divided up into smaller sections. • Simple compositions with plain backgrounds. • Machine embroidery, fabric painting, printing. • Key colours: blue and yellow (complimentary colours), brown and white.

  9. Sue Lawty: • Contemporary artist. • Inspired by rocks and stones she has collected. • Stones are arranged into geometric shapes and patterns. • She creates woven wall-hangings from her patterns with stones. • The wall-hangings have abstract designs. • Subtle colours.

  10. Task: Mind-map Make a mind-map of your chosen theme. ? -clam shell -shiny -hard The Coast Shells ? ? • Lesson Objective: • To understand the theme. • To learn how to use mind-mapping to develop initial ideas. • (SMSC; creativity). • To get a grade C or above you must: • Do a detailed mind-map. • Explain in full sentences and show independent thinking ?

  11. Home Learning 1: Research your chosen theme (AO1/AO3) SMSC: Spiritual To work independently. Learning Objective: To know about the chosen theme. • Research different things to do with your chosen theme. • Find pictures and written information to do with your chosen theme. • Present your pictures on A4 paper. • What words to describe the pictures? • Write them on your paper. • Which images do you like? Say why?

  12. : Homework 1 (AO1/AO3)Research key facts about your chosen theme.Find pictures to illustrate your research.Answer these questions to help you to annotate your research. 1. How does your research link with the theme? 2. Why did you choose this image? 3. What shapes stand out? Say why. 9. How could you develop it into a design? 4. What patterns stand out? Say why. 8. What textile techniques could you use to represent it? 5. What colours stand out? Say why. 7. What materials could you use to represent it? 6. What key facts can you find out about it?

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